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Arnold Schecter publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arnold Schecter sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 202 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Arnold Schecter D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arnold Schecter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Arnold Schecter was affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spanned several areas within environmental science, focusing notably on health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, as well as industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their primary fields of study included:

  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Schecter's work addressed specific subfields such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Their scientific contributions concentrated on topics related to:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

Among the recent scholarly outputs authored by Schecter, the following publication is noted:

  • Biomonitoring of Polybrominated Dioxins & Furans, Polychlorinated Dioxins & Furans, and Dioxin Like Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Vietnamese Female Electronic Waste Recyclers, 2022, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

They often collaborated with coauthors including:

  • Jenevieve S. Peecher
  • Haiyan Lu
  • Hoang Trong Quynh
  • Arnold J. Stromberg
  • Jiaying Weng

Their work was primarily published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Dioxins: An overview

    Arnold Schecter;Linda Birnbaum;John J. Ryan;John D. Constable

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in U.S. mothers' milk.

    Arnold Schecter;Marian Pavuk;Olaf Päpke;John Jake Ryan

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) levels in an expanded market basket survey of U.S. food and estimated PBDE dietary intake by age and sex.

    Arnold Schecter;Olaf Päpke;T. Robert Harris;K.C. Tung

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the U.S. population: current levels, temporal trends, and comparison with dioxins, dibenzofurans, and polychlorinated biphenyls.

    Arnold Schecter;Olaf Päpke;Kuang Tung;Jean Joseph

  • Dioxins and Health

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  • Perfluorinated Compounds, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination in Composite Food Samples from Dallas, Texas, USA

    Arnold Schecter;Justin Colacino;Darrah Haffner;Keyur Patel

  • Phthalate Concentrations and Dietary Exposure from Food Purchased in New York State

    Arnold Schecter;Matthew Lorber;Ying Guo;Qian Wu;Qian Wu

  • Intake Of Dioxins and Related Compounds from Food in the U.S. Population

    Arnold Schecter;Paul Cramer;Kathy Boggess;John Stanley

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclodecane (HBCD) in composite U.S. food samples.

    Arnold Schecter;Darrah Haffner;Justin Colacino;Keyur Patel

  • Exposure assessment of adult intake of bisphenol A (BPA) with emphasis on canned food dietary exposures.

    Matthew Lorber;Arnold Schecter;Olaf Paepke;William Shropshire

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Levels in Livers of U.S. Human Fetuses and Newborns

    Arnold Schecter;Sarah F Johnson-Welch;Kuang Chi Tung;T. Robert Harris

  • Dietary Intake Is Associated with Phthalate Body Burden in a Nationally Representative Sample

    Justin A. Colacino;T. Robert Harris;Arnold Schecter

  • Agent Orange and the Vietnamese: the persistence of elevated dioxin levels in human tissues.

    A Schecter;L C Dai;L T Thuy;H T Quynh

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) In U.S. Computers and Domestic Carpet Vacuuming: Possible Sources of Human Exposure

    Arnold Schecter;Olaf Päpke;Jean Elizabeth Joseph;Kuang-Chi Tung

  • Congener-specific levels of dioxins and dibenzofurans in U.S. food and estimated daily dioxin toxic equivalent intake.

    Arnold Schecter;James Startin;Christopher Wright;Mitchell Kelly

  • Recent dioxin contamination from Agent Orange in residents of a southern Vietnam city.

    Arnold Schecter;Le Cao Dai;Olaf Päpke;Joelle Prange

  • Levels of dioxins, dibenzofurans, PCB and DDE congeners in pooled food samples collected in 1995 at supermarkets across the United States.

    Arnold Schecter;Paul Cramer;Kathy Boggess;John Stanley

  • Environmental exposure to PCBs and cancer incidence in eastern Slovakia.

    Marian Pavuk;James R. Cerhan;Charles F. Lynch;Arnold Schecter

  • Brominated flame retardants in US food.

    Arnold Schecter;T. Robert Harris;Nirav Shah;Alice Musumba

  • Partitioning of dioxins, dibenzofurans, and coplanar PCBS in blood, milk, adipose tissue, placenta and cord blood from five American women.

    A Schecter;I Kassis;O Päpke

  • Blood levels of DDT and breast cancer risk among women living in the north of Vietnam.

    A. Schecter;P. Toniolo;L. C. Dai;L. T. B. Thuy

  • Decrease in levels and body burden of dioxins, dibenzofurans, PCBS, DDE, and HCB in blood and milk in a mother nursing twins over a thirty-eight month period

    Arnold Schecter;John Jake Ryan;Olaf Päpke

  • Chlorinated dioxins and dibenzofurans in human tissues from general populations: a selective review

    Arnold Schecter;Peter Fürst;Christiane Fürst;Olaf Päpke

  • Response to Comments on “Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers Contamination of United States Food”

    Arnold Schecter;Kuang-Chi Tung;Olaf Päpke;Daniele Staskal

Frequent Co-Authors

Olaf Päpke
Olaf Päpke Eurofins (Germany)
Michael L. Gross
Michael L. Gross Washington University in St. Louis
Linda S. Birnbaum
Linda S. Birnbaum Research Triangle Park Foundation
Thomas A. Gasiewicz
Thomas A. Gasiewicz University of Rochester Medical Center
Mary S. Wolff
Mary S. Wolff Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
Lingjun Li
Lingjun Li University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas F. Webster
Thomas F. Webster Boston University
Dana B. Barr
Dana B. Barr Emory University
Antonia M. Calafat
Antonia M. Calafat Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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