Kevin V. Thomas

33.6k citations

426 papers · 23.2k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 78

Impact in

Pollution top 0.01%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.02%
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Papers in

Pollution 181
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts 99
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution 75
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 139
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact 54
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology 51
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals 32

Co-authors: Jake O’Brien Malcolm J. Reid Katherine Langford J.D. Eggleton Jochen F. Mueller Elvis D. Okoffo Paul Roberts Benjamin J. Tscharke
Journals: The Science of The Total Environment (53 papers)Environmental Science & Technology (36 papers)Water Research (19 papers)Journal of Hazardous Materials (16 papers)Environment International (16 papers)
Partner nations: Australia Norway United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Kevin V. Thomas

405 papers receiving 22.6k citations

Hit Papers

13 papers align trajectories log scale

Are microplastics bad for your health? More rigorous science is needed 2025 · 21 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Nature
2025 Environmental Science & Technology
2023 The Science of The Total Environment
2022 Environmental Science & Technology
2022 Environmental Science & Technology Letters
2020 The Science of The Total Environment
2019 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
2019 The Lancet
2018 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry
2012 The Science of The Total Environment
2005 The Science of The Total Environment
2004 Environment International
2004 The Science of The Total Environment

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kevin V. Thomas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Release of nanoplastic from polypropylene kettles Ke Shi, Elvis D. Okoffo, Zhou Xue-cong, Deborah M. Rapalo, Jie Jiang, Cassandra Rauert, Kevin V. Thomas	2025	0
2	Seven-years of alcohol consumption in Australia by wastewater analysis: Exploring patterns by remoteness and socioeconomic factors Drug and Alcohol Dependence ·Zhixuan Lai, Michael Livingston, Jake O’Brien, Richard Bade, Kevin V. Thomas, Jochen F. Mueller, 康介阿部, Bradley S. Simpson, Shiqi Quan, Cobus Gerber, Jason M. White, Phong K. Thai	2024	3
3	Unscrambling why plastics aren't detectable in chicken eggs Chemosphere ·T E Guloian, Elvis D. Okoffo, Angelo Fenti, Zhou Xue-cong, Kevin V. Thomas	2024	0
4	Exploring the optical and morphological properties of metal oxide thin films produced via reactive electron beam evaporation Cogent Engineering ·Mohammad Istiaque Hossain, Brahim Aïssa, Amith Khandakar, Kevin V. Thomas, Antonio G. Mazzoleni, Said Mansour	2024	4
5	Preparation of polystyrene microplastic particles by solvent-dissolution-precipitation SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Iver Ogilvy, Elvis D. Okoffo, Pradeep Shukla, Kevin V. Thomas, Victor Rudolph	2024	3
6	Evidence of time dependent degradation of polypropylene surgical mesh explanted from the abdomen and vagina of sheep Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials ·Kazuya SAKAI, David A. Gregory, Victoria L. Workman, Cassandra Rauert, Sabiniano Román, Alexander J. Knight, Anthony J. Bullock, A. I. Tartakovskii, Kevin V. Thomas, Christopher R. Chapple, Jan Deprest, Sheila MacNeil, Cornelia Rodenburg	2024	6
7	Wastewater-based epidemiology for the assessment of population exposure to chemicals: The need for integration with human biomonitoring for global One Health actions Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern, Frederic Béen, Lubertus Bijlsma, Werner Brack, Sara Castiglioni, Adrian Covaci, Bice S. Martincigh, Jochen F. Mueller, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Temilola Oluseyi, Kevin V. Thomas	2023	15
8	Wastewater Surveillance Can Function as an Early Warning System for COVID-19 in Low-Incidence Settings Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease ·尚春生, Colleen L. Lau, Phong K. Thai, Warish Ahmed, Jochen F. Mueller, Kevin V. Thomas, Phil M. Choi, Greg Jackson, Linda Selvey	2023	8
9	Novel Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Discovered in Cattle Exposed to AFFF-Impacted Groundwater Environmental Science & Technology ·Pradeep Dewapriya, Sandra Nilsson, Sara Ghorbani Gorji, Jake O’Brien, Jennifer Bräunig, María José Gómez, Eric Donaldson, Saer Samanipour, Jonathan W. Martin, Jochen F. Mueller, Sarit Kaserzon, Kevin V. Thomas	2023	13
10	Critical Assessment of the Chemical Space Covered by LC–HRMS Non-Targeted Analysis Environmental Science & Technology ·Arun Kumar Raj Voruganti, 康太郎野村, Jake O’Brien, Aleksandra Chojnacka, Kevin V. Thomas, Saer Samanipour	2023	37
11	Characterization and quantification of oxidative stress induced particle debris from polypropylene surgical mesh SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Kazuya SAKAI, Cassandra Rauert, Alexander J. Knight, A. I. Tartakovskii, Kevin V. Thomas	2023	6
12	Young population consume twice as much artificial sweetener than the general population – A wastewater-based assessment in China The Science of The Total Environment ·Dandan Li, Qiuda Zheng, Zhe Wang, Yuan Ren, Kevin V. Thomas, Phong K. Thai	2022	16
13	In Situ Calibration of Passive Samplers for Viruses in Wastewater ACS ES&T Water ·Jiaying Li, Rory Verhagen, Warish Ahmed, Suzanne Metcalfe, Phong K. Thai, Sarit Kaserzon, Wendy Smith, Christelle Schang, Stuart L. Simpson, Kevin V. Thomas, Jochen F. Mueller, David McCarthy	2022	18
14	Out of sight but not out of mind: Size fractionation of plastics bioaccumulated by field deployed oysters SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Francisca Ribeiro, Elvis D. Okoffo, Jake O’Brien, Stacey O’Brien, Jonathan M. Harris, Saer Samanipour, Sarit Kaserzon, Jochen F. Mueller, Tamara S. Galloway, Kevin V. Thomas	2021	45
15	Estimating Alcohol Consumption by Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: An Assessment of the Correction Factor for Ethyl Sulfate Using Large-Scale National Monitoring Data Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·Phong K. Thai, Benjamin J. Tscharke, Jake O’Brien, Qiuda Zheng, Kevin V. Thomas, Jochen F. Mueller	2021	19
16	Assessment of human exposure to selected pesticides in Norway by wastewater analysis The Science of The Total Environment ·Nikolaos I. Rousis, Emma Gracia‐Lor, Malcolm J. Reid, Jose Antonio Baz‐Lomba, Yeonsuk Ryu, Ettore Zuccato, Kevin V. Thomas, Sara Castiglioni	2020	37
17	Self Adjusting Algorithm for the Nontargeted Feature Detection of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Liquid Chromatography Profile Data Analytical Chemistry ·Saer Samanipour, Jake O’Brien, Malcolm J. Reid, Kevin V. Thomas	2019	20
18	Comparison of phosphodiesterase type V inhibitors use in eight European cities through analysis of urban wastewater Environment International ·Ana Causanilles, Paulo César Rodrigues Conti, Erik Emke, Richard Bade, Jose Antonio Baz‐Lomba, Sara Castiglioni, Erika Castrignanò, Emma Gracia‐Lor, Félix Hernández, Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern, Juliet Kinyua, Ann‐Kathrin McCall, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Benedek G. Plósz, Pedram Ramin, Nikolaos I. Rousis, Yeonsuk Ryu, Kevin V. Thomas, Pim de Voogt	2018	29
19	Estimation of caffeine intake from analysis of caffeine metabolites in wastewater The Science of The Total Environment ·Emma Gracia‐Lor, Nikolaos I. Rousis, Ettore Zuccato, Richard Bade, Jose Antonio Baz‐Lomba, Erika Castrignanò, Ana Causanilles, Félix Hernández, Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern, Juliet Kinyua, Ann‐Kathrin McCall, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Benedek G. Plósz, Pedram Ramin, Yeonsuk Ryu, Miguel M. Santos, Kevin V. Thomas, Pim de Voogt, Zhugen Yang, Sara Castiglioni	2017	97
20	Gonadotropins, Prolactin, Inhibin A, Inhibin B, and Activin A in Human Fetal Serum from Midpregnancy and Term Pregnancy The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Frédéric Debiève, 大沼澄子, Corinne Hubinont, Kevin V. Thomas	2000	59

About Kevin V. Thomas

Kevin V. Thomas is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Toxicology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, having authored 426 papers that have together received 23.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (99 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (75 papers), Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (54 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (51 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (49 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (40 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (32 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (27 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (12.1k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (7.3k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (3.6k citations), Toxicology (1.2k citations) and Analytical Chemistry (2.7k citations). Kevin V. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, Norway and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Jake O’Brien, Malcolm J. Reid, Katherine Langford, J.D. Eggleton, Jochen F. Mueller, Elvis D. Okoffo, Paul Roberts, Benjamin J. Tscharke, Steven J. Brooks and Cassandra Rauert. Their work appears in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, Water Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Environment International.

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