Rick Helmus

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Rick Helmus is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick Helmus has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Pollution, 16 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 9 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rick Helmus's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (15 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (8 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (6 papers). Rick Helmus is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (15 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (8 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (6 papers). Rick Helmus collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg. Rick Helmus's co-authors include Pim de Voogt, Annemarie P. van Wezel, Emma Schymanski, Thomas L. ter Laak, John R. Parsons, Vittorio Albergamo, Emmanuel Sinagra, Karsten Kalbitz, Michiel H.S. Kraak and Antonia Praetorius and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Rick Helmus

42 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Occurrence, Fate, and Related Health Risks of PFAS in Raw and Produced Drinking Water

2023 118 citations Rick Helmus, Thomas L. ter Laak et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rick Helmus Netherlands	20	465	318	317	230	135	42	1.2k
Yuanhui Zhao China	22	483 1.0×	503 1.6×	173 0.5×	176 0.8×	93 0.7×	61	1.3k
Martin Loos Switzerland	12	540 1.2×	582 1.8×	198 0.6×	298 1.3×	163 1.2×	14	1.2k
Heesoo Eun Japan	26	686 1.5×	520 1.6×	358 1.1×	150 0.7×	86 0.6×	65	1.6k
Katherine T. Peter United States	19	597 1.3×	705 2.2×	192 0.6×	195 0.8×	166 1.2×	26	1.5k
Vladimir Beškoski Serbia	20	249 0.5×	477 1.5×	162 0.5×	189 0.8×	222 1.6×	80	1.3k
Leire Mijangos Spain	15	351 0.8×	342 1.1×	136 0.4×	103 0.4×	80 0.6×	25	732
Eduardo Pinilla-Gil Spain	23	362 0.8×	322 1.0×	151 0.5×	179 0.8×	318 2.4×	66	1.6k
Seth Newton United States	21	1.2k 2.5×	261 0.8×	532 1.7×	294 1.3×	198 1.5×	28	1.7k
René K. Juhler Denmark	24	218 0.5×	416 1.3×	125 0.4×	164 0.7×	93 0.7×	36	1.2k
Christoph Moschet Switzerland	13	612 1.3×	581 1.8×	113 0.4×	149 0.6×	108 0.8×	16	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Rick Helmus

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rick Helmus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick Helmus

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

All Works

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Sigmund, Gabriel, et al.. (2025). Removal, transport, and transformation of organic micropollutants in managed aquifer recharge: Insights from target and non-target analyses. Water Research. 287(Pt B). 124409–124409. 1 indexed citations

Helmus, Rick, et al.. (2023). Organic contaminants in bio-based fertilizer treated soil: Target and suspect screening approaches. Chemosphere. 337. 139261–139261. 5 indexed citations

Wezel, Annemarie P. van, et al.. (2022). Soil self-cleaning capacity: Removal of organic compounds during sub-surface irrigation with sewage effluent. Water Research. 226. 119303–119303. 20 indexed citations

Helmus, Rick, et al.. (2022). patRoon 2.0: Improved non-target analysis workflowsincluding automated transformation product screening. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(71). 4029–4029. 22 indexed citations

Helmus, Rick, Thomas L. ter Laak, Annemarie P. van Wezel, Pim de Voogt, & Emma Schymanski. (2021). patRoon: open source software platform for environmental mass spectrometry based non-target screening. Journal of Cheminformatics. 13(1). 1–1. 137 indexed citations

Melkonian, Chrats, Lucas Fillinger, Siavash Atashgahi, et al.. (2021). High biodiversity in a benzene-degrading nitrate-reducing culture is sustained by a few primary consumers. Communications Biology. 4(1). 530–530. 13 indexed citations

Vugt‐Lussenburg, Barbara M. A. van, Kees Swart, Rick Helmus, et al.. (2020). Antagonistic activity towards the androgen receptor independent from natural sex hormones in human milk samples from the Norwegian HUMIS cohort. Environment International. 143. 105948–105948. 10 indexed citations

Hartog, Niels, et al.. (2020). The dissolution and microbial degradation of mobile aromatic hydrocarbons from a Pintsch gas tar DNAPL source zone. The Science of The Total Environment. 722. 137797–137797. 9 indexed citations

Albergamo, Vittorio, Jennifer E. Schollée, Emma Schymanski, et al.. (2019). Nontarget Screening Reveals Time Trends of Polar Micropollutants in a Riverbank Filtration System. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(13). 7584–7594. 80 indexed citations

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Wagner, Thomas V., Rick Helmus, H.H.M. Rijnaarts, et al.. (2019). Non-target screening reveals the mechanisms responsible for the antagonistic inhibiting effect of the biocides DBNPA and glutaraldehyde on benzoic acid biodegradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 386. 121661–121661. 17 indexed citations

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Albergamo, Vittorio, Beate I. Escher, Emma Schymanski, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of reverse osmosis drinking water treatment of riverbank filtrate using bioanalytical tools and non-target screening. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 6(1). 103–116. 28 indexed citations

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Sinagra, Emmanuel, et al.. (2019). Perfluoroalkyl substances in the Maltese environment – (II) sediments, soils and groundwater. The Science of The Total Environment. 682. 180–189. 50 indexed citations

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Spanning, Rob J. M. van, et al.. (2019). Long-term exposure of activated sludge in chemostats leads to changes in microbial communities composition and enhanced biodegradation of 4-chloroaniline and N-methylpiperazine. Chemosphere. 242. 125102–125102. 14 indexed citations

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García‐Jaramillo, Manuel, Kristin M. Trippe, Rick Helmus, et al.. (2019). An examination of the role of biochar and biochar water-extractable substances on the sorption of ionizable herbicides in rice paddy soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 706. 135682–135682. 18 indexed citations

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Albergamo, Vittorio, Rick Helmus, & Pim de Voogt. (2018). Direct injection analysis of polar micropollutants in natural drinking water sources with biphenyl liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A. 1569. 53–61. 26 indexed citations

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Sinagra, Emmanuel, et al.. (2017). Perfluoroalkyl substances in the Maltese environment – (I) surface water and rain water. The Science of The Total Environment. 589. 182–190. 51 indexed citations

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Carboni, Andrea, Rick Helmus, Erik Emke, et al.. (2016). Analysis of fullerenes in soils samples collected in The Netherlands. Environmental Pollution. 219. 47–55. 14 indexed citations

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Carboni, Andrea, Rick Helmus, John R. Parsons, Karsten Kalbitz, & Pim de Voogt. (2016). A method for the determination of fullerenes in soil and sediment matrices using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with heated electrospray quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A. 1433. 123–130. 11 indexed citations

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Helmus, Rick, et al.. (2014). Mineralisation and primary biodegradation of aromatic organophosphorus flame retardants in activated sludge. Chemosphere. 111. 238–242. 44 indexed citations

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Waaijers, Susanne L., Rick Helmus, S.A.E. Kools, et al.. (2013). Toxicity of new generation flame retardants to Daphnia magna. The Science of The Total Environment. 463-464. 1042–1048. 68 indexed citations

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