Christopher H. Swartz

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Christopher H. Swartz is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher H. Swartz has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 8 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 6 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Christopher H. Swartz's work include Arsenic contamination and mitigation (5 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (5 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (5 papers). Christopher H. Swartz is often cited by papers focused on Arsenic contamination and mitigation (5 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (5 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (5 papers). Christopher H. Swartz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and Canada. Christopher H. Swartz's co-authors include Daniel J. Brabander, Harold F. Hemond, Charles F. Harvey, Jenny Jay, Shafiqul Islam, Khandaker N. Ashfaque, M. Feroze Ahmed, Winston Yu, Roger Beckie and A. B. M. Badruzzaman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Christopher H. Swartz

20 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh

2002 1.0k citations Charles F. Harvey, Christopher H. Swartz et al. Science profile →

Peers

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Ratan Dhar United States

M. Feroze Ahmed Bangladesh

A. B. M. Badruzzaman Bangladesh

M. Ashraf Ali Bangladesh

Christopher Boothman United Kingdom

Ashraf Ali Seddique Bangladesh

Daniel J. Brabander United States

Peter M. Oates United States

Bibhash Nath Australia

Khandaker N. Ashfaque Bangladesh

Ratan Dhar United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher H. Swartz

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20 of 20 papers shown

Swartz, Christopher H., et al.. (2025). Socioeconomic Disparities in Exposures to PFAS and Other Unregulated Industrial Drinking Water Contaminants in US Public Water Systems. Environmental Health Perspectives. 133(1). 17002–17002. 6 indexed citations

Rodgers, Kathryn M., et al.. (2022). How Well Do Product Labels Indicate the Presence of PFAS in Consumer Items Used by Children and Adolescents?. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(10). 6294–6304. 48 indexed citations

Schaider, Laurel A., et al.. (2022). Socioeconomic disparities in exposures to unregulated industrial contaminants in U.S. public drinking water supplies. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2022(1). 1 indexed citations

Varela‐Ortega, Consuelo, Irene Blanco‐Gutiérrez, Christopher H. Swartz, & Thomas E. Downing. (2011). Balancing groundwater conservation and rural livelihoods under water and climate uncertainties: An integrated hydro-economic modeling framework. Global Environmental Change. 21(2). 604–619. 93 indexed citations

Standley, Laurel J., et al.. (2008). Wastewater-contaminated groundwater as a source of endogenous hormones and pharmaceuticals to surface water ecosystems. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 27(12). 2457–2468. 76 indexed citations

Blute, Nicole, et al.. (2008). Aqueous and solid phase arsenic speciation in the sediments of a contaminated wetland and riverbed. Applied Geochemistry. 24(2). 346–358. 11 indexed citations

Brody, Julia Green, et al.. (2006). Breast cancer risk and drinking water contaminated by wastewater: a case control study. Environmental Health. 5(1). 28–28. 39 indexed citations

Swartz, Christopher H., et al.. (2006). Steroid Estrogens, Nonylphenol Ethoxylate Metabolites, and Other Wastewater Contaminants in Groundwater Affected by a Residential Septic System on Cape Cod, MA. Environmental Science & Technology. 40(16). 4894–4902. 194 indexed citations

Swartz, Christopher H., et al.. (2004). Subsurface geochemistry and arsenic mobility in Bangladesh. Center for Embedded Network Sensing. 6 indexed citations

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Brody, Julia Green, et al.. (2004). Breast cancer risk and historical exposure to pesticides from wide-area applications assessed with GIS.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112(8). 889–897. 69 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H., Nicole Blute, Daniel J. Brabander, et al.. (2004). Mobility of arsenic in a Bangladesh aquifer: Inferences from geochemical profiles, leaching data, and mineralogical characterization. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 68(22). 4539–4557. 238 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H., et al.. (2004). Groundwater arsenic contamination on the Ganges Delta: biogeochemistry, hydrology, human perturbations, and human suffering on a large scale. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 337(1-2). 285–296. 9 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H., et al.. (2003). Historical reconstruction of wastewater and land use impacts to groundwater used for public drinking water:Exposure assessment using chemical data and GIS. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 13(5). 403–416. 26 indexed citations

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Harvey, Charles F., Christopher H. Swartz, A. B. M. Badruzzaman, et al.. (2002). Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh. Science. 298(5598). 1602–1606. 1001 indexed citations breakdown →

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Swartz, Christopher H., et al.. (2001). Validation of an Arsenic Sequential Extraction Method for Evaluating Mobility in Sediments. Environmental Science & Technology. 35(13). 2778–2784. 474 indexed citations

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Ibaraki, Motomu, Franklin W. Schwartz, & Christopher H. Swartz. (2000). Modeling instability development in layered systems. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 42(2-4). 337–352. 2 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H. & Philip M. Gschwend. (1999). Field studies of in situ colloid mobilization in a southeastern coastal plain aquifer. Water Resources Research. 35(7). 2213–2223. 9 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H. & Philip M. Gschwend. (1998). Mechanisms Controlling Release of Colloids to Groundwater in a Southeastern Coastal Plain Aquifer Sand. Environmental Science & Technology. 32(12). 1779–1785. 35 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H. & Franklin W. Schwartz. (1998). An experimental study of mixing and instability development in variable-density systems. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 34(3). 169–189. 22 indexed citations

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Swartz, Christopher H., April Ulery, & Philip M. Gschwend. (1997). An AEM-TEM study of nanometer-scale mineral associations in an aquifer sand: Implications for colloid mobilization. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 61(4). 707–718. 34 indexed citations

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