William Shotyk

16.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
245 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

William Shotyk is a scholar working on Pollution, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Shotyk has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Pollution, 88 papers in Atmospheric Science and 73 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William Shotyk's work include Heavy metals in environment (141 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (83 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (62 papers). William Shotyk is often cited by papers focused on Heavy metals in environment (141 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (83 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (62 papers). William Shotyk collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and Switzerland. William Shotyk's co-authors include Michael Krachler, Andriy K. Cheburkin, P. G. Appleby, Jan D. Kramers, Claudio Zaccone, Philipp Steinmann, F. Roos-Barraclough, M. Gloor, Teodoro Miano and Dominik Weiß and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

William Shotyk

239 papers receiving 12.2k 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.

History of Atmospheric Lead Deposition Since 12,370 ¹⁴ C yr BP from a Peat Bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

1998 630 citations William Shotyk, P. G. Appleby et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
William Shotyk	5.9k	4.6k	3.4k	3.1k	1.9k	245	12.8k
Claude F. Boutron	3.9k 0.7×	3.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	3.2k 1.0×	619 0.3×	183	8.4k
E. Steinnes	5.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.3×	1.8k 0.5×	4.4k 1.4×	820 0.4×	405	13.1k
Cong‐Qiang Liu	2.7k 0.5×	4.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	6.2k 3.2×	623	17.3k
Wolfgang Wilcke	4.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.3×	1.7k 0.5×	4.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.5×	253	11.5k
Joel D. Blum	3.8k 0.6×	4.4k 0.9×	6.1k 1.8×	10.0k 3.3×	3.3k 1.7×	249	19.9k
Wolfgang Zech	3.1k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	266	17.5k
Józef M. Pacyna	5.6k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	9.3k 3.0×	994 0.5×	125	14.1k
P. G. Appleby	3.1k 0.5×	7.0k 1.5×	4.7k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	215	13.8k
Markus Kleber	3.0k 0.5×	2.4k 0.5×	6.9k 2.0×	1.3k 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	122	24.5k
Bruno Glaser	2.4k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	3.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.9×	247	20.0k

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Barraza, Fiorella, et al.. (2025). Estimating the bioaccessibility of trace elements in sediment to fish: a review of in vitro experimental approaches. Environmental Research. 282. 121973–121973.

Chen, Na, Fiorella Barraza, René J. Belland, et al.. (2024). Estimating the bioaccessibility of atmospheric trace elements within the Athabasca bituminous sands region using the acid soluble ash fraction of Sphagnum moss. Environmental Science Atmospheres. 4(3). 408–424. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yu, et al.. (2024). Challenges in using 0.45 µm filters to assess potentially bioavailable trace elements in the dissolved fraction of river and peat bog waters of the Boreal Zone. Water Research. 268(Pt A). 122586–122586. 1 indexed citations

Shotyk, William, et al.. (2023). Comparison of trace elements in tissue of beaver (Castor canadensis) and local vegetation from a rural region of southern Ontario, Canada. Environmental Research. 241. 117462–117462.

Barraza, Fiorella, et al.. (2023). Spatial variation and chemical reactivity of dusts from open-pit bitumen mining using trace elements in snow. Chemosphere. 350. 141081–141081. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Yifeng, William Shotyk, Rick Pelletier, et al.. (2023). Sources, spatial-distributions and fluxes of PAH-contaminated dusts in the Athabasca oil sands region. Environment International. 182. 108335–108335. 6 indexed citations

Bellen, Simon van, William Shotyk, Gabriel Magnan, et al.. (2020). Carbon and nitrogen accumulation rates in ombrotrophic peatlands of central and northern Alberta, Canada, during the last millennium. Biogeochemistry. 151(2-3). 251–272. 8 indexed citations

Syvitski, James P. M., Colin N. Waters, John W. Day, et al.. (2020). Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch. Communications Earth & Environment. 1(1). 131 indexed citations

Bellen, Simon van, Gabriel Magnan, Lauren J. Davies, et al.. (2018). Testate amoeba records indicate regional 20th‐century lowering of water tables in ombrotrophic peatlands in central‐northern Alberta, Canada. Global Change Biology. 24(7). 2758–2774. 29 indexed citations

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Magnan, Gabriel, Simon van Bellen, Lauren J. Davies, et al.. (2018). Impact of the Little Ice Age cooling and 20th century climate change on peatland vegetation dynamics in central and northern Alberta using a multi-proxy approach and high-resolution peat chronologies. Quaternary Science Reviews. 185. 230–243. 39 indexed citations

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Zaccone, Claudio, César Plaza, Claudio Ciavatta, Teodoro Miano, & William Shotyk. (2018). Advances in the determination of humification degree in peat since : Applications in geochemical and paleoenvironmental studies. Earth-Science Reviews. 185. 163–178. 54 indexed citations

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Davies, Lauren J., P. G. Appleby, Britta J.L. Jensen, et al.. (2018). High-resolution age modelling of peat bogs from northern Alberta, Canada, using pre- and post-bomb 14C, 210Pb and historical cryptotephra. Quaternary Geochronology. 47. 138–162. 27 indexed citations

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Concheri, Giuseppe, Piergiorgio Stevanato, Claudio Zaccone, et al.. (2017). Rapid peat accumulation favours the occurrence of both fen and bog microbial communities within a Mediterranean, free-floating peat island. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 8511–8511. 11 indexed citations

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Kempter, Heike, Michael Krachler, William Shotyk, & Claudio Zaccone. (2017). Validating modelled data on major and trace element deposition in southern Germany using Sphagnum moss. Atmospheric Environment. 167. 656–664. 9 indexed citations

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Davies, Lauren J., Duane Froese, P. G. Appleby, et al.. (2016). High-resolution age modelling of peat bog profiles using pre and post-bomb 14 C, 210 Pb and cryptotephra data from six Albertan peat bogs. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 2 indexed citations

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Shotyk, William, Heike Kempter, Michael Krachler, & Claudio Zaccone. (2015). Stable (206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb) and radioactive (210Pb) lead isotopes in 1 year of growth of Sphagnum moss from four ombrotrophic bogs in southern Germany: Geochemical significance and environmental implications. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 163. 101–125. 50 indexed citations

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Shotyk, William & Michael Krachler. (2007). Contamination of Bottled Waters with Antimony Leaching from Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Increases upon Storage. Environmental Science & Technology. 41(5). 1560–1563. 160 indexed citations

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Givelet, Nicolas, F. Roos-Barraclough, & William Shotyk. (2003). Predominant anthropogenic sources and rates of atmospheric mercury accumulation in southern Ontario recorded by peat cores from three bogs: comparison with natural “background” values (past 8000 years). Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 5(6). 935–949. 82 indexed citations

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Shotyk, William. (2002). The chronology of anthropogenic, atmospheric Pb deposition recorded by peat cores in three minerogenic peat deposits from Switzerland. The Science of The Total Environment. 292(1-2). 19–31. 86 indexed citations

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Weiß, Dominik, William Shotyk, J.O. Rieley, et al.. (2001). The Geochemistry Of Major And Selected Trace Elements In A Forested Peat Bog, Kalimantan, SE-Asia, And Its Implications On Past Atmospheric Dust Deposition. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 4 indexed citations

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