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D-Index
46
Citations
5817
World Ranking
6209
National Ranking
481

Ian T. Burke 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 Ian T. Burke sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 123 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian T. Burke 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 Ian T. Burke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

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 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ian T. Burke is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses mainly on Environmental Science and Engineering, with significant contributions across various subfields including Geochemistry and Petrology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Building and Construction, Biomedical Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly output encompasses key topics such as Coal and Its By-products, Chromium effects and bioremediation, Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production, Heavy metals in environment, Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ian T. Burke are:

  • Beneficial management of biomass combustion ashes, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Iceland is an episodic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles relevant for mixed-phase clouds, 2020, Science Advances
  • Assessing metal contamination and speciation in sewage sludge: implications for soil application and environmental risk, 2023, Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology
  • Mineral and biological ice-nucleating particles above the South East of the British Isles, 2021, Environmental Science Atmospheres
  • A Major Combustion Aerosol Event Had a Negligible Impact on the Atmospheric Ice-Nucleating Particle Population, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ian T. Burke include:

  • Douglas I. Stewart
  • William M. Mayes
  • Adam P. Jarvis
  • Alex L. Riley
  • Patrick Byrne

Ian T. Burke's work has been published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Waste Management
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Alkaline residues and the environment: A review of impacts, management practices and opportunities

    Helena I. Gomes;William M. Mayes;Mike Rogerson;Douglas I. Stewart

  • Dispersal and attenuation of trace contaminants downstream of the Ajka bauxite residue (red mud) depository failure, Hungary.

    William M. Mayes;Adam P. Jarvis;Ian T. Burke;Melanie Walton

  • Caesium incorporation and retention in illite interlayers

    Adam J. Fuller;Samuel Shaw;Michael B. Ward;Sarah J. Haigh

  • Speciation of Arsenic, Chromium, and Vanadium in Red Mud Samples from the Ajka Spill Site, Hungary

    Ian T. Burke;William M. Mayes;Caroline L. Peacock;Andrew P. Brown

  • Advances in Understanding Environmental Risks of Red Mud After the Ajka Spill, Hungary

    W. M. Mayes;I. T. Burke;H. I. Gomes;Á. D. Anton

  • Effect of groundwater pH and ionic strength on strontium sorption in aquifer sediments: Implications for 90Sr mobility at contaminated nuclear sites

    Sarah H. Wallace;Samuel Shaw;Katherine Morris;Joe S. Small

  • Behavior of aluminum, arsenic, and vanadium during the neutralization of red mud leachate by HCl, gypsum, or seawater

    Ian T. Burke;Caroline L. Peacock;Cindy L. Lockwood;Douglas I. Stewart

  • Contaminant mobility and carbon sequestration downstream of the Ajka (Hungary) red mud spill: The effects of gypsum dosing

    Philip Renforth;W. M. Mayes;A. P. Jarvis;I. T. Burke

  • Extracellular electron transport-mediated Fe(III) reduction by a community of alkaliphilic bacteria that use flavins as electron shuttles

    Samuel J. Fuller;Duncan G. G. McMillan;Marc B. Renz;Martin Schmidt

  • Beneficial management of biomass combustion ashes

    Jihua Zhai;Ian T. Burke;Douglas I. Stewart

  • Effects of Progressive Anoxia on the Solubility of Technetium in Sediments

    Ian T. Burke;Christopher Boothman;Jonathon R. Lloyd;Robert J. G. Mortimer

  • Vanadium – a re-emerging environmental hazard

    James A J Watt;Ian T Burke;Ron A Edwards;Heath M Malcolm

  • Reoxidation behavior of technetium, iron, and sulfur in estuarine sediments

    Ian T. Ian T. Burke;Christopher Boothman;Jonathan R. Lloyd;Francis R. Livens

  • Sustained Bauxite Residue Rehabilitation with Gypsum and Organic Matter 16 years after Initial Treatment

    Andrew W. Bray;Douglas I. Stewart;Ronan Courtney;Simon P. Rout

  • Assessing metal contamination and speciation in sewage sludge: implications for soil application and environmental risk

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  • Contributions of biogenic material to the atmospheric ice-nucleating particle population in North Western Europe

    D. O’Sullivan;M. P. Adams;M. D. Tarn;A. D. Harrison

  • Enhancement of bauxite residue as a low-cost adsorbent for phosphorus in aqueous solution, using seawater and gypsum treatments

    Mark G. Healy;Ian T. Burke;Patricia B. Cusack;Patricia B. Cusack;Ronan Courtney

  • Ionic strength and pH dependent multi-site sorption of Cs onto a micaceous aquifer sediment

    Adam J. Fuller;Samuel Shaw;Caroline L. Peacock;Divyesh Trivedi

  • Mechanism of Enhanced Strontium Uptake into Calcite via an Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Crystallization Pathway

    Janice L. Littlewood;Samuel Shaw;Caroline L. Peacock;Pieter Bots

  • Geomicrobiological Redox Cycling of the Transuranic Element Neptunium

    Gareth T. W. Law;Andrea Geissler;Jonathan R. Lloyd;Francis R. Livens

  • Technetium Reduction and Reoxidation in Aquifer Sediments

    Joyce M. McBeth;Gavin Lear;Jonathan R. Lloyd;Francis R. Livens

  • Red mud a byproduct of aluminum production contains soluble vanadium that causes genotoxic and cytotoxic effects in higher plants

    Miroslav Mišík;Ian T. Burke;Matthias Reismüller;Clemens Pichler

  • Iceland is an episodic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles relevant for mixed-phase clouds.

    A. Sanchez-Marroquin;O. Arnalds;K. J. Baustian-Dorsi;J. Browse;J. Browse

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis R. Livens
Francis R. Livens University of Manchester
Jonathan R. Lloyd
Jonathan R. Lloyd University of Manchester
Robert J.G. Mortimer
Robert J.G. Mortimer York St John University
Samuel Shaw
Samuel Shaw University of Manchester
Caroline L. Peacock
Caroline L. Peacock University of Leeds
John M. Charnock
John M. Charnock University of Manchester
Benjamin J. Murray
Benjamin J. Murray University of Leeds
Andrew P. Brown
Andrew P. Brown University of Leeds
Karen A. Hudson-Edwards
Karen A. Hudson-Edwards University of Exeter
Alan E. S. Kemp
Alan E. S. Kemp University of Southampton

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