Heléne Österlund

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Heléne Österlund is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Heléne Österlund has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Pollution, 31 papers in Environmental Engineering and 13 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Heléne Österlund's work include Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (31 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (21 papers) and Smart Materials for Construction (12 papers). Heléne Österlund is often cited by papers focused on Urban Stormwater Management Solutions (31 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (21 papers) and Smart Materials for Construction (12 papers). Heléne Österlund collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Denmark. Heléne Österlund's co-authors include Maria Viklander, Jiří Maršálek, Alexandra Müller, Godecke‐Tobias Blecken, Katharina Lange, Douglas C. Baxter, Johan Ingri, Kerstin Nordqvist, Ilia Rodushkin and Dianne F. Jolley and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Heléne Österlund

55 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

The pollution conveyed by urban runoff: A review of sources

2019 549 citations Alexandra Müller, Heléne Österlund et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heléne Österlund Sweden	18	739	629	343	310	302	57	1.6k
Buddhi Wijesiri Australia	22	638 0.9×	393 0.6×	300 0.9×	258 0.8×	498 1.6×	45	1.5k
Elodie Passeport Canada	26	850 1.2×	598 1.0×	594 1.7×	333 1.1×	321 1.1×	67	2.0k
Weifeng Yue China	20	654 0.9×	233 0.4×	341 1.0×	168 0.5×	503 1.7×	50	1.4k
Huaizheng Li China	21	256 0.3×	392 0.6×	240 0.7×	192 0.6×	394 1.3×	52	1.1k
Marie-Christine Gromaire France	28	669 0.9×	1.3k 2.0×	312 0.9×	463 1.5×	610 2.0×	74	2.0k
Tony Hutchings United Kingdom	19	654 0.9×	375 0.6×	118 0.3×	538 1.7×	134 0.4×	45	1.7k
Jason R. Masoner United States	16	451 0.6×	234 0.4×	227 0.7×	414 1.3×	224 0.7×	28	1.2k
Mattias Bäckström Sweden	17	485 0.7×	387 0.6×	152 0.4×	142 0.5×	183 0.6×	60	1.1k
Fanlong Kong China	30	549 0.7×	266 0.4×	617 1.8×	235 0.8×	333 1.1×	78	2.0k
Ezio Ranieri Italy	28	525 0.7×	395 0.6×	650 1.9×	182 0.6×	414 1.4×	62	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Österlund, Heléne, et al.. (2025). Occurrence, concentration and distribution of 50 organic contaminants in water and bottom sediment from urban streams affected by stormwater discharges. Water Research. 283. 123847–123847. 3 indexed citations

Kohzadi, Shadi, Alexandra Müller, Heléne Österlund, & Maria Viklander. (2024). Building surface materials as potential sources of biocides: Insights from laboratory leaching investigations of different material types. Chemosphere. 368. 143741–143741. 1 indexed citations

Hedström, Annelie, et al.. (2024). Treatment of greywater and presence of microplastics in on-site systems. Journal of Environmental Management. 366. 121859–121859. 6 indexed citations

Österlund, Heléne, et al.. (2024). Stormwater discharges affect PFAS occurrence, concentrations, and spatial distribution in water and bottom sediment of urban streams. Water Research. 271. 122973–122973. 12 indexed citations

Taneez, Mehwish, Heléne Österlund, Lian Lundy, & Maria Viklander. (2023). Impacts of stormwater pipe materials and pipe repairs on stormwater quality: a review. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(56). 118065–118077. 2 indexed citations

Lange, Katharina, Heléne Österlund, Ryan J. Winston, et al.. (2023). Abundance, distribution, and composition of microplastics in the filter media of nine aged stormwater bioretention systems. Chemosphere. 320. 138103–138103. 23 indexed citations

Österlund, Heléne, Ryan J. Winston, R. Andrew Tirpak, et al.. (2023). Concentration, distribution, and fractionation of metals in the filter material of 29 bioretention facilities: a field study. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 9(12). 3158–3173. 2 indexed citations

Vijayan, Abhilash, Heléne Österlund, Jiří Maršálek, & Maria Viklander. (2023). Variation in urban snow quality indicated by three seasonal sampling surveys conducted in Luleå (Sweden) within a span of 27 years. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 260. 104286–104286. 3 indexed citations

Müller, Alexandra, Heléne Österlund, Kerstin Nordqvist, Jiří Maršálek, & Maria Viklander. (2023). Releases of micropollutants from building surface materials into rainwater and snowmelt induced runoff. Chemosphere. 330. 138730–138730. 9 indexed citations

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Österlund, Heléne, Godecke‐Tobias Blecken, Katharina Lange, et al.. (2022). Microplastics in urban catchments: Review of sources, pathways, and entry into stormwater. The Science of The Total Environment. 858(Pt 1). 159781–159781. 86 indexed citations

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Müller, Alexandra, Heléne Österlund, Jiří Maršálek, & Maria Viklander. (2022). Exploiting urban roadside snowbanks as passive samplers of organic micropollutants and metals generated by traffic. Environmental Pollution. 308. 119723–119723. 13 indexed citations

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Österlund, Heléne, et al.. (2022). Microplastics (MPs) in urban roadside snowbanks: Quantities, size fractions and dynamics of release. The Science of The Total Environment. 851(Pt 2). 158306–158306. 28 indexed citations

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Leonhardt, Günther, et al.. (2020). Metal enrichment of soils in three urban drainage grass swales used for seasonal snow storage. The Science of The Total Environment. 760. 144136–144136. 17 indexed citations

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Müller, Alexandra, Heléne Österlund, Kerstin Nordqvist, Jiří Maršálek, & Maria Viklander. (2019). Building surface materials as sources of micropollutants in building runoff: A pilot study. The Science of The Total Environment. 680. 190–197. 45 indexed citations

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Österlund, Heléne, et al.. (2016). Contribution of coarse particles from road surfaces to dissolved and particle-bound heavy metal loads in runoff: A laboratory leaching study with synthetic stormwater. The Science of The Total Environment. 573. 212–221. 32 indexed citations

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Davison, William, William W. Bennett, Jaume Puy, et al.. (2016). Diffusive Gradients in Thin-Films for Environmental Measurements. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 125 indexed citations

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Leonhardt, Günther, et al.. (2016). Source-Based Modeling Of Urban Stormwater Quality Response to the Selected Scenarios Combining Future Changes in Climate and Socio-Economic Factors. Environmental Management. 58(2). 223–237. 28 indexed citations

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Young, Lindsay C., et al.. (2014). Breeding Performance of Laysan Albatrosses Phoebastria Immutabilis in a Foster Parent Program. Marine ornithology. 42(2). 2 indexed citations

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Nordqvist, Kerstin, et al.. (2014). Measuring solids concentrations in urban stormwater and snowmelt: a new operational procedure. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 16(9). 2172–2172. 2 indexed citations

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Österlund, Heléne, Ilia Rodushkin, K Ylinenjärvi, & Douglas C. Baxter. (2008). Determination of total chlorine and bromine in solid wastes by sintering and inductively coupled plasma-sector field mass spectrometry. Waste Management. 29(4). 1258–1264. 23 indexed citations

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