Ed Cook

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 398 citations indexed

About

Ed Cook is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Ed Cook has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 398 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 7 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Ed Cook's work include Municipal Solid Waste Management (13 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (9 papers) and Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management (8 papers). Ed Cook is often cited by papers focused on Municipal Solid Waste Management (13 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (9 papers) and Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management (8 papers). Ed Cook collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Africa. Ed Cook's co-authors include Costas A. Velis, Joshua W. Cottom, Leon Black, Frédéric Coulon, Stuart Wagland, Anne C Woolridge, William Powrie, Arne M Ragossnig, Spyridoula Gerassimidou and Kala Senathirajah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ed Cook

17 papers receiving 386 citations

Hit Papers

A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pol... 2024 2026 2025 2024 25 50 75 100
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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.

  1. A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution
    2024 104 citations Joshua W. Cottom, Ed Cook et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Ed Cook
Tae-Wan Jeon South Korea
Premakumara Jagath Dickella Gamaralalage Japan
Vitalii Ishchenko Ukraine
Meenakshi Chaudhary Canada
Giovanni Vinti Italy
Agamuthu Periathamby Malaysia
Keiron Roberts United Kingdom
Beatrice Salieri Switzerland
Ngo Kim Vietnam
Brenda Natalia López Niño China
Tae-Wan Jeon South Korea
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Countries citing papers authored by Ed Cook

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ed Cook

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ed Cook. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ed Cook. The network helps show where Ed Cook may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ed Cook

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ed Cook. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ed Cook 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 Ed Cook. Ed Cook is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Cook, Ed, et al.. (2026). What a Waste 3.0: Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management Toward Circularity until 2050. Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks.
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Senathirajah, Kala, et al.. (2025). Design principles for the global plastics treaty’s financial mechanism. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Cook, Ed, et al.. (2024). Informal recycling sector contribution to plastic pollution mitigation: A systematic scoping review and quantitative analysis of prevalence and productivity. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 206. 107588–107588. 9 indexed citations
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Cottom, Joshua W., Ed Cook, & Costas A. Velis. (2024). A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution. Nature. 633(8028). 101–108. 104 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cook, Ed, et al.. (2022). Medical and healthcare waste generation, storage, treatment and disposal: a systematic scoping review of risks to occupational and public health. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 53(15). 1452–1477. 11 indexed citations
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Cook, Ed, Costas A. Velis, & Joshua W. Cottom. (2022). Scaling up resource recovery of plastics in the emergent circular economy to prevent plastic pollution: Assessment of risks to health and safety in the Global South. Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. 40(12). 1680–1707. 34 indexed citations
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Cook, Ed, et al.. (2022). Plastic waste reprocessing for circular economy: A systematic scoping review of risks to occupational and public health from legacy substances and extrusion. The Science of The Total Environment. 859(Pt 2). 160385–160385. 14 indexed citations
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Cook, Ed, Costas A. Velis, & Leon Black. (2022). Construction and Demolition Waste Management: A Systematic Scoping Review of Risks to Occupational and Public Health. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 18 indexed citations
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Velis, Costas A. & Ed Cook. (2021). Mismanagement of Plastic Waste through Open Burning with Emphasis on the Global South: A Systematic Review of Risks to Occupational and Public Health. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(11). 7186–7207. 163 indexed citations
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Powrie, William, et al.. (2021). Open uncontrolled burning of solid waste undermines human health: Time to act. Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. 39(1). 1–2. 8 indexed citations
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Cook, Ed, Stuart Wagland, & Frédéric Coulon. (2015). Investigation into the non-biological outputs of mechanical–biological treatment facilities. Waste Management. 46. 212–226. 14 indexed citations

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