Ken Sexton

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Ken Sexton is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Sexton has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ken Sexton's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (46 papers), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (39 papers) and Risk Perception and Management (17 papers). Ken Sexton is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (46 papers), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (39 papers) and Risk Perception and Management (17 papers). Ken Sexton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Canada. Ken Sexton's co-authors include John D. Spengler, John L. Adgate, Stephen H. Linder, Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Larry L. Needham, Susan A. Perlin, Hal Westberg, Gregory C. Pratt, David W. S. Wong and Thomas H. Stock and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ken Sexton

112 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken Sexton United States	37	3.0k	1000	729	474	396	113	4.5k
John L. Adgate United States	44	3.3k 1.1×	738 0.7×	740 1.0×	468 1.0×	451 1.1×	130	5.4k
Peggy Reynolds United States	58	3.3k 1.1×	588 0.6×	375 0.5×	472 1.0×	287 0.7×	208	9.1k
Michelle C. Turner Canada	40	4.1k 1.4×	500 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	340 0.7×	733 1.9×	119	9.0k
Rémy Slama France	53	5.9k 2.0×	311 0.3×	422 0.6×	516 1.1×	246 0.6×	233	8.8k
Halûk Özkaynak United States	40	4.3k 1.4×	301 0.3×	1.6k 2.2×	726 1.5×	621 1.6×	112	5.1k
Andrew Hertz United States	30	2.0k 0.7×	245 0.2×	350 0.5×	326 0.7×	199 0.5×	56	3.1k
Martine Vrijheid Spain	68	7.8k 2.6×	824 0.8×	437 0.6×	1.0k 2.2×	236 0.6×	290	12.8k
Joseph G. Allen United States	42	5.3k 1.8×	318 0.3×	768 1.1×	821 1.7×	868 2.2×	121	8.7k
S. Katharine Hammond United States	52	4.7k 1.6×	237 0.2×	466 0.6×	1.3k 2.7×	331 0.8×	200	8.1k
Thomas J. Smith United States	39	2.4k 0.8×	261 0.3×	493 0.7×	172 0.4×	185 0.5×	201	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ken Sexton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Sexton

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Prochaska, John, et al.. (2019). The utility of a system dynamics approach for understanding cumulative health risk from exposure to environmental hazards. Environmental Research. 172. 462–469. 8 indexed citations

Salinas, Jennifer J., et al.. (2014). Socioeconomic Context and the Food Landscape in Texas: Results from Hotspot Analysis and Border/Non-Border Comparison of Unhealthy Food Environments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 11(6). 5640–5650. 12 indexed citations

Salinas, Jennifer J., Jennifer L. Gay, Ken Sexton, et al.. (2013). Socioeconomic and Cultural County-level Factors Associated with Race/Ethnic Differences in Body Mass Index in 4th Grade Students in Texas. Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at Risk. 4(2). 3 indexed citations

Bambhroliya, Arvind, Keith D. Burau, & Ken Sexton. (2012). Spatial Analysis of County-Level Breast Cancer Mortality in Texas. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. 2012. 1–8. 24 indexed citations

Sexton, Ken, et al.. (2011). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Maternal and Umbilical Cord Blood from Pregnant Hispanic Women Living in Brownsville, Texas. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 8(8). 3365–3379. 34 indexed citations

Sexton, Ken, Andrew D. Ryan, John L. Adgate, Dana Boyd Barr, & Larry L. Needham. (2011). Biomarker Measurements of Concurrent Exposure to Multiple Environmental Chemicals and Chemical Classes in Children. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 74(14). 927–942. 16 indexed citations

Linder, Stephen H., George L. Delclos, & Ken Sexton. (2010). Making Causal Claims about Environmentally Induced Adverse Effects. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 16(1). 35–52. 6 indexed citations

Marcus, Alfred A., D. A. Geffen, & Ken Sexton. (2010). Reinventing Environmental Regulation. 3 indexed citations

Sexton, Ken, Steven J. Mongin, John L. Adgate, et al.. (2007). Estimating Volatile Organic Compound Concentrations in Selected Microenvironments Using Time–Activity and Personal Exposure Data. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 70(5). 465–476. 57 indexed citations

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Greaves, Ian A., Ken Sexton, Malcolm N. Blumenthal, et al.. (2006). Asthma, atopy, and lung function among racially diverse, poor inner-urban Minneapolis schoolchildren. Environmental Research. 103(2). 257–266. 6 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken, John L. Adgate, Timothy R. Church, et al.. (2004). Children’s Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds as Determined by Longitudinal Measurements in Blood. Environmental Health Perspectives. 113(3). 342–349. 72 indexed citations

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Adgate, John L., Timothy R. Church, Andrew D. Ryan, et al.. (2004). Outdoor, Indoor, and Personal Exposure to VOCs in Children. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112(14). 1386–1392. 182 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken, John L. Adgate, Steven J. Mongin, et al.. (2004). Evaluating Differences between Measured Personal Exposures to Volatile Organic Compounds and Concentrations in Outdoor and Indoor Air. Environmental Science & Technology. 38(9). 2593–2602. 51 indexed citations

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Adgate, John L., Lynn E. Eberly, Charles F. Stroebel, Edo D. Pellizzari, & Ken Sexton. (2004). Personal, Indoor, and Outdoor VOC Exposures in a Probability Sample of Children. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 14(S1). S4–S13. 93 indexed citations

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Ramachandran, Gurumurthy, John L. Adgate, Gregory C. Pratt, & Ken Sexton. (2003). Characterizing Indoor and Outdoor 15 Minute Average PM 2.5 Concentrations in Urban Neighborhoods. Aerosol Science and Technology. 37(1). 33–45. 107 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken, John L. Adgate, Timothy R. Church, et al.. (2003). Recruitment, retention, and compliance results from a probability study of children's environmental health in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 111(5). 731–736. 19 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken & John L. Adgate. (1999). Looking at environmental justice from an environmental health perspective. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 9(1). 3–8. 62 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken, Lawrence W. Reiter, & Harold Zenick. (1995). Research to strengthen the scientific basis for health risk assessment: a survey of the context and rationale for mechanistically based methods and models. Toxicology. 102(1-2). 3–20. 15 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken, Sherry G. Selevan, Diane K. Wagener, & Jeffrey A. Lybarger. (1992). Estimating Human Exposures to Environmental Pollutants: Availability and Utility of Existing Databases. Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal. 47(6). 398–407. 39 indexed citations

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Sexton, Ken. (1986). Indoor Air Quality: An Overview of Policy and Regulatory Issues. Science Technology & Human Values. 11(1). 53–67. 9 indexed citations

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