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38
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8620
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Mark Cave 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 Mark Cave sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 196 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.

Mark Cave 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 Mark Cave sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark Cave is affiliated with the British Geological Survey in the United Kingdom, with a research focus spanning environmental science and related subfields. Their work primarily addresses issues related to pollution, health toxicology, and geochemistry.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, Cave has contributed extensively to several subfields:

  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

Cave's research covers multiple interconnected topics, notably:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Fluoride Effects and Removal
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Joanna Wragg
  • Tatiana Cocerva
  • Siobhan Cox
  • Sabrina Cipullo
  • Frédéric Coulon

Mark Cave has published regularly in several scientific journals, with the most common venues being:

  • Geosciences
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Chemosphere
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Selected recent publications exemplify the focus and breadth of the scientist's work:

  • "Exploration of spatially varying relationships between Pb and Al in urban soils of London at the regional scale using geographically weighted regression (GWR)," 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Incorporating oral bioaccessibility into human health risk assessment due to potentially toxic elements in extractive waste and contaminated soils from an abandoned mine site," 2020, Chemosphere
  • "In vitro bioaccessibility, phase partitioning, and health risk of potentially toxic elements in dust of an iron mining and industrial complex," 2021, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • "Naturally Occurring Potentially Harmful Elements in Groundwater in Makueni County, South-Eastern Kenya: Effects on Drinking Water Quality and Agriculture," 2020, Geosciences
  • "Respiratory bioaccessibility and solid phase partitioning of potentially harmful elements in urban environmental matrices," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • An inter-laboratory trial of the unified BARGE bioaccessibility method for arsenic, cadmium and lead in soil.

    Joanna Wragg;Mark R. Cave;Nick Basta;Esther Brandon

  • In Vivo Validation of the Unified BARGE Method to Assess the Bioaccessibility of Arsenic, Antimony, Cadmium, and Lead in Soils

    Sébastien Denys;Julien Caboche;Karine Tack;Guido Rychen

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in urban soils of Greater London, UK

    Christopher H. Vane;Christopher H. Vane;Alexander W. Kim;Darren J. Beriro;Darren J. Beriro;Mark R. Cave

  • Comparison of five in vitro digestion models to in vivo experimental results: lead bioaccessibility in the human gastrointestinal tract.

    Tom R Van de Wiele;Agnes G Oomen;Joanna Wragg;Mark Cave

  • Methodology for the determination of normal background concentrations of contaminants in English soil

    E. Louise Ander;Christopher C. Johnson;Mark R. Cave;Barbara Palumbo-Roe

  • Determination of the bioaccessibility of chromium in Glasgow soil and the implications for human health risk assessment

    Andrew Broadway;Mark R. Cave;Joanna Wragg;Fiona M. Fordyce

  • Lead bioaccessibility in 12 contaminated soils from China: correlation to lead relative bioavailability and lead in different fractions

    Jie Li;Kan Li;Mark Cave;Hong-Bo Li

  • Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban street dust: implications for human health.

    Damien Lorenzi;Jane A. Entwistle;Mark Cave;John R. Dean

  • A machine learning approach to geochemical mapping

    Charlie Kirkwood;Mark Cave;David Beamish;Stephen Grebby

  • In Vitro Investigations of Human Bioaccessibility from Reference Materials Using Simulated Lung Fluids.

    Aurélie Pelfrêne;Mark R. Cave;Joanna Wragg;Francis Douay

  • The advanced soil geochemical atlas of England and Wales

    B.G. Rawlins;S.P. McGrath;A.J. Scheib;N. Breward

  • A lead isotopic study of the human bioaccessibility of lead in urban soils from Glasgow, Scotland

    John G. Farmer;Andrew Broadway;Mark R. Cave;Joanna Wragg

  • Bedrock detection beneath river terrace deposits using three-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography

    J.E. Chambers;P.B. Wilkinson;D. Wardrop;A. Hameed

  • A study of pneumatic nebulisation systems for inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry

    L. Ebdon;M. R. Cave

  • Using Local Moran's I to identify contamination hotspots of rare earth elements in urban soils of London

    Yumin Yuan;Mark Cave;Chaosheng Zhang

  • A natural analogue of high pH cement pore waters from the Maqarin area of northern Jordan. I: introduction to the site

    H.N. Khoury;E. Salameh;I.D. Clark;P. Fritz

  • Bioaccessibility of trace elements in soils in Northern Ireland.

    Amy Barsby;Jennifer M. McKinley;Ulrich Ofterdinger;Mike Young

  • Simplex optimisation of inductively coupled plasmas

    L. Ebdon;M.R. Cave;D.J. Mowthorpe

  • A study of the relationship between arsenic bioaccessibility and its solid-phase distribution in soils from Wellingborough, UK.

    Joanna Wragg;Mark Cave;Paul Nathanail

  • Comparison of batch mode and dynamic physiologically based bioaccessibility tests for PAHs in soil samples.

    Mark R Cave;Joanna Wragg;Ian Harrison;Christopher H Vane

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher H. Vane
Christopher H. Vane British Geological Survey
John R. Dean
John R. Dean Northumbria University
John G. Farmer
John G. Farmer University of Edinburgh
Simon Chenery
Simon Chenery British Geological Survey
Chaosheng Zhang
Chaosheng Zhang University of Galway
António J.M. Ferreira
António J.M. Ferreira University of Porto
Fernando Rocha
Fernando Rocha University of Aveiro
Barry Rawlins
Barry Rawlins British Geological Survey
Nicholas T. Basta
Nicholas T. Basta The Ohio State University
Steven D. Siciliano
Steven D. Siciliano University of Saskatchewan

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