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Israel
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
13570
World Ranking
3077
National Ranking
8

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
13330
World Ranking
10535
National Ranking
78

Benny Chefetz publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benny Chefetz sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 157 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Benny Chefetz D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benny Chefetz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Benny Chefetz is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with an emphasis on pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, plant science, and water science and technology.

Their work addresses key topics including pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, wastewater treatment and reuse, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, water-energy-food nexus studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, and pesticide and herbicide environmental studies.

Recent publications by Chefetz include:

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Pharmaceuticals in edible crops irrigated with reclaimed wastewater: Evidence from a large survey in Israel (2021), Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Sustainable wastewater reuse for agriculture (2024), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Sorption and Mobility of Charged Organic Compounds: How to Confront and Overcome Limitations in Their Assessment (2022), Environmental Science & Technology
  • Copper sulfide nanoparticles suppress Gibberella fujikuroi infection in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by multiple mechanisms: contact-mortality, nutritional modulation and phytohormone regulation (2020), Environmental Science Nano

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Benny Chefetz has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Vered Mordehay, Evyatar Ben Mordechay, Thilo Hofmann, Tom Topaz, and Jorge Tarchitzky. These collaborations highlight a network focused on environmental and toxicological research.

Best Publications

  • Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

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  • Chemical and biological characterization of organic matter during composting of municipal solid waste

    Benny Chefetz;Patrick G. Hatcher;Yitzhak Hadar;Yona Chen

  • Irrigation of Root Vegetables with Treated Wastewater: Evaluating Uptake of Pharmaceuticals and the Associated Human Health Risks

    Tomer Malchi;Yehoshua Maor;Galit Tadmor;Moshe Shenker

  • Pyrene Sorption by Natural Organic Matter

    Benny Chefetz;and Ashish P. Deshmukh;Patrick G. Hatcher;Elizabeth A. Guthrie

  • Sorption and mobility of pharmaceutical compounds in soil irrigated with reclaimed wastewater.

    Benny Chefetz;Tamar Mualem;Julius Ben-Ari

  • Purification and characterization of laccase from Chaetomium thermophilium and its role in humification

    Benny Chefetz;Yona Chen;Yitzhak Hadar

  • Insights into the Uptake Processes of Wastewater-Borne Pharmaceuticals by Vegetables

    Myah Goldstein;Moshe Shenker;Benny Chefetz

  • Phenanthrene sorption by aliphatic-rich natural organic matter.

    Myrna J. Salloum;Benny Chefetz;Patrick G. Hatcher

  • Uptake of carbamazepine by cucumber plants--a case study related to irrigation with reclaimed wastewater.

    Moshe Shenker;Daniella Harush;Julius Ben-Ari;Benny Chefetz

  • Sorption of polar and nonpolar aromatic organic contaminants by plant cuticular materials: role of polarity and accessibility.

    Baoliang Chen;Elizabeth J Johnson;Benny Chefetz;Lizhong Zhu

  • Relative role of aliphatic and aromatic moieties as sorption domains for organic compounds: a review.

    Benny Chefetz;Baoshan Xing

  • Biodegradability of pharmaceutical compounds in agricultural soils irrigated with treated wastewater

    Amnon Grossberger;Yitzhak Hadar;Thomas Borch;Benny Chefetz

  • Structural Characterization of Soil Organic Matter and Humic Acids in Particle-Size Fractions of an Agricultural Soil

    Benny Chefetz;Jorge Tarchitzky;Ashish P. Deshmukh;Patrick G. Hatcher

  • Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter Extracted from Composted Municipal Solid Waste

    Benny Chefetz;Yona Chen;Yitzhak Hadar;Patrick G. Hatcher

  • Dissolved Organic Carbon Fractions Formed during Composting of Municipal Solid Waste: Properties and Significance

    B. Chefetz;Y. Hader;Y. Chen

  • Human Exposure to Wastewater-Derived Pharmaceuticals in Fresh Produce: A Randomized Controlled Trial Focusing on Carbamazepine

    Ora Paltiel;Ganna Fedorova;Galit Tadmor;Geffen Kleinstern

  • Oxidative biodegradation of phosphorothiolates by fungal laccase.

    G Amitai;R Adani;G Sod-Moriah;I Rabinovitz

  • Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products: From Wastewater Treatment into Agro-Food Systems.

    Qiuguo Fu;Qiuguo Fu;Tomer Malchi;Laura J. Carter;Laura J. Carter;Hui Li

  • Sorption-desorption behavior of triazine and phenylurea herbicides in Kishon river sediments.

    Benny Chefetz;Yitzhak I. Bilkis;Tamara Polubesova

  • Composted biosolids and treated wastewater as sources of pharmaceuticals and personal care products for plant uptake: A case study with carbamazepine.

    Evyatar Ben Mordechay;Jorge Tarchitzky;Yona Chen;Moshe Shenker

  • Transformation of the Recalcitrant Pharmaceutical Compound Carbamazepine by Pleurotus ostreatus: Role of Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase and Manganese Peroxidase

    Naama Golan-Rozen;Benny Chefetz;Julius Ben-Ari;Joseph Geva

  • Sorption of the pharmaceuticals carbamazepine and naproxen to dissolved organic matter: role of structural fractions.

    Adi Maoz;Benny Chefetz

Frequent Co-Authors

Yona Chen
Yona Chen Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Hadar
Yitzhak Hadar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Patrick G. Hatcher
Patrick G. Hatcher Old Dominion University
Baoshan Xing
Baoshan Xing University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Aharon Gedanken
Aharon Gedanken Bar-Ilan University
Zhenyu Wang
Zhenyu Wang Jiangnan University
Myrna J. Simpson
Myrna J. Simpson University of Toronto
Thomas Borch
Thomas Borch Colorado State University
André J. Simpson
André J. Simpson University of Toronto

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