David Child

1.3k total citations
39 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

David Child is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, David Child has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology and 10 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in David Child's work include Radioactive contamination and transfer (25 papers), Radioactivity and Radon Measurements (18 papers) and Nuclear Physics and Applications (9 papers). David Child is often cited by papers focused on Radioactive contamination and transfer (25 papers), Radioactivity and Radon Measurements (18 papers) and Nuclear Physics and Applications (9 papers). David Child collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Argentina. David Child's co-authors include M.A.C. Hotchkis, David Fink, Andrew Smith, Charles Mifsud, Geraldine Jacobsen, M. L. Williams, Alastair G. Williams, Quan Hua, Ugo Zoppi and Mathew P. Johansen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Chemosphere and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

David Child

37 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Child Australia	16	450	431	289	254	161	39	1.1k
D. Biddulph United States	11	329 0.7×	360 0.8×	169 0.6×	124 0.5×	129 0.8×	17	805
Vasily Alfimov Switzerland	23	706 1.6×	1.1k 2.4×	379 1.3×	194 0.8×	140 0.9×	45	1.8k
Udo Gerstmann Germany	15	250 0.6×	721 1.7×	279 1.0×	121 0.5×	135 0.8×	38	1.3k
Klaus M. Wilcken Australia	24	372 0.8×	813 1.9×	186 0.6×	247 1.0×	117 0.7×	82	1.6k
P.I. Mitchell Ireland	22	659 1.5×	208 0.5×	492 1.7×	173 0.7×	281 1.7×	59	1.2k
H.-A. Synal Switzerland	22	838 1.9×	1.1k 2.5×	426 1.5×	282 1.1×	132 0.8×	39	1.8k
A. J. T. Jull United States	17	187 0.4×	412 1.0×	128 0.4×	256 1.0×	97 0.6×	84	1.0k
R. S. Harmon United Kingdom	17	401 0.9×	745 1.7×	439 1.5×	245 1.0×	262 1.6×	30	2.4k
Helmut W Fischer Germany	17	415 0.9×	384 0.9×	192 0.7×	272 1.1×	42 0.3×	41	1.3k
N.E. Whitehead New Zealand	15	304 0.7×	172 0.4×	268 0.9×	88 0.3×	117 0.7×	70	787

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Child

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Cadd, Haidee, Cameron Barr, Alexander Francke, et al.. (2025). Developing robust lake sediment chronologies using 210Pb, Pu and radiocarbon dating of pollen concentrates and macrofossil: A case study from Lake Surprise, Victoria, Australia. Quaternary Geochronology. 89. 101686–101686. 1 indexed citations

Hotchkis, M.A.C., et al.. (2025). Efficient formation of negative ions for plutonium AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 568. 165869–165869. 1 indexed citations

Johansen, Mathew P., Piers Larcombe, David Child, et al.. (2025). Montebello Islands marine sediment retains nuclear weapons-derived radionuclide contamination 70 years after detonations. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 219. 118280–118280.

Payne, Timothy E., Jennifer Harrison, David Child, et al.. (2024). Accelerator mass spectrometry measurements of 233U in groundwater, soil and vegetation at a legacy radioactive waste site. Chemosphere. 358. 141761–141761.

Barmuta, Leon A., Zanna Chase, Krystyna M. Saunders, et al.. (2024). Comparing levoglucosan and mannosan ratios in sediments and corresponding aerosols from recent Australian fires. The Science of The Total Environment. 945. 174068–174068. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yichen, Wei Wen Wong, Adam J. Kessler, et al.. (2023). Using sedimentary prokaryotic communities to assess historical changes in the Gippsland Lakes. Freshwater Biology. 68(11). 1839–1858. 3 indexed citations

Johansen, Mathew P., David Child, Richard N. Collins, et al.. (2022). Radioactive particles from a range of past nuclear events: Challenges posed by highly varied structure and composition. The Science of The Total Environment. 842. 156755–156755. 7 indexed citations

Harrison, Jennifer, Krystyna M. Saunders, David Child, & M.A.C. Hotchkis. (2021). A record of fallout 239Pu and 240Pu at World Heritage Bathurst Harbour, Tasmania, Australia. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 237. 106679–106679. 1 indexed citations

Johansen, Mathew P., et al.. (2020). Differentiating Fukushima and Nagasaki plutonium from global fallout using 241Pu/239Pu atom ratios: Pu vs. Cs uptake and dose to biota. The Science of The Total Environment. 754. 141890–141890. 16 indexed citations

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Marx, Samuel K., Jan‐Hendrik May, Liliana C. Lupo, et al.. (2020). Dust deposition tracks late-Holocene shifts in monsoon activity and the increasing role of human disturbance in the Puna-Altiplano, northwest Argentina. The Holocene. 30(4). 519–536. 13 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., et al.. (2020). Radionuclides in sea turtles at the Montebello Islands former nuclear test sites: Current and historical dose rates for adults and embryos. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 158. 111390–111390. 9 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., David Child, Tom Cresswell, et al.. (2019). Plutonium and other radionuclides persist across marine-to-terrestrial ecotopes in the Montebello Islands sixty years after nuclear tests. The Science of The Total Environment. 691. 572–583. 24 indexed citations

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Salbu, Brit, V. Kashparov, Ole Christian Lind, et al.. (2017). Challenges associated with the behaviour of radioactive particles in the environment. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 186. 101–115. 72 indexed citations

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Shulmeister, James, et al.. (2016). Holocene ecosystem change in Little Llangothlin Lagoon, Australia: implications for the management of a Ramsar-listed wetland. Hydrobiologia. 785(1). 337–358. 6 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., David Child, Emily Caffrey, et al.. (2015). Accumulation of plutonium in mammalian wildlife tissues following dispersal by accidental-release tests. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 151. 387–394. 23 indexed citations

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Smith, Barry, David Child, Jennifer Harrison, et al.. (2015). Measurement of fallout radionuclides, 239,240Pu and 137Cs, in soil and creek sediment: Sydney Basin, Australia. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 151. 579–586. 15 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., David Child, Emma Davis, et al.. (2013). Plutonium in wildlife and soils at the Maralinga legacy site: persistence over decadal time scales. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 131. 72–80. 26 indexed citations

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Hotchkis, M.A.C., David Child, David Fink, Vladimir Levchenko, & A. Wallner. (2012). Investigation of gas stripping at 4.1 MeV for high mass negative ions. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 294. 387–391. 3 indexed citations

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Pedro, Joel B, et al.. (2012). Reprocessing of 10B-contaminated 10Be AMS targets. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 294. 208–213. 4 indexed citations

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Hotchkis, M.A.C., David Child, & B. Zorko. (2009). Actinides AMS for nuclear safeguards and related applications. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 268(7-8). 1257–1260. 29 indexed citations

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