Rebecca Sutton

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Sutton is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Sutton has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Pollution, 18 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 9 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Sutton's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (17 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (16 papers) and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (8 papers). Rebecca Sutton is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (17 papers), Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (16 papers) and Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research (8 papers). Rebecca Sutton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Rebecca Sutton's co-authors include Sherri A. Mason, Margaret D. Sedlak, Danielle Garneau, Darrin L. Rogers, Carolynn Box, June-Soo Park, Erika Houtz, Chelsea M. Rochman, Ian Wren and Ellen Willis‐Norton and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Sutton

32 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microplastic pollution is widely detected in US municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent

2016 872 citations Sherri A. Mason, Danielle Garneau et al. Environmental Pollution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Sutton United States	17	2.0k	1.4k	758	400	315	34	2.7k
Lian‐Jun Bao China	35	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 2.4×	235 0.6×	396 1.3×	98	3.8k
Cassandra Rauert Australia	36	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	474 1.2×	301 1.0×	65	3.3k
Mahua Saha India	28	2.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	165 0.4×	509 1.6×	45	3.5k
Todd Gouin United Kingdom	38	2.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	2.4k 3.2×	403 1.0×	334 1.1×	71	4.3k
Lihui An China	31	2.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	817 1.1×	122 0.3×	451 1.4×	103	3.3k
Georg Hanke Italy	30	2.0k 1.0×	803 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	501 1.3×	117 0.4×	49	3.1k
Jianqiang Sun China	23	1.3k 0.7×	689 0.5×	854 1.1×	170 0.4×	308 1.0×	79	2.6k
Mark J. La Guardia United States	32	2.6k 1.3×	785 0.5×	4.1k 5.4×	474 1.2×	265 0.8×	56	5.6k
Jane Muncke Switzerland	24	1.5k 0.7×	934 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	184 0.5×	414 1.3×	40	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Rebecca Sutton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rebecca Sutton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Sutton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rebecca Sutton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rebecca Sutton 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 Rebecca Sutton. Rebecca Sutton 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

Davis, Jay A, et al.. (2025). Spatial Trends and Health Risks of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in San Francisco Bay Fish from 2009 to 2019. ACS ES&T Water. 5(6). 2903–2913.

Peter, Katherine T., Alicia N. Gilbreath, Melissa Gonzalez, et al.. (2024). Storms mobilize organophosphate esters, bisphenols, PFASs, and vehicle-derived contaminants to San Francisco Bay watersheds. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 26(10). 1760–1779. 9 indexed citations

Bălan, Simona, David Q. Andrews, Arlene Blum, et al.. (2023). Optimizing Chemicals Management in the United States and Canada through the Essential-Use Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(4). 1568–1575. 20 indexed citations

Gilbreath, Alicia N., Keenan Munno, Xia Zhu, et al.. (2021). Urban Stormwater Runoff: A Major Pathway for Anthropogenic Particles, Black Rubbery Fragments, and Other Types of Microplastics to Urban Receiving Waters. ACS ES&T Water. 1(6). 1420–1428. 227 indexed citations

Chang, Daniel P. Y., Ezra Miller, Nathan G. Dodder, et al.. (2021). Framework for nontargeted investigation of contaminants released by wildfires into stormwater runoff: Case study in the northern San Francisco Bay area. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 17(6). 1179–1193. 16 indexed citations

Chen, Da, et al.. (2021). Occurrence and risk assessment of organophosphate esters and bisphenols in San Francisco Bay, California, USA. The Science of The Total Environment. 813. 152287–152287. 24 indexed citations

Zhu, Xia, Keenan Munno, Jacqueline Bikker, et al.. (2021). Holistic Assessment of Microplastics and Other Anthropogenic Microdebris in an Urban Bay Sheds Light on Their Sources and Fate. ACS ES&T Water. 1(6). 1401–1410. 49 indexed citations

Rochman, Chelsea M., et al.. (2020). Think Global, Act Local: Local Knowledge Is Critical to Inform Positive Change When It Comes to Microplastics. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(1). 4–6. 15 indexed citations

Sánchez-Soberón, Francisco, Rebecca Sutton, Margaret D. Sedlak, et al.. (2020). Multi-box mass balance model of PFOA and PFOS in different regions of San Francisco Bay. Chemosphere. 252. 126454–126454. 10 indexed citations

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Miller, Ezra, Meg Sedlak, Diana Lin, et al.. (2020). Recommended best practices for collecting, analyzing, and reporting microplastics in environmental media: Lessons learned from comprehensive monitoring of San Francisco Bay. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 409. 124770–124770. 133 indexed citations

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Klasios, Natasha, et al.. (2020). Methods Matter: Methods for Sampling Microplastic and Other Anthropogenic Particles and Their Implications for Monitoring and Ecological Risk Assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 17(1). 282–291. 66 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rebecca, Da Chen, Jennifer Sun, Denise J. Greig, & Yan Wu. (2018). Characterization of brominated, chlorinated, and phosphate flame retardants in San Francisco Bay, an urban estuary. The Science of The Total Environment. 652. 212–223. 117 indexed citations

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Sedlak, Meg, et al.. (2018). Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in San Francisco Bay: Synthesis and Strategy. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Yan, Hongli Tan, Rebecca Sutton, & Da Chen. (2017). From Sediment to Top Predators: Broad Exposure of Polyhalogenated Carbazoles in San Francisco Bay (U.S.A.). Environmental Science & Technology. 51(4). 2038–2046. 98 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rebecca & Meg Sedlak. (2017). Microplastic Monitoring and Science Strategy for San Francisco Bay. 2 indexed citations

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Sedlak, Meg, Rebecca Sutton, Carolynn Box, Jennifer Sun, & Diana Lin. (2017). Sampling and Analysis Plan for Microplastic Monitoring in San Francisco Bay and Adjacent National Marine Sanctuaries. 6 indexed citations

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Sutton, Rebecca, et al.. (2016). Microplastic contamination in the San Francisco Bay, California, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 109(1). 230–235. 345 indexed citations

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Houtz, Erika, Rebecca Sutton, June-Soo Park, & Margaret D. Sedlak. (2016). Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in wastewater: Significance of unknown precursors, manufacturing shifts, and likely AFFF impacts. Water Research. 95. 142–149. 305 indexed citations

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Mason, Sherri A., et al.. (2016). Microplastic pollution is widely detected in US municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent. Environmental Pollution. 218. 1045–1054. 872 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sutton, Rebecca, et al.. (2008). Sources of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in urban wastewater, Oakland, CA. The Science of The Total Environment. 405(1-3). 153–160. 107 indexed citations

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