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Howard W. Mielke

Howard W. Mielke

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
8146
World Ranking
6084
National Ranking
2206

Howard W. Mielke 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 Howard W. Mielke sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 137 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Howard W. Mielke 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 Howard W. Mielke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Howard W. Mielke is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Speech and Hearing.

The scientist's research emphasizes topics related to Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity, Heavy metals in the environment, Environmental Justice and Health Disparities, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Noise Effects and Management.

Their publication record includes papers such as:

  • In vivo phytotoxicity, uptake, and translocation of PbS nanoparticles in maize (Zea mays L.) plants, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Lead in Air, Soil, and Blood: Pb Poisoning in a Changing World, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • COVID-19 and children's health in the United States: Consideration of physical and social environments during the pandemic, 2021, Environmental Research
  • The International Society for Children's Health and the Environment Commits to Reduce Its Carbon Footprint to Safeguard Children's Health, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Snack foods and lead ingestion risks for school aged children: A comparative evaluation of potentially toxic metals and children's exposure response of blood lead, copper and zinc levels, 2020, Chemosphere

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Medical Research Archives
  • Environmental Research
  • Chemosphere

Collaborations feature several recurring coauthors including Sara Perl Egendorf, Christopher R. Gonzales, Eric T. Powell, Xiaoping Li, and Andrew D. Gailey.

Best Publications

  • Soil is an important pathway of human lead exposure.

    Howard W. Mielke;Patrick L. Reagan

  • The urban environment and children's health: soils as an integrator of lead, zinc, and cadmium in New Orleans, louisiana, U.S.A.

    H.W. Mielke;C.R. Gonzales;M.K. Smith;P.W. Mielke

  • Lead concentrations in inner-city soils as a factor in the child lead problem.

    H W Mielke;J C Anderson;K J Berry;P W Mielke

  • Seasonality and children's blood lead levels: developing a predictive model using climatic variables and blood lead data from Indianapolis, Indiana, Syracuse, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana (USA).

    Mark A.S. Laidlaw;Howard W. Mielke;Gabriel M. Filippelli;David L. Johnson

  • Lead in the Inner Cities Policies to reduce children's exposure to lead may be overlooking a major source of lead in the environment

    Howard W. Mielke

  • LEAD IN THE INNER CITIES

    Howard Mielke

  • PAH and metal mixtures in New Orleans soils and sediments.

    H.W Mielke;G Wang;C.R Gonzales;B Le

  • PAHs and metals in the soils of inner-city and suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

    Howard W. Mielke;Guangdi Wang;Christopher R. Gonzales;Eric T. Powell

  • The urban rise and fall of air lead (Pb) and the latent surge and retreat of societal violence

    Howard W. Mielke;Sammy Zahran

  • Re-suspension of lead contaminated urban soil as a dominant source of atmospheric lead in Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh, USA

    Mark A.S. Laidlaw;Sammy Zahran;Howard W. Mielke;Mark P. Taylor

  • Associations between soil lead and childhood blood lead in urban New Orleans and rural Lafourche Parish of Louisiana.

    H W Mielke;D Dugas;P W Mielke;K S Smith

  • Estimation of leaded (Pb) gasoline's continuing material and health impacts on 90 US urbanized areas

    Howard W. Mielke;Mark A.S. Laidlaw;Chris R. Gonzales

  • Case studies and evidence-based approaches to addressing urban soil lead contamination

    Mark A.S. Laidlaw;Gabriel M. Filippelli;Sally Brown;Jorge Paz-Ferreiro

  • Nonlinear association between soil lead and blood lead of children in metropolitan New Orleans, Louisiana: 2000-2005.

    Howard W. Mielke;Chris R. Gonzales;Eric Powell;Morten Jartun

  • Lead (Pb) legacy from vehicle traffic in eight California urbanized areas: continuing influence of lead dust on children's health.

    Howard W. Mielke;Mark A.S. Laidlaw;Chris Gonzales

  • THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY METAL EXPOSURE FROM URBAN GARDENS AND SOILS

    Rufus L. Chaney;Susan B. Sterrett;Howard W. Mielke

  • Quantities and associations of lead, zinc, cadmium, manganese, chromium, nickel, vanadium, and copper in fresh Mississippi delta alluvium and New Orleans alluvial soils.

    H.W. Mielke;C.R. Gonzales;M.K. Smith;P.W. Mielke

  • Lead in New Orleans soils: New images of an urban environment.

    Howard W. Mielke

  • Children's blood lead seasonality in Flint, Michigan (USA), and soil-sourced lead hazard risks

    Mark A S Laidlaw;Gabriel M Filippelli;Richard C Sadler;Christopher R Gonzales

  • Lead exposure at firing ranges-a review.

    Mark A. S. Laidlaw;Gabriel Filippelli;Howard Mielke;Brian Gulson

  • Mound building by pocket gophers (Geomyidae): their impact on soils and vegetation in North America

    Howard W. Mielke

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul W. Mielke
Paul W. Mielke Colorado State University
Gabriel M. Filippelli
Gabriel M. Filippelli Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Andrew S. Ball
Andrew S. Ball RMIT University
Mark Patrick Taylor
Mark Patrick Taylor Macquarie University
Bruce P. Lanphear
Bruce P. Lanphear Simon Fraser University
Sally Brown
Sally Brown University of Washington
Brian Gulson
Brian Gulson Macquarie University
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Jorge Paz-Ferreiro
Jorge Paz-Ferreiro RMIT University
Brenda Eskenazi
Brenda Eskenazi University of California, Berkeley

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