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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
11639
World Ranking
4213
National Ranking
290

Chemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
11939
World Ranking
12039
National Ranking
886

Martin Elsner 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 Martin Elsner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 174 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Martin Elsner 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 Martin Elsner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Martin Elsner is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their primary research focus lies within Environmental Science, encompassing a total of 87 publications in this field.

Their work spans several subfields including:

  • Pollution
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology

Elsner has contributed significantly to topics such as:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies

Their recent publications include the following works:

  • Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective, 2024, The Innovation
  • Porphyrinic MOF Film for Multifaceted Electrochemical Sensing, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nanoplastic Analysis by Online Coupling of Raman Microscopy and Field-Flow Fractionation Enabled by Optical Tweezers, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Simple Generation of Suspensible Secondary Microplastic Reference Particles via Ultrasound Treatment, 2020, Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Reviews and syntheses: Heterotrophic fixation of inorganic carbon - significant but invisible flux in environmental carbon cycling, 2021, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors with whom Elsner has collaborated include:

  • Michael Seidel
  • Natalia P. Ivleva
  • Roland A. Fischer
  • Rani Bakkour
  • Fang Wang

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, notably:

  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Vom Wasser
  • The Innovation

Martin Elsner has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Technische Universität Berlin:

  • Mikroplastik im Wasserkreislauf, 2020

Best Publications

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

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

  • A new concept linking observable stable isotope fractionation to transformation pathways of organic pollutants.

    Martin Elsner;Luc Zwank;Daniel Hunkeler;René P. Schwarzenbach

  • Reactivity of Fe(II)-bearing minerals toward reductive transformation of organic contaminants.

    Martin Elsner;René P Schwarzenbach;Stefan B Haderlein

  • Stable isotope fractionation to investigate natural transformation mechanisms of organic contaminants: principles, prospects and limitations.

    Martin Elsner

  • Methods for the analysis of submicrometer- and nanoplastic particles in the environment

    Christian Schwaferts;Reinhard Niessner;Martin Elsner;Natalia P. Ivleva

  • Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of organic contaminants in natural environments: a critical review of the state of the art, prospects, and future challenges

    Torsten C. Schmidt;Luc Zwank;Martin Elsner;Michael Berg

  • Raman microspectroscopy as a tool for microplastic particle analysis

    Philipp M. Anger;Elisabeth von der Esch;Thomas Baumann;Martin Elsner

  • Biodegradation: Updating the Concepts of Control for Microbial Cleanup in Contaminated Aquifers

    Rainer U. Meckenstock;Martin Elsner;Christian Griebler;Tillmann Lueders

  • Current challenges in compound-specific stable isotope analysis of environmental organic contaminants

    Martin Elsner;Maik A. Jochmann;Thomas B. Hofstetter;Daniel Hunkeler

  • New evaluation scheme for two-dimensional isotope analysis to decipher biodegradation processes: application to groundwater contamination by MTBE.

    Luc Zwank;Michael Berg;Martin Elsner;Torsten C Schmidt

  • Quantitative Survey and Structural Classification of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals Reported in Unconventional Gas Production

    Martin Elsner;Kathrin Hoelzer

  • Elevated levels of diesel range organic compounds in groundwater near Marcellus gas operations are derived from surface activities.

    Brian D. Drollette;Kathrin Hoelzer;Nathaniel R. Warner;Thomas H. Darrah

  • Compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) of micropollutants in the environment — current developments and future challenges

    Martin Elsner;Gwenaël Imfeld

  • Porphyrinic MOF Film for Multifaceted Electrochemical Sensing.

    Zhenyu Zhou;Soumya Mukherjee;Shujin Hou;Weijin Li

  • Organic Reference Materials for Hydrogen, Carbon, and Nitrogen Stable Isotope-Ratio Measurements: Caffeines, n-Alkanes, Fatty Acid Methyl Esters, Glycines, l-Valines, Polyethylenes, and Oils

    Arndt Schimmelmann;Haiping Qi;Tyler B. Coplen;Willi A. Brand

  • Mechanisms and products of surface-mediated reductive dehalogenation of carbon tetrachloride by Fe(II) on goethite.

    Martin Elsner;Stefan B. Haderlein;Thomas Kellerhals;Samuel Luzi

  • Macropore flow of old water revisited: experimental insights from a tile-drained hillslope

    J. Klaus;E. Zehe;M. Elsner;C. Külls

  • Compound-specific chlorine isotope analysis: a comparison of gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry and gas chromatography/quadrupole mass spectrometry methods in an interlaboratory study.

    Anat Bernstein;Orfan Shouakar-Stash;Karin Ebert;Christine Laskov

  • Nanoplastic Analysis by Online Coupling of Raman Microscopy and Field-Flow Fractionation Enabled by Optical Tweezers.

    Christian Schwaferts;Vanessa Sogne;Roland Welz;Florian Meier

  • C and N isotope fractionation suggests similar mechanisms of microbial atrazine transformation despite involvement of different enzymes (AtzA and TrzN).

    Armin H. Meyer;Holger Penning;Martin Elsner

  • Insight into methyl tert-Butyl ether (MTBE) stable isotope fractionation from abiotic reference experiments

    Martin Elsner;Jennifer McKelvie;Georges Lacrampe Couloume;Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Hunkeler
Daniel Hunkeler University of Neuchâtel
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Barbara Sherwood Lollar University of Toronto
Thomas B. Hofstetter
Thomas B. Hofstetter Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Natalia P. Ivleva
Natalia P. Ivleva Technical University of Munich
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna
Stefan B. Haderlein
Stefan B. Haderlein University of Tübingen
Piotr Maloszewski
Piotr Maloszewski AGH University of Science and Technology
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen
Reinhard Niessner
Reinhard Niessner Technical University of Munich
Rainer U. Meckenstock
Rainer U. Meckenstock University of Duisburg-Essen

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