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Matthew MacLeod

Matthew MacLeod

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
21930
World Ranking
1937
National Ranking
32

Matthew MacLeod 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 Matthew MacLeod sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 204 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matthew MacLeod 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 Matthew MacLeod sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Matthew MacLeod is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and focuses their research within the field of environmental science. Their work addresses various aspects of pollution, toxicology, and environmental impacts, contributing to the understanding of microplastics, chemical toxicity, and waste management.

MacLeod has published extensively, with a total of 53 publications in environmental science. Their subfields include pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, industrial and manufacturing engineering, sociology and political science, and ecology. The main topics covered in their research are:

  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Their recent publications include:

  • The global threat from plastic pollution (2021), published in Science
  • Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities (2022), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • MS2Tox Machine Learning Tool for Predicting the Ecotoxicity of Unidentified Chemicals in Water by Nontarget LC-HRMS (2022), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) - concept and initial results (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

MacLeod frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, including Zhanyun Wang, Urs Baltensperger, John D. Hader, Hans Peter H. Arp, and Roxana Sühring. These collaborations have supported multiple studies and research outputs.

Their work appears predominantly in key publication venues such as Environmental Science Processes & Impacts, Environmental Science & Technology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Science of The Total Environment, and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

In recognition of their contributions, Matthew MacLeod was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • The global threat from plastic pollution

    Matthew MacLeod;Hans Peter H. Arp;Hans Peter H. Arp;Mine B. Tekman;Annika Jahnke;Annika Jahnke

  • Pathways for degradation of plastic polymers floating in the marine environment

    Berit Gewert;Merle M. Plassmann;Matthew MacLeod

  • USEtox—the UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in life cycle impact assessment

    Ralph K. Rosenbaum;Till M. Bachmann;Lois Swirsky Gold;Mark A. J. Huijbregts

  • Estimation of Cumulative Aquatic Exposure and Risk Due to Silver: Contribution of Nano-Functionalized Plastics and Textiles

    Sabine A. Blaser;Martin Scheringer;Matthew MacLeod;Konrad Hungerbühler

  • Reducing Uncertainty and Confronting Ignorance about the Possible Impacts of Weathering Plastic in the Marine Environment

    Annika Jahnke;Hans Peter H. Arp;Beate I. Escher;Berit Gewert

  • Toxicity of leachate from weathering plastics: An exploratory screening study with Nitocra spinipes.

    Sofia Bejgarn;Matthew MacLeod;Christian Bogdal;Christian Bogdal;Magnus Breitholtz

  • Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of chemicals: the search for harmony and parsimony.

    Michael Z. Hauschild;Mark Huijbregts;Olivier Jolliet;Matt Macleod

  • Identification of Chain Scission Products Released to Water by Plastic Exposed to Ultraviolet Light

    Berit Gewert;Merle Plassmann;Oskar Sandblom;Matthew MacLeod

  • Modeling global-scale fate and transport of perfluorooctanoate emitted from direct sources.

    James Armitage;Ian T. Cousins;Robert C. Buck;Konstantinos Prevedouros

  • Using COSMOtherm to predict physicochemical properties of poly- and perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs)

    Zhanyun Wang;Matthew MacLeod;Ian T. Cousins;Martin Scheringer

  • Evaluating and expressing the propagation of uncertainty in chemical fate and bioaccumulation models.

    Matthew MacLeod;Alison J. Fraser;Don Mackay

  • Intrinsic Human Elimination Half-Lives of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Derived from the Temporal Evolution of Cross-Sectional Biomonitoring Data from the United Kingdom

    Roland Ritter;Martin Scheringer;Matthew MacLeod;Claudia Moeckel

  • Weathering Plastics as a Planetary Boundary Threat: Exposure, Fate, and Hazards.

    Hans Peter H Arp;Hans Peter H Arp;Dana Kühnel;Christoph Rummel;Matthew MacLeod

  • Comparative assessment of the global fate and transport pathways of long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) and perfluorocarboxylates (PFCs) emitted from direct sources.

    James M Armitage;Matthew Macleod;Ian T Cousins

  • Multimedia environmental models

    Donald Mackay;Matthew MacLeod

  • Global distribution of linear and cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in air.

    Susie Genualdi;Tom Harner;Yu Cheng;Matthew MacLeod

  • Past, Present, and Future Controls on Levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Global Environment

    Luca Nizzetto;Matthew Macleod;Katrine Borga;Ana Cabrerizo

  • Abundance and composition of near surface microplastics and plastic debris in the Stockholm Archipelago, Baltic Sea.

    Berit Gewert;Martin Ogonowski;Andreas Barth;Matthew MacLeod

  • Improving data quality for environmental fate models: a least-squares adjustment procedure for harmonizing physicochemical properties of organic compounds.

    Urs Schenker;Matthew MacLeod;Martin Scheringer;Konrad Hungerbühler

  • Enhanced elimination of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid by menstruating women: evidence from population-based pharmacokinetic modeling.

    Fiona Wong;Matthew MacLeod;Jochen F. Mueller;Ian T. Cousins

  • Modeling the Global Fate and Transport of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Precursor Compounds in Relation to Temporal Trends in Wildlife Exposure

    James M. Armitage;Urs Schenker;Martin Scheringer;Jonathan W. Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian T. Cousins
Ian T. Cousins Stockholm University
Donald Mackay
Donald Mackay Trent University
Michael S. McLachlan
Michael S. McLachlan Stockholm University
Kevin C. Jones
Kevin C. Jones Lancaster University
Thomas E. McKone
Thomas E. McKone University of California, Berkeley
Philipp Mayer
Philipp Mayer Technical University of Denmark
Frank Wania
Frank Wania University of Toronto
Hans Peter H. Arp
Hans Peter H. Arp Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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