Nicholas Howell

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Howell is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Howell has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Pollution, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Howell's work include Radioactive contamination and transfer (4 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (3 papers) and Nuclear and radioactivity studies (3 papers). Nicholas Howell is often cited by papers focused on Radioactive contamination and transfer (4 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (3 papers) and Nuclear and radioactivity studies (3 papers). Nicholas Howell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Denmark. Nicholas Howell's co-authors include Tom Cresswell, T. J. B. Holland, Judy Baker, Roger Powell, Mathew P. Johansen, Lauren Jewett, Mandi M. Larsen, Sarah M Mah, Daryl L. Howard and Joel Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Howell

31 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Social Cohesion and Community Resilience During COVID-19 and Pandemics: A Rapid Scoping Review to Inform the United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Howell Australia	14	285	249	173	153	127	32	1.2k
Xudong Liu China	23	80 0.3×	110 0.4×	67 0.4×	269 1.8×	167 1.3×	144	1.4k
Kai Feng China	15	124 0.4×	143 0.6×	61 0.4×	183 1.2×	50 0.4×	59	945
Xifang Liu China	16	111 0.4×	18 0.1×	31 0.2×	210 1.4×	17 0.1×	48	1.0k
Xin Deng China	20	176 0.6×	125 0.5×	7 0.0×	244 1.6×	13 0.1×	119	1.3k
Abdul-Mehdi S. Ali United States	20	8 0.0×	137 0.6×	58 0.3×	92 0.6×	26 0.2×	57	1.3k
Tomoko Kojima Japan	25	141 0.5×	61 0.2×	41 0.2×	139 0.9×	327 2.6×	77	1.6k
Ryoichi Nakamura Japan	22	63 0.2×	32 0.1×	9 0.1×	602 3.9×	50 0.4×	117	2.0k
Carlos Rondón Colombia	21	14 0.0×	77 0.3×	26 0.2×	262 1.7×	100 0.8×	69	1.2k
Rongyu Li China	15	167 0.6×	95 0.4×	3 0.0×	135 0.9×	68 0.5×	42	1.0k

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Howell, Nicholas, Tom Cresswell, Gianluca Brunetti, et al.. (2025). Effects of Phosphorus Deficiency on Leaf Surface Morphology: Absorption and Translocation of Foliar‐Applied Phosphorus in Four Barley Cultivars. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(3). e70263–e70263. 1 indexed citations

Lavers, Jennifer L., Nicholas Howell, Alexander L. Bond, et al.. (2025). Elemental analysis by neutron activation analysis and synchrotron x-ray fluorescence microscopy of ocean plastics ingested by pelagic seabirds. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 494. 138528–138528. 1 indexed citations

Howell, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). Adaptation of a neutron radiography instrument for live cell irradiation. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 17786–17786.

Bevitt, Joseph J., Nicholas Howell, Frédéric Sierro, et al.. (2025). A functional digital model of the Dingo thermal neutron imaging beamline. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 11233–11233. 1 indexed citations

Oldfield, Daniel T., et al.. (2024). Naturally occurring radioactive materials in offshore infrastructure: Understanding formation and characteristics of baryte scale during decommissioning planning. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 465. 133506–133506. 2 indexed citations

Johansen, Mathew P., David Child, Richard N. Collins, et al.. (2022). Radioactive particles from a range of past nuclear events: Challenges posed by highly varied structure and composition. The Science of The Total Environment. 842. 156755–156755. 7 indexed citations

Ferlazzo, Mélanie L., Nicholas Howell, Guo Jun Liu, et al.. (2021). Microgravity × Radiation: A Space Mechanobiology Approach Toward Cardiovascular Function and Disease. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 750775–750775. 13 indexed citations

Middleton, Ryan J., Nicholas Howell, Emma Davis, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial Translocator Protein (TSPO) Expression in the Brain After Whole Body Gamma Irradiation. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 715444–715444. 22 indexed citations

Cresswell, Tom, et al.. (2020). Bioaccumulation kinetics and internal distribution of the fission products radiocaesium and radiostrontium in an estuarine crab. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 408. 124453–124453. 10 indexed citations

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Doolette, Casey L., Thea L. Read, Nicholas Howell, Tom Cresswell, & Enzo Lombi. (2020). Zinc from foliar-applied nanoparticle fertiliser is translocated to wheat grain: A 65Zn radiolabelled translocation study comparing conventional and novel foliar fertilisers. The Science of The Total Environment. 749. 142369–142369. 44 indexed citations

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Read, Thea L., Casey L. Doolette, Tom Cresswell, et al.. (2019). Investigating the foliar uptake of zinc from conventional and nano-formulations: a methodological study. Environmental Chemistry. 16(6). 459–469. 26 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., David Child, Tom Cresswell, et al.. (2019). Plutonium and other radionuclides persist across marine-to-terrestrial ecotopes in the Montebello Islands sixty years after nuclear tests. The Science of The Total Environment. 691. 572–583. 24 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., et al.. (2019). Biofilm-enhanced adsorption of strong and weak cations onto different microplastic sample types: Use of spectroscopy, microscopy and radiotracer methods. Water Research. 158. 392–400. 124 indexed citations

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Raoult, Vincent, Nicholas Howell, Victor M. Peddemors, et al.. (2018). Localized zinc distribution in shark vertebrae suggests differential deposition during ontogeny and across vertebral structures. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0190927–e0190927. 19 indexed citations

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Johansen, Mathew P., et al.. (2018). Initial data on adsorption of Cs and Sr to the surfaces of microplastics with biofilm. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 190-191. 130–133. 107 indexed citations

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Howell, Nicholas, Jennifer L. Lavers, David Paterson, et al.. (2017). The Topobiology of Chemical Elements in Seabird Feathers. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 1998–1998. 11 indexed citations

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Raoult, Vincent, Victor M. Peddemors, Nicholas Howell, et al.. (2016). Strontium mineralization of shark vertebrae. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29698–29698. 20 indexed citations

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Callaghan, Paul D., Catriona Wimberley, Paula Berghofer, et al.. (2014). Comparison of in vivo binding properties of the 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) ligands [18F]PBR102 and [18F]PBR111 in a model of excitotoxin-induced neuroinflammation. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 42(1). 138–151. 11 indexed citations

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Banati, Richard B., Ryan J. Middleton, Winnie Kam, et al.. (2014). Positron emission tomography and functional characterization of a complete PBR/TSPO knockout. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5452–5452. 192 indexed citations

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Szabo, Alexander, Nicholas Howell, Paul A. Pellegrini, Ivan Greguric, & Andrew Katsifis. (2012). Development and validation of competition binding assays for affinity to the extracellular matrix receptors, αvβ3 and αIIbβ3 integrin. Analytical Biochemistry. 423(1). 70–77. 7 indexed citations

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