Phil Purnell

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Phil Purnell is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Building and Construction and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Purnell has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 27 papers in Building and Construction and 17 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Phil Purnell's work include Concrete and Cement Materials Research (21 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (15 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 papers). Phil Purnell is often cited by papers focused on Concrete and Cement Materials Research (21 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (15 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 papers). Phil Purnell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany. Phil Purnell's co-authors include Eleni Iacovidou, John Ν. Hahladakis, Costas A. Velis, Roland Weber, Anne P.M. Velenturf, Joel Millward-Hopkins, N. R. Short, Leon Black, Jonathan Busch and Oliver Zwirner and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Phil Purnell

87 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling

2017 2.7k citations John Ν. Hahladakis, Costas A. Velis et al. profile →
Principles for a sustainable circular economy

2021 684 citations Anne P.M. Velenturf, Phil Purnell Sustainable Production and Consumption profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Phil Purnell United Kingdom	35	2.5k	2.4k	1.4k	1.1k	1.1k	88	7.0k
Thomas Fruergaard Astrup Denmark	60	2.4k 1.0×	5.0k 2.1×	1.0k 0.7×	2.7k 2.4×	650 0.6×	199	10.2k
Pow‐Seng Yap China	52	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	332 0.2×	834 0.7×	382 0.3×	100	9.3k
Brajesh Dubey India	46	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	344 0.3×	1.0k 0.9×	421 0.4×	197	7.9k
Vincenzo Torretta Italy	37	1.4k 0.5×	3.0k 1.2×	577 0.4×	991 0.9×	316 0.3×	229	6.4k
Eleni Iacovidou United Kingdom	30	3.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	641 0.6×	131 0.1×	58	5.7k
Costas A. Velis United Kingdom	29	2.8k 1.1×	4.1k 1.7×	812 0.6×	716 0.6×	119 0.1×	56	6.6k
Ernst Worrell Netherlands	69	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	2.9k 2.6×	1.2k 1.1×	296	16.1k
Gregory A. Keoleian United States	59	800 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	828 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	971 0.9×	193	11.6k
Perinaz Bhada‐Tata Canada	7	1.1k 0.4×	3.7k 1.6×	513 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	316 0.3×	8	6.2k
John Ν. Hahladakis Qatar	31	3.3k 1.3×	3.2k 1.3×	831 0.6×	336 0.3×	115 0.1×	48	6.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Purnell

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Sarfraz, Shoaib, Michał Drewniok, Anusha S. Basavaraj, et al.. (2025). Assessing minimum energy requirements and emissions for different raw material compositions in clinker production. Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability. 5(3). 35005–35005.

Hafez, Hisham, et al.. (2025). Thousand cuts: a realistic route to decarbonise the UK cement and concrete sector by 2050. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 58. 319–333. 2 indexed citations

Lanot, Alexandra, Shivam Tiwari, Phil Purnell, et al.. (2024). Demonstrating a biobased concept for the production of sustainable bacterial cellulose from mixed textile, agricultural and municipal wastes. Journal of Cleaner Production. 486. 144418–144418. 6 indexed citations

Hafez, Hisham, Michał Drewniok, Anne P.M. Velenturf, & Phil Purnell. (2024). A Resource-Bound Critical Analysis of the Decarbonisation Roadmaps for the UK Foundation Industries by 2050. Environments. 11(7). 153–153. 4 indexed citations

Hafez, Hisham, et al.. (2024). Parametric study on the decarbonization potential of structural system and concrete mix design choices for mid-rise concrete buildings. Materials and Structures. 57(4). 8 indexed citations

Millward-Hopkins, Joel, Phil Purnell, & Sharon Baurley. (2023). A material flow analysis of the UK clothing economy. Journal of Cleaner Production. 407. 137158–137158. 20 indexed citations

Millward-Hopkins, Joel, Phil Purnell, & Sharon Baurley. (2023). Scenarios for reducing the environmental impacts of the UK clothing economy. Journal of Cleaner Production. 420. 138352–138352. 15 indexed citations

Velenturf, Anne P.M. & Phil Purnell. (2021). Principles for a sustainable circular economy. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 27. 1437–1457. 684 indexed citations breakdown →

Velenturf, Anne P.M., Phil Purnell, & Paul D. Jensen. (2021). Reducing material criticality through circular business models: Challenges in renewable energy. One Earth. 4(3). 350–352. 17 indexed citations

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Jensen, Paul D., Phil Purnell, & Anne P.M. Velenturf. (2020). Highlighting the need to embed circular economy in low carbon infrastructure decommissioning: The case of offshore wind. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 24. 266–280. 55 indexed citations

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Iacovidou, Eleni, John Ν. Hahladakis, & Phil Purnell. (2020). A systems thinking approach to understanding the challenges of achieving the circular economy. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(19). 24785–24806. 163 indexed citations

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Velenturf, Anne P.M., Sophie Archer, Helena I. Gomes, et al.. (2019). Circular economy and the matter of integrated resources. The Science of The Total Environment. 689. 963–969. 160 indexed citations

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Millward-Hopkins, Joel, Oliver Zwirner, Phil Purnell, et al.. (2018). Resource recovery and low carbon transitions: The hidden impacts of substituting cement with imported ‘waste’ materials from coal and steel production. Global Environmental Change. 53. 146–156. 30 indexed citations

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Hahladakis, John Ν., et al.. (2018). Post-consumer plastic packaging waste in England: Assessing the yield of multiple collection-recycling schemes. Waste Management. 75. 149–159. 94 indexed citations

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Iacovidou, Eleni, et al.. (2017). Technical properties of biomass and solid recovered fuel (SRF) co-fired with coal: Impact on multi-dimensional resource recovery value. Waste Management. 73. 535–545. 90 indexed citations

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Millward-Hopkins, Joel, Jonathan Busch, Phil Purnell, et al.. (2017). Fully integrated modelling for sustainability assessment of resource recovery from waste. The Science of The Total Environment. 612. 613–624. 63 indexed citations

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Iacovidou, Eleni & Phil Purnell. (2016). Mining the physical infrastructure: Opportunities, barriers and interventions in promoting structural components reuse. The Science of The Total Environment. 557-558. 791–807. 134 indexed citations

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Black, Leon & Phil Purnell. (2015). Is carbon dioxide pricing a driver in concrete mix design?. Magazine of Concrete Research. 68(11). 561–567. 21 indexed citations

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Tenchev, Rosen T. & Phil Purnell. (2006). Reply to comments to the paper “An application of a damage constitutive model to concrete at high temperature and prediction of spalling” by Rosen Tenchev and Phil Purnell [Int. J. Solids Struct. 42 (26) (2005) 6550–6565]. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 44(11-12). 4238–4241. 6 indexed citations

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Tenchev, Rosen T. & Phil Purnell. (2005). An application of a damage constitutive model to concrete at high temperature and prediction of spalling. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 42(26). 6550–6565. 93 indexed citations

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