William R. Roy

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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William R. Roy is a scholar working on Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Roy has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Pollution, 13 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 13 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in William R. Roy's work include Coal and Its By-products (9 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (8 papers) and Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (8 papers). William R. Roy is often cited by papers focused on Coal and Its By-products (9 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (8 papers) and Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (8 papers). William R. Roy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Brazil. William R. Roy's co-authors include Ivan G. Krapac, R. A. Griffin, J. J. Hassett, Robert A. Griffin, John D. Steele, C. A. Smyth, Jaime Wilson Vargas de Mello, Joseph W. Stucki, Jonathan L. Talbott and Justin Glessner and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

William R. Roy

51 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Environmental Chemistry of Soils

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Author						Papers	Cites
William R. Roy	1.2k	695	561	477	374	54	2.9k
L. J. Evans	1.0k 0.8×	519 0.7×	478 0.9×	492 1.0×	652 1.7×	67	2.8k
María Luisa Andrade Couce	2.0k 1.6×	548 0.8×	592 1.1×	503 1.1×	347 0.9×	83	3.1k
Daniel G. Strawn	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	495 0.9×	476 1.0×	508 1.4×	73	3.0k
Michael E. Essington	818 0.7×	595 0.9×	362 0.6×	368 0.8×	303 0.8×	95	2.5k
C. Amrhein	829 0.7×	839 1.2×	550 1.0×	606 1.3×	403 1.1×	80	4.0k
F.A. Vega	2.4k 1.9×	706 1.0×	573 1.0×	565 1.2×	402 1.1×	90	3.6k
Gerhard W. Brümmer	1.1k 0.9×	558 0.8×	249 0.4×	268 0.6×	373 1.0×	65	2.6k
Maurício Paulo Ferreira Fontes	1.2k 1.0×	431 0.6×	343 0.6×	514 1.1×	793 2.1×	124	3.5k
L. J. Lund	1.2k 1.0×	661 1.0×	539 1.0×	279 0.6×	324 0.9×	53	2.6k
Philippe Cambier	950 0.8×	487 0.7×	293 0.5×	296 0.6×	327 0.9×	48	2.1k

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Wainwright, Haruko, Brian A. Powell, Ali Ayoub, et al.. (2023). Nuclear waste Educator's workshop: What and how do we teach about nuclear waste?. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 270. 107288–107288. 4 indexed citations

Roy, William R., et al.. (2018). Coal Fly Ash: A Review of the Literature and Proposed Classification System With Emphasis on Environmental Impacts. 16 indexed citations

Roy, William R., et al.. (2018). Geochemical Interactions of Hazardous Wastes With Geological Formations in Deep-Well Systems. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Roy, William R., et al.. (2012). The use of wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence and discriminant analysis in the identification of the elemental composition of cumin samples and the determination of the country of origin. Food Chemistry. 135(4). 2825–2831. 21 indexed citations

Roy, William R., et al.. (2008). The potential applications of using compost chars for removing the hydrophobic herbicide atrazine from solution. Bioresource Technology. 99(13). 5673–5678. 18 indexed citations

Krapac, Ivan G., et al.. (2006). The feasibility of applying immature yard-waste compost to remove nitrate from agricultural drainage effluents: A preliminary assessment. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 144(1-2). 585–589. 14 indexed citations

Roy, William R., et al.. (2006). Effect of compost age and composition on the atrazine removal from solution. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 139(1). 79–85. 15 indexed citations

Mello, Jaime Wilson Vargas de, Jonathan L. Talbott, John W. Scott, William R. Roy, & Joseph W. Stucki. (2006). Arsenic speciation in arsenic-rich Brazilian soils from gold mining sites under anaerobic incubation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 14(6). 388–396. 20 indexed citations

Krapac, Ivan G., et al.. (2002). Impacts of swine manure pits on groundwater quality. Environmental Pollution. 120(2). 475–492. 121 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., et al.. (2001). PESTICIDE STORAGE AND RELEASE IN UNSATURATED SOIL IN ILLINOIS, USA^*. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part B. 36(3). 245–260. 10 indexed citations

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Krapac, Ivan G., et al.. (2000). Groundwater quality near livestock manure pits.. 710–718. 7 indexed citations

12.

Krapac, Ivan G., et al.. (1995). Occurrence and distribution of pesticides in soil at agrichemical facilities in Illinois. Journal of Soil Contamination. 4(3). 209–226. 12 indexed citations

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Roy, William R. & Ivan G. Krapac. (1994). Adsorption and Desorption of Atrazine and Deethylatrazine by Low Organic Carbon Geologic Materials. Journal of Environmental Quality. 23(3). 549–556. 64 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., Ivan G. Krapac, & John D. Steele. (1993). Sorption of Cadmium and Lead by Clays from Municipal Incinerator Ash—Water Suspensions. Journal of Environmental Quality. 22(3). 537–543. 6 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., John D. Steele, D. M. Moore, et al.. (1991). Geochemical Transformations and Modeling of Two Deep‐Well Injected Hazardous Wastes. Ground Water. 29(5). 671–677. 5 indexed citations

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Roy, William R.. (1990). In Situ Immobilization of Heavy‐Metal‐Contaminated Soils. Journal of Environmental Quality. 19(3). 632–632. 12 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., et al.. (1989). Limitations and feasibility of the land disposal of organic solvent-contaminated wastes. Environmental Geology. 13(3). 225–231. 1 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., J. J. Hassett, & R. A. Griffin. (1989). Quasi‐thermodynamic basis of competitive‐adsorption coefficients for anionic mixtures in soils. Journal of Soil Science. 40(1). 9–15. 13 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., J. J. Hassett, & R. A. Griffin. (1986). Competitive Coefficients for the Adsorption of Arsenate, Molybdate, and Phosphate Mixtures by Soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 50(5). 1176–1182. 60 indexed citations

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Roy, William R., et al.. (1984). Illinois Basin coal fly ashes. 1. Chemical characterization and solubility. Environmental Science & Technology. 18(10). 734–739. 32 indexed citations

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