Mark Nicas

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Mark Nicas is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Nicas has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 26 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Mark Nicas's work include Infection Control and Ventilation (23 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (15 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (11 papers). Mark Nicas is often cited by papers focused on Infection Control and Ventilation (23 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (15 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (11 papers). Mark Nicas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Japan. Mark Nicas's co-authors include Alan Hubbard, William W. Nazaroff, Rachael M. Jones, Gang Sun, Robert C. Spear, Shelly L. Miller, John Neuhaus, Arthur Reingold, Ki‐Young Lee and Antonij Slavčev and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, PLoS Computational Biology and Building and Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mark Nicas

74 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Toward Understanding the Risk of Secondary Airborne Infection: Emission of Respirable Pathogens

2005 650 citations Mark Nicas, William W. Nazaroff et al. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Nicas United States	28	1.4k	674	525	399	282	78	2.5k
Rachael M. Jones United States	25	1.1k 0.8×	634 0.9×	591 1.1×	329 0.8×	173 0.6×	112	2.7k
I. Yu Hong Kong	21	1.2k 0.9×	693 1.0×	578 1.1×	440 1.1×	313 1.1×	39	2.6k
Lisa M. Brosseau United States	24	861 0.6×	498 0.7×	392 0.7×	141 0.4×	111 0.4×	101	2.1k
Stephen N. Rudnick United States	21	1.0k 0.8×	572 0.8×	277 0.5×	248 0.6×	230 0.8×	43	1.6k
Donald H. Beezhold United States	42	2.0k 1.5×	900 1.3×	821 1.6×	506 1.3×	139 0.5×	184	6.8k
Catherine J. Noakes United Kingdom	34	2.2k 1.6×	1.0k 1.5×	831 1.6×	626 1.6×	646 2.3×	118	3.7k
T W Wong Hong Kong	16	1.3k 1.0×	916 1.4×	365 0.7×	292 0.7×	428 1.5×	24	2.3k
Atin Adhikari United States	33	953 0.7×	1.9k 2.8×	215 0.4×	134 0.3×	294 1.0×	97	3.4k
Françoise M. Blachère United States	26	1.8k 1.3×	600 0.9×	570 1.1×	489 1.2×	120 0.4×	52	3.0k
Caroline Duchaine Canada	47	1.4k 1.0×	2.6k 3.9×	824 1.6×	222 0.6×	418 1.5×	196	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Nicas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Nicas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Nicas

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nicas, Mark. (2024). A critique of Occupational Safety and Health Administration's halfmask respirator assigned protection factor. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1536(1). 5–12. 1 indexed citations

Nicas, Mark. (2023). Correcting Coal Miner Respirator Total Inward Leakage Values for Respiratory Tract Deposition. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 67(6). 784–795. 1 indexed citations

Nicas, Mark. (2023). A decoupling method to compute near field and far field exposure concentrations. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 68(1). 78–85. 1 indexed citations

Nicas, Mark, Eric D. McCollum, Salahuddin Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Estimating residential air exchange rates in rural Bangladesh using a near field-far field model. Building and Environment. 206. 108325–108325. 5 indexed citations

Kumagai, Kazukiyo, et al.. (2013). Case Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 10(8). D104–D110. 6 indexed citations

Nicas, Mark & John Neuhaus. (2008). Predicting Benzene Vapor Concentrations with a Near Field/Far Field Model. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 5(9). 599–608. 27 indexed citations

Nicas, Mark, et al.. (2008). A Study Quantifying the Hand-to-Face Contact Rate and Its Potential Application to Predicting Respiratory Tract Infection. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 5(6). 347–352. 198 indexed citations

Jones, Rachael M., Mark Nicas, Alan Hubbard, & Arthur Reingold. (2006). The Infectious Dose of Coxiella Burnetii (Q Fever). Applied Biosafety. 11(1). 32–41. 45 indexed citations

Nicas, Mark & Gang Sun. (2006). An Integrated Model of Infection Risk in a Health‐Care Environment. Risk Analysis. 26(4). 1085–1096. 95 indexed citations

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Jones, Rachael M., Mark Nicas, Alan Hubbard, Matthew D. Sylvester, & Arthur Reingold. (2005). The Infectious Dose of Francisella Tularensis (Tularemia). Applied Biosafety. 10(4). 227–239. 32 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark, William W. Nazaroff, & Alan Hubbard. (2005). Toward Understanding the Risk of Secondary Airborne Infection: Emission of Respirable Pathogens. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 2(3). 143–154. 650 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nicas, Mark, Alan Hubbard, Rachael M. Jones, & Arthur Reingold. (2004). The Infectious Dose of Variola (Smallpox) Virus. Applied Biosafety. 9(3). 118–127. 25 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark & Alan Hubbard. (2003). A Risk Analysis Approach to Selecting Respiratory Protection Against Airborne Pathogens Used for Bioterrorism. AIHA Journal. 64(1). 95–101. 14 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark, et al.. (2001). Task-Specific Lead Exposure During Residential Lead Hazard Reduction Projects. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 16(6). 671–678. 6 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark, et al.. (2000). Tuberculosis Isolation Comparison of Written Procedures and Actual Practices in Three California Hospitals. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 21(1). 28–32. 27 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark. (2000). Markov Modeling of Contaminant Concentrations in Indoor Air. PubMed. 61(4). 484–491. 34 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark & Geoffrey Lomax. (1999). A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Genetic Screening for Susceptibility to Occupational Toxicants. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 41(7). 535–544. 8 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark & Edmund Seto. (1997). A Simulation Model for Occupational Tuberculosis Transmission. Risk Analysis. 17(5). 609–616. 3 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark. (1995). Respiratory protection and the risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 27(3). 317–333. 37 indexed citations

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Nicas, Mark, et al.. (1993). Isolation Rooms for Tuberculosis Control. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 14(11). 619–622. 3 indexed citations

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