Brigid A. McKenna

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Brigid A. McKenna is a scholar working on Plant Science, Soil Science and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brigid A. McKenna has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Plant Science, 12 papers in Soil Science and 10 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Brigid A. McKenna's work include Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals (18 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (7 papers). Brigid A. McKenna is often cited by papers focused on Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals (18 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers) and Clay minerals and soil interactions (7 papers). Brigid A. McKenna collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United Kingdom. Brigid A. McKenna's co-authors include Neal W. Menzies, Peter M. Kopittke, Peng Wang, Enzo Lombi, F. P. C. Blamey, J. Bernhard Wehr, C. J. Glover, Peter Kappen, Daryl L. Howard and David Paterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Brigid A. McKenna

42 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security

2019 876 citations Peter M. Kopittke, Neal W. Menzies et al. Environment International profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brigid A. McKenna Australia	21	1.1k	440	416	351	248	46	2.4k
Ghulam Mustafa Shah Pakistan	31	1.0k 0.9×	513 1.2×	490 1.2×	207 0.6×	89 0.4×	100	2.6k
Muhammad Azeem Pakistan	29	473 0.4×	774 1.8×	474 1.1×	195 0.6×	239 1.0×	68	2.1k
Jérôme Silvestre France	26	1.1k 1.0×	804 1.8×	253 0.6×	395 1.1×	144 0.6×	47	2.3k
Sher Muhammad Shahzad Pakistan	30	1.5k 1.4×	574 1.3×	808 1.9×	132 0.4×	118 0.5×	79	3.1k
Ruiqiang Liu China	22	934 0.9×	320 0.7×	725 1.7×	769 2.2×	106 0.4×	52	2.7k
Muhammad Sanaullah Pakistan	23	1.2k 1.1×	498 1.1×	1.1k 2.7×	483 1.4×	136 0.5×	73	3.0k
Liqun Cai China	22	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 2.4×	692 1.7×	144 0.4×	115 0.5×	82	2.7k
Μάριος Δρόσος China	29	591 0.5×	375 0.9×	841 2.0×	112 0.3×	207 0.8×	96	2.0k
Tingxuan Li China	32	1.5k 1.4×	892 2.0×	1.1k 2.7×	283 0.8×	165 0.7×	183	3.4k

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Dalal, Ram C., et al.. (2025). Bringing soil sulfur to the forefront: How long-term cropping impacts sulfur speciation in soil organic matter fractions. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 393. 109833–109833.

Zhou, Wenxiang, et al.. (2025). Functional group composition of soil organic carbon varies between soil organic matter fractions but not with long-term cropping or soil depth. Pedosphere.

Kopittke, Peter M., et al.. (2025). Soil degradation: An integrated model of the causes and drivers. International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 13(4). 744–755. 3 indexed citations

McKenna, Brigid A., Ram C. Dalal, S. P. McGrath, et al.. (2025). Sulfur's Long Game: 145 Years of Soil Sulfur Speciation in the World's Oldest Agricultural Experiments. Global Change Biology. 31(3). e70136–e70136. 2 indexed citations

Lombi, Enzo, Casey L. Doolette, Rodrigo C. da Silva, Brigid A. McKenna, & Peter M. Kopittke. (2025). Unveiling Chemical Gradients in the Fertosphere: A Paradigm Shift to Enhance Fertilizer Efficiency and Decrease the Environmental Impact of Overfertilisation. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(29). 14853–14861.

Vega, Raquel González de, Etienne Skrzypek, Brigid A. McKenna, et al.. (2024). Investigating how H2S can alter the interactions between Hg0 and corroded steel surfaces to guide future decommissioning projects. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 480. 136025–136025. 2 indexed citations

Nguyen, Binh T., J. Bernhard Wehr, Peter M. Kopittke, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking Bulb Yield, Medicinal Sulfur Compounds, and Mineral Nutrition of Garlic Varieties. ACS Omega. 9(45). 45240–45250. 4 indexed citations

Kopittke, Peter M., Ram C. Dalal, Brigid A. McKenna, et al.. (2024). Soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. SOIL. 10(2). 873–885. 8 indexed citations

Dang, Yash P., Brigid A. McKenna, Nicole Robinson, et al.. (2024). Biotic relationships to aggregation in a Vertisol under long-term no-till, stubble retention and nitrogen fertilisation. Applied Soil Ecology. 195. 105260–105260. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Meng, Brigid A. McKenna, Xingming Lian, et al.. (2022). Fast X-ray fluorescence microscopy provides high-throughput phenotyping of element distribution in seeds. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 191(3). 1520–1534. 8 indexed citations

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Kopittke, Peter M., Neal W. Menzies, Peng Wang, Brigid A. McKenna, & Enzo Lombi. (2019). Soil and the intensification of agriculture for global food security. Environment International. 132. 105078–105078. 876 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Peng, Neal W. Menzies, Brigid A. McKenna, et al.. (2019). Examining a synchrotron-based approach forin situanalyses of Al speciation in plant roots. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 27(1). 100–109.

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Blamey, F. P. C., David Paterson, Adam Walsh, et al.. (2018). Time-resolved X-ray fluorescence analysis of element distribution and concentration in living plants: An example using manganese toxicity in cowpea leaves. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 156. 151–160. 18 indexed citations

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Kopittke, Peter M., Brigid A. McKenna, Chithra Karunakaran, et al.. (2017). Aluminum Complexation with Malate within the Root Apoplast Differs between Aluminum Resistant and Sensitive Wheat Lines. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 1377–1377. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Peng, Neal W. Menzies, Enzo Lombi, et al.. (2015). Synchrotron-based X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy imaging for laterally resolved speciation of selenium in fresh roots and leaves of wheat and rice. Journal of Experimental Botany. 66(15). 4795–4806. 35 indexed citations

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Kopittke, Peter M., Neal W. Menzies, Peng Wang, et al.. (2013). The rhizotoxicity of metal cations is related to their strength of binding to hard ligands. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 33(2). 268–277. 28 indexed citations

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Kopittke, Peter M., F. P. C. Blamey, Brigid A. McKenna, Peng Wang, & Neal W. Menzies. (2011). Toxicity of metals to roots of cowpea in relation to their binding strength. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 30(8). 1827–1833. 32 indexed citations

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McKenna, Brigid A., Timothy Nicholson, J. Bernhard Wehr, & Neal W. Menzies. (2010). Effects of Ca, Cu, Al and La on pectin gel strength: implications for plant cell walls. Carbohydrate Research. 345(9). 1174–1179. 30 indexed citations

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Herman, Michael V., Jennifer L. Donovan, Brigid A. McKenna, et al.. (2009). Use of β-blockers and effects on heart rate and blood pressure post-acute coronary syndromes: Are we on target?. American Heart Journal. 158(3). 378–385. 9 indexed citations

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McKenna, Brigid A., Peter M. Kopittke, J. Bernhard Wehr, F. P. C. Blamey, & Neal W. Menzies. (2009). Metal ion effects on hydraulic conductivity of bacterial cellulose–pectin composites used as plant cell wall analogs. Physiologia Plantarum. 138(2). 205–214. 17 indexed citations

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