Thorsten Benter

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Thorsten Benter is a scholar working on Spectroscopy, Atmospheric Science and Analytical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thorsten Benter has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Spectroscopy, 29 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Analytical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thorsten Benter's work include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (55 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (24 papers). Thorsten Benter is often cited by papers focused on Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (55 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (24 papers). Thorsten Benter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Thorsten Benter's co-authors include Reginald M. Penner, Frèdéric Favier, Michael Zäch, Erich C. Walter, Rainer Vogt, U. Kirchner, Volker Scheer, Ian Barnes, Iustinian Bejan and Marcel Mathissen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Thorsten Benter

95 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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Hydrogen Sensors and Switches from Electrodeposited Palladium Mesowire Arrays

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thorsten Benter Germany	30	982	953	942	932	899	96	4.0k
Arnaldo Alves Cardoso Brazil	28	658 0.7×	353 0.4×	490 0.5×	630 0.7×	148 0.2×	109	2.3k
Hiroshi Bandow Japan	36	1.2k 1.2×	274 0.3×	247 0.3×	1.7k 1.8×	169 0.2×	147	4.1k
Stéphane Le Calvé France	29	783 0.8×	358 0.4×	469 0.5×	749 0.8×	87 0.1×	107	2.4k
Lin Du China	38	824 0.8×	827 0.9×	629 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	118 0.1×	356	5.5k
Weijun Zhang China	28	651 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	419 0.4×	2.0k 2.1×	85 0.1×	236	3.3k
Hong‐Bin Xie China	37	707 0.7×	218 0.2×	734 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	240 0.3×	148	4.0k
Norimichi Takenaka Japan	31	909 0.9×	135 0.1×	162 0.2×	993 1.1×	165 0.2×	141	2.9k
W. B. Knighton United States	35	1.8k 1.8×	395 0.4×	82 0.1×	2.0k 2.1×	819 0.9×	107	3.5k
A. Liberti Italy	26	471 0.5×	745 0.8×	246 0.3×	418 0.4×	68 0.1×	105	2.3k
George Biskos Netherlands	35	983 1.0×	75 0.1×	863 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	192 0.2×	123	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thorsten Benter

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Kersten, Hendrik, et al.. (2025). Signatures of Charged Droplets from ESI: A Statistical Analysis of Non-summed Mass Spectra Compared to APCI. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 36(4). 839–849. 1 indexed citations

Benter, Thorsten, et al.. (2024). IDSimF: An Open-Source Framework for the Simulation of Molecular Ion Dynamics in Mass Spectrometry and Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 35(7). 1451–1460. 1 indexed citations

Bräkling, Steffen, et al.. (2022). Gas chromatography coupled to time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry using parallel electron and chemical ionization with permeation tube facilitated reagent ion control for material emission analysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 37(7). e9461–e9461. 5 indexed citations

Lehmann, Laura C., et al.. (2021). Observation of charged droplets from electrospray ionization (ESI) plumes in API mass spectrometers. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 413(22). 5587–5600. 17 indexed citations

Allers, Maria, et al.. (2020). Field-Dependent Reduced Ion Mobilities of Positive and Negative Ions in Air and Nitrogen in High Kinetic Energy Ion Mobility Spectrometry (HiKE-IMS). Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 31(10). 2191–2201. 15 indexed citations

Allers, Maria, et al.. (2020). Positive Reactant Ion Formation in High Kinetic Energy Ion Mobility Spectrometry (HiKE-IMS). Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 31(6). 1291–1301. 22 indexed citations

Lai, Edward P. C., Hendrik Kersten, & Thorsten Benter. (2020). Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Bisphenol A Interactions With Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Milk Proteins. Molecules. 25(3). 708–708. 2 indexed citations

Kauppila, Tiina J., et al.. (2015). Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Between Halogenated Benzene Dopants and Nucleophiles in Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 27(3). 422–431. 3 indexed citations

Brockmann, Klaus J., et al.. (2014). Capillary atmospheric pressure chemical ionization using liquid point electrodes. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 28(14). 1591–1600. 4 indexed citations

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Kersten, Hendrik, et al.. (2013). Generation of ion-bound solvent clusters as reactant ions in dopant-assisted APPI and APLI. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 405(22). 6933–6951. 32 indexed citations

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Benedikt, Jan, Dirk Ellerweg, Sebastian Schneider, et al.. (2013). Mass spectrometry of positive ions and neutral species in the effluent of an atmospheric pressure plasma with hexamethyldisiloxane and oxygen. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 46(46). 464017–464017. 21 indexed citations

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Kersten, Hendrik, Matthias Lorenz, Klaus J. Brockmann, & Thorsten Benter. (2011). Evaluation of the Performance of Small Diode Pumped UV Solid State (DPSS) Nd:YAG Lasers as New Radiation Sources for Atmospheric Pressure Laser Ionization Mass Spectrometry (APLI-MS). Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 22(6). 1063–9. 10 indexed citations

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Müller, David, et al.. (2011). Simulation of Ion Motion at Atmospheric Pressure: Particle Tracing Versus Electrokinetic Flow. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 23(2). 397–406. 21 indexed citations

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Schmitt‐Kopplin, Philippe, Matthias Englmann, Ramon Rosselló‐Móra, et al.. (2008). Combining chip-ESI with APLI (cESILI) as a multimode source for analysis of complex mixtures with ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 391(8). 2803–2809. 41 indexed citations

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Bergmann, M. E. Henry, Volker Scheer, Rainer Vogt, & Thorsten Benter. (2007). Comparison of the performance of real-time PM mass and number instrumentation for vehicle exhaust measurements. SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series. 1. 12 indexed citations

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Bejan, Iustinian, Ian Barnes, J. Kleffmann, et al.. (2006). The photolysis of ortho-nitrophenols: A new gas phase source of HONO. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 8. 6160. 2 indexed citations

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Benter, Thorsten, et al.. (2006). Principles of Solution Thermodynamics: Demonstration of Nonideal Behavior of Henry's Law. An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment. Journal of Chemical Education. 83(8). 1233–1233. 2 indexed citations

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Albu, Mihaela, et al.. (2005). Rate coefficients for the gas-phase reaction of OH radicals with dimethyl sulfide: temperature and O₂partial pressure dependence. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 8(6). 728–736. 34 indexed citations

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Kleffmann, J., Thorsten Benter, & Peter Wiesen. (2004). Heterogeneous Reaction of Nitric Acid with Nitric Oxide on Glass Surfaces under Simulated Atmospheric Conditions.. ChemInform. 35(38). 1 indexed citations

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Veer, Wytze E. van der, et al.. (2002). Conductive carbon filled polymeric electrodes: Novel ion optical elements for time-of-flight mass spectrometers. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 13(10). 1170–1175. 3 indexed citations

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