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John P. Sumpter is affiliated with Brunel University London in the United Kingdom. The research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their work spans several subfields including pollution, environmental chemistry, statistics and uncertainty, and nature and landscape conservation.

The main topics addressed in Sumpter's research include environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, chemistry and chemical engineering, fish ecology and management studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, as well as meta-analysis and systematic reviews.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sumpter include Andrew C. Johnson, Tamsin J. Runnalls, Michael H. Depledge, Chris D. Collins, and Gary R. Hutchison.

The scientist has contributed publications to several key venues, with frequent appearances in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and The Science of The Total Environment. Other publication venues include Science, Toxics, and Environmental Science & Technology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John P. Sumpter are:

  • Learning from the past and considering the future of chemicals in the environment, 2020, Science
  • Steroid hormones in the aquatic environment, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Occurrence and Predicted Pharmacological Risk to Freshwater Fish of over 200 Neuroactive Pharmaceuticals in Widespread Use, 2022, Toxics
  • Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: No Answers Yet to the Major Questions, 2022, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • A 'Limitations' section should be mandatory in all scientific papers, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Widespread Sexual Disruption in Wild Fish

    Susan Jobling;Monique Nolan;Charles R. Tyler;Geoff Brighty

  • Estrogenic activity of surfactants and some of their degradation products assessed using a recombinant yeast screen

    Edwin J. Routledge;John P. Sumpter

  • Male reproductive health and environmental xenoestrogens

    J Toppari;JC Larsen;P Christiansen;A Giwercman

  • Vitellogenesis as a biomarker for estrogenic contamination of the aquatic environment.

    John P. Sumpter;Susan Jobling

  • Environmentally persistent alkylphenolic compounds are estrogenic

    R White;S Jobling;S A Hoare;J P Sumpter

  • A variety of environmentally persistent chemicals, including some phthalate plasticizers, are weakly estrogenic.

    Susan Jobling;Tracey Reynolds;Roger White;Malcolm G. Parker

  • Inhibition of testicular growth in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) exposed to estrogenic alkylphenolic chemicals

    Susan Jobling;John P. Sumpter;David Sheahan;Julia A. Osborne

  • Endocrine Disruption in Wildlife: A Critical Review of the Evidence

    C R Tyler;S Jobling;J P Sumpter

  • Several environmental oestrogens are also anti-androgens

    P Sohoni;JP Sumpter

  • The estrogenic activity of phthalate esters in vitro.

    Catherine A. Harris;Pirkko Henttu;Malcolm G. Parker;John P. Sumpter

  • Egg quality in fish: what makes a good egg?

    Suzanne Brooks;Charles R. Tyler;John P. Sumpter

  • Oocyte growth and development in teleosts

    C. R. Tyler;J. P. Sumpter

  • Some Alkyl Hydroxy Benzoate Preservatives (Parabens) Are Estrogenic

    Edwin J. Routledge;Joanne Parker;Jenny Odum;John Ashby

  • Estrogenic activity in five United Kingdom rivers detected by measurement of vitellogenesis in caged male trout

    Jule E. Harries;David A. Sheahan;Susan Jobling;Peter Matthiessen

  • Effects of the synthetic estrogen 17α‐ethinylestradiol on the life‐cycle of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

    Reinhard Länge;Thomas H. Hutchinson;Charlotte P. Croudace;Fred Siegmund

  • Relative potencies and combination effects of steroidal estrogens in fish.

    Karen L. Thorpe;Rob I. Cummings;Thomas H. Hutchinson;Martin Scholze

  • Gestational and lactational exposure of rats to xenoestrogens results in reduced testicular size and sperm production.

    Richard M. Sharpe;Janes S. Fisher;Mike M. Millar;Susan Jobling

  • Comparison of short-term estrogenicity tests for identification of hormone-disrupting chemicals.

    Helle Raun Andersen;Anna-Maria Andersson;Steven F. Arnold;Herman Autrup

  • Altered Sexual Maturation and Gamete Production in Wild Roach (Rutilus rutilus) Living in Rivers That Receive Treated Sewage Effluents

    S. Jobling;N. Beresford;M. Nolan;T. Rodgers-Gray

  • Differential effects of xenoestrogens on coactivator recruitment by estrogen receptor (ER) alpha and ERbeta.

    Edwin J. Routledge;Roger White;Malcolm G. Parker;John P. Sumpter

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew C. Johnson
Andrew C. Johnson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Charles R. Tyler
Charles R. Tyler University of Exeter
Susan Jobling
Susan Jobling Brunel University London
Richard M. Sharpe
Richard M. Sharpe University of Edinburgh
John Ashby
John Ashby Syngenta (Switzerland)
Andreas Kortenkamp
Andreas Kortenkamp Brunel University London
Martin Scholze
Martin Scholze Brunel University London
M. J. Waldock
M. J. Waldock Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Jorma Toppari
Jorma Toppari University of Turku
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería

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