Kai Bester

10.8k total citations
188 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Bester is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Analytical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Bester has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Pollution, 82 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 41 papers in Analytical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kai Bester's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (111 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (40 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (37 papers). Kai Bester is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (111 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (40 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (37 papers). Kai Bester collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. Kai Bester's co-authors include Michael P. Schlüsener, Mònica Escolà Casas, Heinrich Hühnerfuß, Ulla E. Bollmann, Henrik Rasmus Andersen, Judith Meyer, Magnus Christensson, Michael Spiteller, Xijuan Chen and Jes Vollertsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Kai Bester

185 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Bester Denmark 54 5.8k 3.4k 1.4k 1.4k 1.1k 188 8.8k
Jay Gan United States 56 6.8k 1.2× 3.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 1.8k 1.6× 258 11.4k
Antoni Ginebreda Spain 46 4.9k 0.8× 3.3k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 731 0.7× 119 8.0k
Sandra Pérez Spain 52 4.6k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 1.7k 1.2× 1.5k 1.1× 772 0.7× 145 7.4k
M. Silvia Díaz‐Cruz Spain 62 5.7k 1.0× 3.6k 1.0× 2.2k 1.5× 1.2k 0.9× 787 0.7× 172 10.3k
Meritxell Gros Spain 46 7.8k 1.4× 3.1k 0.9× 2.8k 1.9× 1.8k 1.3× 1.0k 1.0× 74 10.5k
Thomas Poiger Switzerland 36 4.3k 0.7× 2.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 971 0.7× 455 0.4× 67 6.8k
María José Gómez Spain 39 3.4k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 587 0.5× 87 6.2k
Diana S. Aga United States 57 7.1k 1.2× 3.1k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 2.2k 1.6× 892 0.8× 236 12.0k
Benny Chefetz Israel 54 4.2k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 814 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 132 8.1k
Zulin Zhang China 51 4.2k 0.7× 3.3k 1.0× 877 0.6× 2.7k 2.0× 956 0.9× 250 9.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Bester

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Bester

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Bester

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Bester. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Bester 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 Kai Bester. Kai Bester is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ward, Alastair James, et al.. (2024). Assessment of two-stage hyper- and thermophilic anaerobic co-digestion of briquetted wheat straw and liquid fraction of digestate. Industrial Crops and Products. 222. 119863–119863. 1 indexed citations
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Bogusz, Aleksandra, et al.. (2023). Process design for removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants based on predicted no effect concentration (PNEC). Chemical Engineering Journal. 476. 146644–146644. 21 indexed citations
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Li, Rui, et al.. (2022). Sartan blood pressure regulators in classical and biofilm wastewater treatment – Concentrations and metabolism. Water Research. 229. 119352–119352. 25 indexed citations
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Bollmann, Ulla E. & Kai Bester. (2020). High‐performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry with post‐column pH modification: Independent pH optimization for chromatographic separation and electrospray ionization. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 34(17). e8844–e8844. 7 indexed citations
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Bester, Kai, et al.. (2020). Removal of Herbicides from Landfill Leachate in Biofilters Stimulated by Ammonium Acetate. Water. 12(6). 1649–1649. 1 indexed citations
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Cimbritz, Michael, Oskar Modin, Frank Persson, et al.. (2019). PAC dosing to an MBBR – Effects on adsorption of micropollutants, nitrification and microbial community. The Science of The Total Environment. 677. 571–579. 26 indexed citations
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Liang, Chuanzhou, et al.. (2019). Dose-dependent effects of acetate on the biodegradation of pharmaceuticals in moving bed biofilm reactors. Water Research. 159. 302–312. 59 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liang, et al.. (2019). Enhanced removal of pharmaceuticals in a biofilter: Effects of manipulating co-degradation by carbon feeding. Chemosphere. 236. 124303–124303. 45 indexed citations
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Carvalho, Pedro N., Yang Zhang, Tao Lyu, et al.. (2018). Methodologies for the analysis of pesticides and pharmaceuticals in sediments and plant tissue. Analytical Methods. 10(30). 3791–3803. 5 indexed citations
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Casas, Mònica Escolà, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen, Witold Kot, et al.. (2017). Degradation of mecoprop in polluted landfill leachate and waste water in a moving bed biofilm reactor. Water Research. 121. 213–220. 31 indexed citations
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Torresi, Elena, Mònica Escolà Casas, Fabio Polesel, et al.. (2016). Impact of external carbon dose on the removal of micropollutants using methanol and ethanol in post-denitrifying Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors. Water Research. 108. 95–105. 105 indexed citations
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Bollmann, Ulla E., et al.. (2016). Partition of biocides between water and inorganic phases of renders with organic binder. The Science of The Total Environment. 573. 639–644. 5 indexed citations
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Johansen, Anders, et al.. (2016). Degradation and enantiomeric fractionation of mecoprop in soil previously exposed to phenoxy acid herbicides – New insights for bioremediation. The Science of The Total Environment. 569-570. 1457–1465. 18 indexed citations
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Casas, Mònica Escolà, Ravi Kumar Chhetri, Gordon T.H. Ooi, et al.. (2015). Biodegradation of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater by staged Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBR). Water Research. 83. 293–302. 223 indexed citations
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Chen, Xijuan, et al.. (2015). Degradation of PPCPs in activated sludge from different WWTPs in Denmark. Ecotoxicology. 24(10). 2073–2080. 38 indexed citations
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Bollmann, Ulla E., et al.. (2014). Biocides in urban wastewater treatment plant influent at dry and wet weather: Concentrations, mass flows and possible sources. Water Research. 60. 64–74. 111 indexed citations
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Schlüsener, Michael P. & Kai Bester. (2006). Persistence of antibiotics such as macrolides, tiamulin and salinomycin in soil. Environmental Pollution. 143(3). 565–571. 160 indexed citations

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