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Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
17699
World Ranking
13357
National Ranking
236

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
18041
World Ranking
3953
National Ranking
101

Kathrin Fenner 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 Kathrin Fenner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Kathrin Fenner 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 Kathrin Fenner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kathrin Fenner is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on pollution and its effects.

Their work covers several subfields including pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, analytical chemistry, and molecular biology. Fenner's contributions extend through topics such as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, water treatment and disinfection, toxic organic pollutants impact, analytical chemistry methods development, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Fenner include:

  • Methodological Advances to Study Contaminant Biotransformation: New Prospects for Understanding and Reducing Environmental Persistence? (2021, ACS ES&T Water)
  • The Need for Chemical Simplification As a Logical Consequence of Ever-Increasing Chemical Pollution (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)

Other notable papers with contributions include:

  • Micropollutant biotransformation and bioaccumulation in natural stream biofilms (2021, Water Research)
  • Should Transformation Products Change the Way We Manage Chemicals? (2024, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Scientific concepts and methods for moving persistence assessments into the 21st century (2022, Zurich Open Repository and Archive [University of Zurich])

Frequent co-authors in Fenner's research network are Jasmin Hafner, Heinz Singer, Beate I. Escher, Márk Honti, and Michael S. McLachlan.

Their publications often appear in prominent venues such as Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, and CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • The Challenge of Micropollutants in Aquatic Systems

    René P. Schwarzenbach;Beate I. Escher;Kathrin Fenner;Thomas B. Hofstetter

  • Identifying Small Molecules via High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Communicating Confidence

    Emma L. Schymanski;Junho Jeon;Rebekka Gulde;Kathrin Fenner

  • Evaluating Pesticide Degradation in the Environment: Blind Spots and Emerging Opportunities

    Kathrin Fenner;Kathrin Fenner;Silvio Canonica;Lawrence P. Wackett;Martin Elsner

  • Recent Advances in Environmental Risk Assessment of Transformation Products

    Beate I. Escher;Kathrin Fenner;Kathrin Fenner

  • When synthetic chemicals degrade in the environment.

    Alistair B. A. Boxall;Chris J. Sinclair;Kathrin Fenner;Dana Kolpin

  • Identification of transformation products of organic contaminants in natural waters by computer-aided prediction and high-resolution mass spectrometry.

    Susanne Kern;Kathrin Fenner;Heinz P. Singer;René P. Schwarzenbach

  • High-throughput identification of microbial transformation products of organic micropollutants.

    Damian E. Helbling;Juliane Hollender;Hans-Peter E. Kohler;Heinz Singer

  • Fate of β-blocker human pharmaceuticals in surface water: Comparison of measured and simulated concentrations in the Glatt Valley Watershed, Switzerland

    Alfredo C. Alder;Christian Schaffner;Marius Majewsky;Jörg Klasmeier

  • Micropollutant biotransformation kinetics associate with WWTP process parameters and microbial community characteristics.

    Damian E. Helbling;David R. Johnson;David R. Johnson;Mark Honti;Kathrin Fenner;Kathrin Fenner

  • Comparing Estimates of Persistence and Long-Range Transport Potential among Multimedia Models

    Kathrin Fenner;Martin Scheringer;Matthew Macleod;Michael Matthies

  • Investigation of the Cold Condensation of Persistent Organic Pollutants with a Global Multimedia Fate Model

    Martin Scheringer;Fabio Wegmann;Kathrin Fenner;Konrad Hungerbühler

  • enviPath – The environmental contaminant biotransformation pathway resource

    Jörg Wicker;Tim Lorsbach;Martin Gütlein;Emanuel Schmid

  • Environmental risk assessment of ivermectin: A case study

    Markus Liebig;Álvaro Alonso Fernandez;Elke Blübaum-Gronau;Alistair Boxall

  • Including Mixtures in the Determination of Water Quality Criteria for Herbicides in Surface Water

    Nathalie Chèvre;Christian Loepfe;Heinz Singer;Christian Stamm

  • Relative contribution of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and other members of nitrifying activated sludge communities to micropollutant biotransformation.

    Yujie Men;Yujie Men;Stefan Achermann;Damian E. Helbling;David R. Johnson

  • Application of Multimedia Models for Screening Assessment of Long-Range Transport Potential and Overall Persistence

    Jörg Klasmeier;Michael Matthies;Matthew Macleod;Kathrin Fenner

  • A tiered procedure for assessing the formation of biotransformation products of pharmaceuticals and biocides during activated sludge treatment.

    Susanne Kern;Susanne Kern;Rebekka Baumgartner;Rebekka Baumgartner;Damian E. Helbling;Juliane Hollender

  • pH-Dependent sorption of acidic organic chemicals to soil organic matter.

    Holger C. Tülp;Kathrin Fenner;René P. Schwarzenbach;Kai-Uwe Goss

  • Rapid Screening for Exposure to “Non-Target” Pharmaceuticals from Wastewater Effluents by Combining HRMS-Based Suspect Screening and Exposure Modeling

    Heinz P. Singer;Annika E. Wössner;Annika E. Wössner;Christa S. McArdell;Kathrin Fenner;Kathrin Fenner

  • Systematic Exploration of Biotransformation Reactions of Amine-Containing Micropollutants in Activated Sludge

    Rebekka Gulde;Ulf Meier;Emma L. Schymanski;Hans-Peter E. Kohler;Hans-Peter E. Kohler

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Damian E. Helbling
Damian E. Helbling Cornell University
Heinz Singer
Heinz Singer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Juliane Hollender
Juliane Hollender Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alistair B.A. Boxall
Alistair B.A. Boxall University of York
Jeanne Garric
Jeanne Garric École Normale Supérieure
Thomas A. Ternes
Thomas A. Ternes Federal Institute of Hydrology
Chris D. Metcalfe
Chris D. Metcalfe Trent University

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