Christopher P. Higgins

25.7k total citations · 13 hit papers
220 papers, 20.6k citations indexed

About

Christopher P. Higgins is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher P. Higgins has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 20.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 132 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 73 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher P. Higgins's work include Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (131 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (119 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (73 papers). Christopher P. Higgins is often cited by papers focused on Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (131 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (119 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (73 papers). Christopher P. Higgins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Christopher P. Higgins's co-authors include Richard G. Luthy, Linda Duxbury, Jennifer A. Field, James F. Ranville, Jamie C. DeWitt, Ian T. Cousins, Zhanyun Wang, Charles E. Schaefer, Jennifer L. Guelfo and Andrea C. Blaine and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher P. Higgins

213 papers receiving 19.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A Never-Ending Story of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)?

2017 1.3k citations Christopher P. Higgins et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Sorption of Perfluorinated Surfactants on Sediments

2006 1.2k citations Christopher P. Higgins et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Detection of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in U.S. Drinking Water Linked to Industrial Sites, Military Fire Training Areas, and Wastewater Treatment Plants

2016 1.0k citations Christopher P. Higgins et al. Environmental Science & Technology Letters profile →
Persistence of Perfluoroalkyl Acid Precursors in AFFF-Impacted Groundwater and Soil

2013 689 citations Erika Houtz, Christopher P. Higgins et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Discovery of 40 Classes of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Historical Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFFs) and AFFF-Impacted Groundwater

2017 683 citations Karl Oetjen, Christopher P. Higgins et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Determining Transport Efficiency for the Purpose of Counting and Sizing Nanoparticles via Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

2011 642 citations Christopher P. Higgins et al. profile →
Quantitative Determination of Perfluorochemicals in Sediments and Domestic Sludge

2005 506 citations Christopher P. Higgins, Jennifer A. Field et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Gender differences in work-family conflict.

1991 474 citations Christopher P. Higgins et al. profile →
Treatment of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in U.S. full-scale water treatment systems

2013 447 citations Christopher P. Higgins et al. Water Research profile →
Influences of Chemical Properties, Soil Properties, and Solution pH on Soil–Water Partitioning Coefficients of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)

2020 330 citations Thi Minh Hong Nguyen, Christopher P. Higgins et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Sorption of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) Relevant to Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF)-Impacted Groundwater by Biochars and Activated Carbon

2017 318 citations Xin Xiao, Baoliang Chen et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Anion exchange resin removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from impacted water: A critical review

2021 185 citations Charles E. Schaefer, Christopher P. Higgins et al. Water Research profile →
Communicating Confidence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Identification via High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

2022 158 citations Joseph A. Charbonnet, Carrie A. McDonough et al. Environmental Science & Technology Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	PFAS conceptual site model of an AFFF-impacted firefighting training area informed by high resolution soil, porewater, and groundwater sampling 2025 ·Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ·(unknown), (unknown), Jeffrey T. McDonough, Christopher P. Higgins, Charles E. Schaefer	0
2	Discovery of Comprehensive Sets of Chemical Constituents as Markers of PFAS Sources through a Nontarget Screening and Machine Learning Approach 2025 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Boris Droz, Trever Schwichtenberg, Karl Oetjen, (unknown), Gerrad D. Jones, Jennifer A. Field, Christopher P. Higgins, Damian E. Helbling	0
3	Exploring the fluorinome of PFAS-impacted groundwater using 21 tesla FT-ICR mass spectrometry 2025 ·Water Research ·Wenchao Lu, (unknown), Hamidreza Sharifan, John J. Kornuc, Shilai Hao, Christopher P. Higgins, Robert B. Young, Amy M. McKenna, Jens Blotevogel	0
4	Closing PFAS analytical gaps: Inter-method evaluation of total organofluorine techniques for AFFF-impacted water 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Fuhar Dixit, (unknown), (unknown), Chuhui Zhang, Manmeet W. Pannu, Megan H. Plumlee, (unknown), (unknown), William C. K. Pomerantz, William A. Arnold, Christopher P. Higgins, G. F. Peaslee, Lisa Alvarez‐Cohen, David L. Sedlak, Mohamed Ateia	11
5	Non-Fickian transport processes accelerate the movement of PFOS in unsaturated media: An experimental and modelling study 2024 ·Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ·(unknown), Christopher P. Higgins, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Kamini Singha	3
6	Data Evaluation Framework for Refining PFAS Conceptual Site Models 2024 ·Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation ·(unknown), Charles J. Newell, Chase Holton, Poonam R. Kulkarni, (unknown), David T. Adamson, Jens Blotevogel, Christopher P. Higgins	4
7	New PFASs Identified in AFFF Impacted Groundwater by Passive Sampling and Nontarget Analysis 2024 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Sara Ghorbani Gorji, María José Gómez, Pradeep Dewapriya, Bastian Schulze, Rachel Mackie, Thi Minh Hong Nguyen, Christopher P. Higgins, Karl C. Bowles, Jochen F. Mueller, Kevin V. Thomas, Sarit Kaserzon	19
8	Occurrence of Ultrashort-Chain PFASs in Australian Environmental Water Samples 2024 ·Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·Sara Ghorbani Gorji, Rachel Mackie, Pritesh Prasad, Emma R. Knight, (unknown), Suzanne Vardy, Karl C. Bowles, Christopher P. Higgins, Kevin V. Thomas, Sarit Kaserzon	8
9	Nontarget Discovery of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Halides in Soils by Integration of Derivatization and Specific Fragment-Based Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Screening 2024 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Kun Wang, Xin Xiao, Zhengzheng Liu, Jing Wang, Xiangyu Zhu, Enhui Wu, Christopher P. Higgins, Baoliang Chen	4
10	The Need to Include a Fluorine Mass Balance in the Development of Effective Technologies for PFAS Destruction 2024 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Sanne J. Smith, (unknown), Christopher P. Higgins, Kurt D. Pennell, Jens Blotevogel, Hans Peter H. Arp	34
11	Target and Suspect Screening Integrated with Machine Learning to Discover Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Source Fingerprints 2023 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Trever Schwichtenberg, Dunping Cao, Gerrad D. Jones, Alix E. Rodowa, Morton A. Barlaz, Joseph A. Charbonnet, Christopher P. Higgins, Jennifer A. Field, Damian E. Helbling	27
12	Predicting Concentration- and Ionic-Strength-Dependent Air–Water Interfacial Partitioning Parameters of PFASs Using Quantitative Structure–Property Relationships (QSPRs) 2023 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Youn Jeong Choi, (unknown), Charles E. Schaefer, (unknown), Detlef R.U. Knappe, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Christopher P. Higgins	25
13	Estimation of Transport Parameters of Perfluoroalkyl Acids (PFAAs) in Unsaturated Porous Media: Critical Experimental and Modeling Improvements 2022 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Youn Jeong Choi, Charles E. Schaefer, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Christopher P. Higgins	36
14	Communicating Confidence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Identification via High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry breakdown → 2022 ·Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·Joseph A. Charbonnet, Carrie A. McDonough, Feng Xiao, Trever Schwichtenberg, Dunping Cao, Sarit Kaserzon, Kevin V. Thomas, Pradeep Dewapriya, Benjamin J. Place, Emma Schymanski, Jennifer A. Field, Damian E. Helbling, Christopher P. Higgins	158
15	Metabolomics reveals primary response of wheat (Triticum aestivum) to irrigation with oilfield produced water 2022 ·Environmental Research ·Erin M. Sedlacko, Adam L. Heuberger, Jacqueline M. Chaparro, Tzahi Y. Cath, Christopher P. Higgins	9
16	Environmental Source Tracking of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances within a Forensic Context: Current and Future Techniques 2021 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Joseph A. Charbonnet, Alix E. Rodowa, (unknown), Jennifer L. Guelfo, Jennifer A. Field, Gerrad D. Jones, Christopher P. Higgins, Damian E. Helbling, Erika Houtz	77
17	Mass-Based, Field-Scale Demonstration of PFAS Retention within AFFF-Associated Source Areas 2020 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·David T. Adamson, Anastasia Nickerson, Poonam R. Kulkarni, Christopher P. Higgins, (unknown), Jennifer A. Field, Alix E. Rodowa, Charles J. Newell, (unknown), John J. Kornuc	109
18	Suspect Screening of Hydrocarbon Surfactants in AFFFs and AFFF-Contaminated Groundwater by High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry 2019 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Aurea C. Chiaia‐Hernández, Pablo A. Lara‐Martín, Martin Loos, Juliane Hollender, Karl Oetjen, Christopher P. Higgins, Jennifer A. Field	71
19	Measuring total PFASs in water: The tradeoff between selectivity and inclusivity 2018 ·Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health ·Carrie A. McDonough, Jennifer L. Guelfo, Christopher P. Higgins	108
20	Serum perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and associations with behavioral attributes 2017 ·Chemosphere ·(unknown), (unknown), Craig M. Butt, Kate Hoffman, Christopher P. Higgins, Heather M. Stapleton	33

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