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Gavin Mark Mudd

Gavin Mark Mudd

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
11420
World Ranking
4219
National Ranking
146

Gavin Mark Mudd 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 Gavin Mark Mudd sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 197 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gavin Mark Mudd 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 Gavin Mark Mudd sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Gavin Mark Mudd is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia, focusing primarily on engineering and environmental science. Their research portfolio comprises 50 publications in engineering and 17 in environmental science, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to mining and resource management challenges.

The scientist's work covers key subfields including mechanical engineering (23 publications), building and construction (12 publications), biomedical engineering (9 publications), industrial and manufacturing engineering (7 publications), and geochemistry and petrology (5 publications).

Research topics addressed by Gavin Mudd include extraction and separation processes, mining and resource management, metal extraction and bioleaching, recycling and waste management techniques, geochemistry and elemental analysis, mining techniques and economics, and geochemistry and geologic mapping. The distribution of publications across these topics is notably highest in extraction and separation processes with 42 papers, followed by mining and resource management with 24.

Their contributions have appeared in frequent publication venues such as Resources Policy, Nature Communications, Mineral Economics, Environmental Science & Technology, and SSRN Electronic Journal, each hosting multiple publications by the author.

Among recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Gavin Mudd are:

  • The New Century for Nickel Resources, Reserves, and Mining: Reassessing the Sustainability of the Devil's Metal, 2022, Economic Geology
  • Mining in Papua New Guinea: A complex story of trends, impacts and governance, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Sustainable/responsible mining and ethical issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, Geological Society London Special Publications

Other recent papers featuring Gavin Mudd's research context include:

  • Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Heading to the deep end without knowing how to swim: Do we need deep-seabed mining?, 2022, One Earth

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gavin Mudd include Simon M. Jowitt, Tim T. Werner, Diva J. Amon, Lisa A. Levin, and Cameron Perks. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers engaged in addressing various aspects of mining, resource sustainability, and environmental impacts.

Best Publications

  • The Environmental sustainability of mining in Australia: key mega-trends and looming constraints

    Gavin M. Mudd;Gavin M. Mudd

  • Global trends and environmental issues in nickel mining: sulfides versus laterites

    Gavin M. Mudd;Gavin M. Mudd

  • Resource depletion, peak minerals and the implications for sustainable resource management

    Timothy Prior;Timothy Prior;Damien Giurco;Gavin Mark Mudd;Leah Mason

  • Modelling future copper ore grade decline based on a detailed assessment of copper resources and mining

    Stephen Northey;Steve Hendrik Mohr;Gavin Mark Mudd;Zhehan Weng

  • Global trends in gold mining: Towards quantifying environmental and resource sustainability

    Gavin Mark Mudd

  • A Detailed Assessment of Global Rare Earth Element Resources: Opportunities and Challenges

    Zhehan Weng;Simon Martin Jowitt;Gavin Mark Mudd;Nawshad Haque

  • Recycling of the rare earth elements

    Simon M. Jowitt;Timothy T. Werner;Zhehan Weng;Gavin M. Mudd

  • Lithium Resources and Production: Critical Assessment and Global Projections

    Steve Hendrik Mohr;Gavin Mark Mudd;Damien Giurco

  • Decreasing Ore Grades in Global Metallic Mining: A Theoretical Issue or a Global Reality?

    Guiomar Calvo;Gavin Mudd;Alicia Valero;Antonio Valero

  • Using sustainability reporting to assess the environmental footprint of copper mining

    Stephen Northey;Stephen Northey;Nawshad Haque;Gavin Mark Mudd

  • Environmental life-cycle comparisons of steel production and recycling: Sustainability issues, problems and prospects

    Mohan Yellishetty;Mohan Yellishetty;Gavin M. Mudd;P.G. Ranjith;A. Tharumarajah

  • A Detailed Assessment of Global Nickel Resource Trends and Endowments

    Gavin Mark Mudd;Simon Martin Jowitt

  • The environmental costs of platinum-PGM mining and sustainability: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

    Bonnie J. Glaister;Gavin M. Mudd

  • Water footprinting and mining: Where are the limitations and opportunities?

    Stephen A. Northey;Stephen A. Northey;Gavin M. Mudd;Elina Saarivuori;Helena Wessman-Jääskeläinen

  • Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production

    Simon M. Jowitt;Gavin M. Mudd;John F. H. Thompson

  • The world's by-product and critical metal resources part III: A global assessment of indium

    T.T. Werner;Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt

  • Sustainability Reporting and Water Resources: a Preliminary Assessment of Embodied Water and Sustainable Mining

    Gavin Mark Mudd

  • Quantifying the recoverable resources of by-product metals: The case of cobalt

    Gavin Mark Mudd;Zhehan Weng;Simon Martin Jowitt;ID Turnbull

  • The world's lead-zinc mineral resources: Scarcity, data, issues and opportunities

    Gavin M. Mudd;Simon M. Jowitt;Simon M. Jowitt;Timothy T. Werner

  • The exposure of global base metal resources to water criticality, scarcity and climate change

    Stephen A. Northey;Stephen A. Northey;Gavin M. Mudd;Timothy T. Werner;Simon M. Jowitt

  • Key trends in the resource sustainability of platinum group elements

    Gavin Mark Mudd

  • Critical review of acid in situ leach uranium mining: 1. USA and Australia

    Gavin Mark Mudd

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon M. Jowitt
Simon M. Jowitt University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Nawshad Haque
Nawshad Haque Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jayantha Kodikara
Jayantha Kodikara Monash University
Ana Deletic
Ana Deletic Queensland University of Technology
Tim D. Fletcher
Tim D. Fletcher University of Melbourne
Thomas E. Graedel
Thomas E. Graedel Yale University
Aafke M. Schipper
Aafke M. Schipper Radboud University
Adrian D. Werner
Adrian D. Werner Flinders University
Richard J. Goldfarb
Richard J. Goldfarb China University of Geosciences
Pathegama Gamage Ranjith
Pathegama Gamage Ranjith Monash University

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