Alice A. Horton

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Alice A. Horton is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alice A. Horton has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Pollution, 22 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alice A. Horton's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (30 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (21 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (6 papers). Alice A. Horton is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (30 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (21 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (6 papers). Alice A. Horton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Alice A. Horton's co-authors include Elma Lahive, Claus Svendsen, David J. Spurgeon, Alexander Walton, Simon Dixon, Richard J. Williams, Martina G. Vijver, S. Fairhurst, James S. Bus and David K. A. Barnes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alice A. Horton

66 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities

2017 2.7k citations Alice A. Horton, Alexander Walton et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK – Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification

2016 718 citations Alice A. Horton, Claus Svendsen et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin profile →
Microplastics: An introduction to environmental transport processes

2017 498 citations Alice A. Horton, Simon Dixon Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alice A. Horton United Kingdom	28	6.1k	4.5k	1.6k	618	573	70	7.4k
Defu He China	30	5.3k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	946 1.5×	698 1.2×	48	6.0k
Georg Reifferscheid Germany	35	4.1k 0.7×	2.4k 0.5×	740 0.5×	372 0.6×	378 0.7×	105	6.2k
Stefania Gorbi Italy	38	5.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	957 0.6×	570 0.9×	432 0.8×	90	7.1k
Qiqing Chen China	35	5.3k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 2.1×	915 1.6×	93	6.2k
Francisca Fernández‐Piñas Spain	41	3.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	745 0.5×	1.0k 1.7×	725 1.3×	110	5.9k
Yongfeng Deng China	21	4.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	939 0.6×	1.3k 2.1×	948 1.7×	34	5.5k
Miguel Oliveira Portugal	42	4.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.4×	871 0.6×	1.3k 2.2×	583 1.0×	130	6.4k
Jeanette M. Rotchell United Kingdom	31	3.3k 0.5×	2.0k 0.4×	679 0.4×	505 0.8×	446 0.8×	87	4.5k
Frédéric D.L. Leusch Australia	49	5.8k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	672 0.4×	419 0.7×	774 1.4×	177	8.2k
Francisco Leganés Spain	39	3.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.3×	654 0.4×	989 1.6×	685 1.2×	94	5.3k

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Ockelford, Annie, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal trends in microplastic presence in the sediments of the River Thames catchment (UK). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 207. 116881–116881. 3 indexed citations

Radford, Freya, et al.. (2024). Factors influencing microplastic abundances in the sediments of a seagrass-dominated tropical atoll. Environmental Pollution. 357. 124483–124483. 6 indexed citations

Horton, Alice A., et al.. (2024). High-quality dietary protein (essential amino acids matched to reproductive needs) partially breaks the lifespan and reproduction trade-off in lubber grasshoppers. Biogerontology. 26(1). 4–4. 1 indexed citations

Caldwell, Jessica, Laura Rodríguez‐Lorenzo, Begoña Espiña, et al.. (2024). Detection of submicron- and nanoplastics spiked in environmental fresh- and saltwater with Raman spectroscopy. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 203. 116468–116468. 3 indexed citations

Horton, Alice A.. (2022). Plastic Pollution in the Global Ocean. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 19 indexed citations

Radford, Freya, Lina Restrepo, Alice A. Horton, et al.. (2021). Developing a systematic method for extraction of microplastics in soils. Analytical Methods. 13(14). 1695–1705. 135 indexed citations

Whitehead, P. G., Gianbattista Bussi, Jocelyne Hughes, et al.. (2021). Modelling Microplastics in the River Thames: Sources, Sinks and Policy Implications. Water. 13(6). 861–861. 46 indexed citations

Johnson, Andrew C., Hollie Ball, Richard K. Cross, et al.. (2020). Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(19). 12326–12334. 145 indexed citations

Horton, Alice A., Lindsay K. Newbold, David J. Spurgeon, et al.. (2019). Accumulation of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and microbiome response in the great pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis with exposure to nylon (polyamide) microplastics. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 188. 109882–109882. 48 indexed citations

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Windsor, Fredric M., Isabelle Durance, Alice A. Horton, et al.. (2019). A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution. Global Change Biology. 25(4). 1207–1221. 292 indexed citations

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Lahive, Elma, Alexander Walton, Alice A. Horton, David J. Spurgeon, & Claus Svendsen. (2019). Microplastic particles reduce reproduction in the terrestrial worm Enchytraeus crypticus in a soil exposure. Environmental Pollution. 255(Pt 2). 113174–113174. 186 indexed citations

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Horton, Alice A., Monika D. Jürgens, Elma Lahive, Peter M. van Bodegom, & Martina G. Vijver. (2018). The influence of exposure and physiology on microplastic ingestion by the freshwater fish Rutilus rutilus (roach) in the River Thames, UK. Environmental Pollution. 236. 188–194. 217 indexed citations

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Horton, Alice A., Martina G. Vijver, Elma Lahive, et al.. (2018). Acute toxicity of organic pesticides to Daphnia magna is unchanged by co-exposure to polystyrene microplastics. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 166. 26–34. 82 indexed citations

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Horton, Alice A., Alexander Walton, David J. Spurgeon, Elma Lahive, & Claus Svendsen. (2017). Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities. The Science of The Total Environment. 586. 127–141. 2669 indexed citations breakdown →

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Horton, Alice A. & Simon Dixon. (2017). Microplastics: An introduction to environmental transport processes. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 5(2). 498 indexed citations breakdown →

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Behrens, Paul, et al.. (2017). A large-scale investigation of microplastic contamination: Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in European beach sediment. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 123(1-2). 219–226. 351 indexed citations

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Horton, Alice A., Claus Svendsen, Richard J. Williams, David J. Spurgeon, & Elma Lahive. (2016). Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK – Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 114(1). 218–226. 718 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spurgeon, David J., Helen Hesketh, Elma Lahive, et al.. (2016). Chronic oral lethal and sub‐lethal toxicities of different binary mixtures of pesticides and contaminants in bees (Apis mellifera, Osmia bicornis and Bombus terrestris). EFSA Supporting Publications. 13(9). 38 indexed citations

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Barrett, M C, Deryck J. Mills, & Alice A. Horton. (1976). Lowered respiratory activity in hypo-osmotically shocked mitochondria without loss of cytochrome c. Biochemical Journal. 158(3). 635–638. 2 indexed citations

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Goodwin, T.W. & Alice A. Horton. (1961). Biosynthesis of Riboflavin in Cell-Free Systems. Nature. 191(4790). 772–774. 15 indexed citations

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