Joy Leaner

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Joy Leaner is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Joy Leaner has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 6 papers in Pollution and 3 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Joy Leaner's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (14 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers) and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (7 papers). Joy Leaner is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (14 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers) and Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (7 papers). Joy Leaner collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Switzerland. Joy Leaner's co-authors include Robert P. Mason, Robert B. Finkelman, David G. Streets, Xinbin Feng, Arun B. Mukherjee, H. Friedli, Kevin Telmer, Glenn B. Stracher, Sergio Cinnirella and Nicola Pirrone and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Pollution, Electrochimica Acta and Atmospheric Environment.

In The Last Decade

Joy Leaner

25 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Global mercury emissions to the atmosphere from anthropogenic and natural sources

2010 1.2k citations Nicola Pirrone, Sergio Cinnirella et al. Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joy Leaner South Africa	18	1.7k	579	307	117	108	25	2.1k
Yanbin Li China	26	1.2k 0.7×	569 1.0×	330 1.1×	83 0.7×	32 0.3×	124	2.1k
Frits Steenhuisen Netherlands	15	2.2k 1.3×	584 1.0×	436 1.4×	113 1.0×	33 0.3×	27	2.6k
Júlio Cesar Wasserman Brazil	25	682 0.4×	793 1.4×	364 1.2×	206 1.8×	27 0.3×	100	1.7k
Clare L.S. Wiseman Canada	21	960 0.6×	863 1.5×	77 0.3×	114 1.0×	106 1.0×	38	1.9k
Christian E. Schlekat United States	27	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.8×	237 0.8×	86 0.7×	65 0.6×	59	2.0k
Aria Amirbahman United States	18	952 0.5×	535 0.9×	292 1.0×	50 0.4×	31 0.3×	23	1.4k
Jean‐Ulrich Mullot France	21	446 0.3×	506 0.9×	188 0.6×	141 1.2×	28 0.3×	36	1.1k
Alan D. Tappin United Kingdom	27	328 0.2×	549 0.9×	359 1.2×	181 1.5×	131 1.2×	62	1.9k
Ken Reimer Canada	18	918 0.5×	547 0.9×	267 0.9×	30 0.3×	29 0.3×	29	1.5k
Michael A. Champ United States	18	665 0.4×	492 0.8×	170 0.6×	60 0.5×	99 0.9×	43	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Joy Leaner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joy Leaner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joy Leaner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joy Leaner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joy Leaner 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 Joy Leaner. Joy Leaner 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

Jeebhay, Mohamed F., Toyib Olaniyan, Lubbe Wiesner, et al.. (2023). The Association Between Urinary Concentrations of Organophosphate Metabolites and Asthma-Related Outcomes Among Schoolchildren From Informal Settlements. International Journal of Public Health. 68. 1606174–1606174. 1 indexed citations

Fisher, Jenny A., Larissa Schneider, Anne Hélène Fostier, et al.. (2023). A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 2: Anthropogenic perturbations. AMBIO. 52(5). 918–937. 26 indexed citations

Schneider, Larissa, Jenny A. Fisher, María del Carmen Diéguez, et al.. (2023). A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes. AMBIO. 52(5). 897–917. 21 indexed citations

Olaniyan, Toyib, Kees de Hoogh, Apolline Saucy, et al.. (2021). Ambient Air Pollution and Cardiorespiratory Outcomes amongst Adults Residing in Four Informal Settlements in the Western Province of South Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(24). 13306–13306. 6 indexed citations

Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed F. Jeebhay, Martin Röösli, et al.. (2020). The association between ambient NO2 and PM2.5 with the respiratory health of school children residing in informal settlements: A prospective cohort study. Environmental Research. 186. 109606–109606. 30 indexed citations

Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie, Martin Röösli, et al.. (2020). Short term seasonal effects of airborne fungal spores on lung function in a panel study of schoolchildren residing in informal settlements of the Western Cape of South Africa. Environmental Pollution. 260. 114023–114023. 10 indexed citations

Olaniyan, Toyib, Mohamed F. Jeebhay, Martin Röösli, et al.. (2017). A prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the western Cape Province: study protocol. BMC Public Health. 17(1). 712–712. 28 indexed citations

Leaner, Joy, et al.. (2011). Mercury concentrations at a historically mercury-contaminated site in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 18(7). 1079–1089. 19 indexed citations

Walters, Chavon, et al.. (2011). A review of mercury pollution in South Africa: Current status. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 46(10). 1129–1137. 37 indexed citations

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Pacyna, Józef M., Elisabeth G. Pacyna, Kyrre Sundseth, et al.. (2010). Global emissions of mercury to the atmosphere in 2005 and their 2020 scenarios. EGUGA. 2761. 2 indexed citations

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Leaner, Joy, et al.. (2010). Mercury concentrations in water resources potentially impacted by coal-fired power stations and artisanal gold mining in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A. 45(11). 1363–1373. 14 indexed citations

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Pirrone, Nicola, Sergio Cinnirella, Xinbin Feng, et al.. (2010). Global mercury emissions to the atmosphere from anthropogenic and natural sources. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(13). 5951–5964. 1167 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leaner, Joy, et al.. (2010). Trends in anthropogenic mercury emissions estimated for South Africa during 2000–2006. Atmospheric Environment. 44(25). 3007–3014. 41 indexed citations

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Somerset, Vernon, Joy Leaner, Robert P. Mason, Emmanuel I. Iwuoha, & Aoife Morrin. (2010). Determination of inorganic mercury using a polyaniline and polyaniline-methylene blue coated screen-printed carbon electrode. International Journal of Environmental & Analytical Chemistry. 90(9). 671–685. 32 indexed citations

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Kading, Tristan, Robert P. Mason, & Joy Leaner. (2009). Mercury contamination history of an estuarine floodplain reconstructed from a 210Pb-dated sediment core (Berg River, South Africa). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 59(4-7). 116–122. 36 indexed citations

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Chamier, Jessica, Joy Leaner, & Andrew M. Crouch. (2009). Photoelectrochemical determination of inorganic mercury in aqueous solutions. Analytica Chimica Acta. 661(1). 91–96. 22 indexed citations

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Somerset, Vernon, Joy Leaner, Robert P. Mason, Emmanuel I. Iwuoha, & Aoife Morrin. (2009). Development and application of a poly(2,2′-dithiodianiline) (PDTDA)-coated screen-printed carbon electrode in inorganic mercury determination. Electrochimica Acta. 55(14). 4240–4246. 62 indexed citations

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Leaner, Joy & Robert P. Mason. (2004). Methylmercury uptake and distribution kinetics in sheepshead minnows, Cyprinodon variegatus, after exposure to CH3Hg-spiked food. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 23(9). 2138–2146. 77 indexed citations

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Leaner, Joy & Robert P. Mason. (2002). Methylmercury accumulation and fluxes across the intestine of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology. 132(2). 247–259. 51 indexed citations

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Mason, Robert P., et al.. (1999). Mercury in the Chesapeake Bay. Marine Chemistry. 65(1-2). 77–96. 196 indexed citations

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