D. Mackay

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

D. Mackay is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Mackay has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 21 papers in Pollution and 11 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in D. Mackay's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (31 papers), Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation (10 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (9 papers). D. Mackay is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (31 papers), Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation (10 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (9 papers). D. Mackay collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. D. Mackay's co-authors include Frank Wania, Wan‐Ying Shiu, Todd Gouin, Sally Paterson, Tom Harner, Kevin C. Jones, Alice M. Bobra, Samuel H. Yalkowsky, L.S. McCarty and Robert A. Batey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

D. Mackay

78 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

TRAKING THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 200 400 600
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.

  1. TRAKING THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
    1996 633 citations Frank Wania, D. Mackay Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D. Mackay Canada 32 2.3k 1.1k 620 431 342 81 3.7k
Brian E. McCarry Canada 37 2.4k 1.0× 708 0.7× 697 1.1× 323 0.7× 309 0.9× 100 4.6k
Samuel W. Karickhoff United States 19 2.9k 1.3× 2.2k 2.0× 300 0.5× 494 1.1× 271 0.8× 28 5.0k
Martin Schlabach Norway 40 2.6k 1.1× 905 0.8× 796 1.3× 911 2.1× 221 0.6× 104 3.9k
N. Lee Wolfe United States 32 1.4k 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 173 0.3× 353 0.8× 263 0.8× 85 3.7k
Peter G. Green United States 36 1.5k 0.6× 885 0.8× 447 0.7× 480 1.1× 210 0.6× 92 4.2k
Wan Ying Shiu Canada 30 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 507 0.8× 463 1.1× 611 1.8× 46 5.5k
Don Mackay Canada 39 3.9k 1.7× 2.3k 2.1× 558 0.9× 807 1.9× 100 0.3× 92 5.4k
Antonio Finizio Italy 30 1.6k 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 392 0.6× 394 0.9× 117 0.3× 82 2.8k
Darryl W. Hawker Australia 39 3.2k 1.4× 2.3k 2.1× 550 0.9× 859 2.0× 176 0.5× 158 5.3k
Wan‐Ying Shiu Canada 18 1.2k 0.5× 745 0.7× 211 0.3× 255 0.6× 280 0.8× 35 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. Mackay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Mackay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of D. Mackay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of D. Mackay based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with D. Mackay. D. Mackay is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Doucette, William J., Erik Dettenmaier, Bruce Bugbee, & D. Mackay. (2010). Mass Transport form Soil to Plants. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 1 indexed citations
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Mackay, D., Jon A. Arnot, Elisaveta P. Petkova, et al.. (2009). The physicochemical basis of QSARs for baseline toxicity. SAR and QSAR in environmental research. 20(3-4). 393–414. 62 indexed citations
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Gouin, Todd, Gareth O. Thomas, Chakra Chaemfa, et al.. (2006). Concentrations of decabromodiphenyl ether in air from Southern Ontario: Implications for particle-bound transport. Chemosphere. 64(2). 256–261. 77 indexed citations
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Macdonald, Robie W., et al.. (2003). How Will Global Climate Change Affect Risks from Long-Range Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants?. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 9(3). 643–660. 98 indexed citations
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Gouin, Todd, Gareth O. Thomas, Ian T. Cousins, et al.. (2002). Air−Surface Exchange of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Polychlorinated Biphenyls. Environmental Science & Technology. 36(7). 1426–1434. 141 indexed citations
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Hanessian, Stephen, D. Mackay, & Nicolas Moitessier. (2001). Design and Synthesis of Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors Guided by Molecular Modeling. Picking the S1Pocket Using Conformationally Constrained Inhibitors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 44(19). 3074–3082. 45 indexed citations
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Wania, Frank & D. Mackay. (1999). The evolution of mass balance models of persistent organic pollutant fate in the environment. Environmental Pollution. 100(1-3). 223–240. 134 indexed citations
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Hellou, Jocelyne, D. Mackay, & Joseph Banoub. (1998). Dietary and Aqueous Exposure of Finfish to Organochlorine Compounds: A Case Study. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 34(3). 280–288. 3 indexed citations
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Wania, Frank & D. Mackay. (1996). TRAKING THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS. Environmental Science & Technology. 30(9). 633 indexed citations breakdown →
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Paterson, Sally, et al.. (1990). Uptake of organic chemicals by plants: A review of processes, correlations and models. Chemosphere. 21(3). 297–331. 158 indexed citations
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Shiu, Wan‐Ying, Kata Galić, D. Mackay, James N. Seiber, & R. D. Wauchope. (1990). Solubilities of Pesticide Chemicals in Water Part I: Environmental Physical Chemistry. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 116. 1–13. 22 indexed citations
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Shiu, Wan‐Ying, Kata Galić, D. Mackay, James N. Seiber, & R. D. Wauchope. (1990). Solubilities of Pesticide Chemicals in Water Part II: Data Compilation. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 116. 15–187. 39 indexed citations
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Peakall, David B., et al.. (1987). A hazard assessment of chemically dispersed oil spills and seabirds. Marine Environmental Research. 22(2). 91–106. 12 indexed citations
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Mackay, D., et al.. (1985). Evaluating the environmental fate of chemicals the fugacity — Level III approach as applied to 2,3,7,8, TCDD. Chemosphere. 14(6-7). 859–863. 13 indexed citations
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Mackay, D.. (1982). Ourselves and our brains: Duality without dualism. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 7(4). 285–294. 31 indexed citations
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Bobra, Alice M., D. Mackay, & Wan‐Ying Shiu. (1979). Distribution of hydrocarbons among oil, water and vapor phases during oil dispersant toxicity tests. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 23(1). 558–565. 5 indexed citations
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Chieh, Chung & D. Mackay. (1979). Structure of cis-3-(4-bromophenyl)-4a,7a-dihydro-6,7a-dimethyl-4a,5-diphenyl-7H-cyclopenta-1,4,2-dioxazine, the product of a regio- and stereospecific isomerization. Acta Crystallographica Section B. 35(8). 1835–1839. 1 indexed citations
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Mackay, D. & M.F. Mohtadi. (1975). The area affected by oil spills on land. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 53(1). 140–143. 10 indexed citations
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Mackay, D., et al.. (1975). Extraction of phenol from water with mixed solvents. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 53(2). 274–277. 12 indexed citations
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Lynch, F.E., et al.. (1974). IGNITION PARAMETERS OF THE HYDROGEN ENGINE. Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference. 5 indexed citations

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