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A. Russell Flegal publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Russell Flegal sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 137 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

A. Russell Flegal D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Russell Flegal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

A. Russell Flegal is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the subfields of health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their research work covers various important topics within environmental science, particularly:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Flegal has published papers in several scientific venues, including:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • Marine Chemistry
  • Water Air & Soil Pollution
  • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Anthropogenic contamination of residential environments from smelter As, Cu and Pb emissions: Implications for human health," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Lead and lead isotopes in the U.S. GEOTRACES East Pacific zonal transect (GEOTRACES GP16)," 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • "Monitoring of As, Cd, Cr, and Pb in Groundwater of Mexico's Agriculture Mocorito River Aquifer: Implications for Risks to Human Health," 2021, Water Air & Soil Pollution
  • "Distinguishing between Natural and Industrial Lead in Consumer Products and Other Environmental Matrices," 2020, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • "LINKING SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE TO MERCURY BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING AT THE COASTAL MARGIN," 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent coauthors with whom Flegal has collaborated include Scott C. Hauswirth, Carl H. Lamborg, Marc W. Beutel, Priya Ganguli, and Kara Fry.

In 2004, A. Russell Flegal was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • U.S. Mussel Watch: 1977–1978 results on trace metals and radionuclides

    Edward D. Goldberg;Minoru Koide;Vern Hodge;A.Russel Flegal

  • Detection of Environmental Impacts: Natural Variability, Effect Size, and Power Analysis

    Craig W. Osenberg;Russell J. Schmitt;Sally J. Holbrook;Khalil E. Abu-Saba

  • Increases in Anthropogenic Gadolinium Anomalies and Rare Earth Element Concentrations in San Francisco Bay over a 20 Year Record

    Vanessa Hatje;Kenneth W. Bruland;A. Russell Flegal

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Dissolved trace element cycles in the San Francisco Bay estuary

    A.R. Flegal;G.J. Smith;G.A. Gill;S. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

  • Mercury speciation in the San Francisco Bay estuary

    Christopher H. Conaway;Sharon Squire;Robert P. Mason;A.Russell Flegal

  • Distribution of Colloidal trace metals in the San Francisco Bay estuary

    Sergio A. San˜udo-Wilhelmy;Ignacio Rivera-Duarte;A. Russell Flegal

  • Anthropogenic silver in the Southern California Bight: a new tracer of sewage in coastal waters

    Sergio A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy;A. Russell Flegal

  • Vertical concentration profiles of lead in the Central Pacific at 15°N and 20°S

    A.R. Flegal;C.C. Patterson

  • High copper concentrations in squid livers in association with elevated levels of silver, cadmium, and zinc

    J. H. Martin;A. R. Flegal

  • Factors controlling the abiotic photo-degradation of monomethylmercury in surface waters

    Frank J. Black;Brett A. Poulin;A. Russell Flegal

  • Current needs for increased accuracy and precision in measurements of low levels of lead in blood

    A. Russell Flegal;Donald R. Smith

  • Natural occurrence of hexavalent chromium in the Aromas Red Sands Aquifer, California.

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  • Lead contamination in cocoa and cocoa products: isotopic evidence of global contamination.

    Charley W. Rankin;Jerome O. Nriagu;Jugdeep K. Aggarwal;Toyin A. Arowolo

  • Isotopic tracers of lead contamination in the Great Lakes

    A. R. Flegal;J. O. Nriagu;S. Niemeyer;K. H. Coale

  • A review of total dissolved copper and its chemical speciation in San Francisco Bay, California

    Kristen N. Buck;John R.M. Ross;A. Russell Flegal;Kenneth W. Bruland

  • GEOTRACES IC1 (BATS) contamination-prone trace element isotopes Cd, Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu, and Mo intercalibration

    Edward A. Boyle;Seth G. John;Seth G. John;Wafa Abouchami;Jess F. Adkins

  • Silver in San Francisco Bay estuarine waters

    Geoffrey J. Smith;A. Russell Flegal

  • Trace metal distributions off the Antarctic Peninsula in the Weddell Sea

    S.A Sañudo-Wilhelmy;K.A Olsen;J.M Scelfo;T.D Foster

  • A synthesis of lead isotopes in two millennia of European air

    Charles E Dunlap;Eiliv Steinnes;A.Russell Flegal

  • Trace elements in the North Atlantic troposphere: Shipboard results of precipitation and aerosols

    T. M. Church;A. Véron;C. C. Patterson;D. Settle

  • Organic complexation and total dissolved trace metal analysis in estuarine waters: comparison of solvent-extraction graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometric and chelating resin flow injection inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometric analysis

    Kuria Ndung’u;Robert P Franks;Kenneth W Bruland;A.Russell Flegal

  • Mercury Speciation in Drainage from the New Idria Mercury Mine, California

    Priya M. Ganguli;Robert P. Mason;Khalil E. Abu-Saba;Robert S. Anderson

  • Use of stable lead isotopes to characterize the sources of anthropogenic lead in North Atlantic surface waters

    A.J. Véron;T.M. church;C.C. Patterson;A.R. Flegal;A.R. Flegal

  • On-line determination of silver in natural waters by inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Influence of organic matter

    Kuria Ndung'u;Mara A. Ranville;Robert P. Franks;A. Russell Flegal

  • Temporal variations in lead concentrations and isotopic composition in the Southern California Bight

    Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;A.Russell Flegal

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy University of Southern California
Kenneth W. Bruland
Kenneth W. Bruland University of California, Santa Cruz
Jingfeng Wu
Jingfeng Wu University of Miami
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Sabrina Speich
Sabrina Speich École Normale Supérieure
Seth G. John
Seth G. John University of Southern California
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons Texas A&M University
Robert P. Mason
Robert P. Mason University of Connecticut
Laura F. Robinson
Laura F. Robinson University of Bristol

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