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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
12279
World Ranking
2376
National Ranking
29

Chemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
11351
World Ranking
9821
National Ranking
79

Kai Bester 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 Kai Bester sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 210 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kai Bester 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 Kai Bester sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kai Bester is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans 98 publications focusing on various subfields including Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Analytical Chemistry, Water Science and Technology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main research topics include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Analytical Chemistry Methods Development, Advanced Oxidation Water Treatment, Environmental Chemistry and Analysis, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kai Bester reflect interdisciplinary approaches toward environmental contaminants and wastewater treatment technologies:

  • Hydrothermal liquefaction of sewage sludge; energy considerations and fate of micropollutants during pilot scale processing, 2020, Water Research
  • Microplastics Removal from Treated Wastewater by a Biofilter, 2020, Water
  • Ozone dose dependent formation and removal of ozonation products of pharmaceuticals in pilot and full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Removal of pharmaceutical metabolites in wastewater ozonation including their fate in different post-treatments, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Fungi and biochar applications in bioremediation of organic micropollutants from aquatic media, 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Their frequent co-authors include Pedro N. Carvalho, Ulla E. Bollmann, Chuanzhou Liang, Suman Kharel, and Vaidotas Kisielius.

Kai Bester has published extensively in several key scientific journals, with numerous articles appearing in:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (12 publications)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials (7 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (7 publications)
  • Water Research (5 publications)
  • Chemical Engineering Journal (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticisers in surface waters.

    J.A. Andresen;A. Grundmann;K. Bester

  • Triclosan in a sewage treatment process--balances and monitoring data.

    K. Bester

  • Organophosphate flame retardants and plasticisers in wastewater treatment plants

    J. Meyer;K. Bester

  • Fate of triclosan and triclosan-methyl in sewage treatment plants and surface waters.

    Kai Bester

  • Biodegradation of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater by staged Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBR)

    Mònica Escolà Casas;Ravi Kumar Chhetri;Gordon Ooi;Kamilla M.S. Hansen

  • Development of a multi-residue analytical method, based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, for the simultaneous determination of 46 micro-contaminants in aqueous samples.

    Karsten Nödler;Tobias Licha;Kai Bester;Martin Sauter

  • Persistence of antibiotics such as macrolides, tiamulin and salinomycin in soil.

    Michael P. Schlüsener;Kai Bester

  • Concentrations of the Antifouling Compound Irgarol 1051 and of Organotins in Water and Sediments of German North and Baltic Sea Marinas

    Scarlett Biselli;Kai Bester;Heinrich Hühnerfuss;Karl Fent

  • Biodegradation of triclosan and formation of methyl-triclosan in activated sludge under aerobic conditions

    Xijuan Chen;Jeppe Lund Nielsen;Karolina Furgal;Yaling Liu

  • Retention characteristics and balance assessment for two polycyclic musk fragrances (HHCB and AHTN) in a typical German sewage treatment plant.

    Kai Bester

  • Biofilm Thickness Influences Biodiversity in Nitrifying MBBRs—Implications on Micropollutant Removal

    Elena Torresi;Jane Fowler;Fabio Polesel;Kai Bester

  • Sono-activated persulfate oxidation of diclofenac: Degradation, kinetics, pathway and contribution of the different radicals involved.

    J.M. Monteagudo;H. El-taliawy;A. Durán;G. Caro

  • Analysis of musk fragrances in environmental samples.

    Kai Bester

  • Ozonation products of triclosan in advanced wastewater treatment.

    Xijuan Chen;Jessica Richard;Yaling Liu;Elke Dopp

  • Elimination of organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in drinking water purification

    Jens Andresen;Kai Bester

  • Nonylphenols, nonylphenol-ethoxylates, linear alkylbenzenesulfonates (LAS) and bis (4-chlorophenyl)-sulfone in the German Bight of the North Sea.

    K Bester;N Theobald;H.Fr Schröder

  • Determination of antibiotics such as macrolides, ionophores and tiamulin in liquid manure by HPLC–MS/MS

    Michael P. Schlüsener;Kai Bester;Michael Spiteller

  • Ozonation for source treatment of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater – Ozone lifetime and required ozone dose

    Kamilla Marie Speht Hansen;Aikaterini Spiliotopoulou;Ravi Kumar Chhetri;Mònica Escolà Casas

  • New method for rapid solid-phase extraction of large-volume water samples and its application to non-target screening of North Sea water for organic contaminants by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

    Stefan Weigel;Kai Bester;Heinrich Hühnerfuss

  • Determination of antibiotics from soil by pressurized liquid extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Michael P. Schlüsener;Michael Spiteller;Kai Bester

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich Hühnerfuss
Heinrich Hühnerfuss Universität Hamburg
Jes Vollertsen
Jes Vollertsen Aalborg University
Jeppe Lund Nielsen
Jeppe Lund Nielsen Aalborg University
Benedek G. Plósz
Benedek G. Plósz University of Bath
Markus Boller
Markus Boller Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark
Hans Brix
Hans Brix Aarhus University
Rudolf Liedl
Rudolf Liedl TU Dresden
Jan Carmeliet
Jan Carmeliet ETH Zurich
Carlos A. Arias
Carlos A. Arias Aarhus University

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