Thomas Behrens

3.7k total citations
112 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Behrens is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Behrens has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 18 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Thomas Behrens's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (19 papers), Occupational exposure and asthma (11 papers) and Occupational and environmental lung diseases (11 papers). Thomas Behrens is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (19 papers), Occupational exposure and asthma (11 papers) and Occupational and environmental lung diseases (11 papers). Thomas Behrens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Thomas Behrens's co-authors include Thomas Brüning, Ulrich Keil, Dirk Taeger, Peter Rzehak, Wasim Maziak, Klaus Gerwert, Beate Pesch, Gary W. Mauk, S. K. Weiland and Heinrich Duhme and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Behrens

107 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Behrens Germany 24 374 334 305 299 280 112 2.0k
Fabriziomaria Gobba Italy 31 850 2.3× 235 0.7× 124 0.4× 128 0.4× 236 0.8× 155 2.5k
Peter A. Philipsen Denmark 38 731 2.0× 326 1.0× 1.0k 3.3× 158 0.5× 445 1.6× 168 4.4k
Janice M. Pogoda United States 36 147 0.4× 684 2.0× 200 0.7× 602 2.0× 90 0.3× 84 3.8k
Clare Wall New Zealand 38 203 0.5× 327 1.0× 394 1.3× 549 1.8× 262 0.9× 200 5.5k
Timothy C. Wilcosky United States 26 555 1.5× 166 0.5× 336 1.1× 114 0.4× 248 0.9× 38 2.8k
Jiehui Li United States 28 157 0.4× 207 0.6× 138 0.5× 98 0.3× 116 0.4× 143 2.5k
Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi Iran 26 219 0.6× 162 0.5× 310 1.0× 473 1.6× 842 3.0× 248 3.1k
Yunxian Yu China 32 155 0.4× 281 0.8× 357 1.2× 250 0.8× 78 0.3× 119 2.7k
Lesley Richardson Canada 22 621 1.7× 76 0.2× 450 1.5× 92 0.3× 215 0.8× 55 1.6k
Maria Sofia Cattaruzza Italy 31 483 1.3× 786 2.4× 449 1.5× 372 1.2× 47 0.2× 116 5.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Behrens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Behrens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Behrens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Behrens 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 Thomas Behrens. Thomas Behrens 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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Seidler, Andreas, Janice Hegewald, Thomas Behrens, et al.. (2025). Gute Praxis arbeitsepidemiologische systematische Reviews (GPAR).
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Behrens, Thomas, Chao Ge, R. Jeroen Vermeulen, et al.. (2024). Occupational exposure to nickel or hexavalent chromium and the risk of lung cancer (SYNERGY). European Journal of Public Health. 34(Supplement_3).
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Casjens, Swaantje, Dirk Taeger, Thomas Brüning, & Thomas Behrens. (2024). Changes in mental distress among employees during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0302020–e0302020. 4 indexed citations
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Kampen, Vera van, Birger Jettkant, Benjamin Kendzia, et al.. (2023). Effects of wearing different face masks on cardiopulmonary performance at rest and exercise in a partially double-blinded randomized cross-over study. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6950–6950. 11 indexed citations
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Kampen, Vera van, Kirsten Sucker, Birger Jettkant, et al.. (2023). Influence of face masks on the subjective impairment at different physical workloads. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 8133–8133. 7 indexed citations
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Weber, Daniel G., P. Rozynek, Yon‐Dschun Ko, et al.. (2023). Assessment of MYC and TERT copy number variations in lung cancer using digital PCR. BMC Research Notes. 16(1). 279–279. 2 indexed citations
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Koslitz, Stephan, Heiko U. Käfferlein, Holger M. Koch, et al.. (2023). Biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in firefighters at fire training facilities and in employees at respiratory protection and hose workshops. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1277812–1277812. 3 indexed citations
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Köhler, Christina, Nadine Bonberg, Maike Ahrens, et al.. (2019). Noninvasive diagnosis of urothelial cancer in urine using DNA hypermethylation signatures—Gender matters. International Journal of Cancer. 145(10). 2861–2872. 10 indexed citations
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Müller, Antje, et al.. (2019). A Two-Level Biobank Data Protection Concept for Project-Driven Human Sample Collections. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 17(4). 312–318. 3 indexed citations
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Günther, Kathrin, Ronja Foraita, Juliane Friemel, et al.. (2016). The Stem Cell Factor HMGA2 Is Expressed in Non-HPV–Associated Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Predicts Patient Survival of Distinct Subsites. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 26(2). 197–205. 19 indexed citations
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Pesch, Beate, Anne Lotz, Holger M. Koch, et al.. (2014). Oxidatively damaged guanosine in white blood cells and in urine of welders: associations with exposure to welding fumes and body iron stores. Archives of Toxicology. 89(8). 1257–1269. 22 indexed citations
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Kamat, Ashish M., Antonia Vlahou, John A. Taylor, et al.. (2014). Considerations on the use of urine markers in the management of patients with high-grade non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 32(7). 1069–1077. 27 indexed citations
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Schmitz‐Dräger, Bernd J., Tilman Todenhöfer, Bas van Rhijn, et al.. (2014). Considerations on the use of urine markers in the management of patients with low-/intermediate-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 32(7). 1061–1068. 27 indexed citations
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Köhler, Christina, Laura Ruiz Martín, Nadine Bonberg, et al.. (2014). Automated quantification of FISH signals in urinary cells enables the assessment of chromosomal aberration patterns characteristic for bladder cancer. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 448(4). 467–472. 7 indexed citations
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Conway, David I., Andreas Stang, Ingeborg Jahn, et al.. (2013). A population-based case–control study on social factors and risk of testicular germ cell tumours. BMJ Open. 3(9). e003833–e003833. 5 indexed citations
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Behrens, Thomas, Elsebeth Lynge, Ian A. Cree, et al.. (2011). Pesticide exposure in farming and forestry and the risk of uveal melanoma. Cancer Causes & Control. 23(1). 141–151. 12 indexed citations
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Behrens, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Occupational causes of testicular cancer in adults.. PubMed. 1(4). 160–70. 14 indexed citations
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Ahrens, Wolfgang, et al.. (2008). Epidemiologie in der Arbeitswelt. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 51(3). 255–265. 3 indexed citations

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