Derek C. G. Muir

60.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
719 papers, 46.6k citations indexed

About

Derek C. G. Muir is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek C. G. Muir has authored 719 papers receiving a total of 46.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 579 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 177 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 154 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Derek C. G. Muir's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (471 papers), Mercury impact and mitigation studies (199 papers) and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (141 papers). Derek C. G. Muir is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (471 papers), Mercury impact and mitigation studies (199 papers) and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (141 papers). Derek C. G. Muir collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Norway. Derek C. G. Muir's co-authors include Scott A. Mabury, Jonathan W. Martin, Keith R. Solomon, Ross J. Norstrom, Robert J. Letcher, Aaron T. Fisk, Magali Houde, Camilla Teixeira, Philip H. Howard and Amila O. De Silva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Derek C. G. Muir

709 papers receiving 44.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Biological Monitoring of Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: A Review

2006 1.1k citations Magali Houde, Robert J. Letcher et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Bioconcentration and tissue distribution of perfluorinated acids in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

2003 798 citations Keith R. Solomon, Derek C. G. Muir et al. profile →
Monitoring of Perfluorinated Compounds in Aquatic Biota: An Updated Review

2011 697 citations Magali Houde, Amila O. De Silva et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Toward a Global Understanding of Chemical Pollution: A First Comprehensive Analysis of National and Regional Chemical Inventories

2020 612 citations Zhanyun Wang, Derek C. G. Muir et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Identification of Long-Chain Perfluorinated Acids in Biota from the Canadian Arctic

2003 582 citations Derek C. G. Muir et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Arctic contaminants: sources, occurrence and pathways

1992 523 citations Derek C. G. Muir, Terry F. Bidleman et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Organochlorine contaminants in arctic marine food chains: accumulation of specific polychlorinated biphenyls and chlordane-related compounds

1988 496 citations Derek C. G. Muir et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derek C. G. Muir Canada	109	36.1k	15.4k	11.6k	9.8k	7.5k	719	46.6k
John P. Giesy United States	117	40.2k 1.1×	16.9k 1.1×	6.6k 0.6×	18.9k 1.9×	4.3k 0.6×	1.3k	62.8k
Kevin C. Jones United Kingdom	113	35.6k 1.0×	6.6k 0.4×	9.1k 0.8×	18.3k 1.9×	2.3k 0.3×	811	49.9k
Paul K.S. Lam Hong Kong	98	19.0k 0.5×	11.0k 0.7×	4.6k 0.4×	10.8k 1.1×	2.7k 0.4×	566	34.4k
Kurunthachalam Kannan United States	140	59.8k 1.7×	25.8k 1.7×	11.9k 1.0×	20.0k 2.0×	2.0k 0.3×	968	77.2k
Shinsuke Tanabe Japan	95	28.4k 0.8×	4.5k 0.3×	1.8k 0.2×	11.5k 1.2×	4.4k 0.6×	734	36.3k
Joan O. Grimalt Spain	87	13.2k 0.4×	4.4k 0.3×	11.0k 0.9×	3.8k 0.4×	4.5k 0.6×	596	29.8k
Robert J. Letcher Canada	86	20.2k 0.6×	7.1k 0.5×	4.1k 0.4×	4.7k 0.5×	3.4k 0.5×	442	25.2k
Charles T. Driscoll United States	92	9.2k 0.3×	10.7k 0.7×	4.8k 0.4×	5.6k 0.6×	8.9k 1.2×	564	34.0k
George R. Aiken United States	84	8.5k 0.2×	5.4k 0.4×	4.1k 0.4×	5.4k 0.5×	5.6k 0.8×	193	25.4k
Gan Zhang China	93	21.1k 0.6×	3.0k 0.2×	8.0k 0.7×	14.2k 1.4×	2.9k 0.4×	746	34.1k

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Morris, Adam D., Derek C. G. Muir, Magali Houde, et al.. (2025). Persistent pollutant exposure impacts metabolomic profiles in polar bears and ringed seals from the High Arctic and Hudson Bay, Canada. Environmental Research. 269. 120862–120862. 2 indexed citations

Muir, Derek C. G., Finnian Freeling, Sandra Nilsson, et al.. (2025). Trifluoroacetic Acid in Australian Human Urine Samples. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(10). 1411–1417.

Ferguson, Steven H., Jeff W. Higdon, Brent G. Young, et al.. (2024). A comparative analysis of life-history features and adaptive strategies of Arctic and subarctic seal species—who will win the climate change challenge?. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 103. 1–17.

Provencher, Jennifer F., Stephen J. Insley, William D. Halliday, et al.. (2023). No accumulation of microplastics detected in western Canadian ringed seals (Pusa hispida). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 188. 114692–114692. 4 indexed citations

Silva, Amila O. De, Cora J. Young, Christine N. Spencer, et al.. (2023). Canadian high arctic ice core records of organophosphate flame retardants and plasticizers. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 25(12). 2001–2014. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Zhanyun, Sam Adu-Kumi, Miriam L. Diamond, et al.. (2022). Enhancing Scientific Support for the Stockholm Convention’s Implementation: An Analysis of Policy Needs for Scientific Evidence. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(5). 2936–2949. 50 indexed citations

Silva, Amila O. De, Derek C. G. Muir, Sonya Kleywegt, et al.. (2021). Which of the (Mixed) Halogenated n-Alkanes Are Likely To Be Persistent Organic Pollutants?. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(23). 15912–15920. 18 indexed citations

Hermanson, Mark H., Elisabeth Isaksson, Richard Hann, Camilla Teixeira, & Derek C. G. Muir. (2020). Deposition of Polychlorinated Biphenyls to Firn and Ice Cores at Opposite Polar Sites: Site M, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, and Holtedahlfonna, Svalbard. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 4(11). 2096–2104. 3 indexed citations

MacInnis, John J., Igor Lehnherr, Derek C. G. Muir, et al.. (2019). Fate and Transport of Perfluoroalkyl Substances from Snowpacks into a Lake in the High Arctic of Canada. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(18). 10753–10762. 68 indexed citations

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Pierre, Kyra A. St., Vincent L. St. Louis, Igor Lehnherr, et al.. (2019). Contemporary limnology of the rapidly changing glacierized watershed of the world’s largest High Arctic lake. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4447–4447. 29 indexed citations

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Houde, Magali, Steven H. Ferguson, Pierre Gagnon, et al.. (2017). Spatial and temporal trends of alternative flame retardants and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in ringed seals (Phoca hispida) across the Canadian Arctic. Environmental Pollution. 223. 266–276. 34 indexed citations

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Curran, Mark A. J., Andrew D. Moy, Derek C. G. Muir, et al.. (2016). Brief communication: Organochlorine pesticides in an archived firn core from Law Dome, East Antarctica. The cryosphere. 10(5). 2533–2539. 12 indexed citations

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Fair, Patricia A., Hing‐Biu Lee, Jeff Adams, et al.. (2009). Occurrence of triclosan in plasma of wild Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and in their environment. 1 indexed citations

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Weber, Jan Erik H., Crispin Halsall, Derek C. G. Muir, et al.. (2009). Endosulfan, a global pesticide: A review of its fate in the environment and occurrence in the Arctic. The Science of The Total Environment. 408(15). 2966–2984. 400 indexed citations

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Jackson, Togwell A., Kevin Telmer, & Derek C. G. Muir. (2008). Mass-dependent and -independent fractionation of Hg isotopes in lakes: Effects of smelter emissions and pH. GeCAS. 72(12). 4 indexed citations

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Gebbink, Wouter A., Christian Sonne, Runé Dietz, et al.. (2007). Tissue-specific congener composition of organohalogen and metabolite contaminants in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Environmental Pollution. 152(3). 621–629. 122 indexed citations

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Brown, Scott, R. E. Evans, Kenneth W. Finnson, et al.. (2004). Altered thyroid status in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) exposed to co-planar 3,3′,4,4′,5-pentachlorobiphenyl. Aquatic Toxicology. 67(1). 75–85. 39 indexed citations

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Becker, Paul R., Margaret M. Krahn, Elizabeth A. Mackey, et al.. (2000). Concentrations of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB’s), Chlorinated Pesticides, and Heavy Metals and Other Elements in Tissues of Belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, from Cook Inlet. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 62(3). 21 indexed citations

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Tomy, Gregg T., Aaron T. Fisk, John B. Westmore, & Derek C. G. Muir. (1998). Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology of Polychlorinated n-Alkanes. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 158. 53–128. 160 indexed citations

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Muir, Derek C. G., et al.. (1994). PCB's and other organochlorine contaminants in white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from West Greenland: variations with age and sex. 39. 245–259. 33 indexed citations

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