John W. Washington

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

John W. Washington is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John W. Washington has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 34 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 15 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in John W. Washington's work include Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (33 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (31 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). John W. Washington is often cited by papers focused on Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (33 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (31 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (14 papers). John W. Washington collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Ireland. John W. Washington's co-authors include Thomas M. Jenkins, J. Jackson Ellington, Hoon Yoo, E. Weber, Mark J. Strynar, Keegan Rankin, James McCord, Mary J. B. Davis, W. Matthew Henderson and Andrew B. Lindstrom and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

John W. Washington

65 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the environment

2022 1.2k citations Marina G. Evich, Mary J. B. Davis et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John W. Washington United States	32	2.8k	2.3k	1.4k	415	310	66	4.2k
Jinxia Liu Canada	47	4.9k 1.8×	4.2k 1.8×	2.7k 1.9×	412 1.0×	175 0.6×	99	6.2k
Jinyong Liu United States	30	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	819 0.6×	330 0.8×	239 0.8×	75	2.9k
Sasha Wilson Canada	35	1.1k 0.4×	969 0.4×	372 0.3×	485 1.2×	154 0.5×	117	4.8k
Michelle M. Scherer United States	51	2.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	428 0.3×	855 2.1×	794 2.6×	99	8.3k
George R. Helz United States	42	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	825 0.6×	351 0.8×	62 0.2×	126	6.8k
Yoshiki Sohrin Japan	38	535 0.2×	829 0.4×	485 0.3×	145 0.3×	214 0.7×	120	3.8k
James McCord United States	28	3.2k 1.2×	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	178 0.4×	45 0.1×	79	4.1k
Juliane Glüge Switzerland	18	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	914 0.6×	125 0.3×	45 0.1×	32	3.5k
James M. Byrne Germany	37	1.2k 0.4×	435 0.2×	241 0.2×	481 1.2×	103 0.3×	97	4.6k
Hind A. Al‐Abadleh Canada	30	437 0.2×	428 0.2×	709 0.5×	580 1.4×	97 0.3×	73	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John W. Washington

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Meldrum, A., et al.. (2025). Sonochemically activated room temperature hydrosilylation of silicon nanoparticles. Nanoscale Advances. 7(10). 3018–3027.

Evich, Marina G., José Roberto Ferreira, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, et al.. (2025). Mineralogical controls on PFAS and anthropogenic anions in subsurface soils and aquifers. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3118–3118. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Chen, et al.. (2023). Prevalence and Source Tracing of PFAS in Shallow Groundwater Used for Drinking Water in Wisconsin, USA. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(45). 17415–17426. 36 indexed citations

Ateia, Mohamed, Gabriel Sigmund, Michael J. Bentel, et al.. (2023). Integrated data-driven cross-disciplinary framework to prevent chemical water pollution. One Earth. 6(8). 952–963. 11 indexed citations

Weber, E., et al.. (2022). Development of a PFAS reaction library: identifying plausible transformation pathways in environmental and biological systems. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 24(5). 689–753. 28 indexed citations

Evich, Marina G., Mary J. B. Davis, James McCord, et al.. (2022). Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the environment. Science. 375(6580). eabg9065–eabg9065. 1166 indexed citations breakdown →

Washington, John W., James McCord, Mark J. Strynar, et al.. (2020). Nontargeted mass-spectral detection of chloroperfluoropolyether carboxylates in New Jersey soils. Science. 368(6495). 1103–1107. 181 indexed citations

Richardson, Vicki M., et al.. (2019). Characterization of non-radiolabeled Thyroxine (T4) uptake in cryopreserved rat hepatocyte suspensions: Pharmacokinetic implications for PFOA and PFOS chemical exposure. Toxicology in Vitro. 58. 230–238. 4 indexed citations

Washington, John W., et al.. (2018). Use of carbon isotopic ratios in nontargeted analysis to screen for anthropogenic compounds in complex environmental matrices. Journal of Chromatography A. 1583. 73–79. 6 indexed citations

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Washington, John W., Keegan Rankin, E. Laurence Libelo, David G. Lynch, & Mike Cyterski. (2018). Determining global background soil PFAS loads and the fluorotelomer-based polymer degradation rates that can account for these loads. The Science of The Total Environment. 651(Pt 2). 2444–2449. 83 indexed citations

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Rankin, Keegan, Scott A. Mabury, Thomas M. Jenkins, & John W. Washington. (2016). A North American and global survey of perfluoroalkyl substances in surface soils: Distribution patterns and mode of occurrence. Chemosphere. 161. 333–341. 273 indexed citations

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Reiner, Jessica L., Andrea C. Blaine, Christopher P. Higgins, et al.. (2013). Polyfluorinated substances in abiotic standard reference materials. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 407(11). 2975–2983. 25 indexed citations

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Lasier, Peter J., John W. Washington, Sayed M. Hassan, & Thomas M. Jenkins. (2011). Perfluorinated chemicals in surface waters and sediments from northwest Georgia, USA, and their bioaccumulation in Lumbriculus variegatus. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 30(10). 2194–2201. 70 indexed citations

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Ellington, J. Jackson, et al.. (2009). Analysis of fluorotelomer alcohols in soils: Optimization of extraction and chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A. 1216(28). 5347–5354. 30 indexed citations

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Washington, John W., et al.. (2009). Degradability of an Acrylate-Linked, Fluorotelomer Polymer in Soil. Environmental Science & Technology. 43(17). 6617–6623. 122 indexed citations

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Washington, John W., W. Matthew Henderson, J. Jackson Ellington, Thomas M. Jenkins, & John J. Evans. (2007). Analysis of perfluorinated carboxylic acids in soils II: Optimization of chromatography and extraction. Journal of Chromatography A. 1181(1-2). 21–32. 58 indexed citations

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Breedlove, Brian K., Gregory M. Ferrence, John W. Washington, & Clifford P. Kubiak. (2001). A photoelectrochemical approach to splitting carbon dioxide for a manned mission to Mars. Materials & Design (1980-2015). 22(7). 577–584. 8 indexed citations

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Washington, John W.. (2000). The Possible Role of Volcanic Aquifers in Prebiologic Genesis of Organic Compounds and RNA. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 30(1). 53–79. 25 indexed citations

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Washington, John W. & Clifford P. Kubiak. (1996). Reflectance infrared and UV–visible spectroelectrochemical studies on a series of [Ni₃(µ₃-L)(µ₃-I)(µ₂-dppm)₃][PF₆] (L = CO; CNR, R = alkyl, aryl; dppm = Ph₂PCH₂PPh₂) clusters. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 74(12). 2503–2508. 10 indexed citations

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Washington, John W. & Josef Takats. (1990). Alternative synthesis and fluxional behavior of osmium-rhodium cluster triangulo-Os2Rh(CO)9(C5R5) (R = H, Me). Organometallics. 9(4). 925–928. 7 indexed citations

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