Mehran Alaee

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Mehran Alaee is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mehran Alaee has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 31 papers in Pollution and 11 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mehran Alaee's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (74 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (31 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (30 papers). Mehran Alaee is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (74 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (31 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (30 papers). Mehran Alaee collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Mehran Alaee's co-authors include Derek C. G. Muir, Shirley Anne Smyth, Paula Guerra, Mingu Kim, Grazina Pacepavicius, Chris Marvin, Cynthia A. de Wit, Robert J. Letcher, Degao Wang and Gregg T. Tomy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Science & Technology and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Mehran Alaee

109 papers receiving 8.6k 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.

An overview of commercially used brominated flame retardants, their applications, their use patterns in different countries/regions and possible modes of release

2003 1.6k citations Mehran Alaee Environment International profile →
A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals

2012 347 citations Mehran Alaee et al. Environment International profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mehran Alaee Canada	48	7.0k	2.9k	1.3k	1.1k	549	109	8.9k
Michael S. McLachlan Sweden	61	8.2k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.6×	2.3k 2.1×	412 0.8×	212	10.4k
Frank A. P. C. Gobas Canada	55	9.3k 1.3×	4.0k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	946 0.9×	575 1.0×	164	11.8k
Ed Sverko Canada	45	4.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	920 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	275 0.5×	87	6.1k
Jon A. Arnot Canada	41	4.8k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	400 0.4×	264 0.5×	106	6.2k
P.E.G. Leonards Netherlands	55	7.5k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	606 0.6×	772 1.4×	233	9.9k
Haruhiko Nakata Japan	42	5.1k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	732 0.6×	345 0.3×	342 0.6×	83	6.8k
Thanh Wang China	62	6.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 2.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.4k 2.6×	144	11.1k
Staci L. Massey Simonich United States	48	5.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	604 0.5×	2.0k 1.8×	353 0.6×	110	7.5k
Shigeki Masunaga Japan	52	4.9k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	356 0.6×	199	6.9k
Zhiqiang Yu China	49	4.7k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	619 0.5×	797 0.7×	333 0.6×	276	8.2k

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Byer, Jonathan D., Michel Lebeuf, Mehran Alaee, et al.. (2015). Trends of persistent organic pollutants in American eel (Anguilla rostrata) from eastern Lake Ontario, Canada, and their potential effects on recruitment. The Science of The Total Environment. 529. 231–242. 24 indexed citations

Couillard, Catherine M., J. Pellerin, Jonathan D. Byer, et al.. (2015). Temporal variations in embryotoxicity of Lake Ontario American eel (Anguilla rostrata) extracts to developing Fundulus heteroclitus. The Science of The Total Environment. 541. 765–775. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Degao, et al.. (2014). Concentration, distribution, and human health risk assessment of endosulfan from a manufacturing facility in Huai'an, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 491-492. 163–169. 13 indexed citations

Kim, Mingu, Paula Guerra, Mehran Alaee, & Shirley Anne Smyth. (2014). Occurrence and fate of four novel brominated flame retardants in wastewater treatment plants. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 21(23). 13394–13404. 28 indexed citations

Wang, Degao, et al.. (2014). Fate of anthropogenic cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in a wastewater treatment plant. Water Research. 72. 209–217. 63 indexed citations

Guerra, Paula, et al.. (2014). Parameters affecting the formation of perfluoroalkyl acids during wastewater treatment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 272. 148–154. 93 indexed citations

Sühring, Roxana, Jonathan D. Byer, Marko Freese, et al.. (2013). Brominated flame retardants and Dechloranes in European and American eels from glass to silver life stages. Chemosphere. 116. 104–111. 21 indexed citations

Kim, Mingu, et al.. (2013). Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sewage sludge and treated biosolids: Effect factors and mass balance. Water Research. 47(17). 6496–6505. 46 indexed citations

Byer, Jonathan D., Michel Lebeuf, Mehran Alaee, et al.. (2012). Spatial trends of organochlorinated pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Atlantic Anguillid eels. Chemosphere. 90(5). 1719–1728. 24 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Arnanz, Juan, Mónica Romero Sáez, Fernando Hiraldo, et al.. (2011). Dechlorane plus and possible degradation products in white stork eggs from Spain. Environment International. 37(7). 1164–1168. 47 indexed citations

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Torre, Adrián de la, Ed Sverko, Mehran Alaee, & María Ángeles Martínez. (2010). Concentrations and sources of Dechlorane Plus in sewage sludge. Chemosphere. 82(5). 692–697. 43 indexed citations

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Munschy, Catherine, et al.. (2010). Dietary exposure of juvenile common sole (Solea solea L.) to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): Part 2. Formation, bioaccumulation and elimination of hydroxylated metabolites. Environmental Pollution. 158(12). 3527–3533. 23 indexed citations

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Fair, Patricia A., Hing‐Biu Lee, Jeff Adams, et al.. (2009). Occurrence of triclosan in plasma of wild Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and in their environment. 1 indexed citations

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Marvin, Chris, Gordia MacInnis, Mehran Alaee, Gilles Arsenault, & Gregg T. Tomy. (2007). Factors influencing enantiomeric fractions of hexabromocyclododecane measured using liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 21(12). 1925–1930. 58 indexed citations

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Ueno, Daisuke, Mehran Alaee, Chris Marvin, et al.. (2006). Distribution and transportability of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in the Asia-Pacific region using skipjack tuna as a bioindicator. Environmental Pollution. 144(1). 238–247. 74 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Gangfeng, Wennan Zhao, Mehran Alaee, & Janusz Pawliszyn. (2006). Time-weighted average water sampling with a diffusion-based solid-phase microextraction device. Journal of Chromatography A. 1138(1-2). 42–46. 20 indexed citations

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Diamond, Miriam L., Satyendra P. Bhavsar, Paul A. Helm, Gary A. Stern, & Mehran Alaee. (2005). Fate of organochlorine contaminants in arctic and subarctic lakes estimated by mass balance modelling. The Science of The Total Environment. 342(1-3). 245–259. 17 indexed citations

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Alaee, Mehran, Derek C. G. Muir, Paul A. Helm, et al.. (2003). New persistent chemicals in the Arctic abiotic environment. Organohalogen compounds. 61. 295–298. 5 indexed citations

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Comba, Michael E., et al.. (2003). Method for the determination of organophosphate insecticides in water, sediment and biota. Chemosphere. 54(1). 41–47. 60 indexed citations

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Alaee, Mehran & Richard J. Wenning. (2002). The significance of brominated flame retardants in the environment: current understanding, issues and challenges. Chemosphere. 46(5). 579–582. 161 indexed citations

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