Thomas P. Knepper

9.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas P. Knepper is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Chemistry and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas P. Knepper has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Pollution, 55 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 48 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Thomas P. Knepper's work include Environmental Chemistry and Analysis (35 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (34 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (23 papers). Thomas P. Knepper is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Chemistry and Analysis (35 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (34 papers) and Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (23 papers). Thomas P. Knepper collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Netherlands. Thomas P. Knepper's co-authors include Sascha Klein, Eckhard Worch, Tobias Frömel, Marco Bernhard, Sven Huppertsberg, Jutta Müller, Daniel Zahn, ‪Damià Barceló, Thorsten Reemtsma and Pim de Voogt 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 P. Knepper

101 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Occurrence and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in R... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2018 250 500 750
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. Occurrence and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in River Shore Sediments of the Rhine-Main Area in Germany
    2015 947 citations Thomas P. Knepper et al. profile →
  2. Relevance of nano- and microplastics for freshwater ecosystems: A critical review
    2018 406 citations Rita Triebskorn, Thomas Braunbeck et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas P. Knepper Germany 43 4.1k 2.5k 1.8k 1.8k 911 105 7.1k
Charles S. Wong Canada 48 3.8k 0.9× 3.0k 1.2× 777 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 805 0.9× 133 7.2k
Marinella Farré Spain 64 5.7k 1.4× 4.5k 1.8× 2.7k 1.5× 1.6k 0.9× 1.6k 1.8× 191 12.2k
Benny Chefetz Israel 54 4.2k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 690 0.4× 1.3k 0.8× 814 0.9× 132 8.1k
Xiao-quan Shan China 54 4.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 610 0.3× 1.5k 1.6× 151 9.2k
Hans‐Peter E. Kohler Switzerland 49 4.6k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 643 0.4× 627 0.4× 535 0.6× 120 7.3k
Jeffrey Philip Obbard Singapore 46 3.7k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 499 0.3× 1.5k 0.9× 514 0.6× 116 7.3k
Hongwen Sun China 62 4.2k 1.0× 5.7k 2.3× 4.1k 2.3× 1.8k 1.0× 402 0.4× 250 11.2k
Damian E. Helbling United States 45 2.1k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 437 0.2× 582 0.6× 91 6.9k
Zulin Zhang China 51 4.2k 1.0× 3.3k 1.3× 873 0.5× 956 0.5× 877 1.0× 250 9.5k
Cheng Gu China 46 4.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 390 0.4× 179 7.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas P. Knepper

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All Works

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Muschket, Matthias, Isabelle Neuwald, Daniel Zahn, et al.. (2024). Fate of persistent and mobile chemicals in the water cycle: From municipal wastewater discharges to river bank filtrate. Water Research. 266. 122436–122436. 9 indexed citations
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Huppertsberg, Sven, et al.. (2023). Narrowing the analytical gap for water-soluble polymers: A novel trace-analytical method and first quantitative occurrence data for polyethylene oxide in surface and wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 882. 163563–163563. 19 indexed citations
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Neuwald, Isabelle, Matthias Muschket, Alina H. Seelig, et al.. (2023). Efficacy of activated carbon filtration and ozonation to remove persistent and mobile substances – A case study in two wastewater treatment plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 886. 163921–163921. 21 indexed citations
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Schmieg, Hannah, Sven Huppertsberg, Thomas P. Knepper, et al.. (2020). Polystyrene microplastics do not affect juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta f. fario) or modulate effects of the pesticide methiocarb. Environmental Sciences Europe. 32(1). 29 indexed citations
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Zahn, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Matrix effects in the analysis of polar organic water contaminants with HILIC-ESI-MS. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 412(20). 4867–4879. 18 indexed citations
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Schulze, Stefanie, Daniel Zahn, Rosa Montes, et al.. (2019). Occurrence of emerging persistent and mobile organic contaminants in European water samples. Water Research. 153. 80–90. 176 indexed citations
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Knepper, Thomas P., et al.. (2019). Previously unidentified sources of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances from building materials and industrial fabrics. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 21(11). 1936–1945. 39 indexed citations
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Müller, Jutta, et al.. (2019). Combined study of source, environmental monitoring and fate of branched alkylphenols: The chain length matters.. Chemosphere. 241. 124950–124950. 12 indexed citations
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Zahn, Daniel, Piotr Mucha, Arnaud Touffet, et al.. (2018). Identification of potentially mobile and persistent transformation products of REACH-registered chemicals and their occurrence in surface waters. Water Research. 150. 86–96. 89 indexed citations
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Llorca, Marta, Marinella Farré, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, et al.. (2018). Perfluoroalkyl phosphonic acids adsorption behaviour and removal by wastewater organisms. The Science of The Total Environment. 636. 273–281. 8 indexed citations
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Buttiglieri, Gianluigi, Manuela Peschka, Tobias Frömel, et al.. (2009). Environmental occurrence and degradation of the herbicide n-chloridazon. Water Research. 43(11). 2865–2873. 63 indexed citations
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Terzić, Senka, Ivan Senta, Marijan Ahel, et al.. (2008). Occurrence and fate of emerging wastewater contaminants in Western Balkan Region. The Science of The Total Environment. 399(1-3). 66–77. 238 indexed citations
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González, Susana, Jutta Müller, Mira Petrović, ‪Damià Barceló, & Thomas P. Knepper. (2006). Biodegradation studies of selected priority acidic pesticides and diclofenac in different bioreactors. Environmental Pollution. 144(3). 926–932. 66 indexed citations
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Knepper, Thomas P., et al.. (2005). Determination of synthetic chelating agents in surface and waste water by ion chromatography–mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A. 1085(2). 240–246. 45 indexed citations
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Knepper, Thomas P.. (2002). Mass spectrometric strategies for the analysis of polar industrial chemicals and their by-products in wastewater and surface water. Journal of Chromatography A. 974(1-2). 111–121. 16 indexed citations
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Eichhorn, Peter, Thomas P. Knepper, Francesc Ventura, & Alfredo Rubio Díaz. (2002). The behavior of polar aromatic sulfonates during drinking water production: a case study on sulfophenyl carboxylates in two European waterworks. Water Research. 36(9). 2179–2186. 28 indexed citations
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Eichhorn, Peter, Silvana Vianna Rodrigues, W. Baumann, & Thomas P. Knepper. (2002). Incomplete degradation of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate surfactants in Brazilian surface waters and pursuit of their polar metabolites in drinking waters. The Science of The Total Environment. 284(1-3). 123–134. 81 indexed citations
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Knepper, Thomas P., Brian Arbogast, Jolanda Schreurs, & Max L. Deinzer. (1992). Determination of the glycosylation patterns, disulfide linkages, and protein heterogeneities of baculovirus-expressed mouse interleukin-3 by mass spectrometry. Biochemistry. 31(46). 11651–11659. 21 indexed citations

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