Tom Harner

24.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
239 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

Tom Harner is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Harner has authored 239 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 219 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 101 papers in Atmospheric Science and 42 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Tom Harner's work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (185 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (120 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (101 papers). Tom Harner is often cited by papers focused on Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (185 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (120 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (101 papers). Tom Harner collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Tom Harner's co-authors include Mahiba Shoeib, Terry F. Bidleman, Kevin C. Jones, Karla Pozo, Sum Chi Lee, Liisa M. Jantunen, Frank Wania, Bryony H. Wilford, Miriam L. Diamond and Don Mackay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Tom Harner

236 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

Characterization and Comparison of Three Passive Air Samp... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2005 2005 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Characterization and Comparison of Three Passive Air Samplers for Persistent Organic Pollutants
    2002 567 citations Tom Harner et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  2. Is House Dust the Missing Exposure Pathway for PBDEs? An Analysis of the Urban Fate and Human Exposure to PBDEs
    2005 554 citations Miriam L. Diamond, Tom Harner et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  3. Recent climate change in the Arctic and its impact on contaminant pathways and interpretation of temporal trend data
    2005 545 citations Robie W. Macdonald, Tom Harner et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Harner Canada 78 16.5k 6.7k 4.1k 3.7k 1.3k 239 19.4k
Frank Wania Canada 76 15.7k 0.9× 6.1k 0.9× 4.9k 1.2× 3.4k 0.9× 1.9k 1.5× 344 19.5k
Jiamo Fu China 80 14.2k 0.9× 5.8k 0.9× 6.0k 1.5× 1.2k 0.3× 1.6k 1.2× 406 21.5k
Terry F. Bidleman Canada 71 12.1k 0.7× 4.7k 0.7× 3.7k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 1.8k 1.4× 234 14.9k
Ronald A. Hites United States 87 19.5k 1.2× 5.2k 0.8× 7.0k 1.7× 2.2k 0.6× 1.6k 1.2× 354 26.0k
Guoying Sheng China 76 10.1k 0.6× 3.6k 0.5× 4.4k 1.1× 1.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 330 17.0k
Andrew J. Sweetman United Kingdom 56 9.7k 0.6× 3.2k 0.5× 3.8k 0.9× 3.0k 0.8× 777 0.6× 173 13.0k
Hélène Budzinski France 72 13.4k 0.8× 2.5k 0.4× 8.4k 2.0× 2.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 431 20.6k
Rainer Lohmann United States 61 10.8k 0.7× 4.3k 0.6× 3.7k 0.9× 5.6k 1.5× 709 0.5× 205 14.2k
Steven J. Eisenreich United States 62 8.3k 0.5× 3.1k 0.5× 3.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 964 0.7× 165 12.2k
Michael S. McLachlan Sweden 61 8.2k 0.5× 2.3k 0.3× 2.9k 0.7× 2.1k 0.6× 482 0.4× 212 10.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Harner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Harner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johannessen, Cassandra, Amandeep Saini, Xianming Zhang, & Tom Harner. (2025). Tire-Derived Organic Chemicals in Urban Air at the Source-Sector Scale and Guidance on the Application of Polyurethane Foam Disk Passive Air Samplers. ACS ES&T Air. 2(5). 917–929. 3 indexed citations
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Parnis, J. Mark, et al.. (2024). Oil sands process-affected water composition effect on Henry's law constants for polycyclic aromatic compounds: Theory and experiment. Chemosphere. 364. 143090–143090. 1 indexed citations
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Harner, Tom, Amandeep Saini, Pourya Shahpoury, et al.. (2024). Cross-cutting research and future directions under the GAPS networks. Environmental Science Advances. 3(6). 798–807.
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Shahpoury, Pourya, Steven Lelieveld, Cassandra Johannessen, et al.. (2023). Influence of aerosol acidity and organic ligands on transition metal solubility and oxidative potential of fine particulate matter in urban environments. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167405–167405. 19 indexed citations
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Vlahos, Penny, et al.. (2023). A Hitchhiker's guide to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) monitoring in air: Establishing a baseline network in Sri Lanka. Atmospheric Pollution Research. 14(12). 101901–101901. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhanyun, Sam Adu-Kumi, Miriam L. Diamond, et al.. (2022). Enhancing Scientific Support for the Stockholm Convention’s Implementation: An Analysis of Policy Needs for Scientific Evidence. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(5). 2936–2949. 50 indexed citations
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Melymuk, Lisa, Pernilla Bohlin‐Nizzetto, Tom Harner, et al.. (2021). Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements. Environmental Science & Policy. 125. 1–9. 23 indexed citations
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Halappanavar, Sabina, Dongmei Wu, Andrew Williams, et al.. (2021). Toxicity screening of air extracts representing different source sectors in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas: In vitro oxidative stress, pro-inflammatory response, and toxicogenomic analysis. Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. 872. 503415–503415. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Qifan, Li Li, Xianming Zhang, et al.. (2021). Uncovering global-scale risks from commercial chemicals in air. Nature. 600(7889). 456–461. 141 indexed citations
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Shahpoury, Pourya, Tom Harner, Gerhard Lammel, et al.. (2019). Development of an antioxidant assay to study oxidative potential of airborne particulate matter. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(12). 6529–6539. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Qifan, John Liggio, Dongmei Wu, et al.. (2019). Experimental Study of OH-Initiated Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organophosphate Flame Retardants: Kinetics, Mechanism, and Toxicity. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(24). 14398–14408. 33 indexed citations
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Liu, Qifan, Pourya Shahpoury, John Liggio, et al.. (2019). Understanding the Key Role of Atmospheric Processing in Determining the Oxidative Potential of Airborne Engineered Nanoparticles. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 7(1). 7–13. 16 indexed citations
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Jariyasopit, Narumol, Yifeng Zhang, Jonathan W. Martin, & Tom Harner. (2018). Comparison of polycyclic aromatic compounds in air measured by conventional passive air samplers and passive dry deposition samplers and contributions from petcoke and oil sands ore. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(12). 9161–9171. 31 indexed citations
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Harner, Tom. (2014). Organochlorine contamination of the Canadian Arctic, and speculation on future trends. International Journal of Environment and Pollution. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yongchun, Lin Huang, Shao‐Meng Li, Tom Harner, & John Liggio. (2014). OH-initiated heterogeneous oxidation of tris-2-butoxyethyl phosphate: implications for its fate in the atmosphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(22). 12195–12207. 25 indexed citations
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Grannas, Amanda M., Christian Bogdal, Kimberly J. Hageman, et al.. (2013). The role of the global cryosphere in the fate of organic contaminants. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(6). 3271–3305. 122 indexed citations
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Choi, Sung‐Deuk, Ralf M. Staebler, Yaling Su, et al.. (2008). Depletion of gaseous polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by a forest canopy. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 8(14). 4105–4113. 33 indexed citations
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Klánová, Jana, Pavel Čupr, Jiří Kohoutek, & Tom Harner. (2008). Assessing meteorological parameters on the performance of PUF disks passive air samplers for POPs.. Environmental Science & Technology. 42(2). 4 indexed citations
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Alaee, Mehran, Derek C. G. Muir, Paul A. Helm, et al.. (2003). New persistent chemicals in the Arctic abiotic environment. Organohalogen compounds. 61. 295–298. 5 indexed citations

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