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José Benito Quintana is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans 110 publications within this discipline, indicating a broad and sustained engagement with environmental topics.

The scientist's research subspecializes in areas including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (45 publications), Pollution (39 publications), Molecular Biology (10 publications), Water Science and Technology (10 publications), and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (9 publications). These subfields demonstrate a focus on understanding pollutants and their effects on biological systems as well as environmental technologies.

The topics addressed in José Benito Quintana's research include:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology

Frequent collaboration is evident with several co-authors, including Rosario Rodil (65 joint works), Rosa Montes (48 joint works), R. Cela (19 joint works), Miguel M. Santos (18 joint works), and Teresa Neuparth (16 joint works).

José Benito Quintana extensively publishes in certain journals, most notably with 17 papers in The Science of The Total Environment. Other venues with multiple contributions include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 6 publications, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry with 4, Chemosphere with 4, and Chemical Engineering Journal with 4 publications.

Representative recent papers authored by or co-authored with José Benito Quintana include:

  • Long-term exposure to virgin and seawater exposed microplastic enriched-diet causes liver oxidative stress and inflammation in gilthead seabream Sparus aurata, Linnaeus 1758 (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Assessing population exposure to phthalate plasticizers in thirteen Spanish cities through the analysis of wastewater (2020), Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • The embodiment of wastewater data for the estimation of illicit drug consumption in Spain (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Occurrence of persistent and mobile chemicals and other contaminants of emerging concern in Spanish and Portuguese wastewater treatment plants, transnational river basins and coastal water (2023), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Use of illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco in Spain and Portugal during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 as measured by wastewater-based epidemiology (2022), The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Pathways and metabolites of microbial degradation of selected acidic pharmaceutical and their occurrence in municipal wastewater treated by a membrane bioreactor

    José Benito Quintana;Stefan Weiss;Thorsten Reemtsma

  • Organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers in water and air I. Occurrence and fate

    Thorsten Reemtsma;José Benito Quintana;Rosario Rodil;Mónica Garcı´a-López

  • Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis.

    Kevin V. Thomas;Lubertus Bijlsma;Sara Castiglioni;Adrian Covaci

  • Emerging pollutants in sewage, surface and drinking water in Galicia (NW Spain).

    Rosario Rodil;José Benito Quintana;José Benito Quintana;Estefanía Concha-Graña;Purificación López-Mahía

  • Mind the Gap: Persistent and Mobile Organic Compounds-Water Contaminants That Slip Through.

    Thorsten Reemtsma;Urs Berger;Hans Peter H. Arp;Hervé Gallard

  • Multi-residue analytical method for the determination of emerging pollutants in water by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Rosario Rodil;José Benito Quintana;José Benito Quintana;Purificación López-Mahía;Soledad Muniategui-Lorenzo

  • Evaluation of the occurrence and biodegradation of parabens and halogenated by-products in wastewater by accurate-mass liquid chromatography-quadrupole-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry (LC-QTOF-MS).

    Iria González-Mariño;José Benito Quintana;Isaac Rodríguez;Rafael Cela

  • Multiresidue analysis of acidic and polar organic contaminants in water samples by stir-bar sorptive extraction–liquid desorption–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

    José Benito Quintana;Rosario Rodil;Soledad Muniategui-Lorenzo;Purificación López-Mahía

  • Determination of natural and synthetic estrogens in water by gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection.

    J.B. Quintana;J. Carpinteiro;I. Rodrı́guez;R.A. Lorenzo

  • Operational options to reduce matrix effects in liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry analysis of aqueous environmental samples

    Achim Kloepfer;José Benito Quintana;José Benito Quintana;Thorsten Reemtsma

  • Determination of acidic drugs in sewage water by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry as tert.-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives.

    I Rodrı́guez;J.B Quintana;J Carpinteiro;A.M Carro

  • Multiclass Determination of Sunscreen Chemicals in Water Samples by Liquid Chromatography−Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Rosario Rodil;José Benito Quintana;Purificación López-Mahía;Soledad Muniategui-Lorenzo

  • Sensitive determination of acidic drugs and triclosan in surface and wastewater by ion-pair reverse-phase liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry.

    José Benito Quintana;Thorsten Reemtsma

  • Ecotoxicological evaluation of four UV filters using marine organisms from different trophic levels Isochrysis galbana, Mytilus galloprovincialis, Paracentrotus lividus, and Siriella armata.

    E. Paredes;S. Perez;R. Rodil;J.B. Quintana

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Occurrence of emerging persistent and mobile organic contaminants in European water samples.

    Stefanie Schulze;Daniel Zahn;Rosa Montes;Rosario Rodil

  • Determination of drugs of abuse in water by solid-phase extraction, derivatisation and gas chromatography–ion trap-tandem mass spectrometry

    Iria González-Mariño;José Benito Quintana;Isaac Rodríguez;Rafael Cela

  • Simultaneous determination of parabens, triclosan and triclocarban in water by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry

    Iria González-Mariño;José Benito Quintana;Isaac Rodríguez;Rafael Cela

  • Suitability of solid-phase microextraction for the determination of organophosphate flame retardants and plasticizers in water samples.

    I. Rodríguez;F. Calvo;J.B. Quintana;E. Rubí

  • Development of a Solid-Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polybrominated Biphenyls in Water Samples

    Polo M;Gómez-Noya G;Quintana Jb;Llompart M

  • Organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers in water and air II. Analytical methodology

    José Benito Quintana;José Benito Quintana;Rosario Rodil;Thorsten Reemtsma;Mónica García-López

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosario Rodil
Rosario Rodil University of Santiago de Compostela
Rafael Cela
Rafael Cela University of Santiago de Compostela
Isaac Rodríguez
Isaac Rodríguez University of Santiago de Compostela
Lubertus Bijlsma
Lubertus Bijlsma Jaume I University
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Miren López de Alda
Miren López de Alda Spanish National Research Council
Yolanda Picó
Yolanda Picó University of Valencia
Thorsten Reemtsma
Thorsten Reemtsma Technical University of Berlin
Sara Castiglioni
Sara Castiglioni Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Cristina Postigo
Cristina Postigo University of Granada

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