Robert Loos

5.8k citations

38 papers · 4.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Pollution top 0.1%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.2%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals

Papers in ⓘ

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 27
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact 22
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals 7
- Water Treatment and Disinfection 5
Environmental Chemistry 18
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research 12
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis 6

Co-authors: Locoro Giovanni (8 shared papers)Bernd Manfred Gawlik (9 shared papers)G. Bidoglio (5 shared papers)Georg Hanke (6 shared papers)Luděk Bláha (4 shared papers)Sara Comero (4 shared papers)David Schwesig (3 shared papers)Jan Wollgast (5 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Chromatography A (6 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (3 papers)Chemosphere (3 papers)Water Research (3 papers)TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry (3 papers)
Partner nations: Italy Belgium United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Robert Loos

38 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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EU-wide monitoring survey on emerging polar organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plant effluents 2013 · 949 citations

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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.

2013 Water Research
2010 Water Research
2008 Environmental Pollution

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1	EU-wide monitoring survey on emerging polar organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plant effluents Water Research ·Robert Loos, R. Carvalho, Diana C. António, Sara Comero, Locoro Giovanni, Simona Tavazzi, Bruno Paracchini, Michela Ghiani, Teresa Lettieri, Luděk Bláha, Barbora Jarošová, Stefan Voorspoels, Kelly Servaes, Peter Haglund, Jerker Fick, Richard H. Lindberg, David Schwesig, Bernd Manfred Gawlik Hit paper breakdown →	2013	949
2	EU-wide survey of polar organic persistent pollutants in European river waters Environmental Pollution ·Robert Loos, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Locoro Giovanni, Erika Rimaviciute, Serafino Contini, G. Bidoglio Hit paper breakdown →	2008	829
3	Pan-European survey on the occurrence of selected polar organic persistent pollutants in ground water Water Research ·Robert Loos, Locoro Giovanni, Sara Comero, Serafino Contini, David Schwesig, Friedrich Werres, Peter Balsaa, Oliver Gans, Stefan Weiß, Luděk Bláha, Monica Bolchi, Bernd Manfred Gawlik Hit paper breakdown →	2010	694
4	Polar herbicides, pharmaceutical products, perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), and nonylphenol and its carboxylates and ethoxylates in surface and tap waters around Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry ·Robert Loos, Jan Wollgast, Tania Huber, Georg Hanke	2007	246
5	Occurrence of polar organic contaminants in the dissolved water phase of the Danube River and its major tributaries using SPE-LC-MS2 analysis Water Research ·Robert Loos, Locoro Giovanni, Serafino Contini	2010	177
6	LC–MS–MS analysis and occurrence of octyl- and nonylphenol, their ethoxylates and their carboxylates in Belgian and Italian textile industry, waste water treatment plant effluents and surface waters Chemosphere ·Robert Loos, Georg Hanke, Günther Umlauf, Steven J. Eisenreich	2006	168
7	Analysis of perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and other perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in the River Po watershed in N-Italy Chemosphere ·Robert Loos, Locoro Giovanni, Tania Huber, Jan Wollgast, Eugen H. Christoph, Alfred de Jager, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Georg Hanke, Günther Umlauf, J.M. Zaldı́var	2007	168
8	A Map of European Emissions and Concentrations of PFOS and PFOA Environmental Science & Technology ·Alberto Pistocchi, Robert Loos	2009	153
9	Sucralose screening in European surface waters using a solid-phase extraction-liquid chromatography–triple quadrupole mass spectrometry method Journal of Chromatography A ·Robert Loos, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Kristin Boettcher, Locoro Giovanni, Serafino Contini, G. Bidoglio	2008	124
10	Analysis of emerging organic contaminants in water, fish and suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the Joint Danube Survey using solid-phase extraction followed by UHPLC-MS-MS and GC–MS analysis The Science of The Total Environment ·Robert Loos, Simona Tavazzi, Giulio Mariani, Gert Suurkuusk, Bruno Paracchini, Günther Umlauf	2017	111
11	Needs for reliable analytical methods for monitoring chemical pollutants in surface water under the European Water Framework Directive Journal of Chromatography A ·Peter Lepom, Bruce Brown, Georg Hanke, Robert Loos, Philippe Quevauviller, Jan Wollgast	2008	107
12	Determination of haloacetic acids in aqueous environments by solid-phase extraction followed by ion-pair liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization mass spectrometric detection Journal of Chromatography A ·Robert Loos, ‪Damià Barceló	2001	98
13	Analysis of atrazine, terbutylazine and their N-dealkylated chloro and hydroxy metabolites by solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and capillary electrophoresis–ultraviolet detection Journal of Chromatography A ·Robert Loos, Reinhard Nießner	1999	97
14	Analysis of polar organic contaminants in surface water of the northern Adriatic Sea by solid-phase extraction followed by ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography–QTRAP® MS using a hybrid triple-quadrupole linear ion trap instrument Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry ·Robert Loos, Simona Tavazzi, Bruno Paracchini, Elisabetta Canuti, Christof J. Weissteiner	2013	86
15	Screening of benzodiazepines in thirty European rivers Chemosphere ·Jerker Fick, Tomas Brodin, Martina Heynen, Jonatan Klaminder, Micael Jonsson, Kateřina Grabicová, Tomáš Randák, Roman Grabic, Vít Kodeš, Jaroslav Slobodnı́k, Andrew J. Sweetman, Mark R. Earnshaw, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Teresa Lettieri, Robert Loos	2017	64
16	PCDD/F and PCB multi-media ambient concentrations, congener patterns and occurrence in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (Etang de Thau, France) Environmental Pollution ·Javier Castro-Jiménez, Geneviève Deviller, Michela Ghiani, Robert Loos, G. Mariani, Helle Skejo, Günther Umlauf, Jan Wollgast, Thierry Laugier, K. Héas-Moisan, Frédérique Léauté, Catherine Munschy, Céline Tixier, J. Tronczyński	2008	63
17	Multi-component analysis of polar water pollutants using sequential solid-phase extraction followed by LC-ESI-MS Journal of Environmental Monitoring ·Robert Loos, Georg Hanke, Steven J. Eisenreich	2003	60
18	Europe-wide survey of estrogenicity in wastewater treatment plant effluents: the need for the effect-based monitoring Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Barbora Jarošová, Anita Érseková, Klára Hilscherová, Robert Loos, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, John P. Giesy, Luděk Bláha	2014	55
19	First interlaboratory exercise on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs analysis in environmental samples Talanta ·Marinella Farré, Mira Petrović, Meritxell Gros, Tina Kosjek, Elena Martínez‐Carballo, Ester Heath, P. Osvald, Robert Loos, Karyn Le Ménach, Hélène Budzinski	2008	51
20	Analysis of aromatic sulfonates in water by solid-phase extraction and capillary electrophoresis Journal of Chromatography A ·Robert Loos, Reinhard Nießner	1998	51

About Robert Loos

Robert Loos is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy, having authored 38 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (22 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (12 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (11 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (7 papers), Environmental Chemistry and Analysis (6 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (2.7k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (2.6k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.2k citations), Analytical Chemistry (918 citations) and Water Science and Technology (708 citations). Robert Loos has collaborated with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Locoro Giovanni, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, G. Bidoglio, Georg Hanke, Luděk Bláha, Sara Comero, David Schwesig, Jan Wollgast, Simona Tavazzi and Bruno Paracchini. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Chromatography A, The Science of The Total Environment, Chemosphere, Water Research and TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry.

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