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Regina Hitzenberger

Regina Hitzenberger

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
9666
World Ranking
5497
National Ranking
47

Regina Hitzenberger 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 Regina Hitzenberger sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 156 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Regina Hitzenberger 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 Regina Hitzenberger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Regina Hitzenberger is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, where their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work addresses several interdisciplinary subfields, including atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, automotive engineering, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics centered on air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality monitoring and forecasting, vehicle emissions and performance, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and noise effects and management.

Regina Hitzenberger has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Air Quality Atmosphere & Health
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

Recent scientific papers authored by the researcher include:

  • Brown carbon's emission factors and optical characteristics in household biomass burning: developing a novel algorithm for estimating the contribution of brown carbon (2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • Investigation of structural changes of atmospheric aerosol samples during two thermal-optical measurement procedures (EUSAAR2, NIOSH870) (2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques)
  • On the equivalency of Black Smoke / British Smoke and historic Elemental Carbon (2020, Atmospheric Environment)
  • On the historic exposure levels of Elemental Carbon from vehicle diesel exhaust based on "diesel smoke" concentrations (2022, Atmospheric Environment)
  • Quantifying the equivalency factor between PM-absorbance and EC mass concentration - converting the "old" exposure proxy in large health studies to the new metric for diesel soot (2025, Air Quality Atmosphere & Health)

Frequent co-authors involved in their research include:

  • H.M. ten Brink
  • Anna Wonaschuetz
  • Gerard Hoek
  • Jianzhong Sun
  • Yuzhe Zhang

Best Publications

  • Source apportionment of particulate matter in Europe: A review of methods and results

    M Viana;T.A.J. Kuhlbusch;X Querol;A Alastuey

  • A European aerosol phenomenology 3: Physical and chemical characteristics of particulate matter from 60 rural, urban, and kerbside sites across Europe

    J.-P. Putaud;R. Van Dingenen;A. Alastuey;H. Bauer

  • Results of the "Carbon Conference" International Aerosol Carbon Round Robin Test Stage I

    Heidrun Schmid;Lothar Laskus;Hans Jürgen Abraham;Urs Baltensperger

  • The contribution of bacteria and fungal spores to the organic carbon content of cloud water, precipitation and aerosols

    H Bauer;A Kasper-Giebl;M Löflund;H Giebl

  • Airborne bacteria as cloud condensation nuclei

    Heidi Bauer;Heinrich Giebl;Regina Hitzenberger;Anne Kasper-Giebl

  • Significant contributions of fungal spores to the organic carbon and to the aerosol mass balance of the urban atmospheric aerosol

    Heidi Bauer;Elisabeth Schueller;Gert Weinke;Anna Berger

  • Chemical characterisation of particle emissions from burning leaves.

    Christoph Schmidl;Heidi Bauer;Astrid Dattler;Regina Hitzenberger

  • Single Particle Soot Photometer intercomparison at the AIDA chamber

    M. Laborde;M. Schnaiter;C. Linke;H. Saathoff

  • Artefacts in the sampling of nitrate studied in the INTERCOMP campaigns of EUROTRAC-AEROSOL

    M Schaap;G Spindler;M Schulz;K Acker

  • Characterizing the performance of two optical particle counters (Grimm OPC1.108 and OPC1.109) under urban aerosol conditions

    J. Burkart;G. Steiner;G. Reischl;H. Moshammer

  • Intercomparison of thermal and optical measurement methods for elemental carbon and black carbon at an urban location.

    Regina Hitzenberger;Andreas Petzold;Heidi Bauer;Peter Ctyroky

  • Formic, acetic, oxalic, malonic and succinic acid concentrations and their contribution to organic carbon in cloud water

    M Löflund;A Kasper-Giebl;B Schuster;H Giebl

  • CCN activation of pure and coated carbon black particles.

    U Dusek;G P Reischl;R Hitzenberger

  • Comparison of black carbon (BC) aerosols in two urban areas – concentrations and size distributions

    R Hitzenberger;S Tohno

  • INTERCOMP2000: the comparability of methods in use in Europe for measuring the carbon content of aerosol

    Harry ten Brink;Willy Maenhaut;Regina Hitzenberger;Thomas Gnauk

  • Identification of ice nucleation active sites on feldspar dust particles.

    Tobias Zolles;Julia Burkart;Thomas Häusler;Bernhard Pummer

  • Modal character of atmospheric black carbon size distributions

    A. Berner;S. Sidla;Z. Galambos;C. Kruisz

  • Emission factors and light absorption properties of brown carbon from household coal combustion in China

    Jianzhong Sun;Guorui Zhi;Regina Hitzenberger;Yingjun Chen;Yingjun Chen

  • Intercomparison of measurement techniques for black or elemental carbon under urban background conditions in wintertime: influence of biomass combustion.

    Peter Reisinger;Anna Wonaschutz;Regina Hitzenberger;Andreas Petzold

  • CCN activation of oxalic and malonic acid test aerosols with the University of Vienna cloud condensation nuclei counter

    H Giebl;A Berner;G Reischl;H Puxbaum

  • A European aerosol phenomenology-3: Physical and chemical characteristics of particulate matter from 60 rural, urban, and kerbside sites across Europe

    J. P. Putaud;R. Van Dingenen;A. Alastuey;H. Bauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Berner
Axel Berner University of Vienna
Willy Maenhaut
Willy Maenhaut Ghent University
Urs Baltensperger
Urs Baltensperger Paul Scherrer Institute
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Martin Gysel
Martin Gysel Paul Scherrer Institute
Ernest Weingartner
Ernest Weingartner University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Hongbin Yu
Hongbin Yu Goddard Space Flight Center
Thomas Röckmann
Thomas Röckmann Utrecht University

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