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Researcher · Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology · Switzerland

Urs von Gunten

Urs von Gunten publishes mostly in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Water Science and Technology and Pollution, on topics such as Water Treatment and Disinfection, Advanced oxidation water treatment and Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts.

ORCID 0000-0001-6852-8977 OpenAlex
World rank
#12,029
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#202
of 80,918
Works
422
Citations
56k
Citations per work
132.2
h-index
113
i10-index 282Top 0.1% in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Urs von Gunten

What does Urs von Gunten research?

Urs von Gunten's work is mostly in Environmental Science (69%), Engineering (3%).

Physical Sciences: 305 works · 72.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 292 works · 69.2% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 107 works · 25.4% of their workWater Science and Technology: 82 works · 19.5% of their workPollution: 48 works · 11.4% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 34 works · 8.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 20 works · 4.8% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 3.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 13 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 117 works · 27.7% of their workTHEIR WORKUrs von Gunten422works
Physical Sciences72%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science29269.2%
    2. Engineering133.1%
  2. Everything else11727.7%
  1. 1Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis25% of their works
  2. 2Water Science and Technology20% of their works
  3. 3Pollution11% of their works
  4. 4Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering8% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry5% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Urs von Gunten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Water Treatment, Health Effects, Disinfection By-Products, Drinking Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Oxidation Kinetics, Ecotoxicity and Antibiotics.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Water Treatment4363 topics
  2. Health Effects2462 topics
  3. Disinfection By-Products2211 topic
  4. Drinking Water2211 topic
  5. Advanced Oxidation Processes1901 topic
  6. Oxidation Kinetics1901 topic
  7. Ecotoxicity1352 topics
  8. Antibiotics1081 topic
  9. Resistance Genes1081 topic
  10. Monitoring711 topic
  11. Wastewater711 topic
  12. Wastewater Treatment532 topics
  13. Atmospheric Aerosols281 topic
  14. Black Carbon281 topic
  15. Biodegradation271 topic
  16. Surfactants271 topic
  17. Groundwater Remediation261 topic
  18. Heavy Metal Removal261 topic
  19. Perchlorate251 topic
  20. Thyroid251 topic

Where does Urs von Gunten work?

Urs von Gunten's main affiliation in the publication record is Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Urs von Gunten have?

OpenAlex counts 422 works and 55,800 citations for Urs von Gunten, an h-index of 113, ranking #12,029 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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