Stephan Freitag

459 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 317 citations indexed

About

Stephan Freitag is a scholar working on Plant Science, Analytical Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Freitag has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 317 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Plant Science, 11 papers in Analytical Chemistry and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephan Freitag's work include Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (11 papers), Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (10 papers) and Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (6 papers). Stephan Freitag is often cited by papers focused on Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (11 papers), Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses (10 papers) and Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research (6 papers). Stephan Freitag collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and Germany. Stephan Freitag's co-authors include Bernhard Lendl, Rudolf Krska, Andreas Schwaighofer, Christopher T. Elliott, Natasha Logan, María J. Culzoni, Cuong Cao, Simon A. Haughey, Bettina Baumgartner and Michael Sulyok and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Freitag

20 papers receiving 308 citations

Hit Papers

Advancing Mycotoxin Detection in Food and Feed: Novel Ins... 2024 2026 2025 2024 25 50 75
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.

  1. Advancing Mycotoxin Detection in Food and Feed: Novel Insights from Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)
    2024 76 citations Natasha Logan, Cuong Cao et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephan Freitag Austria 9 112 98 70 62 61 21 317
Matthias Godejohann Germany 8 94 0.8× 50 0.5× 102 1.5× 38 0.6× 21 0.3× 12 331
Taotao Mu China 11 216 1.9× 134 1.4× 31 0.4× 75 1.2× 14 0.2× 25 376
Menghua Dou China 10 206 1.8× 68 0.7× 27 0.4× 17 0.3× 82 1.3× 12 361
Ailing Tan China 10 158 1.4× 98 1.0× 16 0.2× 83 1.3× 15 0.2× 24 365
Marcello D’Elia Italy 11 172 1.5× 36 0.4× 55 0.8× 33 0.5× 18 0.3× 17 358
Roland Hass Germany 14 186 1.7× 138 1.4× 8 0.1× 115 1.9× 38 0.6× 28 467
Shao Hua Lu China 10 205 1.8× 71 0.7× 64 0.9× 22 0.4× 10 0.2× 23 377
Caihong Zhou China 8 160 1.4× 132 1.3× 81 1.2× 5 0.1× 38 0.6× 9 369
Kenneth Squire United States 8 156 1.4× 45 0.5× 18 0.3× 58 0.9× 8 0.1× 14 334

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Freitag

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Freitag

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephan Freitag. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephan Freitag 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 Stephan Freitag. Stephan Freitag 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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Freitag, Stephan, Antoni Femenias, Boris Mizaikoff, et al.. (2025). Attenuated total reflection mid-infrared spectroscopy to screen Austrian and French wheat from multiple years for deoxynivalenol. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 340. 126340–126340. 1 indexed citations
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Femenias, Antoni, Valeria Tafintseva, Stephan Freitag, et al.. (2025). Innovative Infrared Spectroscopic Technologies for the Prediction of Deoxynivalenol in Wheat. ACS Food Science & Technology. 5(1). 209–217.
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Femenias, Antoni, Stephan Freitag, Robert Weih, et al.. (2024). Portable tunable interband cascade laser spectrometer using thin-film waveguides for food contaminant analysis. AIP Advances. 14(12). 3 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, et al.. (2024). Simplifying Wheat Quality Assessment: Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Analysis of Variance Simultaneous Component Analysis to Study Regional and Annual Effects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(6). 695–701. 1 indexed citations
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Logan, Natasha, Cuong Cao, Stephan Freitag, et al.. (2024). Advancing Mycotoxin Detection in Food and Feed: Novel Insights from Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). Advanced Materials. 36(15). e2309625–e2309625. 76 indexed citations breakdown →
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Femenias, Antoni, Valeria Tafintseva, Stephan Freitag, et al.. (2024). Prediction of Deoxynivalenol Contamination in Wheat via Infrared Attenuated Total Reflection Spectroscopy and Multivariate Data Analysis. ACS Food Science & Technology. 4(4). 895–904. 5 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Antoni Femenias, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, et al.. (2023). Stakeholder assessment for mycotoxin analysis: exploring the demand along the European food supply chain. World Mycotoxin Journal. 16(4). 287–299. 4 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Georgina M.S. Ross, Michael Sulyok, et al.. (2023). Interconnectable 3D-printed sample processing modules for portable mycotoxin screening of intact wheat. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1285. 342000–342000. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Hongmei, Zhihong Xuan, Jin Ye, et al.. (2022). An Automatic Immunoaffinity Pretreatment of Deoxynivalenol Coupled with UPLC-UV Analysis. Toxins. 14(2). 93–93. 8 indexed citations
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Femenias, Antoni, Valeria Tafintseva, Stephan Freitag, et al.. (2022). Optimizing extraction solvents for deoxynivalenol analysis in maize via infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy and chemometric methods. Analytical Methods. 15(1). 36–47. 6 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Michael Sulyok, Natasha Logan, Christopher T. Elliott, & Rudolf Krska. (2022). The potential and applicability of infrared spectroscopic methods for the rapid screening and routine analysis of mycotoxins in food crops. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety. 21(6). 5199–5224. 27 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, A. M. Andrews, G. Strasser, et al.. (2021). Broadband laser-based mid-infrared spectroscopy employing a quantum cascade detector for milk protein analysis. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 350. 130873–130873. 27 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Bettina Baumgartner, Stefan Radel, et al.. (2021). A thermoelectrically stabilized aluminium acoustic trap combined with attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy for detection of Escherichia coli in water. Lab on a Chip. 21(9). 1811–1819. 6 indexed citations
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Baumgartner, Bettina, et al.. (2020). A pocket-sized 3D-printed attenuated total reflection-infrared filtometer combined with functionalized silica films for nitrate sensing in water. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 310. 127847–127847. 12 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Matthias Baer, Georg Ramer, et al.. (2020). Polarimetric Balanced Detection: Background-Free Mid-IR Evanescent Field Laser Spectroscopy for Low-Noise, Long-term Stable Chemical Sensing. ACS Sensors. 6(1). 35–42. 18 indexed citations
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Baumgartner, Bettina, Stephan Freitag, & Bernhard Lendl. (2020). 3D Printing for Low-Cost and Versatile Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 92(7). 4736–4741. 19 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Bettina Baumgartner, Stefan Tauber, et al.. (2019). An Acoustic Trap for Bead Injection Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 91(12). 7672–7678. 9 indexed citations
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Freitag, Stephan, Andreas Schwaighofer, Stefan Radel, & Bernhard Lendl. (2018). Towards ultrasound enhanced mid-IR spectroscopy for sensing bacteria in aqueous solutions. reposiTUm (TU Wien). 22–22. 1 indexed citations
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