Sebastian Primpke

12.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
61 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Primpke is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Primpke has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Pollution, 44 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 9 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Primpke's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (53 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (43 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (9 papers). Sebastian Primpke is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (53 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (43 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (9 papers). Sebastian Primpke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Norway and United States. Sebastian Primpke's co-authors include Gunnar Gerdts, Claudia Lorenz, Svenja M. Mintenig, Martin G. J. Löder, Melanie Bergmann, Mine Banu Tekman, Ivo Int-Veen, Thomas Krumpen, Jürg Trachsel and Lisa Roscher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Primpke

61 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging

2016 1.1k citations Svenja M. Mintenig, Ivo Int-Veen et al. Water Research profile →
White and wonderful? Microplastics prevail in snow from the Alps to the Arctic

2019 997 citations Melanie Bergmann, Sebastian Primpke et al. profile →
Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic

2018 785 citations Ilka Peeken, Sebastian Primpke et al. Nature Communications profile →
Low numbers of microplastics detected in drinking water from ground water sources

2018 744 citations Svenja M. Mintenig, Martin G. J. Löder et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
High Quantities of Microplastic in Arctic Deep-Sea Sediments from the HAUSGARTEN Observatory

2017 692 citations Melanie Bergmann, Thomas Krumpen et al. profile →
Microplastic Spectral Classification Needs an Open Source Community: Open Specy to the Rescue!

2021 355 citations Win Cowger, Zacharias Steinmetz et al. Analytical Chemistry profile →

Peers

Sebastian Primpke

POLLU

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Martin G. J. Löder Germany

Stephanie Wright United Kingdom

Sherri A. Mason United States

Amy Lusher Norway

Svenja M. Mintenig Netherlands

Thorsten Hüffer Austria

Merel Kooi Netherlands

Gi Myung Han South Korea

Rachid Dris France

Daniel McGonigle United Kingdom

Martin G. J. Löder Germany

Sebastian Primpke

7.9k ×0.9

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6.3k ×0.9

IME

1.9k ×1.2

BIOMA

1.0k ×0.9

568 ×0.7

HTM

Citations per year, relative to Sebastian Primpke Sebastian Primpke (= 1×) peers Martin G. J. Löder

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Primpke

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Primpke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Primpke

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roscher, Lisa, Eva‐Maria Nöthig, Kirsten Fahl, et al.. (2024). Origin and intra-annual variability of vertical microplastic fluxes in Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 178035–178035. 2 indexed citations

Cowger, Win, Lisa Roscher, Ali Chamas, et al.. (2024). Generation of macro- and microplastic databases by high-throughput FTIR analysis with microplate readers. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 416(6). 1311–1320. 9 indexed citations

Wu, Fangzhu, et al.. (2024). Unveiling high concentrations of small microplastics (11–500 μm) in surface water samples from the southern Weddell Sea off Antarctica. The Science of The Total Environment. 927. 172124–172124. 26 indexed citations

Wu, Fangzhu, Sebastian Primpke, Alvise Vianello, et al.. (2024). Spatial distribution of small microplastics in the Norwegian Coastal Current. The Science of The Total Environment. 942. 173808–173808. 17 indexed citations

Munno, Keenan, Amy Lusher, Elizabeth C. Minor, et al.. (2023). Patterns of microparticles in blank samples: A study to inform best practices for microplastic analysis. Chemosphere. 333. 138883–138883. 45 indexed citations

Abel, Serena M., Fangzhu Wu, Sebastian Primpke, Gunnar Gerdts, & Angelika Brandt. (2023). Journey to the deep: plastic pollution in the hadal of deep-sea trenches.. Environmental Pollution. 333. 122078–122078. 20 indexed citations

Aliani, Stefano, Amy Lusher, François Galgani, et al.. (2023). Reproducible pipelines and readiness levels in plastic monitoring. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(5). 290–291. 21 indexed citations

Roscher, Lisa, Sebastian Primpke, Benedikt Hufnagl, et al.. (2023). Comparison of two rapid automated analysis tools for large FTIR microplastic datasets. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 415(15). 2975–2987. 34 indexed citations

Abel, Serena M., Sebastian Primpke, Fangzhu Wu, Angelika Brandt, & Gunnar Gerdts. (2022). Human footprints at hadal depths: interlayer and intralayer comparison of sediment cores from the Kuril Kamchatka trench. The Science of The Total Environment. 838(Pt 2). 156035–156035. 24 indexed citations

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Roscher, Lisa, Maurits Halbach, Barbara M. Scholz‐Böttcher, et al.. (2021). Microplastic pollution in the Weser estuary and the German North Sea. Environmental Pollution. 288. 117681–117681. 57 indexed citations

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Cowger, Win, Zacharias Steinmetz, Andrew B. Gray, et al.. (2021). Microplastic Spectral Classification Needs an Open Source Community: Open Specy to the Rescue!. Analytical Chemistry. 93(21). 7543–7548. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kooi, Merel, Sebastian Primpke, Svenja M. Mintenig, et al.. (2021). Characterizing the multidimensionality of microplastics across environmental compartments. Water Research. 202. 117429–117429. 155 indexed citations

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Hildebrandt, Lars, Tristan Zimmermann, Sebastian Primpke, et al.. (2021). Comparison and uncertainty evaluation of two centrifugal separators for microplastic sampling. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 414. 125482–125482. 36 indexed citations

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Roscher, Lisa, et al.. (2021). Microplastics in two German wastewater treatment plants: Year-long effluent analysis with FTIR and Py-GC/MS. The Science of The Total Environment. 817. 152619–152619. 80 indexed citations

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Primpke, Sebastian, et al.. (2020). Bacterial biofilms colonizing plastics in estuarine waters, with an emphasis on Vibrio spp. and their antibacterial resistance. PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0237704–e0237704. 80 indexed citations

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Abel, Serena M., Sebastian Primpke, Ivo Int-Veen, Angelika Brandt, & Gunnar Gerdts. (2020). Systematic identification of microplastics in abyssal and hadal sediments of the Kuril Kamchatka trench. Environmental Pollution. 269. 116095–116095. 77 indexed citations

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Lorenz, Claudia, Lisa Roscher, Lars Hildebrandt, et al.. (2019). Spatial distribution of microplastics in sediments and surface waters of the southern North Sea. Environmental Pollution. 252(Pt B). 1719–1729. 227 indexed citations

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Peeken, Ilka, Sebastian Primpke, Birte Beyer, et al.. (2018). Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1505–1505. 785 indexed citations breakdown →

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Primpke, Sebastian, Marisa A. Wirth, Claudia Lorenz, & Gunnar Gerdts. (2018). Reference database design for the automated analysis of microplastic samples based on Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 410(21). 5131–5141. 408 indexed citations

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Mintenig, Svenja M., Martin G. J. Löder, Sebastian Primpke, & Gunnar Gerdts. (2018). Low numbers of microplastics detected in drinking water from ground water sources. The Science of The Total Environment. 648. 631–635. 744 indexed citations breakdown →

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