Ralph G. Smith

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Ralph G. Smith is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph G. Smith has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 22 papers in Pollution and 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ralph G. Smith's work include Heavy metals in environment (22 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (14 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (12 papers). Ralph G. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (22 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (14 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (12 papers). Ralph G. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. Ralph G. Smith's co-authors include Herbert L. Windom, Fred D. Calder, Steven J. Schropp, Louis C. Burney, F. Graham Lewis, Luís Felipe Hax Niencheski, Arthur J. Vorwald, James T. Byrd, John M. Macauley and Clark Alexander and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ralph G. Smith

74 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Natural trace metal concentrations in estuarine and coastal marine sediments of the southeastern United States

1989 452 citations Herbert L. Windom, Ralph G. Smith et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralph G. Smith United States	29	1.2k	1.2k	471	372	257	78	2.7k
John G. Farmer United Kingdom	42	1.7k 1.4×	2.5k 2.1×	628 1.3×	543 1.5×	572 2.2×	126	4.8k
Paolo Cescon Italy	39	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	244 0.5×	122 0.3×	256 1.0×	131	3.8k
Gürdal Tuncel Türkiye	31	1.7k 1.4×	862 0.7×	219 0.5×	269 0.7×	205 0.8×	101	2.9k
L. Alleman France	32	1.8k 1.4×	766 0.6×	517 1.1×	67 0.2×	92 0.4×	64	3.1k
Tsaihwa J. Chow United States	19	639 0.5×	996 0.8×	389 0.8×	134 0.4×	237 0.9×	34	2.2k
Christopher Oze United States	26	847 0.7×	645 0.5×	525 1.1×	314 0.8×	201 0.8×	54	2.7k
İ. Ölmez United States	24	1.1k 0.9×	551 0.5×	401 0.9×	119 0.3×	147 0.6×	60	2.3k
Zhiyuan Cong China	47	3.1k 2.5×	810 0.7×	283 0.6×	148 0.4×	126 0.5×	122	6.4k
John D. Mahony United States	19	1.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	322 0.7×	474 1.3×	226 0.9×	28	2.6k
David L. Naftz United States	22	639 0.5×	452 0.4×	363 0.8×	241 0.6×	123 0.5×	78	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ralph G. Smith

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Ralph G. Smith's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Ralph G. Smith with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Ralph G. Smith more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Ralph G. Smith

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ralph G. Smith. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ralph G. Smith. The network helps show where Ralph G. Smith may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph G. Smith

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Smith, Ralph G., et al.. (2018). ADVANCED PRACTICE PROVIDERS UTILIZE A PRE-CATHETERIZATION SCREENING TOOL TO DECREASE CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71(11). A2120–A2120. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph G., et al.. (2009). Determination of the Country of Origin of Farm-Raised Shrimp (Family Penaeide) Using Trace Metal Profiling and Multivariate Statistics. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 57(18). 8244–8249. 24 indexed citations

Litzenberg, D, F. D. Becchetti, J. Brown, et al.. (2003). On-line monitoring and PET imaging of proton radiotherapy beams. IEEE Conference on Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging. 954–956. 12 indexed citations

Smith, Ralph G., et al.. (2001). “Total” and Respirable Dust Exposures in the U.S. Carbon Black Manufacturing Industry. PubMed. 62(1). 57–64. 8 indexed citations

Niencheski, Luís Felipe Hax, et al.. (2001). Mercury in Fish from Patos and Mirim Lagoons, Southern Brazil. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 42(12). 1403–1406. 20 indexed citations

Alexander, Clark, et al.. (1999). Pollution history of the savannah river estuary and comparisons with Baltic Sea pollution history. Limnologica. 29(3). 267–273. 19 indexed citations

Kannan, Kurunthachalam, Ralph G. Smith, R. F. Lee, et al.. (1998). Distribution of Total Mercury and Methyl Mercury in Water, Sediment, and Fish from South Florida Estuaries. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 34(2). 109–118. 253 indexed citations

Wegman, David H., Ellen A. Eisen, Xing Ping Hu, et al.. (1994). Acute and chronic respiratory effects of sodium borate particulate exposures.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 102(suppl 7). 119–128. 39 indexed citations

Anderson, Richard A., Theodore Colton, John Doull, et al.. (1993). Designing a biological monitoring program to assess community exposure to chromium: Conclusions of an expert panel. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 40(4). 555–583. 19 indexed citations

10.

Turpin, D. H., et al.. (1990). Regulation of Carbon Partitioning to Respiration during Dark Ammonium Assimilation by the Green Alga Selenastrum minutum. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 93(1). 166–175. 56 indexed citations

11.

Windom, Herbert L., et al.. (1989). Particulate trace metal composition and flux across the southeastern U.S. continental shelf. Marine Chemistry. 27(3-4). 283–297. 46 indexed citations

12.

Windom, Herbert L., David L. Stein, R. W. Sheldon, & Ralph G. Smith. (1987). Comparison of trace metal concentrations in muscle tissue of a benthopelagic fish (Coryphaenoides armatus) from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 34(2). 213–220. 34 indexed citations

13.

Bewers, J.M., P. A. Yeats, Stig Westerlund, et al.. (1985). An intercomparison of seawater filtration procedures. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 16(7). 277–281. 11 indexed citations

14.

Smith, Ralph G.. (1985). Occupational Health Standard Setting in the United States. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. 46(10). 541–546. 2 indexed citations

15.

Smith, Ralph G.. (1984). Rice husk ash cement : progress in development and application : a report on site visits to India, Nepal and Pakistan. 1 indexed citations

16.

Falck, Francis Y., Lawrence J. Fine, Ralph G. Smith, et al.. (1983). Occupational cadmium exposure and renal status. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 4(4). 541–549. 25 indexed citations

17.

Smith, Ralph G., et al.. (1977). A simple and rapid hydride generation—atomic absorption method for the determination of arsenic in biological, environmental and geological samples. Analytica Chimica Acta. 93(1). 61–67. 18 indexed citations

18.

Reeves, Andrew L., et al.. (1974). Inhalation carcinogenesis from various forms of asbestos. Environmental Research. 8(2). 178–202. 41 indexed citations

19.

Smith, Ralph G., J. D. MacEwen, & R. E. Barrow. (1959). The Occurrence of Phenols in Air and Combustion Products. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. 20(2). 149–152. 7 indexed citations

20.

Smith, Ralph G., J. D. MacEwen, & R. E. Barrow. (1959). Sampling and Analysis of Phenols in Air. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal. 20(2). 142–148. 4 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact