Georg Hanke

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Georg Hanke is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Hanke has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pollution, 20 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 12 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Georg Hanke's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (25 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (16 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (11 papers). Georg Hanke is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (25 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (16 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (11 papers). Georg Hanke collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Belgium. Georg Hanke's co-authors include François Galgani, Robert Loos, Jan Wollgast, Stefan Werner, Victoria Tornero, Steven J. Eisenreich, Tania Huber, Günther Umlauf, Daniel González‐Fernández and Javier Castro-Jiménez and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Georg Hanke

49 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Marine litter within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Georg Hanke Italy	30	2.0k	1.3k	803	501	323	49	3.1k
Minggang Cai China	27	1.6k 0.8×	954 0.7×	949 1.2×	438 0.9×	158 0.5×	116	2.6k
Changzhou Yan China	36	2.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	563 0.7×	763 1.5×	99 0.3×	146	3.9k
Michele Arienzo Italy	31	1.9k 1.0×	828 0.6×	406 0.5×	383 0.8×	78 0.2×	90	3.5k
Yan Lin China	32	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	596 0.7×	669 1.3×	118 0.4×	102	3.2k
Annamalai Subramanian Japan	40	2.0k 1.0×	3.4k 2.6×	470 0.6×	512 1.0×	211 0.7×	65	4.5k
Juying Wang China	26	1.9k 0.9×	606 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	185 0.4×	205 0.6×	93	2.8k
Tania Martellini Italy	35	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	241 0.5×	224 0.7×	91	3.7k
Xinhong Wang China	37	1.8k 0.9×	2.6k 2.0×	313 0.4×	974 1.9×	230 0.7×	156	4.1k
Magnus Breitholtz Sweden	31	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	386 0.5×	300 0.6×	258 0.8×	68	2.6k
Monia Renzi Italy	35	3.0k 1.5×	759 0.6×	1.7k 2.1×	283 0.6×	569 1.8×	178	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Georg Hanke

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Georg Hanke

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Georg Hanke. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Georg Hanke based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Georg Hanke. Georg Hanke is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hanke, Georg, Miquel Canals, Luis F. Ruiz-Orejón, et al.. (2025). Marine litter in the deepest site of the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 213. 117610–117610. 6 indexed citations

González‐Fernández, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Floating marine macro litter in the Black Sea: Toward baselines for large scale assessment. Environmental Pollution. 309. 119816–119816. 36 indexed citations

Pogojeva, Maria, Anfisa Berezina, Denis Kosmach, et al.. (2021). Distribution of floating marine macro-litter in relation to oceanographic characteristics in the Russian Arctic Seas. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 166. 112201–112201. 30 indexed citations

Macías, Diego, Adolf Stips, & Georg Hanke. (2021). Model based estimate of transboundary litter pollution on Mediterranean coasts. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 175. 113121–113121. 19 indexed citations

Hanke, Georg, David M. Fleet, John W. Barry, et al.. (2020). A European Threshold Value and Assessment Method for Macro Litter on Coastlines.. IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission). 15 indexed citations

González‐Fernández, Daniel, et al.. (2019). Modelling floating macro litter loads from rivers to the marine environment based on visual observations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 18013. 3 indexed citations

Werner, Stefanie, et al.. (2019). Threshold Values for Marine Litter: General discussion paper on defining threshold values for marine litter. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 5 indexed citations

Hanke, Georg, et al.. (2019). EU Marine Beach Litter Baselines. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 17 indexed citations

Berrojalbiz, Naiara, Javier Castro-Jiménez, G. Mariani, et al.. (2014). Atmospheric occurrence, transport and deposition of polychlorinated biphenyls and hexachlorobenzene in the Mediterranean and Black seas. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(17). 8947–8959. 39 indexed citations

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Carere, Mario, Valeria Dulio, Georg Hanke, & Stefano Polesello. (2012). Guidance for sediment and biota monitoring under the Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 36. 15–24. 39 indexed citations

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Berrojalbiz, Naiara, Jordi Dachs, Sabino Del Vento, et al.. (2011). Persistent Organic Pollutants in Mediterranean Seawater and Processes Affecting Their Accumulation in Plankton. Environmental Science & Technology. 45(10). 4315–4322. 112 indexed citations

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Dulio, Valeria, et al.. (2010). Workshop Report: River Basin-Specific Pollutants - Identification and Monitoring. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 4 indexed citations

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Lepom, Peter, et al.. (2008). Needs for reliable analytical methods for monitoring chemical pollutants in surface water under the European Water Framework Directive. Journal of Chromatography A. 1216(3). 302–315. 107 indexed citations

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Castro-Jiménez, Javier, G. Mariani, Eugen H. Christoph, et al.. (2008). Atmospheric input of POPs into Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy): PCDD/F and dioxin-like PCB profiles and fluxes in the atmosphere and aquatic system. Chemosphere. 73(1). S122–S130. 36 indexed citations

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Mariani, G., Elisabetta Canuti, Javier Castro-Jiménez, et al.. (2008). Atmospheric input of POPs into Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy): PBDE concentrations and profile in air, precipitation, settling material and sediments. Chemosphere. 73(1). S114–S121. 61 indexed citations

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Loos, Robert, Jan Wollgast, Tania Huber, & Georg Hanke. (2007). Polar herbicides, pharmaceutical products, perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), and nonylphenol and its carboxylates and ethoxylates in surface and tap waters around Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 387(4). 1469–1478. 246 indexed citations

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Wollgast, Jan, Elisabetta Canuti, Sibylle Dueri, et al.. (2007). Seasonal variations of selected herbicides and related metabolites in water, sediment, seaweed and clams in the Sacca di Goro coastal lagoon (Northern Adriatic). Chemosphere. 69(10). 1625–1637. 99 indexed citations

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Vives, Íngrid, Elisabetta Canuti, Javier Castro-Jiménez, et al.. (2007). Occurrence of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in Lake Maggiore (Italy and Switzerland). Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 9(6). 589–598. 54 indexed citations

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Loos, Robert, Georg Hanke, Günther Umlauf, & Steven J. Eisenreich. (2006). LC–MS–MS analysis and occurrence of octyl- and nonylphenol, their ethoxylates and their carboxylates in Belgian and Italian textile industry, waste water treatment plant effluents and surface waters. Chemosphere. 66(4). 690–699. 168 indexed citations

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Loos, Robert, Georg Hanke, & Steven J. Eisenreich. (2003). Multi-component analysis of polar water pollutants using sequential solid-phase extraction followed by LC-ESI-MS. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 5(3). 384–384. 60 indexed citations

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