Catherine K. King

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Catherine K. King is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine K. King has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 34 papers in Pollution and 32 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Catherine K. King's work include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (47 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (18 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (17 papers). Catherine K. King is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (47 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (18 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (17 papers). Catherine K. King collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Catherine K. King's co-authors include Susan Bengtson Nash, So Kawaguchi, Kathy A. Townsend, Amanda L. Dawson, Wilhelmina M. Huston, Robert A. King, Stuart L. Simpson, Dianne F. Jolley, Jonathan S. Stark and M. J. Riddle and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Catherine K. King

88 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Turning microplastics into nanoplastics through digestive fragmentation by Antarctic krill

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine K. King Australia	28	1.7k	1.1k	769	695	606	94	3.2k
Jeff Shimeta Australia	23	1.4k 0.8×	813 0.7×	597 0.8×	432 0.6×	666 1.1×	67	2.9k
Susan Bengtson Nash Australia	28	1.4k 0.8×	983 0.9×	800 1.0×	386 0.6×	728 1.2×	77	2.9k
Gordon Paterson United Kingdom	32	2.2k 1.3×	811 0.7×	1.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	1.3k 2.1×	103	4.4k
Awantha Dissanayake United Kingdom	19	2.0k 1.2×	970 0.9×	457 0.6×	338 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	34	3.0k
Jonathan Y.S. Leung Australia	31	1.1k 0.6×	504 0.5×	709 0.9×	732 1.1×	522 0.9×	63	2.5k
Nélson Abrantes Portugal	29	1.7k 1.0×	892 0.8×	549 0.7×	192 0.3×	935 1.5×	91	3.7k
Rodrigo Almeda Spain	31	1.1k 0.6×	440 0.4×	528 0.7×	850 1.2×	359 0.6×	73	2.2k
Gary Thomas Banta Denmark	31	1.2k 0.7×	561 0.5×	1.5k 2.0×	1.3k 1.8×	366 0.6×	73	3.5k
Michael Steinke United Kingdom	34	1.1k 0.6×	356 0.3×	1.2k 1.5×	2.3k 3.3×	594 1.0×	65	4.3k
Teresa Romeo Italy	36	2.6k 1.5×	660 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	334 0.5×	1.5k 2.6×	155	4.5k

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Wotherspoon, Simon, et al.. (2025). Toxicity of copper to two endemic Antarctic bdelloid rotifers Adineta sp. and Habrotrocha sp. (Bd14). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 44(12). 3573–3583.

King, Catherine K., et al.. (2024). Derivation of site-specific environmental quality guideline values for fuel-contaminated soils on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 20(6). 2334–2346.

Kubiszewski, Ida, Vanessa M. Adams, Robert Costanza, et al.. (2024). Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. AMBIO. 54(4). 642–659. 3 indexed citations

Brown, Kathryn E., et al.. (2023). High Sensitivity of the Antarctic Rotifer Adineta editae to Metals and Ecological Relevance in Contaminated Site Risk Assessments. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42(6). 1409–1419. 4 indexed citations

Koppel, Darren J., et al.. (2021). The microalgaPhaeocystis antarcticais tolerant to salinity and metal mixture toxicity interactions. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 23(9). 1362–1375. 4 indexed citations

Koppel, Darren J., Kateřina Kopalová, Kathryn E. Brown, et al.. (2021). Metal lability and environmental risk in anthropogenically disturbed Antarctic melt streams. Environmental Pollution. 287. 117627–117627. 6 indexed citations

King, Catherine K., et al.. (2020). Using an expert judgment response matrix to assess the risk of groundwater discharges from remediated fuel spill sites to the marine environment at sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, Australia. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 17(4). 785–801. 2 indexed citations

Koppel, Darren J., Kathryn E. Brown, Merrin S. Adams, et al.. (2020). Assessing metal contaminants in Antarctic soils using diffusive gradients in thin-films. Chemosphere. 269. 128675–128675. 12 indexed citations

Koppel, Darren J., et al.. (2019). Assessing the Risk of Metals and Their Mixtures in the Antarctic Nearshore Marine Environment with Diffusive Gradients in Thin-Films. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(1). 306–315. 19 indexed citations

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Koppel, Darren J., Merrin S. Adams, Catherine K. King, & Dianne F. Jolley. (2019). Preliminary study of cellular metal accumulation in two Antarctic marine microalgae – implications for mixture interactivity and dietary risk. Environmental Pollution. 252(Pt B). 1582–1592. 15 indexed citations

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Koppel, Darren J., Merrin S. Adams, Catherine K. King, & Dianne F. Jolley. (2019). Diffusive Gradients in Thin Films Can Predict the Toxicity of Metal Mixtures to Two Microalgae: Validation for Environmental Monitoring in Antarctic Marine Conditions. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 38(6). 1323–1333. 14 indexed citations

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King, Catherine K., et al.. (2019). Increased sensitivity of subantarctic marine invertebrates to copper under a changing climate - Effects of salinity and temperature. Environmental Pollution. 249. 54–62. 21 indexed citations

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Koppel, Darren J., Merrin S. Adams, Catherine K. King, & Dianne F. Jolley. (2018). Chronic toxicity of an environmentally relevant and equitoxic ratio of five metals to two Antarctic marine microalgae shows complex mixture interactivity. Environmental Pollution. 242(Pt B). 1319–1330. 30 indexed citations

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Koppel, Darren J., Francesca Gissi, Merrin S. Adams, Catherine K. King, & Dianne F. Jolley. (2017). Chronic toxicity of five metals to the polar marine microalga Cryothecomonas armigera – Application of a new bioassay. Environmental Pollution. 228. 211–221. 33 indexed citations

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King, Catherine K., et al.. (2017). Ecosystem effects and the management of petroleum-contaminated soils on subantarctic islands. Chemosphere. 194. 200–210. 34 indexed citations

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Stark, Jonathan S., Glenn Dunshea, Glenn Johnstone, et al.. (2016). The environmental impact of sewage and wastewater outfalls in Antarctica: An example from Davis station, East Antarctica. Water Research. 105. 602–614. 57 indexed citations

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King, Catherine K., et al.. (2016). Toxicity of copper to three common subantarctic marine gastropods. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 136. 70–77. 10 indexed citations

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King, Catherine K., et al.. (2014). The use of microbial gene abundance in the development of fuel remediation guidelines in polar soils. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 11(2). 235–241. 12 indexed citations

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Marchant, L. C., et al.. (2011). Response of stream invertebrate communities to vegetation damage from overgrazing by exotic rabbits on subantarctic Macquarie Island. Marine and Freshwater Research. 62(4). 404–413. 7 indexed citations

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King, Catherine K., et al.. (2006). Acute toxicity and bioaccumulation of aqueous and sediment-bound metals in the estuarine amphipodMelita plumulosa. Environmental Toxicology. 21(5). 489–504. 36 indexed citations

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