Urs von Gunten

53.5k total citations · 18 hit papers
323 papers, 44.8k citations indexed

About

Urs von Gunten is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Water Science and Technology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Urs von Gunten has authored 323 papers receiving a total of 44.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 188 papers in Water Science and Technology and 110 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Urs von Gunten's work include Water Treatment and Disinfection (198 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (175 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (100 papers). Urs von Gunten is often cited by papers focused on Water Treatment and Disinfection (198 papers), Advanced oxidation water treatment (175 papers) and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (100 papers). Urs von Gunten collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. Urs von Gunten's co-authors include Silvio Canonica, Yunho Lee, Jae‐Hong Kim, Jaesang Lee, Marie Deborde, Thomas B. Hofstetter, Elisabeth Salhi, René P. Schwarzenbach, Bernhard Wehrli and Beate I. Escher and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Accounts of Chemical Research and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Urs von Gunten

318 papers receiving 43.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Challenge of Micropollutants in Aquatic Systems 1994 2026 2004 2015 2006 2020 2003 2007 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. The Challenge of Micropollutants in Aquatic Systems
    2006 2.9k citations Beate I. Escher, Urs von Gunten et al. profile →
  2. Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation: Critical Assessment of Opportunities and Roadblocks
    2020 2.7k citations Jaesang Lee, Urs von Gunten et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  3. Ozonation of drinking water: Part I. Oxidation kinetics and product formation
    2003 1.9k citations Urs von Gunten Water Research profile →
  4. Reactions of chlorine with inorganic and organic compounds during water treatment—Kinetics and mechanisms: A critical review
    2007 1.7k citations Urs von Gunten et al. Water Research profile →
  5. Global Water Pollution and Human Health
    2010 1.5k citations Urs von Gunten et al. profile →
  6. Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals during Ozonation and Advanced Oxidation Processes
    2003 1.4k citations Silvio Canonica, Urs von Gunten et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  7. Ozonation of drinking water: Part II. Disinfection and by-product formation in presence of bromide, iodide or chlorine
    2003 1.1k citations Urs von Gunten Water Research profile →
  8. Elimination of Organic Micropollutants in a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgraded with a Full-Scale Post-Ozonation Followed by Sand Filtration
    2009 707 citations Juliane Hollender, Christa S. McArdell et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  9. Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals during Ozonation of Municipal Wastewater Effluents:  A Pilot Study
    2005 681 citations Anke Göbel, Adriano Joss et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  10. Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment: From Basic Principles to Applications
    2012 657 citations Urs von Gunten et al. profile →
  11. Hydroxyl Radical/Ozone Ratios During Ozonation Processes. I. The R ct Concept
    1999 652 citations Urs von Gunten et al. profile →
  12. Oxidative transformation of micropollutants during municipal wastewater treatment: Comparison of kinetic aspects of selective (chlorine, chlorine dioxide, ferrateVI, and ozone) and non-selective oxidants (hydroxyl radical)
    2009 647 citations Urs von Gunten et al. Water Research profile →
  13. Oxidation Processes in Water Treatment: Are We on Track?
    2018 552 citations Urs von Gunten Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  14. Bromate Formation during Ozonization of Bromide-Containing Waters: Interaction of Ozone and Hydroxyl Radical Reactions
    1994 479 citations Urs von Gunten et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  15. Oxidative treatment of bromide-containing waters: Formation of bromine and its reactions with inorganic and organic compounds — A critical review
    2013 442 citations Justine Criquet, Urs von Gunten et al. Water Research profile →
  16. Effect of Dissolved Organic Matter on the Transformation of Contaminants Induced by Excited Triplet States and the Hydroxyl Radical
    2011 436 citations Urs von Gunten, Silvio Canonica et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  17. Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant upgraded with ozonation and biological post-treatments: Abatement of micropollutants, formation of transformation products and oxidation by-products
    2017 424 citations Marc Bourgin, Urs von Gunten et al. Water Research profile →
  18. Ozonation of organic compounds in water and wastewater: A critical review
    2022 402 citations Urs von Gunten et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Urs von Gunten Switzerland 102 25.1k 20.3k 14.7k 7.6k 7.4k 323 44.8k
Paul Westerhoff United States 95 13.4k 0.5× 13.0k 0.6× 9.9k 0.7× 6.1k 0.8× 7.0k 0.9× 478 43.7k
Gang Yu China 102 11.8k 0.5× 11.2k 0.6× 8.4k 0.6× 7.0k 0.9× 3.5k 0.5× 491 35.6k
Ravi Naidu Australia 113 10.1k 0.4× 14.0k 0.7× 22.1k 1.5× 4.3k 0.6× 5.8k 0.8× 1.0k 55.4k
Huu Hao Ngo Australia 102 20.5k 0.8× 5.7k 0.3× 17.2k 1.2× 6.4k 0.8× 12.1k 1.6× 788 46.9k
Jiuhui Qu China 113 19.5k 0.8× 7.3k 0.4× 7.4k 0.5× 16.2k 2.1× 6.5k 0.9× 815 47.3k
Shane A. Snyder United States 81 10.1k 0.4× 10.6k 0.5× 12.2k 0.8× 2.8k 0.4× 4.4k 0.6× 341 26.6k
Thomas A. Ternes Germany 97 10.2k 0.4× 16.1k 0.8× 30.2k 2.1× 3.9k 0.5× 5.6k 0.7× 286 42.0k
Baoshan Xing United States 129 14.0k 0.6× 11.9k 0.6× 21.5k 1.5× 4.9k 0.6× 6.7k 0.9× 926 67.9k
Lenore S. Clesceri United States 13 22.0k 0.9× 10.5k 0.5× 19.5k 1.3× 4.0k 0.5× 13.7k 1.8× 24 66.8k
Han‐Qing Yu China 120 17.9k 0.7× 5.3k 0.3× 15.8k 1.1× 13.5k 1.8× 7.5k 1.0× 864 58.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Urs von Gunten

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gunten, Urs von, et al.. (2025). Reaction kinetics of organic sulfur compounds with ozone in aqueous phase. Water Research. 289(Pt A). 124649–124649. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yan, Eva M. Rodrı́guez, Daniel Rentsch, Zhimin Qiang, & Urs von Gunten. (2025). Ozone Reactions with Olefins and Alkynes: Kinetics, Activation Energies, and Mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(9). 4733–4744. 6 indexed citations
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Gunten, Urs von, et al.. (2025). Ozonation of Pharmaceuticals and Their Human Metabolites in Wastewater─Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Field Data. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(38). 20842–20859. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Yishuai, et al.. (2024). Role of Carbonyl Compounds for N-Nitrosamine Formation during Nitrosation: Kinetics and Mechanisms. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(10). 4792–4801. 6 indexed citations
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Breider, Florian, et al.. (2023). A survey of industrial N-nitrosamine discharges in Switzerland. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 450. 131094–131094. 18 indexed citations
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Grote, Matthias, Jean‐Luc Boudenne, Jean‐Philippe Croué, et al.. (2022). Inputs of disinfection by-products to the marine environment from various industrial activities: Comparison to natural production. Water Research. 217. 118383–118383. 25 indexed citations
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Tentscher, Peter R., Beate I. Escher, Rita Schlichting, et al.. (2021). Toxic effects of substituted p-benzoquinones and hydroquinones in in vitro bioassays are altered by reactions with the cell assay medium. Water Research. 202. 117415–117415. 29 indexed citations
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Lee, Jaesang, Urs von Gunten, & Jae‐Hong Kim. (2020). Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation: Critical Assessment of Opportunities and Roadblocks. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(6). 3064–3081. 2682 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stalter, Daniel, Elissa O’Malley, Urs von Gunten, & Beate I. Escher. (2020). Mixture effects of drinking water disinfection by-products: implications for risk assessment. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 6(9). 2341–2351. 58 indexed citations
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Tentscher, Peter R., Minju Lee, & Urs von Gunten. (2019). Micropollutant Oxidation Studied by Quantum Chemical Computations: Methodology and Applications to Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Reaction Mechanisms. Accounts of Chemical Research. 52(3). 605–614. 62 indexed citations
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Tentscher, Peter R., Marc Bourgin, & Urs von Gunten. (2018). Ozonation of Para-Substituted Phenolic Compounds Yields p-Benzoquinones, Other Cyclic α,β-Unsaturated Ketones, and Substituted Catechols. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(8). 4763–4773. 104 indexed citations
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Schollée, Jennifer E., Marc Bourgin, Urs von Gunten, Christa S. McArdell, & Juliane Hollender. (2018). Non-target screening to trace ozonation transformation products in a wastewater treatment train including different post-treatments. Water Research. 142. 267–278. 135 indexed citations
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Soltermann, Fabian, et al.. (2016). Bromid im Abwasser. Bromatbildung bei der Ozonung - Einschätzung der zukünftigen Situation. DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)). 64–71. 1 indexed citations
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Heitz, Anna, M. C. Bowman, David Halliwell, et al.. (2014). Impact of bromide and iodide during drinking water disinfection and potential treatment processes for their removal or mitigation. Water. 41(8). 38–43. 17 indexed citations
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Gunten, Urs von, et al.. (2014). Sunlight-induced transformation of sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole in surface waters and wastewater effluents. Water Research. 57. 183–192. 138 indexed citations
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Göbel, Anke, Adriano Joss, Dirk Löffler, et al.. (2005). Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals during Ozonation of Municipal Wastewater Effluents:  A Pilot Study. Environmental Science & Technology. 39(11). 4290–4299. 681 indexed citations breakdown →
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Teutsch, Nadya, Michael Berg, Urs von Gunten, & Alex N. Halliday. (2004). Iron Isotope Variations in Reduced Groundwater and in Drinking Water Supplies: A Case Study of Hanoi, Vietnam. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations
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Gunten, Urs von, D. Porcelli, A. N. Halliday, & Nadya Teutsch. (2002). Iron isotope fractionation in groundwater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66. 2 indexed citations
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Gunten, Urs von & S. Mettler. (2002). Reactivity of Fe(II) in presence of calcite and Fe/CaCO3 solid-solution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66. 2 indexed citations

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