Rik I.L. Eggen

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Rik I.L. Eggen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pollution and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Rik I.L. Eggen has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Pollution and 18 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Rik I.L. Eggen's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (13 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (10 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (7 papers). Rik I.L. Eggen is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (13 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (10 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (7 papers). Rik I.L. Eggen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United States. Rik I.L. Eggen's co-authors include Willem M. de Vos, Christian Stamm, Adriano Joss, Beate I. Escher, Juliane Hollender, Michael Schärer, Beat B. Fischer, Ans C. M. Geerling, Jan Roelof van der Meer and Alexander J. B. Zehnder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Rik I.L. Eggen

78 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Reducing the Discharge of Micropollutants in the Aquatic ... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Reducing the Discharge of Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment: The Benefits of Upgrading Wastewater Treatment Plants
    2014 491 citations Rik I.L. Eggen, Adriano Joss et al. profile →

Peers

Rik I.L. Eggen
Marc J.‐F. Suter Switzerland
Teresa Lettieri Italy
Kevin R. Sowers United States
Shahid Mahboob Saudi Arabia
Benjamı́n Piña Spain
Liwei Sun China
Dietmar Schlößer Germany
Rita Triebskorn Germany
Aimo Oikari Finland
Jean‐Pierre Cravedi France
Marc J.‐F. Suter Switzerland
Rik I.L. Eggen
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rik I.L. Eggen

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carles, Louis, Adriano Joss, Rik I.L. Eggen, et al.. (2022). Wastewater microorganisms impact microbial diversity and important ecological functions of stream periphyton. Water Research. 225. 119119–119119. 29 indexed citations
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Ingold, Karin, Christian Stamm, Rik I.L. Eggen, et al.. (2022). Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice. AMBIO. 52(2). 425–439. 25 indexed citations
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Carles, Louis, Adriano Joss, Rik I.L. Eggen, et al.. (2021). Impact of wastewater on the microbial diversity of periphyton and its tolerance to micropollutants in an engineered flow-through channel system. Water Research. 203. 117486–117486. 41 indexed citations
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Burdon, Francis J., Yaohui Bai, Marta Reyes, et al.. (2020). Stream microbial communities and ecosystem functioning show complex responses to multiple stressors in wastewater. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6363–6382. 78 indexed citations
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Winkler, Mirko S., Aggrey Atuhaire, Samuel Fuhrimann, et al.. (2019). Environmental exposures, health effects and institutional determinants of pesticide use in two tropical settings. DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)). 6 indexed citations
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Stamm, Christian, Stephan Fischer, Cornelia Kienle, et al.. (2017). Einfluss von Mikroverunreinigungen. DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)). 90–95. 1 indexed citations
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Muncke, Jane, Marion Junghans, & Rik I.L. Eggen. (2007). Testing estrogenicity of known and novel (xeno‐)estrogens in the MolDarT using developing zebrafish (Danio rerio). Environmental Toxicology. 22(2). 185–193. 33 indexed citations
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Andersson‐Lendahl, Monika & Rik I.L. Eggen. (2005). Transcription of the fish Latent TGFβ-binding protein gene is controlled by estrogen receptor α. Toxicology in Vitro. 20(4). 417–425. 7 indexed citations
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Ledford, Heidi, Irene Baroli, Jai W. Shin, et al.. (2004). Comparative profiling of lipid-soluble antioxidants and transcripts reveals two phases of photo-oxidative stress in a xanthophyll-deficient mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 272(4). 470–479. 48 indexed citations
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Aerni, Hans R., Felix E. Wettstein, Walter Giger, et al.. (2004). Combined biological and chemical assessment of estrogenic activities in wastewater treatment plant effluents. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 378(3). 688–696. 202 indexed citations
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Escher, Beate I., Renata Behra, Rik I.L. Eggen, & Karl Fent. (1997). Molecular Mechanisms in Ecotoxicology: An Interplay between Environmental Chemistry and Biology. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 51(12). 915–915. 10 indexed citations
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Eggen, Rik I.L., Richard van Kranenburg, Aldwin J. M. Vriesema, et al.. (1996). Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase from Gö1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(24). 14256–14263. 24 indexed citations
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Voorhorst, W.G.B., Rik I.L. Eggen, Ans C. M. Geerling, et al.. (1996). Isolation and Characterization of the Hyperthermostable Serine Protease, Pyrolysin, and Its Gene from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 271(34). 20426–20431. 59 indexed citations
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Nölling, Jörk, Fredericus J. M. van Eeden, Rik I.L. Eggen, & Willem M. de Vos. (1992). Modular organization of related Archaeal plasmids encoding different restriction-modification systems inMethanobacterium thermoformicicum. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(24). 6501–6507. 35 indexed citations
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Eggen, Rik I.L., Ans C. M. Geerling, Jennifer Watts, & Willem M. de Vos. (1990). Characterization of pyrolysin, a hyperthermoactive serine protease from the archaebacterium Pyrococcus furiosus. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 71(1-2). 17–20. 79 indexed citations
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Eggen, Rik I.L., Hermie J. M. Harmsen, Ans C. M. Geerling, & Willem M. de Vos. (1989). Nucleotide sequence of a 16S rRNA encoding gene from the ArchaebacteriumMethanothrix soehngenii. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(22). 9469–9469. 11 indexed citations
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Vos, Pieter, Martine Jaegle, J. Wellink, et al.. (1988). Infectious RNA transcripts derived from full-length DNA copies of the genomic RNAs of cowpea mosaic virus. Virology. 165(1). 33–41. 50 indexed citations
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Luiten, Ruud, Rik I.L. Eggen, John G.G. Schoenmakers, & Ruud N.H. Konings. (1987). Spontaneous Deletion Mutants of Bacteriophage Pf3: Mapping of Signals Involved in Replication and Assembly. DNA. 6(2). 129–137. 4 indexed citations

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