P. Lee Ferguson

8.5k citations

106 papers · 6.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.1%
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
Pollution top 0.2%
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Papers in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 51
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact 32
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology 11
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals 11
Pollution 33
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts 19
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution 10

Co-authors: Bruce J. Brownawell Heather M. Stapleton Charles R. Iden Gordon J. Getzinger Juliane Hollender Heinz Singer Thomas F. Webster Emma Schymanski
Journals: Environmental Science & Technology (32 papers)Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (10 papers)Analytical Chemistry (5 papers)Marine Environmental Research (3 papers)Journal of Hazardous Materials (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

P. Lee Ferguson

103 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Lithium-ion battery components are at the nexus of sustainable energy and environmental release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances 2024 · 66 citations

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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.

2024 Nature Communications
2017 Environmental Science & Technology
2017 Environmental Science & Technology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside P. Lee Ferguson, 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	Evaluation of Fluorochemical Leaching from Lithium-Ion Batteries Under Simulated Solid Waste Landfill Conditions Environmental Science & Technology ·Marzieh Shojaei, Jennifer L. Guelfo, Morton A. Barlaz, Grisel Cogollo-Carcamo, Nelson Rivera, Heileen Hsu‐Kim, P. Lee Ferguson	2025	0
2	Integrating Contaminant Source Indicators, Water Quality Measures, and Ecotoxicity to Characterize Contaminant Mixtures and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Variability in an Urban Watershed Environmental Science & Technology ·Jonathan R. Behrens, Abigail S. Joyce, P. Lee Ferguson, Dana W. Kolpin, Nishad Jayasundara, Nadia Barbo, Emily S. Bernhardt	2025	0
3	The effect of mechanical canopy reduction on big sagebrush plant communities Ecological Applications ·P. Lee Ferguson, Trace E. Martyn, Michelle C. Downey, James M. Fischer, Ingrid C. Burke, William K. Lauenroth	2025	0
4	Colloidal Side-Chain Fluorinated Polymer Nanoparticles Are a Significant Source of Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Contamination in Textile Wastewater Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·Patrick W. Faught, Marzieh Shojaei, Abigail S. Joyce, P. Lee Ferguson	2025	1
5	Toxicity of microplastic fibers containing azobenzene disperse dyes to human lung epithelial cells cultured at an air-liquid interface Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Amber O’Connor, Anna Villalobos Santeli, Sripriya Nannu Shankar, Amin Shirkhani, Tracie R. Baker, Chang‐Yu Wu, Borna Mehrad, P. Lee Ferguson, Tara Sabo‐Attwood	2024	4
6	Lithium-ion battery components are at the nexus of sustainable energy and environmental release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances Nature Communications ·Jennifer L. Guelfo, P. Lee Ferguson, Jonathan Beck, Melissa Chernick, Alonso Doria-Manzur, Patrick W. Faught, Thomas Flug, Evan P. Gray, Nishad Jayasundara, Detlef R.U. Knappe, Abigail S. Joyce, Pingping Meng, Marzieh Shojaei Hit paper breakdown →	2024	66
7	Matrix Matters: novel insights for the extraction, preparation, and quantitation of microplastics in a freshwater mesocosm study SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jeanne Hankett, Jennifer Holtz, I. Walker, Kathryn Shaffer, Jerome S. Jourdan, Derek C. Batiste, Jessie M. Garcia, C.M. Kaczan, Wendel Wohlleben, P. Lee Ferguson	2023	5
8	Novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in an active-use C6-based aqueous film forming foam SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Marzieh Shojaei, Abigail S. Joyce, P. Lee Ferguson, Jennifer L. Guelfo	2022	20
9	Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in river discharge: Modeling loads upstream and downstream of a PFAS manufacturing plant in the Cape Fear watershed, North Carolina The Science of The Total Environment ·Marie-Amélie Pétré, Kateri R. Salk, Heather M. Stapleton, P. Lee Ferguson, G. H. Tait, Daniel R. Obenour, Detlef R.U. Knappe, David P. Genereux	2022	60
10	Influence of CNT loading and environmental stressors on leaching of polymer-associated chemicals from epoxy and polycarbonate nanocomposites Environmental Chemistry ·I. Walker, Manuel D. Montaño, Ronald S. Lankone, D. Howard Fairbrother, P. Lee Ferguson	2021	4
11	Chronic microfiber exposure in adult Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) PLoS ONE ·Lingling Hu, Melissa Chernick, Anna M. Lewis, P. Lee Ferguson, David E. Hinton	2020	89
12	In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing The ISME Journal ·Morgan V. Evans, Gordon J. Getzinger, Jenna L. Luek, Andrea Hanson, Molly McLaughlin, Jens Blotevogel, Susan A. Welch, Carrie Nicora, Samuel Purvine, Chengdong Xu, David R. Cole, Thomas H. Darrah, David Hoyt, Thomas Metz, P. Lee Ferguson, Mary Lipton, Michael J. Wilkins, Paula Mouser	2019	19
13	Comparative Persistence of Engineered Nanoparticles in a Complex Aquatic Ecosystem Environmental Science & Technology ·Benjamin Espinasse, Nicholas K. Geitner, Ariette Schierz, Mathieu Thérézien, Curtis J. Richardson, Gregory V. Lowry, P. Lee Ferguson, Mark R. Wiesner	2018	55
14	Size-Based Differential Transport, Uptake, and Mass Distribution of Ceria (CeO₂) Nanoparticles in Wetland Mesocosms Environmental Science & Technology ·Nicholas K. Geitner, Jane L. Cooper, Astrid Avellan, Benjamin T. Castellon, Brittany G. Perrotta, Nathan Bossa, Marie Simonin, Steven M. Anderson, Sayako Inoué, Michael F. Hochella, Curtis J. Richardson, Emily S. Bernhardt, Gregory V. Lowry, P. Lee Ferguson, Cole W. Matson, Ryan S. King, Jason M. Unrine, Mark R. Wiesner, Heileen Hsu‐Kim	2018	47
15	Nontarget Screening with High Resolution Mass Spectrometry in the Environment: Ready to Go? Environmental Science & Technology ·Juliane Hollender, Emma Schymanski, Heinz Singer, P. Lee Ferguson Hit paper breakdown →	2017	533
16	Chlorpyrifos degradation via photoreactive TiO2 nanoparticles: Assessing the impact of a multi-component degradation scenario Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Jeffrey M. Farner, Ellen M. Cooper, Courtney M. Gardner, Emina Hodzic, P. Lee Ferguson, Claudia K. Gunsch, Mark R. Wiesner	2017	66
17	Single-walled carbon nanotubes increase pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus infectivity of lung epithelial cells Particle and Fibre Toxicology ·Pallab Sanpui, Xiao Zheng, Julia C. Loeb, Joseph H. Bisesi, Iftheker A. Khan, A. R. M. Nabiul Afrooz, Keira Liu, Appala Raju Badireddy, Mark R. Wiesner, P. Lee Ferguson, Navid B. Saleh, John A. Lednicky, Tara Sabo‐Attwood	2014	33
18	Characterizing the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor (PPAR γ ) Ligand Binding Potential of Several Major Flame Retardants, Their Metabolites, and Chemical Mixtures in House Dust Environmental Health Perspectives ·Mingliang Fang, Thomas F. Webster, P. Lee Ferguson, Heather M. Stapleton	2014	112
19	Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transport in Representative Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Conditions Environmental Science & Technology ·Iftheker A. Khan, Nicole D. Berge, Tara Sabo‐Attwood, P. Lee Ferguson, Navid B. Saleh	2013	20
20	Proteomic Analysis of Arginine Adducts on Glyoxal-modified Ribonuclease Molecular & Cellular Proteomics ·William E. Cotham, Thomas Metz, P. Lee Ferguson, Jonathan W. C. Brock, Davinia J. S. Hinton, Suzanne R. Thorpe, John Baynes, Jennifer M. Ames	2004	48

About P. Lee Ferguson

P. Lee Ferguson is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Aging and Analytical Chemistry, having authored 106 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (32 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (19 papers), Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (17 papers), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (15 papers), Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (11 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers) and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (3.5k citations), Pollution (2.1k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.6k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (428 citations) and Analytical Chemistry (432 citations). P. Lee Ferguson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Bruce J. Brownawell, Heather M. Stapleton, Charles R. Iden, Gordon J. Getzinger, Juliane Hollender, Heinz Singer, Thomas F. Webster, Emma Schymanski, Christopher P. Higgins and Arlene Blum. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Marine Environmental Research and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

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