Thomas L. ter Laak

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas L. ter Laak is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas L. ter Laak has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 41 papers in Pollution and 15 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thomas L. ter Laak's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (33 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (24 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (13 papers). Thomas L. ter Laak is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (33 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (24 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (13 papers). Thomas L. ter Laak collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Thomas L. ter Laak's co-authors include Joop L. M. Hermens, Annemarie P. van Wezel, Pim de Voogt, Johannes Tolls, Wouter A. Gebbink, Patrick S. Bäuerlein, Frank Sacher, F Busser, Arjan Barendregt and C.H.M. Hofman-Caris and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Analytical Chemistry and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Thomas L. ter Laak

73 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Occurrence, Fate, and Related Health Risks of PFAS in Raw and Produced Drinking Water

2023 118 citations Mohammad Sadia, Rick Helmus et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas L. ter Laak Netherlands	34	1.9k	1.5k	608	449	428	75	3.3k
Gyula Záray Hungary	34	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	672 1.1×	553 1.2×	446 1.0×	179	4.2k
Piero R. Gardinali United States	34	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	587 1.0×	423 0.9×	608 1.4×	120	3.5k
Xianzhi Peng China	38	3.1k 1.6×	2.5k 1.7×	623 1.0×	387 0.9×	372 0.9×	89	4.7k
Alba Torrents United States	33	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	322 0.5×	445 1.0×	511 1.2×	108	3.2k
Barbara Le Bot France	37	2.4k 1.3×	2.4k 1.6×	538 0.9×	267 0.6×	523 1.2×	96	4.6k
Cécile Miège France	33	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	910 1.5×	319 0.7×	563 1.3×	77	3.1k
Locoro Giovanni Italy	15	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	518 0.9×	669 1.5×	643 1.5×	20	3.4k
Stéphane Bayen Canada	34	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	444 0.7×	220 0.5×	235 0.5×	117	3.9k
Marco Scheurer Germany	31	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	540 0.9×	931 2.1×	639 1.5×	58	3.5k
Pablo Gago-Ferrero Spain	41	2.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	763 1.3×	503 1.1×	420 1.0×	81	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas L. ter Laak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas L. ter Laak

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Helmus, Rick, Pim de Voogt, Maarten R. van Bommel, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive Mass Spectrometry Workflows to Systematically Elucidate Transformation Processes of Organic Micropollutants: A Case Study on the Photodegradation of Four Pharmaceuticals. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(7). 3723–3736. 6 indexed citations

Vonk, J. Arie, Thomas L. ter Laak, Cornelis A.M. van Gestel, et al.. (2025). Strong bioaccumulation of a wide variety of PFAS in a contaminated terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem. Environment International. 202. 109629–109629. 4 indexed citations

Sadia, Mohammad, Thomas L. ter Laak, Emile Cornelissen, & Annemarie P. van Wezel. (2024). Exploring Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Presence and Potential Leaching from Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Implications for Drinking Water Treatment. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(35). 15799–15806. 12 indexed citations

Laak, Thomas L. ter, et al.. (2024). Estimating illicit production of MDMA from its production waste, a Dutch case study. Forensic Science International. 367. 112315–112315.

Gestel, Cornelis A.M. van, et al.. (2023). Research Priorities for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42(11). 2302–2316. 14 indexed citations

Sadia, Mohammad, et al.. (2023). Forever legacies? Profiling historical PFAS contamination and current influence on groundwater used for drinking water. The Science of The Total Environment. 890. 164420–164420. 26 indexed citations

Helmus, Rick, et al.. (2022). patRoon 2.0: Improved non-target analysis workflowsincluding automated transformation product screening. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(71). 4029–4029. 22 indexed citations

Bäuerlein, Patrick S., et al.. (2022). Fate of microplastics in the drinking water production. Water Research. 221. 118790–118790. 120 indexed citations

Helmus, Rick, Thomas L. ter Laak, Annemarie P. van Wezel, Pim de Voogt, & Emma Schymanski. (2021). patRoon: open source software platform for environmental mass spectrometry based non-target screening. Journal of Cheminformatics. 13(1). 1–1. 137 indexed citations

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Béen, Frederic, Anneli Kruve, Dennis Vughs, et al.. (2021). Risk-based prioritization of suspects detected in riverine water using complementary chromatographic techniques. Water Research. 204. 117612–117612. 23 indexed citations

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Laak, Thomas L. ter, et al.. (2021). Wastewater-based epidemiology for illicit drugs: A critical review on global data. Water Research. 207. 117789–117789. 89 indexed citations

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Emke, Erik, et al.. (2021). Retrospective suspect and non-target screening combined with similarity measures to prioritize MDMA and amphetamine synthesis markers in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 811. 152139–152139. 13 indexed citations

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Hofman-Caris, C.H.M., et al.. (2019). Origin, Fate and Control of Pharmaceuticals in the Urban Water Cycle: A Case Study. Water. 11(5). 1034–1034. 13 indexed citations

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Langenhoff, Alette, et al.. (2019). In situ removal of four organic micropollutants in a small river determined by monitoring and modelling. Environmental Pollution. 252(Pt A). 758–766. 8 indexed citations

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Langenhoff, Alette, et al.. (2019). Retention soil filters for the treatment of sewage treatment plant effluent and combined sewer overflow. The Science of The Total Environment. 699. 134426–134426. 21 indexed citations

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Wezel, Annemarie P. van, et al.. (2018). Impact of industrial waste water treatment plants on Dutch surface waters and drinking water sources. The Science of The Total Environment. 640-641. 1489–1499. 31 indexed citations

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Wezel, Annemarie P. van, Thomas L. ter Laak, Astrid Fischer, et al.. (2017). Mitigation options for chemicals of emerging concern in surface waters; operationalising solutions-focused risk assessment. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 3(3). 403–414. 22 indexed citations

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Fischer, Astrid, Thomas L. ter Laak, Jan Bronders, et al.. (2017). Decision support for water quality management of contaminants of emerging concern. Journal of Environmental Management. 193. 360–372. 29 indexed citations

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Laak, Thomas L. ter, Leo Puijker, J.A. van Leerdam, et al.. (2012). Broad target chemical screening approach used as tool for rapid assessment of groundwater quality. The Science of The Total Environment. 427-428. 308–313. 23 indexed citations

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Laak, Thomas L. ter, et al.. (2007). Steady-state diffusion regime in solid-phase microextraction kinetics. Analytica Chimica Acta. 609(1). 113–119. 11 indexed citations

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