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Gary R. Fones 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 Gary R. Fones sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 81 publications — 5th percentile

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Gary R. Fones 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 Gary R. Fones sits on this spectrum.

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3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Gary R. Fones is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on pollution, health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Other subfields of interest include analytical chemistry, water science and technology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Analytical chemistry methods development
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
  • Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gary R. Fones are:

  • Graham A. Mills
  • Anthony Gravell
  • José Germán Rodríguez
  • Isabelle Amouroux
  • Thi Bolam

Gary R. Fones has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Analytical Methods
  • MethodsX

Recent papers by Gary R. Fones include:

  • Trends in the use of passive sampling for monitoring polar pesticides in water (2020), published in Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry
  • Passive sampling with suspect screening of polar pesticides and multivariate analysis in river catchments: Informing environmental risk assessments and designing future monitoring programmes (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • The impact of rainfall events, catchment characteristics and estuarine processes on the export of dissolved organic matter from two lowland rivers and their shared estuary (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Detection of pharmaceuticals in wastewater effluents-a comparison of the performance of Chemcatcher® and polar organic compound integrative sampler (2020), published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Rapid direct analysis of river water and machine learning assisted suspect screening of emerging contaminants in passive sampler extracts (2020), published in Analytical Methods

Best Publications

  • Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization

    Raymond T. Pollard;Ian Salter;Richard J. Sanders;Mike I. Lucas

  • The distribution and stabilisation of dissolved Fe in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes

    Sarah A. Bennett;Eric P. Achterberg;Douglas P. Connelly;Peter J. Statham

  • Dissolved iron in the vicinity of the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean

    Helene Planquette;Peter J. Statham;Gary R. Fones;Matthew A. Charette

  • Dissolved metals in surface sediment and a microbial mat at 100-μm resolution

    William Davison;G. R. Fones;G. W. Grime

  • The effect of pH, grain size, and organic ligands on biotite weathering rates

    Andrew W. Bray;Eric H. Oelkers;Steeve Bonneville;Domenik Wolff-Boenisch

  • Radium isotopes as tracers of iron sources fueling a Southern Ocean phytoplankton bloom

    Matthew A. Charette;Meagan E. Gonneea;Paul J. Morris;Peter J. Statham

  • Pore-fluid Fe isotopes reflect the extent of benthic Fe redox recycling: evidence from continental shelf and deep-sea sediments

    W.B. Homoky;S. Severmann;R.A. Mills;P.J. Statham

  • A review of in situ methods and sensors for monitoring the marine environment

    Graham Mills;Gary Fones

  • The fine-scale remobilization of metals in the surface sediment of the North-East Atlantic

    Gary R. Fones;William Davison;John Hamilton-Taylor

  • High-resolution metal gradients measured by in situ DGT/DET deployment in Black sea sediments using an autonomous benthic lander

    Gary R. Fones;William Davison;Ola Holby;Bo Barker Jorgensen

  • Review of the molluscicide metaldehyde in the environment

    G. D. Castle;G. A. Mills;A. Gravell;L. Jones

  • Trace metal chemistry of particulate aerosols from the UK mainland coastal rim of the NE Irish sea.

    R. Chester;M. Nimmo;G.R. Fones;S. Keyse

  • Trends in the analysis and monitoring of organotins in the aquatic environment

    Russell F. Cole;Graham Mills;Ruth Parker;Thi Bolam

  • Iron and manganese diagenesis in deep sea volcanogenic sediments and the origins of pore water colloids

    W.B. Homoky;D.J. Hembury;L.E. Hepburn;R.A. Mills

  • In situ flume measurements of resuspension in the North Sea

    C.E.L. Thompson;F. Couceiro;G.R. Fones;R. Helsby

  • Interactions between Cd, Cu, and Zn influence particulate phytochelatin concentrations in marine phytoplankton: laboratory results and preliminary field data.

    Liping Wei;John R. Donat;Gary Fones;Beth A. Ahner

  • Applications for Passive Sampling of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants in Water-A Review.

    Adam C. Taylor;Gary R. Fones;Branislav Vrana;Graham A. Mills

  • Development of constrained DET for measurements of dissolved iron in surface sediments at sub-mm resolution

    Gary R. Fones;William Davison;Geoff W. Grime

  • Minor effect of physical size sorting on iron solubility of transported mineral dust

    Z. B. Shi;Z. B. Shi;M. T. Woodhouse;K. S. Carslaw;M. D. Krom

  • The potential pool of Co, Ni, Cu, Pb and Cd organic complexing ligands in coastal and urban rain waters

    Malcolm Nimmo;Gary R. Fones

  • Impact of resuspension of cohesive sediments at the Oyster Grounds (North Sea) on nutrient exchange across the sediment–water interface

    Fay Couceiro;Gary R. Fones;Charlotte E. L. Thompson;Peter J. Statham

  • Use of passive sampling and high resolution mass spectrometry using a suspect screening approach to characterise emerging pollutants in contaminated groundwater and runoff

    Lucie Pinasseau;Laure Wiest;Aurélie Fildier;Laurence Volatier

  • Trends in the use of passive sampling for monitoring polar pesticides in water

    Adam C. Taylor;Gary R. Fones;Graham A. Mills

  • Use of the Chemcatcher® passive sampler and time-of-flight mass spectrometry to screen for emerging pollutants in rivers in Gauteng Province of South Africa.

    Cornelius Rimayi;Luke Chimuka;Anthony Gravell;Gary R. Fones

  • Evaluation of DGT techniques for measuring inorganic uranium species in natural waters: Interferences, deployment time and speciation

    Geraldine S.C. Turner;Graham A. Mills;Peter R. Teasdale;Jonathan L. Burnett

  • Fluxes of particulate iron from the upper ocean around the Crozet Islands: A naturally iron-fertilized environment in the Southern Ocean

    Hélène Planquette;Hélène Planquette;Richard R. Sanders;Peter J. Statham;Paul J. Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Statham
Peter J. Statham University of Southampton
William Davison
William Davison Lancaster University
Rachel A. Mills
Rachel A. Mills University of Southampton
Martin R. Palmer
Martin R. Palmer University of Southampton
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Carl L. Amos
Carl L. Amos University of Southampton
Matthew A. Charette
Matthew A. Charette Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Miguel Caetano
Miguel Caetano Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Alex R. Baker
Alex R. Baker University of East Anglia
Tim Jickells
Tim Jickells University of East Anglia

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