Aleš Vaněk

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Aleš Vaněk is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Chemistry and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleš Vaněk has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Pollution, 18 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 17 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Aleš Vaněk's work include Heavy metals in environment (44 papers), Thallium and Germanium Studies (25 papers) and Mine drainage and remediation techniques (15 papers). Aleš Vaněk is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (44 papers), Thallium and Germanium Studies (25 papers) and Mine drainage and remediation techniques (15 papers). Aleš Vaněk collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, Namibia and Poland. Aleš Vaněk's co-authors include Michael Komárek, Vojtěch Ettler, Martin Mihaljevič, Vít Penížek, Vladislav Chrastný, Ondřej Drábek, Petr Drahota, Bohdan Křı́bek, Tereza Zádorová and Ondra Šráček and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Aleš Vaněk

90 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Chemical stabilization of metals and arsenic in contaminated soils using oxides – A review

2012 506 citations Michael Komárek, Aleš Vaněk et al. Environmental Pollution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleš Vaněk Czechia	33	2.4k	633	615	460	449	94	3.2k
Tangfu Xiao China	32	1.5k 0.6×	636 1.0×	694 1.1×	462 1.0×	402 0.9×	78	2.9k
Zengping Ning China	31	1.5k 0.6×	655 1.0×	753 1.2×	330 0.7×	343 0.8×	86	2.8k
Meiling Yin China	32	1.7k 0.7×	478 0.8×	245 0.4×	417 0.9×	787 1.8×	52	2.8k
Petr Drahota Czechia	28	1.2k 0.5×	328 0.5×	937 1.5×	389 0.8×	213 0.5×	76	2.1k
Vít Penížek Czechia	31	1.2k 0.5×	425 0.7×	261 0.4×	212 0.5×	245 0.5×	91	2.2k
Ondřej Drábek Czechia	30	1.5k 0.6×	212 0.3×	224 0.4×	219 0.5×	227 0.5×	136	3.0k
Fien Degryse Australia	39	2.0k 0.9×	789 1.2×	984 1.6×	488 1.1×	207 0.5×	106	4.5k
Thibault Sterckeman France	39	2.7k 1.1×	615 1.0×	310 0.5×	605 1.3×	173 0.4×	94	4.6k
Vinod K. Singh India	21	1.1k 0.4×	544 0.9×	228 0.4×	610 1.3×	175 0.4×	31	3.2k
Majid Afyuni Iran	37	1.4k 0.6×	460 0.7×	344 0.6×	458 1.0×	88 0.2×	142	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Aleš Vaněk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aleš Vaněk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aleš Vaněk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aleš Vaněk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aleš Vaněk. Aleš Vaněk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Skála, Jan, et al.. (2025). Chernozems in Czechia: Soil properties, classification and environmental controls. Geoderma Regional. 41. e00957–e00957.

Ettler, Vojtěch, Martin Mihaljevič, Petr Drahota, et al.. (2025). Contaminant bioaccessibility in abandoned mine tailings in Namibia changes along a climatic gradient. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 27(4). 1088–1102.

Šráček, Ondra, Bohdan Křı́bek, Vojtěch Ettler, et al.. (2025). Comment on “Spatial distributions, potential sources, and ecological risks of heavy metals in stream sediments of Zambia” by Sun et al. (2025). Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 275. 107791–107791.

Zádorová, Tereza, Vít Penížek, Lenka Lisá, et al.. (2024). Landscape history mirrored in colluvial profiles: A multi-proxy approach from a Luvisol region in Central Czechia. Geoderma Regional. 36. e00777–e00777. 2 indexed citations

Guigue, Julien, Daniel Žížala, Vít Penížek, et al.. (2024). Vertical distribution and variability of soil organic carbon and CaCO3 in deep Colluvisols modeled by hyperspectral imaging. Geoderma. 453. 117146–117146. 1 indexed citations

Ettler, Vojtěch, et al.. (2024). Tracing anthropogenic mercury in soils from Fe–Hg mining/smelting area: Isotopic and speciation insights. Chemosphere. 357. 142038–142038. 1 indexed citations

Vaněk, Aleš, Tamara Đorđević, Martin Mihaljevič, et al.. (2024). Thallium in Technosols from Allchar (North Macedonia): Isotopic and speciation insights. Environmental Pollution. 357. 124413–124413. 4 indexed citations

Zádorová, Tereza, Vít Penížek, Lenka Lisá, et al.. (2023). Formation of Colluvisols in different soil regions and slope positions (Czechia): Post-sedimentary pedogenesis in colluvial material. CATENA. 229. 107233–107233. 6 indexed citations

Ettler, Vojtěch, Martin Mihaljevič, Bohdan Křı́bek, et al.. (2023). Bioaccessible metals in dust materials from non-sulfide Zn deposit and related hydrometallurgical operation. Chemosphere. 345. 140498–140498. 4 indexed citations

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Vaněk, Aleš, Martin Mihaljevič, Vojtěch Ettler, et al.. (2023). Silver isotopes: A tool to trace smelter-derived contamination. Environmental Pollution. 337. 122557–122557.

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Ettler, Vojtěch, Martin Mihaljevič, Petr Drahota, et al.. (2022). Contaminant Binding and Bioaccessibility in the Dust From the Ni‐Cu Mining/Smelting District of Selebi‐Phikwe (Botswana). GeoHealth. 6(11). e2022GH000683–e2022GH000683. 8 indexed citations

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Vaněk, Aleš, Martin Mihaljevič, Vojtěch Ettler, et al.. (2020). Thallium isotopic fractionation in soil: the key controls. Environmental Pollution. 265(Pt A). 114822–114822. 27 indexed citations

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Rohovec, Jan, Šárka Matoušková, Martin Mihaljevič, et al.. (2020). The potential wildfire effects on mercury remobilization from topsoils and biomass in a smelter-polluted semi-arid area. Chemosphere. 247. 125972–125972. 11 indexed citations

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Vaněk, Aleš, Martin Mihaljevič, Vojtěch Ettler, et al.. (2018). Thallium contamination of desert soil in Namibia: Chemical, mineralogical and isotopic insights. Environmental Pollution. 239. 272–280. 45 indexed citations

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Vaněk, Aleš, Martin Mihaljevič, Vladislav Chrastný, et al.. (2013). Phase-dependent phytoavailability of thallium – A synthetic soil experiment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 250-251. 265–271. 26 indexed citations

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Čadková, Eva, et al.. (2012). Sorption of tebuconazole onto selected soil minerals and humic acids. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B. 47(4). 336–342. 28 indexed citations

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Komárek, Michael, Zuzana Michálková, Jiřina Száková, Aleš Vaněk, & Tomáš Matys Grygar. (2011). Evolution of Bioavailable Copper and Major Soil Cations in Contaminated Soils Treated with Ethylenediaminedisuccinate: A Two-Year Experiment. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 86(5). 525–530. 7 indexed citations

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Vaněk, Aleš, Vladislav Chrastný, Michael Komárek, et al.. (2009). Thallium dynamics in contrasting light sandy soils—Soil vulnerability assessment to anthropogenic contamination. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 173(1-3). 717–723. 50 indexed citations

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Vaněk, Aleš, Tomáš Matys Grygar, Vladislav Chrastný, et al.. (2009). Assessment of the BCR sequential extraction procedure for thallium fractionation using synthetic mineral mixtures. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 176(1-3). 913–918. 35 indexed citations

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Komárek, Michael, Aleš Vaněk, Jiřina Száková, J. Balík, & Vladislav Chrastný. (2009). Interactions of EDDS with Fe- and Al-(hydr)oxides. Chemosphere. 77(1). 87–93. 32 indexed citations

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