Alistair B.A. Boxall

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Alistair B.A. Boxall is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alistair B.A. Boxall has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pollution, 14 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alistair B.A. Boxall's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (23 papers), Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (9 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (8 papers). Alistair B.A. Boxall is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (23 papers), Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (9 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (8 papers). Alistair B.A. Boxall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Alistair B.A. Boxall's co-authors include Karen Tiede, Qasim Chaudhry, Martin Hassellöv, S. P. Tear, Helen David, John Lewis, Colin D. Brown, Roman Ashauer, Michael J. Scotter and Richard Watkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Alistair B.A. Boxall

53 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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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.

The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

2013 796 citations Alistair B.A. Boxall et al. profile →
Applications and implications of nanotechnologies for the food sector

2008 757 citations Qasim Chaudhry, Alistair B.A. Boxall et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alistair B.A. Boxall United Kingdom	32	2.2k	1.4k	1.2k	568	529	53	4.8k
Erica Donner Australia	47	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	975 0.8×	284 0.5×	1.0k 1.9×	147	6.2k
Enda Cummins Ireland	45	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	626 0.5×	193 0.3×	627 1.2×	170	5.9k
Xu Li China	41	1.9k 0.9×	516 0.4×	676 0.6×	491 0.9×	859 1.6×	339	6.0k
Chang‐Gui Pan China	31	4.0k 1.8×	560 0.4×	1.9k 1.6×	818 1.4×	611 1.2×	64	6.8k
Tao Lu China	48	2.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	658 0.5×	745 1.3×	786 1.5×	221	7.7k
Qian-Qian Zhang China	33	4.4k 2.0×	570 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	814 1.4×	656 1.2×	66	6.8k
Jolanta Kumirska Poland	33	1.8k 0.8×	470 0.3×	562 0.5×	295 0.5×	662 1.3×	107	4.9k
Qi Zhang China	40	2.3k 1.1×	391 0.3×	674 0.6×	399 0.7×	531 1.0×	208	5.3k
Shannon L. Bartelt‐Hunt United States	36	2.1k 1.0×	277 0.2×	898 0.7×	254 0.4×	382 0.7×	166	4.8k
Xin Jiang China	51	4.3k 1.9×	668 0.5×	1.8k 1.5×	282 0.5×	944 1.8×	235	7.9k

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Luo, Qiong, Racliffe Weng Seng Lai, Shaopeng Xu, et al.. (2025). A robust method to quantify pharmaceuticals for the United Nations endorsed Global Estuaries Monitoring (GEM) Programme. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 215. 117860–117860. 1 indexed citations

Brodin, Tomas, Michael G. Bertram, Kathryn E. Arnold, et al.. (2024). The urgent need for designing greener drugs. Nature Sustainability. 7(8). 949–951. 28 indexed citations

Pistocchi, Alberto, ‪Nikiforos Alygizakis, Werner Brack, et al.. (2022). European scale assessment of the potential of ozonation and activated carbon treatment to reduce micropollutant emissions with wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 848. 157124–157124. 29 indexed citations

Boxall, Alistair B.A., Mark F. Fitzsimons, Jason Snape, et al.. (2019). Characterization of the Nairobi River catchment impact zone and occurrence of pharmaceuticals: Implications for an impact zone inclusive environmental risk assessment. The Science of The Total Environment. 703. 134925–134925. 45 indexed citations

Wilkinson, John L., Alistair B.A. Boxall, & Dana W. Kolpin. (2019). A Novel Method to Characterise Levels of Pharmaceutical Pollution in Large-Scale Aquatic Monitoring Campaigns. Applied Sciences. 9(7). 1368–1368. 35 indexed citations

Carter, Laura, Benny Chefetz, Ziad Abdeen, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2019). Emerging investigator series: towards a framework for establishing the impacts of pharmaceuticals in wastewater irrigation systems on agro-ecosystems and human health. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 21(4). 605–622. 67 indexed citations

Dudkiewicz, Agnieszka, Qasim Chaudhry, Kristian Mølhave, et al.. (2018). Development of a sample preparation approach to measure the size of nanoparticle aggregates by electron microscopy. Particuology. 45. 49–57. 2 indexed citations

Bean, Thomas G., Kathryn E. Arnold, Ed Bergström, et al.. (2017). Predictive framework for estimating exposure of birds to pharmaceuticals. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 36(9). 2335–2344. 11 indexed citations

Burns, Emily E., Jane Thomas‐Oates, Dana W. Kolpin, Edward T. Furlong, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2017). Are exposure predictions, used for the prioritization of pharmaceuticals in the environment, fit for purpose?. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 36(10). 2823–2832. 33 indexed citations

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McClean, Colin J., et al.. (2016). Fur: A non-invasive approach to monitor metal exposure in bats. Chemosphere. 147. 376–381. 51 indexed citations

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Boxall, Alistair B.A., Virginie Keller, Jürg Oliver Straub, et al.. (2014). Exploiting monitoring data in environmental exposure modelling and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals. Environment International. 73. 176–185. 75 indexed citations

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Cresser, Malcolm S., et al.. (2012). Introduction to Environmental Science: Earth and Man. Gynecologic Oncology. 28(1). 20–4. 4 indexed citations

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Kookana, Rai S., et al.. (2012). Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: Cultural and spiritual perspectives. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 9(1). 164–166. 3 indexed citations

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Lake, Iain, Lee Hooper, Asmaa Abdelhamid, et al.. (2012). Climate Change and Food Security: Health Impacts in Developed Countries. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(11). 1520–1526. 147 indexed citations

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Batty, Lesley, Lesley Batty, Alan J. M. Baker, et al.. (2010). Ecology of Industrial Pollution. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 124 indexed citations

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Tiede, Karen, Martin Hassellöv, Eike Breitbarth, Qasim Chaudhry, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2008). Considerations for environmental fate and ecotoxicity testing to support environmental risk assessments for engineered nanoparticles. Journal of Chromatography A. 1216(3). 503–509. 287 indexed citations

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Beulke, Sabine, Alistair B.A. Boxall, Colin D. Brown, et al.. (2007). Impacts of climate change on pesticide transport to groundwater and surface water.. 444–451. 5 indexed citations

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Boxall, Alistair B.A.. (2003). Prioritisation of veterinary medicines in the UK environment. Toxicology Letters. 142(3). 207–218. 138 indexed citations

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Comber, Sean, Michael Gardner, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2002). Survey of four marine antifoulant constituents (copper, zinc, diuron and Irgarol 1051) in two UK estuaries. Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 4(3). 417–425. 38 indexed citations

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WEBBER, M. D., et al.. (1996). Monitoring and prioritisation of organic contaminants in sewage sludges using specific chemical analysis and predictive, non-analytical methods. The Science of The Total Environment. 185(1-3). 27–44. 50 indexed citations

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