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Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
15449
World Ranking
9152
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237

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
15435
World Ranking
2745
National Ranking
115

Mehran Alaee 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 Mehran Alaee sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mehran Alaee 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 Mehran Alaee sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mehran Alaee was affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada. Their research primarily centered on environmental science, with particular attention to pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and fish ecology and management studies.

Them published extensively on topics that included pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, nature and landscape conservation, molecular biology, and immunology. Key areas of research included gut microbiota and health, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, birth, development, and health, as well as aquaculture nutrition and growth.

Their recent papers covered a range of environmental toxicology issues, notably involving the pharmaceutical drug metformin and its ecological effects. Significant publications included:

  • Chronic Embryo-Larval Exposure of Fathead Minnows to the Pharmaceutical Drug Metformin: Survival, Growth, and Microbiome Responses, 2021, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Comparative Effects of Embryonic Metformin Exposure on Wild and Laboratory-Spawned Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas) Populations, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Fathead minnow exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of metformin for one life cycle show no adverse effects, 2021, FACETS
  • Assessing Contributions of Synthetic Musk Compounds from Wastewater Treatment Plants to Atmospheric and Aquatic Environments, 2024, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Effects of metformin on wild fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) using in-lake mesocosms in a boreal lake ecosystem, 2024, The Science of The Total Environment

Mehran Alaee collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Joanne L. Parrott
  • Karen A. Kidd
  • Kristin M. Nielsen
  • Vince Palace
  • Mark E. McMaster

Numerous papers were published in leading environmental science venues such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Clinica Chimica Acta, and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • An overview of commercially used brominated flame retardants, their applications, their use patterns in different countries/regions and possible modes of release.

    Mehran Alaee;Pedro Arias;Andreas Sjödin;Åke Bergman

  • Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways.

    R.W. Macdonald;L.A. Barrie;T.F. Bidleman;M.L. Diamond

  • Levels and trends of brominated flame retardants in the Arctic

    Cynthia A. de Wit;Mehran Alaee;Derek C.G. Muir

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the North American environment.

    Robert C. Hale;Mehran Alaee;Jon B. Manchester-Neesvig;Heather M. Stapleton

  • Levels and trends of polybrominated diphenylethers and other brominated flame retardants in wildlife

    Robin J. Law;Mehran Alaee;Colin R. Allchin;Jan P. Boon

  • Debromination of the Flame Retardant Decabromodiphenyl Ether by Juvenile Carp (Cyprinus carpio) following Dietary Exposure

    Heather M. Stapleton;Mehran Alaee;Robert J. Letcher;Joel E. Baker

  • Occurrence and fate of antibiotic, analgesic/anti-inflammatory, and antifungal compounds in five wastewater treatment processes

    P Guerra;M Kim;A Shah;M Alaee

  • A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals

    Åke Bergman;Andreas Rydén;Robin J Law;Jacob de Boer

  • Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of some brominated flame retardants in a Lake Winnipeg (Canada) food web.

    Kerri Law;Kerri Law;Thor Halldorson;Robert Danell;Gary Stern

  • Assessing the environmental fate of chemicals of emerging concern: a case study of the polybrominated diphenyl ethers

    Anna Palm;Ian T. Cousins;Donald Mackay;Mats Tysklind

  • The significance of brominated flame retardants in the environment: current understanding, issues and challenges.

    Mehran Alaee;Richard J Wenning

  • Fractionation and Bioaccumulation of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) Isomers in a Lake Ontario Food Web

    Magali Houde;Gertje Czub;Jeff M. Small;Sean Backus

  • Review of recent advances in research on the toxicity, detection, occurrence and fate of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes in the environment.

    De-Gao Wang;Warren Norwood;Mehran Alaee;Jonathan D. Byer

  • Biomagnification of α- and γ-Hexabromocyclododecane Isomers in a Lake Ontario Food Web

    Gregg T Tomy;Wes Budakowski;Thor Halldorson;D Michael Whittle

  • Major Structural Components in Freshwater Dissolved Organic Matter

    Buuan Lam;Andrew Baer;Mehran Alaee;Brent Lefebvre

  • Spatial distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polybrominated biphenyls in lake trout from the Laurentian Great Lakes.

    Jennifer M Luross;Mehran Alaee;David B Sergeant;Christina M Cannon

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers and Hydroxylated and Methoxylated Brominated and Chlorinated Analogues in the Plasma of Fish from the Detroit River

    Karlis Valters;Hongxia Li;Mehran Alaee;‡ Ivy D'Sa

  • An Asia-specific source of dechlorane plus: concentration, isomer profiles, and other related compounds.

    De-Gao Wang;Meng Yang;Hong Qi;Ed Sverko

  • Occurrence of triclosan in plasma of wild Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and in their environment.

    Patricia A. Fair;Hing-Biu Lee;Jeff Adams;Colin Darling

  • Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a membrane bioreactor wastewater treatment plant.

    M. Kim;P. Guerra;A. Shah;M. Parsa

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
Chris H. Marvin
Chris H. Marvin Environment and Climate Change Canada
Gregg T. Tomy
Gregg T. Tomy University of Manitoba
Robert J. Letcher
Robert J. Letcher Carleton University
Sean Backus
Sean Backus Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ed Sverko
Ed Sverko Harbin Institute of Technology
Peter V. Hodson
Peter V. Hodson Queen's University
Gary A. Stern
Gary A. Stern University of Manitoba
Keith R. Solomon
Keith R. Solomon University of Guelph
Frank Wania
Frank Wania University of Toronto

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