Klaus Kümmerer

29.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
321 papers, 21.6k citations indexed

About

Klaus Kümmerer is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Chemistry and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Klaus Kümmerer has authored 321 papers receiving a total of 21.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Pollution, 83 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 55 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Klaus Kümmerer's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (140 papers), Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (63 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (43 papers). Klaus Kümmerer is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (140 papers), Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (63 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (43 papers). Klaus Kümmerer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Brazil. Klaus Kümmerer's co-authors include Ali Al‐Ahmad, Oliver Olsson, Radka Alexy, Despo Fatta‐Kassinos, A. Henninger, Volker Mersch‐Sundermann, Marlen I. Vasquez, Eckard Helmers, Christoph Rücker and Armin König and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Klaus Kümmerer

305 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part I 2000 2026 2008 2017 2009 2009 2009 2001 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part I
    2009 3.6k citations Klaus Kümmerer Chemosphere profile →
  2. Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part II
    2009 1.1k citations Klaus Kümmerer Chemosphere profile →
  3. The presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment due to human use – present knowledge and future challenges
    2009 1.1k citations Klaus Kümmerer profile →
  4. Drugs in the environment: emission of drugs, diagnostic aids and disinfectants into wastewater by hospitals in relation to other sources – a review
    2001 902 citations Klaus Kümmerer Chemosphere profile →
  5. Resistance in the environment
    2004 710 citations Klaus Kümmerer profile →
  6. Pharmaceuticals in the environment : sources, fate, effects and risks
    2008 563 citations Klaus Kümmerer FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) profile →
  7. Biodegradability of some antibiotics, elimination of the genotoxicity and affection of wastewater bacteria in a simple test
    2000 558 citations Klaus Kümmerer et al. Chemosphere profile →
  8. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
    2010 481 citations Klaus Kümmerer profile →
  9. Transformation products of pharmaceuticals in surface waters and wastewater formed during photolysis and advanced oxidation processes – Degradation, elucidation of byproducts and assessment of their biological potency
    2011 414 citations Klaus Kümmerer et al. Chemosphere profile →
  10. Education in green chemistry and in sustainable chemistry: perspectives towards sustainability
    2021 181 citations Vânia Gomes Zuin, Ingo Eilks et al. Green Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Klaus Kümmerer Germany 65 13.4k 4.2k 4.1k 3.0k 2.9k 321 21.6k
Michael T. Meyer United States 58 18.3k 1.4× 8.0k 1.9× 5.2k 1.3× 3.9k 1.3× 2.3k 0.8× 148 25.0k
Dana W. Kolpin United States 71 17.0k 1.3× 9.2k 2.2× 5.2k 1.2× 3.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 223 25.5k
Min Yang China 94 8.9k 0.7× 6.1k 1.5× 7.1k 1.7× 1.9k 0.6× 5.2k 1.8× 1.6k 42.9k
Guang‐Guo Ying China 101 22.1k 1.7× 11.5k 2.7× 5.4k 1.3× 3.2k 1.1× 3.7k 1.3× 531 35.7k
Christa S. McArdell Switzerland 42 8.9k 0.7× 3.8k 0.9× 4.3k 1.0× 2.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.6× 70 12.5k
Sara Rodríguez‐Mozaz Spain 69 10.4k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 2.1k 0.5× 2.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 166 15.0k
Despo Fatta‐Kassinos Cyprus 68 11.8k 0.9× 3.3k 0.8× 7.5k 1.8× 1.6k 0.5× 5.7k 2.0× 154 20.6k
Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern United Kingdom 57 8.5k 0.6× 4.1k 1.0× 4.5k 1.1× 3.2k 1.0× 2.4k 0.8× 203 16.7k
Bing Li China 71 10.7k 0.8× 3.2k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 869 0.3× 2.4k 0.8× 624 22.0k
You‐Sheng Liu China 61 8.8k 0.7× 3.9k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 1.0k 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 198 13.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Klaus Kümmerer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zeschmar-Lahl, Barbara, et al.. (2025). Metrics are the key: development of criteria and indicators for measuring sustainability in international chemicals management. RSC Sustainability. 3(10). 4724–4745. 1 indexed citations
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Kümmerer, Klaus, Lya G. Soeteman‐Hernández, Andreas Falk, et al.. (2025). Safe and Sustainable-by-Design under the European Green Deal—regulatory readiness or pressure for companies?. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
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Moermond, Caroline, Avtar S. Matharu, Lieselot Boone, et al.. (2024). Eco-pharma dilemma: Navigating environmental sustainability trade-offs within the lifecycle of pharmaceuticals – A comment. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. 43. 101893–101893. 2 indexed citations
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Olsson, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Analysis of environmental biodegradability of cellulose-based pharmaceutical excipients in aqueous media. Chemosphere. 352. 141298–141298. 15 indexed citations
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Brodin, Tomas, Michael G. Bertram, Kathryn E. Arnold, et al.. (2024). The urgent need for designing greener drugs. Nature Sustainability. 7(8). 949–951. 28 indexed citations
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Rücker, Christoph, et al.. (2023). Are Si–C bonds cleaved by microorganisms? A critical review on biodegradation of methylsiloxanes. Chemosphere. 321. 137858–137858. 7 indexed citations
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Wasswa, John, et al.. (2023). Spatial trends and ecotoxic risk assessment of selected pharmaceuticals in sediments from Lake Victoria, Uganda, East Africa. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167348–167348. 15 indexed citations
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Kümmerer, Klaus, Zhanyun Wang, Lya G. Soeteman‐Hernández, et al.. (2023). Learning from Safe-by-Design for Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design: Mapping the current landscape of Safe-by-Design reviews, case studies, and frameworks. Environment International. 183. 108305–108305. 23 indexed citations
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Olsson, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Sources and pathways of biocides and their transformation products in urban storm water infrastructure of a 2 ha urban district. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(8). 4495–4512. 23 indexed citations
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Olsson, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Pesticide peak concentration reduction in a small vegetated treatment system controlled by chemograph shape. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(2). 497–509. 3 indexed citations
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Zuin, Vânia Gomes, et al.. (2021). Education in green chemistry and in sustainable chemistry: perspectives towards sustainability. Green Chemistry. 23(4). 1594–1608. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Капитанов, И. В., Andrew Jordan, Yevgen Karpichev, et al.. (2019). Synthesis, self-assembly, bacterial and fungal toxicity, and preliminary biodegradation studies of a series ofl-phenylalanine-derived surface-active ionic liquids. Green Chemistry. 21(7). 1777–1794. 62 indexed citations
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Weiser, Annika, Daniel J. Lang, & Klaus Kümmerer. (2017). Putting sustainable chemistry and resource use into context: The role of temporal diversity. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy. 5. 105–114. 8 indexed citations
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Prichard, Jeremy, Wendy Hall, Ettore Zuccato, et al.. (2016). SCORE Ethical research guidelines for sewage epidemiology. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 2 indexed citations
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Kümmerer, Klaus. (2010). Neuartige Spurenstoffe im Wasser. Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications). 54(6). 349–359. 3 indexed citations
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Polydorou, Olga, Mohammad Hammad, Armin König, Elmar Hellwig, & Klaus Kümmerer. (2009). Release of monomers from different core build-up materials. Dental Materials. 25(9). 1090–1095. 42 indexed citations
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Kümmerer, Klaus. (2008). Pharmaceuticals in the environment : sources, fate, effects and risks. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 563 indexed citations breakdown →
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Helmers, Eckard & Klaus Kümmerer. (1997). Platinum group elements (PGE) in the environment. Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications). 4(2). 41 indexed citations
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Kümmerer, Klaus, et al.. (1975). Strukturräumliche Ordnungsvorstellungen des Bundes. 1 indexed citations

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