Katherine Bourzac

1.2k total citations
93 papers, 864 citations indexed

About

Katherine Bourzac is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pollution and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine Bourzac has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 864 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Pollution and 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Katherine Bourzac's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (7 papers), COVID-19 impact on air quality (3 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (3 papers). Katherine Bourzac is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (7 papers), COVID-19 impact on air quality (3 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (3 papers). Katherine Bourzac collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Netherlands. Katherine Bourzac's co-authors include Neil Savage, Neil Savage, Brian Owens, Andrew R. Scott, Elie Dolgin and Smriti Mallapaty and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Katherine Bourzac

88 papers receiving 832 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katherine Bourzac China 14 257 232 194 168 156 93 864
Zeyang Liu China 17 200 0.8× 112 0.5× 486 2.5× 130 0.8× 122 0.8× 68 1.1k
Yonggang Peng China 17 249 1.0× 145 0.6× 101 0.5× 148 0.9× 147 0.9× 80 968
Dan Su China 17 290 1.1× 270 1.2× 265 1.4× 95 0.6× 70 0.4× 91 987
Bokyung Jung South Korea 18 129 0.5× 292 1.3× 289 1.5× 272 1.6× 80 0.5× 48 1.2k
Yu‐Chung Lin Taiwan 17 494 1.9× 215 0.9× 272 1.4× 102 0.6× 93 0.6× 46 1.1k
Shengyan Liu China 17 110 0.4× 111 0.5× 139 0.7× 177 1.1× 88 0.6× 54 970
Yutian Ma China 23 283 1.1× 169 0.7× 391 2.0× 379 2.3× 175 1.1× 76 1.6k
Yan Zheng China 17 128 0.5× 157 0.7× 188 1.0× 139 0.8× 84 0.5× 72 696

Countries citing papers authored by Katherine Bourzac

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Fields of papers citing papers by Katherine Bourzac

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katherine Bourzac

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2025). Why women’s brains are more resilient: it could be their ‘silent’ X chromosome. Nature. 639(8054). 286–287. 2 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2024). Serious errors plague DNA tool that’s a workhorse of biology. Nature. 631(8021). 487–488. 2 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2023). People Who Are Changing the Environment One Community at a Time. Nature. 621(7979). S35–S37. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2023). Respiratory syncytial virus co-infections might conspire to worsen disease. Nature. 621(7980). S60–S61. 7 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2023). Grappling with the biggest marine plastic spill in history. C&EN Global Enterprise. 101(3). 24–31.
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2023). Plastic waste found chemically bonded to rocks in China. Nature. 4 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2021). PFAS are ubiquitous in rainwater. C&EN Global Enterprise. 99(13). 6–6. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2021). Air quality monitoring goes local. C&EN Global Enterprise. 99(23). 23–28. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2021). The other important greenhouse gas. C&EN Global Enterprise. 99(39). 28–33. 2 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2021). 2D material has record-breaking thermal properties. Chemical & Engineering News. 6–6.
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2020). Microplastics ride the atmosphere. C&EN Global Enterprise. 98(28). 8–8. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine, et al.. (2018). The world at their feet. Nature. 561(7723). S10–S15. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2017). A Conversation with Tomás Palacios. ACS Central Science. 3(7). 677–678. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2017). Gene therapy: Erasing sickle-cell disease. Nature. 549(7673). S28–S30. 5 indexed citations
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Savage, Neil & Katherine Bourzac. (2017). Energy: Powering change. Nature. 545(7654). S13–S14. 8 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2016). Cancer nanomedicine, reengineered. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(45). 12600–12603. 39 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2013). Quantum dots go on display. Nature. 493(7432). 283–283. 184 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2012). Optical memory could ease Internet bottlenecks. Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2012). Electronics: Back to analogue. Nature. 483(7389). S34–S36. 19 indexed citations
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Bourzac, Katherine. (2012). Nanotechnology: Carrying drugs. Nature. 491(7425). S58–S60. 153 indexed citations

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