R.-D. Wilken

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

R.-D. Wilken is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, R.-D. Wilken has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 7 papers in Analytical Chemistry and 5 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in R.-D. Wilken's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (11 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (7 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (6 papers). R.-D. Wilken is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (11 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (7 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (6 papers). R.-D. Wilken collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Slovakia and Canada. R.-D. Wilken's co-authors include Thomas A. Ternes, Klaus Haberer, Mark R. Servos, Josef Mueller, Holger Hintelmann, Ralf Ebinghaus, R. Falter, Maximilian Hempel, Roman Hirsch and R. Douglas Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

R.-D. Wilken

23 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Behavior and occurrence of estrogens in municipal sewage treatment plants — I. Investigations in Germany, Canada and Brazil

1999 1.1k citations Thomas A. Ternes, Josef Mueller et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R.-D. Wilken Germany	15	1.1k	1.0k	363	320	193	23	1.7k
S. Marca Schrap Netherlands	15	662 0.6×	815 0.8×	94 0.3×	111 0.3×	75 0.4×	32	1.1k
Per‐Anders Bergqvist Sweden	31	1.3k 1.2×	2.1k 2.0×	309 0.9×	44 0.1×	128 0.7×	81	2.9k
Merijn Schriks Netherlands	18	682 0.6×	916 0.9×	104 0.3×	69 0.2×	198 1.0×	26	1.4k
Roy S. Thompson United Kingdom	15	429 0.4×	601 0.6×	60 0.2×	273 0.9×	73 0.4×	34	1.1k
Martin Holt United Kingdom	23	683 0.6×	860 0.8×	232 0.6×	46 0.1×	219 1.1×	35	1.5k
Gene J. Zheng Hong Kong	31	1.4k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	103 0.3×	40 0.1×	132 0.7×	43	2.7k
Mathilde Monperrus France	36	1.1k 1.0×	2.7k 2.6×	503 1.4×	42 0.1×	55 0.3×	114	3.5k
David A. Verbrugge United States	22	566 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	78 0.2×	108 0.3×	77 0.4×	33	1.5k
Kent B. Woodburn United States	24	563 0.5×	988 1.0×	105 0.3×	61 0.2×	57 0.3×	48	1.6k
Dagobert G. Heijerick Belgium	22	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	49 0.1×	59 0.2×	353 1.8×	35	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by R.-D. Wilken

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R.-D. Wilken

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Orata, Francis, et al.. (2011). Perfluorinated Compounds Distribution and Source Identification in Sediments of Lake Victoria Gulf Basin. Soil and Sediment Contamination An International Journal. 20(2). 129–141. 12 indexed citations

Quinete, Natalia, et al.. (2009). Determination of perflourooctane sulfonate and perflourooctanoic acid in the Rhine river, Germany.. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 18. 1356–1362. 1 indexed citations

Peschka, Manuela, et al.. (2008). Synthesis and analytical follow-up of the mineralization of a new fluorosurfactant prototype. Chemosphere. 72(10). 1534–1540. 19 indexed citations

Wilken, R.-D., Felix Nitschké, & R. Falter. (2003). Possible interferences of mercury sulfur compounds with ethylated and methylated mercury species using HPLC-ICP-MS. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 377(1). 149–153. 8 indexed citations

Hirsch, Roman, et al.. (2000). A sensitive method for the determination of iodine containing diagnostic agents in aqueous matrices using LC-electrospray-tandem-MS detection. Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 366(8). 835–841. 72 indexed citations

Ternes, Thomas A., et al.. (1999). Behavior and occurrence of estrogens in municipal sewage treatment plants — I. Investigations in Germany, Canada and Brazil. The Science of The Total Environment. 225(1-2). 81–90. 1143 indexed citations breakdown →

Wilken, R.-D. & R. Falter. (1998). Determination of methylmercury by the species-specific isotope addition method using a newly developed HPLC-ICP MS coupling technique with ultrasonic nebulization. Applied Organometallic Chemistry. 12(8-9). 551–557. 22 indexed citations

Tümpling, Wolf von, Peter Zeilhofer, U. Ammer, Jürgen W. Einax, & R.-D. Wilken. (1995). Estimation of mercury content in tailings of the gold mine area of Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2(4). 225–228. 8 indexed citations

Hintelmann, Holger, et al.. (1995). Volatilization of demethylmercury and elemental mercury from river Elbe floodplain soils. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 80(1-4). 1325–1329. 49 indexed citations

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Hempel, Maximilian, et al.. (1995). Mercury contaminated sites ? Behaviour of mercury and its species in lysimeter experiments. Water Air & Soil Pollution. 80(1-4). 1089–1098. 9 indexed citations

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Hintelmann, Holger & R.-D. Wilken. (1995). Levels of total mercury and methylmercury compounds in sediments of the polluted Elbe River: influence of seasonally and spatially varying environmental factors. The Science of The Total Environment. 166(1-3). 1–10. 74 indexed citations

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Hintelmann, Holger, Maximilian Hempel, & R.-D. Wilken. (1995). Observation of Unusual Organic Mercury Species in Soils and Sediments of Industrially Contaminated Sites. Environmental Science & Technology. 29(7). 1845–1850. 51 indexed citations

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Hintelmann, Holger & R.-D. Wilken. (1994). Methylmercury compounds - main areas of contamination on a transsect of the river Elbe. 1 indexed citations

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Wilken, R.-D., Jürgen Kuballa, & Eckard Jantzen. (1994). Organotins: their analysis and assessment in the Elbe river system, Northern Germany. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 350(1-2). 77–84. 24 indexed citations

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Ebinghaus, Ralf & R.-D. Wilken. (1993). Transformations of mercury species in the presence of Elbe river bacteria. Applied Organometallic Chemistry. 7(2). 127–135. 19 indexed citations

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Wilken, R.-D.. (1992). Mercury analysis: a special example of species analysis. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 342(10). 795–801. 39 indexed citations

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Wilken, R.-D., et al.. (1987). Strontium-90 in Environmental Samples from Northern Germany before and after the Chernobyl Accident. Radiochimica Acta. 41(4). 157–162. 23 indexed citations

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Wilken, R.-D., et al.. (1986). 210Pb and 137Cs fluxes in a sediment core from Guanabara Bay, Brazil. The Science of The Total Environment. 58(1-2). 195–198. 17 indexed citations

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Wilken, R.-D. & Henry E. Wirth. (1986). The adsorption of hexachlorobenzene on naturally occurring adsorbents in water.. PubMed. 75–81. 2 indexed citations

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Wilken, R.-D. & H. H. Kock. (1985). Determination of Cl−, NO 3 − and SO 4 2− in Pore waters of sediments. Fresenius Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie. 320(5). 477–479. 2 indexed citations

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