Paul Kay

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Paul Kay is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Kay has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Pollution, 17 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 17 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Paul Kay's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (26 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (11 papers) and Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy (9 papers). Paul Kay is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (26 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (11 papers) and Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy (9 papers). Paul Kay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Paul Kay's co-authors include Alistair B.A. Boxall, Paul A. Blackwell, Lee E. Brown, Stephen R. Hughes, Johannes Tolls, Adam E. Croxford, Paul Blackwell, Emma Pemberton, Hifza Rasheed and Rebecca Slack and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Paul Kay

100 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Global Synthesis and Critical Evaluation of Pharmaceutical Data Sets Collected from River Systems

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Kay United Kingdom	38	3.3k	813	742	609	606	105	5.6k
Amjad Ali Pakistan	49	2.3k 0.7×	621 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	440 0.7×	361 0.6×	267	8.8k
Andreas Schäffer Germany	45	4.0k 1.2×	3.1k 3.8×	568 0.8×	718 1.2×	770 1.3×	241	8.9k
Xiaohui Liu China	43	2.6k 0.8×	1.7k 2.1×	1.2k 1.6×	526 0.9×	577 1.0×	149	6.6k
Yang Yang China	40	2.0k 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	632 0.9×	782 1.3×	668 1.1×	219	5.2k
Marco Guida Italy	46	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	292 0.5×	296 0.5×	284	7.9k
Quan-Ying Cai China	57	4.5k 1.4×	3.4k 4.2×	587 0.8×	374 0.6×	903 1.5×	213	10.4k
Chang‐Ping Yu China	45	3.5k 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	1.1k 1.5×	888 1.5×	452 0.7×	161	6.7k
Shen Yu China	36	3.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	690 0.9×	991 1.6×	415 0.7×	135	5.4k
Zhen Li China	45	2.2k 0.7×	938 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	565 0.9×	422 0.7×	344	8.3k
Zhi Wang China	41	1.6k 0.5×	632 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.9×	752 1.2×	242	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Kay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Kay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Kay

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mayes, William M., Kevin J. Welham, Dean A. Moore, et al.. (2023). Mixtures of sediment chemical contaminants at freshwater sampling sites across Europe with different contaminant burdens. The Science of The Total Environment. 891. 164280–164280. 3 indexed citations

Kumar, Vajinder, Arnab Maity, Avneesh Kumar, et al.. (2023). Critical review on uranium and arsenic content and their chemical mobilization in groundwater: A case study of the Malwa region Punjab, India. The Science of The Total Environment. 885. 163885–163885. 20 indexed citations

Carter, Laura, et al.. (2023). Influence of manure application method on veterinary medicine losses to water. Journal of Environmental Management. 334. 117361–117361. 6 indexed citations

Kay, Paul, et al.. (2023). A rapid and portable fluorescence spectroscopy staining method for the detection of plastic microfibers in water. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168144–168144. 10 indexed citations

Mayes, William M., Kevin J. Welham, Dean A. Moore, et al.. (2023). Mixtures of Sediment Chemical Contaminants at Freshwater Sampling Sites Across Europe with Different Contaminant Burdens. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Carter, Laura, et al.. (2022). The effect of anaerobic pig slurry redox potentials on the degradation of veterinary medicines. Chemosphere. 296. 133872–133872. 1 indexed citations

Quincey, Duncan J., Paul Kay, John L. Wilkinson, Laura Carter, & Lee E. Brown. (2022). High concentrations of pharmaceuticals emerging as a threat to Himalayan water sustainability. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(11). 16749–16757. 14 indexed citations

Xu, Yuyao, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Thomas H. Stanton, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of dominant plastic microfibre prevalence and pollution control feasibility in Chinese freshwater environments. The Science of The Total Environment. 783. 146863–146863. 32 indexed citations

Kay, Paul, et al.. (2020). High Concentrations of Pharmaceuticals in a Nigerian River Catchment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 41(3). 551–558. 54 indexed citations

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Rasheed, Hifza, Paul Kay, Rebecca Slack, & Yun Yun Gong. (2018). Assessment of arsenic species in human hair, toenail and urine and their association with water and staple food. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 29(5). 624–632. 18 indexed citations

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Rasheed, Hifza, Paul Kay, Rebecca Slack, Yun Yun Gong, & Annie Carter. (2017). Human exposure assessment of different arsenic species in household water sources in a high risk arsenic area. The Science of The Total Environment. 584-585. 631–641. 55 indexed citations

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Blackwell, Paul A., Paul Kay, Roman Ashauer, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2009). Effects of agricultural conditions on the leaching behaviour of veterinary antibiotics in soils. Chemosphere. 75(1). 13–19. 115 indexed citations

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Blackwell, Paul A., Paul Kay, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2007). The dissipation and transport of veterinary antibiotics in a sandy loam soil. Chemosphere. 67(2). 292–299. 132 indexed citations

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Kay, Paul, Paul A. Blackwell, & Alistair B.A. Boxall. (2005). Column studies to investigate the fate of veterinary antibiotics in clay soils following slurry application to agricultural land. Chemosphere. 60(4). 497–507. 96 indexed citations

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Blackwell, Paul A., et al.. (2004). Fast and robust simultaneous determination of three veterinary antibiotics in groundwater and surface water using a tandem solid-phase extraction with high-performance liquid chromatography–UV detection. Journal of Chromatography A. 1045(1-2). 111–117. 59 indexed citations

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Kay, Paul, Antonio G. Nascimento, K. Krishnan Unni, & Diva R. Salomão. (2003). Chordoma. Acta Cytologica. 47(2). 202–208. 16 indexed citations

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Boxall, Alistair B.A., et al.. (2002). The sorption and transport of a sulphonamide antibiotic in soil systems. Toxicology Letters. 131(1-2). 19–28. 343 indexed citations

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Kay, Paul, Richard A. Robb, & David G. Bostwick. (1998). Prostate cancer microvessels: a novel method for three-dimensional reconstruction and analysis. The Prostate. 37(4). 270–277. 37 indexed citations

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Woodhouse, Connie A. & Paul Kay. (1990). THE USE OF TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES TO SHOW SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES IN AN AIR MASS BOUNDARY. Physical Geography. 11(2). 172–190. 16 indexed citations

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Kay, Paul. (1978). Dendroecology in Canada's Forest-Tundra Transition Zone. Arctic and Alpine Research. 10(1). 133–138. 2 indexed citations

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