Kathrin Fenner

16.6k citations

130 papers · 12.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Pollution top 0.02%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.05%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Papers in

Pollution 102
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts 85
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies 39
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 17
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 62
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact 25
- Water Treatment and Disinfection 22
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology 19

Co-authors: Beate I. Escher Heinz Singer Juliane Hollender René P. Schwarzenbach Rebekka Gulde Emma Schymanski Urs von Gunten Matthias Ruff
Journals: Environmental Science & Technology (51 papers)Water Research (17 papers)CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry (5 papers)Environmental Science & Technology Letters (5 papers)Environmental Science Processes & Impacts (4 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Kathrin Fenner

126 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Identifying Small Molecules via High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Communicating Confidence 2014 · 3.0k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Environmental Science & Technology
2013 Science
2006 Science

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kathrin Fenner, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Comparing the abatement of pharmaceuticals and their human metabolites in wastewater treatment plants – Insights from biological and advanced treatment stages Water Research ·Camila Silva Brey Gil, Christa S. McArdell, Kathrin Fenner, Adriano Joss, Juliane Hollender	2025	4
2	FAIR and Effective Communication of Data on Chemical Contaminant Biotransformation in the Environment Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·John Locke McCarty, Jasmin Hafner, Muhammad Munif Syamsuddin, 宏志卞, Marjorie Cabrol, Liqing Yan, Jinxia Liu, Damian E. Helbling, Christopher P. Higgins, Kathrin Fenner	2025	1
3	Read-Across of Biotransformation Potential between Activated Sludge and the Terrestrial Environment: Toward Making It Practical and Plausible Environmental Science & Technology ·Claudia Coll, Claudio Screpanti, Jasmin Hafner, 伸一中出, Kathrin Fenner	2025	1
4	Predicting Toxicity toward Nitrifiers by Attention-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks and Transfer Learning from Baseline Toxicity Environmental Science & Technology ·伸一中出, Philippe Schwaller, Kathrin Fenner	2025	1
5	Unveiling industrial emissions in a large European river: Insights from data mining of high-frequency measurements Water Research ·Teofana Chonova, Melinda Halusi Halusi, Apu Kumar Ghose, Korhan Kahraman, Martin Loos, Márk Honti, Kathrin Fenner, Heinz Singer	2024	2
6	Adaptation towards catabolic biodegradation of trace organic contaminants in activated sludge Water Research ·A. Bober, D. Kleinjan, Yaochun Yu, Serina L. Robinson, Kathrin Fenner	2024	10
7	Disentangling abiotic and biotic effects of treated wastewater on stream biofilm resistomes enables the discovery of a new planctomycete beta-lactamase Microbiome ·Vahid Rafe, Alastair Merkel, Mauro Esposito, Giulia Gionchetta, Helmut Bürgmann, Piet N.L. Lens, Kathrin Fenner, Jack van de Vossenberg, Serina L. Robinson	2024	4
8	Impact of long-term temperature shifts on activated sludge microbiome dynamics and micropollutant removal Water Research ·Paola Meynet, Adriano Joss, Russell J. Davenport, Kathrin Fenner	2024	10
9	Should Transformation Products Change the Way We Manage Chemicals? Environmental Science & Technology ·Daniel Zahn, Hans Peter H. Arp, Kathrin Fenner, Anett Georgi, Jasmin Hafner, Sarah E. Hale, Juliane Hollender, Thomas Letzel, Emma Schymanski, Gabriel Sigmund, Thorsten Reemtsma	2024	36
10	Making waves: Enhancing pollutant biodegradation via rational engineering of microbial consortia Water Research ·Indra Hidayat, David R. Johnson, Kathrin Fenner, Jasmin Hafner	2023	9
11	Large-scale assessment of organic contaminant emissions from chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing into Swiss surface waters Water Research ·周淑琴, Sérgio Lima Santiago, Kathrin Fenner, Heinz Singer	2022	24
12	Quantification of Active Ingredient Losses from Formulating Pharmaceutical Industries and Contribution to Wastewater Treatment Plant Emissions Environmental Science & Technology ·周淑琴, M.A. Patrick, Kathrin Fenner, Heinz Singer	2020	15
13	Assessing Emissions from Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Based on Temporal High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data Environmental Science & Technology ·周淑琴, Martin Loos, P. Milenovic, Matthias Ruff, Kathrin Fenner, Heinz Singer	2020	30
14	Clustering micropollutants based on initial biotransformations for improved prediction of micropollutant removal during conventional activated sludge treatment Environmental Science Water Research & Technology ·Yuxin Wang, Kathrin Fenner, Damian E. Helbling	2019	20
15	Evaluating the environmental parameters that determine aerobic biodegradation half-lives of pesticides in soil with a multivariable approach Chemosphere ·Yuxin Wang, Adelene Lai, Diogo A. R. S. Latino, Kathrin Fenner, Damian E. Helbling	2018	34
16	Identifying Small Molecules via High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Communicating Confidence Environmental Science & Technology ·Emma Schymanski, Junho Jeon, Rebekka Gulde, Kathrin Fenner, Matthias Ruff, Heinz Singer, Juliane Hollender Hit paper breakdown →	2014	2970
17	A framework for establishing predictive relationships between specific bacterial 16S rRNA sequence abundances and biotransformation rates Water Research ·Damian E. Helbling, David R. Johnson, Tae Kwon Lee, Andreas Scheidegger, Kathrin Fenner	2014	26
18	Exploring the Behaviour of Emerging Contaminants in the Water Cycle using the Capabilities of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry ·Juliane Hollender, Marc Bourgin, Kathrin Fenner, Philipp Longrée, Christa S. McArdell, Christoph Moschet, Matthias Ruff, Emma Schymanski, Heinz Singer	2014	17
19	Analysis of the dissipation kinetics of ivermectin at different temperatures and in four different soils Chemosphere ·Kristine A. Krogh, B. Suresha, Manuel K. Schneider, Kathrin Fenner, Bent Halling‐Sørensen	2009	40
20	Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Praxis Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Kathrin Fenner, Beate I. Escher	2006	1

About Kathrin Fenner

Kathrin Fenner is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Health and Safety and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 130 papers that have together received 12.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (85 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (39 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (25 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (22 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (19 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (17 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (16 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (6.4k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (4.8k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.4k citations), Analytical Chemistry (1.4k citations) and Water Science and Technology (1.9k citations). Kathrin Fenner has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Beate I. Escher, Heinz Singer, Juliane Hollender, René P. Schwarzenbach, Rebekka Gulde, Emma Schymanski, Urs von Gunten, Matthias Ruff, Junho Jeon and Thomas B. Hofstetter. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, Environmental Science & Technology Letters and Environmental Science Processes & Impacts.

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