Susanne Lackner

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Susanne Lackner is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Susanne Lackner has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Pollution, 29 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 20 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Susanne Lackner's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (41 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (28 papers) and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (13 papers). Susanne Lackner is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (41 papers), Water Treatment and Disinfection (28 papers) and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment (13 papers). Susanne Lackner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and Japan. Susanne Lackner's co-authors include Harald Horn, Eva M. Gilbert, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck, Shelesh Agrawal, Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht, Adriano Joss, Barth F. Smets, Akihiko Terada, Laura Orschler and Thomas Schwartz and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Susanne Lackner

84 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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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.

Full-scale partial nitritation/anammox experiences – An application survey

2014 1.5k citations Susanne Lackner, Eva M. Gilbert et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Susanne Lackner Germany	33	3.8k	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	87	4.6k
Tommaso Lotti Italy	27	3.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	978 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	55	4.1k
Jan A. Oleszkiewicz Canada	40	3.5k 0.9×	901 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.8×	218	5.6k
Robert Nerenberg United States	34	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	522 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	109	4.1k
Claudio Lubello Italy	30	2.1k 0.6×	698 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	625 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	86	3.3k
Jin Li China	31	1.6k 0.4×	647 0.5×	401 0.3×	620 0.5×	626 0.6×	129	2.4k
Aaron Marc Saunders Denmark	32	3.3k 0.9×	539 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	588 0.5×	60	4.7k
Faqian Sun China	38	2.0k 0.5×	573 0.4×	528 0.4×	793 0.7×	982 0.9×	106	4.2k
Britt‐Marie Wilén Sweden	34	2.5k 0.7×	455 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	619 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	85	3.9k
Pascal E. Saikaly Saudi Arabia	46	2.2k 0.6×	776 0.5×	558 0.4×	4.4k 3.7×	1.6k 1.4×	152	7.6k
Young‐Ho Ahn South Korea	32	1.9k 0.5×	658 0.5×	680 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	166	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Susanne Lackner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susanne Lackner

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Richard, Hugues, Matthew J. Wade, Shelesh Agrawal, et al.. (2025). Augmentation of wastewater-based epidemiology with machine learning to support global health surveillance. Nature Water. 3(7). 753–763. 2 indexed citations

Picioreanu, Cristian, et al.. (2025). Modeling interactions between the adsorption of dissolved organic carbon and biological activity on granular activated carbon. Water Research. 287(Pt A). 124304–124304.

Braun, Ulrike, Claus Gerhard Bannick, Timo Greiner, et al.. (2025). Swift Realisation of Wastewater-Based SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance for Aircraft and Airports: Challenges from Sampling to Variant Detection. Microorganisms. 13(8). 1856–1856.

Hori, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2024). Modeling of an aerobic granular sludge process for ammonia retention: Insights into granule size, dissolved oxygen concentration, and solids retention time. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(2). 112245–112245. 2 indexed citations

Agrawal, Shelesh, et al.. (2024). Impact of reference design on estimating SARS-CoV-2 lineage abundances from wastewater sequencing data. GigaScience. 13. 3 indexed citations

Waldminghaus, Torsten, et al.. (2023). Bacterial inactivation processes in water disinfection – mechanistic aspects of primary and secondary oxidants – A critical review. Water Research. 231. 119626–119626. 42 indexed citations

Bitter, Hajo, et al.. (2023). Quantification of microplastics in wastewater systems of German industrial parks and their wastewater treatment plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 881. 163349–163349. 31 indexed citations

Agrawal, Shelesh, et al.. (2022). Characterization and evaluation of waste stabilization pond systems in Namibia. H2Open Journal. 5(2). 365–378. 4 indexed citations

Wilhelm, Alexander, Shelesh Agrawal, Laura Orschler, et al.. (2022). Wastewater surveillance allows early detection of SARS-CoV-2 omicron in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Science of The Total Environment. 846. 157375–157375. 13 indexed citations

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Kampouris, Ioannis D., ‪Nikiforos Alygizakis, Uli Klümper, et al.. (2021). Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance in groundwater during treated wastewater irrigation associated with infiltration and accumulation of antibiotic residues. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 423(Pt B). 127155–127155. 31 indexed citations

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Fundneider, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Empty bed contact time: The key for micropollutant removal in activated carbon filters. Water Research. 191. 116765–116765. 49 indexed citations

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Orschler, Laura, et al.. (2020). Membrane aerated biofilm reactors for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox: Experiences using real municipal wastewater. Water Research X. 9. 100066–100066. 81 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Shelesh, Toshikazu Suenaga, Shohei Riya, et al.. (2020). Exploration and enrichment of methane-oxidizing bacteria derived from a rice paddy field emitting highly concentrated methane. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 130(3). 311–318. 9 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Shelesh, David G. Weissbrodt, Medini K. Annavajhala, et al.. (2020). Time to act–assessing variations in qPCR analyses in biological nitrogen removal with examples from partial nitritation/anammox systems. Water Research. 190. 116604–116604. 9 indexed citations

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Orschler, Laura, Shelesh Agrawal, & Susanne Lackner. (2019). On resolving ambiguities in microbial community analysis of partial nitritation anammox reactors. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6954–6954. 33 indexed citations

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Seuntjens, Dries, José M. Carvajal‐Arroyo, Samuel Lochmatter, et al.. (2018). High-resolution mapping and modeling of anammox recovery from recurrent oxygen exposure. Water Research. 144. 522–531. 61 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Shelesh, et al.. (2018). Success of mainstream partial nitritation/anammox demands integration of engineering, microbiome and modeling insights. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 50. 214–221. 126 indexed citations

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Herrling, Maria P., Markus Delay, Michael Wagner, et al.. (2015). Low biosorption of PVA coated engineered magnetic nanoparticles in granular sludge assessed by magnetic susceptibility. The Science of The Total Environment. 537. 43–50. 10 indexed citations

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Lackner, Susanne, Eva M. Gilbert, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck, et al.. (2014). Full-scale partial nitritation/anammox experiences – An application survey. Water Research. 55. 292–303. 1462 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lackner, Susanne, Akihiko Terada, Harald Horn, Mogens Henze, & Barth F. Smets. (2010). Nitritation performance in membrane-aerated biofilm reactors differs from conventional biofilm systems. Water Research. 44(20). 6073–6084. 73 indexed citations

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