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Piotr Stepnowski

Piotr Stepnowski

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Chemistry
Poland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
18376
World Ranking
4493
National Ranking
7

Piotr Stepnowski publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Piotr Stepnowski sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 363 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Piotr Stepnowski D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Poland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Piotr Stepnowski is affiliated with the University of Gdańsk in Poland and focuses their research primarily on environmental science and chemistry. Their work notably spans several subfields, including pollution, analytical chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, catalysis, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's main research topics cover pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, analytical chemistry methods development, properties and applications of ionic liquids, electrochemical analysis and applications, chemistry and chemical engineering, water treatment and disinfection, as well as toxic organic pollutants impact.

Stepnowski has authored multiple papers in various academic journals. Significant recent publications include:

  • Sorption of pharmaceuticals on the surface of microplastics, 2020, Chemosphere
  • How to decrease pharmaceuticals in the environment? A review, 2021, Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • Transformation products of pharmaceuticals in the environment: Their fate, (eco)toxicity and bioaccumulation potential, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Toward the Proactive Design of Sustainable Chemicals: Ionic Liquids as a Prime Example, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Advances in suspect screening and non-target analysis of polar emerging contaminants in the environmental monitoring, 2022, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry

They frequently publish in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Molecules
  • Chemosphere
  • Microchemical Journal

Stepnowski collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Magda Caban
  • Anna Białk-Bielińska
  • Joanna Dołżonek
  • Jakub Maculewicz
  • Dorota Kowalska

Best Publications

  • Application of Spectroscopic Methods for Structural Analysis of Chitin and Chitosan

    Jolanta Kumirska;Małgorzata Czerwicka;Zbigniew Kaczyński;Anna Bychowska

  • Antibiotic resistance genes identified in wastewater treatment plant systems ─ A review

    Magdalena Pazda;Jolanta Kumirska;Piotr Stepnowski;Ewa Mulkiewicz

  • Biomedical Activity of Chitin/Chitosan Based Materials—Influence of Physicochemical Properties Apart from Molecular Weight and Degree of N-Acetylation

    Jolanta Kumirska;Mirko X. Weinhold;Jorg Thöming;Piotr Stepnowski

  • Progress in evaluation of risk potential of ionic liquids—basis for an eco-design of sustainable products

    Bernd Jastorff;Kerstin Mölter;Peter Behrend;Ulrike Bottin-Weber

  • Bioaccumulation and analytics of pharmaceutical residues in the environment: A review.

    Alan Puckowski;Katarzyna Mioduszewska;Paulina Łukaszewicz;Marta Borecka

  • Changes in lipids composition and metabolism in colorectal cancer: a review.

    Alicja Pakiet;Alicja Pakiet;Jarosław Kobiela;Piotr Stepnowski;Tomasz Sledzinski

  • Marine toxicity assessment of imidazolium ionic liquids: Acute effects on the Baltic algae Oocystis submarina and Cyclotella meneghiniana

    Adam Latała;Piotr Stepnowski;Marcin Nędzi;Wojciech Mrozik

  • Evaluating the cytotoxicity of ionic liquids using human cell line HeLa.

    P Stepnowski;A C Skladanowski;A Ludwiczak;E Laczyńska

  • Ecotoxicity evaluation of selected sulfonamides.

    Anna Białk-Bielińska;Stefan Stolte;Jürgen Arning;Ute Uebers

  • Comparison of different advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of room temperature ionic liquids

    Piotr Stepnowski;Adriana Zaleska

  • Enhanced photo-degradation of contaminants in petroleum refinery wastewater.

    P. Stepnowski;E.M. Siedlecka;P. Behrend;B. Jastorff

  • Matrix effects and recovery calculations in analyses of pharmaceuticals based on the determination of β-blockers and β-agonists in environmental samples.

    Magda Caban;Natalia Migowska;Piotr Stepnowski;Marek Kwiatkowski

  • Electrochemical degradation of sulfonamides at BDD electrode: kinetics, reaction pathway and eco-toxicity evaluation.

    Aleksandra Fabiańska;Anna Białk-Bielińska;Piotr Stepnowski;Stefan Stolte

  • Hydrolysis of sulphonamides in aqueous solutions.

    Anna Białk-Bielińska;Stefan Stolte;Marianne Matzke;Aleksandra Fabiańska

  • Adsorption of alkylimidazolium and alkylpyridinium ionic liquids onto natural soils.

    Piotr Stepnowski;Wojciech Mrozik;Joanna Nichthauser

  • Ionic liquids as lubricants or lubrication additives: An ecotoxicity and biodegradability assessment

    Stefan Stolte;Stephanie Steudte;Olatz Areitioaurtena;Francesco Pagano

  • Influence of inorganic ions on MTBE degradation by Fenton's reagent

    Ewa M. Siedlecka;Anna Więckowska;Piotr Stepnowski

  • Assessing toxicity and biodegradation of novel, environmentally benign ionic liquids (1-alkoxymethyl-3-hydroxypyridinium chloride, saccharinate and acesulfamates) on cellular and molecular level

    M. Stasiewicz;E. Mulkiewicz;R. Tomczak-Wandzel;J. Kumirska

  • Sorption of pharmaceuticals on the surface of microplastics

    Alan Puckowski;Weronika Cwięk;Katarzyna Mioduszewska;Piotr Stepnowski

  • A new approach for the estimation of expanded uncertainty of results of an analytical method developed for determining antibiotics in seawater using solid-phase extraction disks and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry technique.

    M. Borecka;A. Bialk-Bielinska;G. Siedlewicz;K. Kornowska

  • Reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method for the determination of selected room-temperature ionic liquid cations

    Piotr Stepnowski;Anja Müller;Peter Behrend;Johannes Ranke

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Stolte
Stefan Stolte TU Dresden
Bernd Jastorff
Bernd Jastorff University of Bremen
Bogusław Buszewski
Bogusław Buszewski Nicolaus Copernicus University
João A. P. Coutinho
João A. P. Coutinho University of Aveiro
Stephen J. Forsythe
Stephen J. Forsythe Nottingham Trent University
Sónia P. M. Ventura
Sónia P. M. Ventura University of Aveiro
Margarida F. Costa Gomes
Margarida F. Costa Gomes École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Anne-Marie Delort
Anne-Marie Delort University of Clermont Auvergne
Carmen Socaciu
Carmen Socaciu University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
Piotr Szefer
Piotr Szefer Gdańsk Medical University

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