Cassandra Rauert

4.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
65 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Cassandra Rauert is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Cassandra Rauert has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 36 papers in Pollution and 24 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Cassandra Rauert's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (34 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (26 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (23 papers). Cassandra Rauert is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (34 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (26 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (23 papers). Cassandra Rauert collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Canada. Cassandra Rauert's co-authors include Kevin V. Thomas, Elvis D. Okoffo, Tom Harner, Stuart Harrad, Jake O’Brien, Xianyu Wang, Jasmin K. Schuster, Stacey O’Brien, Francisca Ribeiro and Anita Eng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Cassandra Rauert

63 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Concentrations of Tire Additive Chemicals and Tire Road Wear Particles in an Australian Urban Tributary

2022 252 citations Cassandra Rauert, Nathan P. Charlton et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
There's something in the air: A review of sources, prevalence and behaviour of microplastics in the atmosphere

2023 232 citations Stacey O’Brien, Cassandra Rauert et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Assessing the Efficacy of Pyrolysis–Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry for Nanoplastic and Microplastic Analysis in Human Blood

2025 35 citations Cassandra Rauert, Nathan P. Charlton et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Are microplastics bad for your health? More rigorous science is needed

2025 21 citations Cassandra Rauert, Kevin V. Thomas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cassandra Rauert Australia	36	1.9k	1.5k	1.2k	490	474	65	3.3k
Lian‐Jun Bao China	35	2.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	274 0.6×	235 0.5×	98	3.8k
Martin Schlummer Germany	26	862 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	360 0.7×	889 1.9×	50	3.1k
Rebecca Sutton United States	17	2.0k 1.0×	758 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	222 0.5×	400 0.8×	34	2.7k
Merle Plassmann Sweden	25	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	441 0.9×	889 1.9×	45	3.2k
Mark J. La Guardia United States	32	2.6k 1.3×	4.1k 2.7×	785 0.7×	402 0.8×	474 1.0×	56	5.6k
Sicco H. Brandsma Netherlands	29	3.5k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.8×	266 0.5×	393 0.8×	67	5.3k
Mahua Saha India	28	2.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	98 0.2×	165 0.3×	45	3.5k
Julie M. Panko United States	21	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	745 0.6×	100 0.2×	137 0.3×	50	2.4k
Andreas C. Gerecke Switzerland	33	1.6k 0.8×	3.1k 2.0×	606 0.5×	597 1.2×	675 1.4×	47	4.3k

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Shi, Ke, et al.. (2025). Release of Nanoplastics from Polypropylene Food Containers into Hot and Cold Water. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73(42). 27038–27047. 1 indexed citations

Rauert, Cassandra, et al.. (2025). Quantifying Nanoplastics and Microplastics in Food and Beverages Using Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry: Challenges and Implications. ACS Food Science & Technology. 5(4). 1536–1545. 5 indexed citations

Shi, Ke, et al.. (2025). Release of nanoplastic from polypropylene kettles. 1(1).

Rauert, Cassandra, Nathan P. Charlton, Anita Bagley, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Efficacy of Pyrolysis–Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry for Nanoplastic and Microplastic Analysis in Human Blood. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(4). 1984–1994. 35 indexed citations breakdown →

Okoffo, Elvis D., et al.. (2025). Unearthing the hidden plastic in garden compost. The Science of The Total Environment. 973. 179153–179153. 2 indexed citations

Rauert, Cassandra, Maria König, Peta A. Neale, Kevin V. Thomas, & Beate I. Escher. (2024). Effect-Based Water Quality Assessment in an Urban Tributary under Base Flow and Storm Conditions. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 11(12). 1314–1320. 3 indexed citations

Burrows, Stephen D., John M. Colwell, Sarit Kaserzon, et al.. (2024). UV sources and plastic composition influence microplastic surface degradation: Implications for plastic weathering studies. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. 14. 100428–100428. 21 indexed citations

Gregory, David A., Victoria L. Workman, Cassandra Rauert, et al.. (2024). Evidence of time dependent degradation of polypropylene surgical mesh explanted from the abdomen and vagina of sheep. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 160. 106722–106722. 6 indexed citations

Vlahos, Penny, et al.. (2023). A Hitchhiker's guide to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) monitoring in air: Establishing a baseline network in Sri Lanka. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 14(12). 101901–101901. 1 indexed citations

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Dewapriya, Pradeep, Nikolaos I. Rousis, Cassandra Rauert, Νikolaos S. Τhomaidis, & Kevin V. Thomas. (2023). High-Resolution Mass Spectrometric Profiling of Stormwater in an Australian Creek. ACS ES&T Water. 3(8). 2502–2511. 2 indexed citations

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Rauert, Cassandra, et al.. (2023). Characterization and quantification of oxidative stress induced particle debris from polypropylene surgical mesh. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(6). 395–407. 6 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Jake, Saer Samanipour, Pradeep Dewapriya, et al.. (2023). InSpectra – A platform for identifying emerging chemical threats. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 455. 131486–131486. 9 indexed citations

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Rauert, Cassandra, Nathan P. Charlton, Elvis D. Okoffo, et al.. (2022). Concentrations of Tire Additive Chemicals and Tire Road Wear Particles in an Australian Urban Tributary. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(4). 2421–2431. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Clement Matthew Chan, Cassandra Rauert, Sarit Kaserzon, & Kevin V. Thomas. (2022). Identification and Quantification of Micro-Bioplastics in Environmental Samples by Pyrolysis–Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(19). 13774–13785. 75 indexed citations

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Rødland, Elisabeth S., Ole Christian Lind, Malcolm J. Reid, et al.. (2022). Occurrence of tire and road wear particles in urban and peri-urban snowbanks, and their potential environmental implications. The Science of The Total Environment. 824. 153785–153785. 85 indexed citations

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Rauert, Cassandra, Elisabeth S. Rødland, Elvis D. Okoffo, et al.. (2021). Challenges with Quantifying Tire Road Wear Particles: Recognizing the Need for Further Refinement of the ISO Technical Specification. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 8(3). 231–236. 88 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Erica Donner, S. P. McGrath, et al.. (2021). Plastics in biosolids from 1950 to 2016: A function of global plastic production and consumption. Water Research. 201. 117367–117367. 127 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Stacey O’Brien, Francisca Ribeiro, et al.. (2021). Plastic particles in soil: state of the knowledge on sources, occurrence and distribution, analytical methods and ecological impacts. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 23(2). 240–274. 97 indexed citations

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Ahad, Jason M. E., Robie W. Macdonald, Joanne L. Parrott, et al.. (2020). Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the Canadian environment: A review of sampling techniques, strategies and instrumentation. Environmental Pollution. 266(Pt 2). 114988–114988. 36 indexed citations

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Rauert, Cassandra & Stuart Harrad. (2015). Mass transfer of PBDEs from plastic TV casing to indoor dust via three migration pathways — A test chamber investigation. The Science of The Total Environment. 536. 568–574. 105 indexed citations

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