Frank Wania

25.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
344 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Frank Wania is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Wania has authored 344 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 284 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 124 papers in Atmospheric Science and 60 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Frank Wania's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (241 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (120 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (88 papers). Frank Wania is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (241 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (120 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (88 papers). Frank Wania collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Norway and United States. Frank Wania's co-authors include Donald Mackay, Ying Duan Lei, D. Mackay, Gillian L. Daly, Derek C. G. Muir, Jon A. Arnot, Knut Breivik, James M. Armitage, Tom Harner and Camilla Teixeira and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Frank Wania

336 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Peer Reviewed: Tracking the Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants

1996 1.1k citations Frank Wania et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Global fractionation and cold condensation of low volatility organochlorine compounds in polar regions

1993 671 citations Frank Wania profile →
TRAKING THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

1996 633 citations Frank Wania 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
Frank Wania Canada	76	15.7k	6.1k	4.9k	3.4k	1.9k	344	19.5k
Tom Harner Canada	78	16.5k 1.1×	6.7k 1.1×	4.1k 0.8×	3.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	239	19.4k
Terry F. Bidleman Canada	71	12.1k 0.8×	4.7k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	234	14.9k
Jiamo Fu China	80	14.2k 0.9×	5.8k 0.9×	6.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	406	21.5k
Ronald A. Hites United States	87	19.5k 1.2×	5.2k 0.8×	7.0k 1.4×	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	354	26.0k
Jun Li China	84	15.7k 1.0×	8.5k 1.4×	9.4k 1.9×	2.4k 0.7×	3.0k 1.5×	976	30.8k
Hélène Budzinski France	72	13.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.4×	8.4k 1.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	431	20.6k
Donald Mackay Canada	71	14.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.5×	7.0k 1.4×	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	259	21.2k
Guoying Sheng China	76	10.1k 0.6×	3.6k 0.6×	4.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	330	17.0k
Rainer Lohmann United States	61	10.8k 0.7×	4.3k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	5.6k 1.7×	709 0.4×	205	14.2k
Andrew J. Sweetman United Kingdom	56	9.7k 0.6×	3.2k 0.5×	3.8k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	777 0.4×	173	13.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Wania

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frank Wania

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Wania

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Szponar, Natalie, Cláudia M. Vega, Jacqueline R. Gerson, et al.. (2025). Tracing Atmospheric Mercury from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(10). 5021–5033. 3 indexed citations

Barrett, Holly, Jianxian Sun, Diwen Yang, et al.. (2024). Emerging investigator series: nontargeted screening of aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonists in endangered beluga whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary: beyond legacy contaminants. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(9). 1451–1464.

Wania, Frank & Michael S. McLachlan. (2024). The Stockholm Convention at a Crossroads: Questionable Nominations and Inadequate Compliance Threaten Its Acceptance and Utility. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(31). 13587–13593. 11 indexed citations

Escher, Beate I., et al.. (2023). Mixture effect assessment applying in vitro bioassays to in-tissue silicone extracts of traditional foods prepared from beluga whale blubber. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 25(11). 1759–1770. 1 indexed citations

Szponar, Natalie, Yushan Su, David S. McLagan, et al.. (2023). Applying Passive Air Sampling and Isotopic Characterization to Assess Spatial Variability of Gaseous Elemental Mercury Across Ontario, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(3). 3 indexed citations

Wania, Frank, et al.. (2023). Seasonal and latitudinal variability in the atmospheric concentrations of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 25(3). 496–506. 4 indexed citations

Wania, Frank, et al.. (2022). A New Approach to Characterizing the Partitioning of Volatile Organic Compounds to Cotton Fabric. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(6). 3365–3374. 21 indexed citations

Bohlin‐Nizzetto, Pernilla, Katrine Borgå, Knut Breivik, et al.. (2022). Mercury in air and soil on an urban-rural transect in East Africa. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 24(6). 921–931. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Chengkang, Anna Chen, Faqiang Zhan, et al.. (2022). Global Historical Production, Use, In-Use Stocks, and Emissions of Short-, Medium-, and Long-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(12). 7895–7904. 95 indexed citations

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Naccarato, Attilio, Maria Martino, Antonella Macagnano, et al.. (2021). A field intercomparison of three passive air samplers for gaseous mercury in ambient air. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(5). 3657–3672. 28 indexed citations

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Gong, Ping, Xiaoping Wang, Hailong Wang, et al.. (2019). Trans-Himalayan Transport of Organochlorine Compounds: Three-Year Observations and Model-Based Flux Estimation. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(12). 6773–6783. 30 indexed citations

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Breivik, Knut, Matthew MacLeod, Frank Wania, & Sabine Eckhardt. (2018). Towards a Nested Exposure Model for organic contaminants (NEM). Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 79. 516–520. 1 indexed citations

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McLagan, David S., Carl P. J. Mitchell, A. Steffen, et al.. (2018). Global evaluation and calibration of a passive air sampler for gaseous mercury. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(8). 5905–5919. 53 indexed citations

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Wang, Chen, Tiange Yuan, Kai‐Uwe Goss, et al.. (2017). Uncertain Henry's law constants compromise equilibrium partitioning calculations of atmospheric oxidation products. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(12). 7529–7540. 36 indexed citations

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Zhang, Leiming, Seth N. Lyman, Huiting Mao, et al.. (2017). A synthesis of research needs for improving the understanding of atmospheric mercury cycling. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(14). 9133–9144. 40 indexed citations

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McLagan, David S., et al.. (2016). Passive air sampling of gaseous elemental mercury: a critical review. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(5). 3061–3076. 40 indexed citations

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Wania, Frank, Ying Duan Lei, Chen Wang, Jonathan P. D. Abbatt, & Kai‐Uwe Goss. (2014). Novel methods for predicting gas–particle partitioning during the formation of secondary organic aerosol. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(23). 13189–13204. 23 indexed citations

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Grannas, Amanda M., Christian Bogdal, Kimberly J. Hageman, et al.. (2013). The role of the global cryosphere in the fate of organic contaminants. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(6). 3271–3305. 122 indexed citations

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Quinn, Cristina L. & Frank Wania. (2012). Understanding Differences in the Body Burden–Age Relationships of Bioaccumulating Contaminants Based on Population Cross Sections versus Individuals. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(4). 554–559. 69 indexed citations

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Choi, Sung‐Deuk, Ralf M. Staebler, Yaling Su, et al.. (2008). Depletion of gaseous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by a forest canopy. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 8(14). 4105–4113. 33 indexed citations

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