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Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah

Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
12730
World Ranking
4413
National Ranking
339

Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah 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 Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 126 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah 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 Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science with a particular emphasis on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Additional subfields of their work include pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, environmental chemistry, and plant science.

Their research covers several key topics including toxic organic pollutants impact, microplastics and plastic pollution, air quality and health impacts, recycling and waste management techniques, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, and pesticide exposure and toxicity.

Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Phasing-out of legacy brominated flame retardants: The UNEP Stockholm Convention and other legislative action worldwide (2020) published in Environment International
  • Occurrence, seasonal variation and human exposure to pharmaceuticals and personal care products in surface water, groundwater and drinking water in Lagos State, Nigeria (2020) published in Emerging Contaminants
  • Occurrence, human exposure, and risk of microplastics in the indoor environment (2021) published in Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • A critical review of human exposure to organophosphate esters with a focus on dietary intake (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Dermal uptake: An important pathway of human exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances? (2022) published in Environmental Pollution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah include Stuart Harrad, William A. Stubbings, Daniel S. Drage, Muideen Remilekun Gbadamosi, and Luisa Orsini.

In terms of publication venues, Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah has appeared most often in Emerging Contaminants, The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts, and Environmental Pollution.

Best Publications

  • Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the freshwater aquatic environment

    Anekwe Jennifer Ebele;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad

  • Novel brominated flame retardants : A review of their analysis, environmental fate and behaviour

    Adrian Covaci;Stuart Harrad;Mohamed A. E. Abdallah;Nadeem Ali

  • Analytical and environmental aspects of the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol-A and its derivatives.

    Adrian Covaci;Stefan Voorspoels;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Tinne Geens

  • Levels and trends of PBDEs and HBCDs in the global environment: Status at the end of 2012

    Robin J. Law;Adrian Covaci;Stuart Harrad;Dorte Herzke

  • Hexabromocyclododecanes and Tetrabromobisphenol-A in Indoor Air and Dust in Birmingham, UK: Implications for Human Exposure

    Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad;Adrian Covaci

  • Concentrations of brominated flame retardants in dust from United Kingdom cars, homes, and offices: causes of variability and implications for human exposure.

    Harrad Stuart;Catalina Ibarra;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Rachel Boon

  • Indoor Contamination with Hexabromocyclododecanes, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, and Perfluoroalkyl Compounds: An Important Exposure Pathway for People?

    Stuart Harrad;Cynthia A. de Wit;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Caroline Bergh

  • Phasing-out of legacy brominated flame retardants: The UNEP Stockholm Convention and other legislative action worldwide.

    Martin Sharkey;Stuart Harrad;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Daniel S Drage

  • Current-use brominated flame retardants in water, sediment, and fish from English lakes.

    Stuart Harrad;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Neil L. Rose;Simon D. Turner

  • Organophosphate Flame Retardants in Indoor Dust from Egypt: Implications for Human Exposure

    Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Adrian Covaci

  • Occurrence, seasonal variation and human exposure to pharmaceuticals and personal care products in surface water, groundwater and drinking water in Lagos State, Nigeria

    Anekwe Jennifer Ebele;Temilola Oluseyi;Daniel S. Drage;Stuart Harrad

  • Identifying transfer mechanisms and sources of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) in indoor environments using environmental forensic microscopy.

    Thomas F. Webster;Stuart Harrad;James R. Millette;R. David Holbrook

  • Dust from U.K. primary school classrooms and daycare centers: the significance of dust as a pathway of exposure of young U.K. children to brominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls.

    Stuart Harrad;Emma Goosey;Jennifer Desborough;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah

  • Occurrence, human exposure, and risk of microplastics in the indoor environment

    Hassan Khalid Ageel;Stuart Harrad;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah

  • Causes of variability in concentrations and diastereomer patterns of hexabromocyclododecanes in indoor dust.

    Stuart Harrad;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Adrian Covaci

  • Exposure to Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) via Dust Ingestion, but Not Diet, Correlates with Concentrations in Human Serum: Preliminary Results

    Laurence Roosens;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad;Hugo Neels

  • Hexabromocyclododecanes In Indoor Dust From Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

    Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad;Catalina Ibarra;Miriam Diamond

  • Tetrabromobisphenol-A, hexabromocyclododecane and its degradation products in UK human milk: relationship to external exposure.

    Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad

  • A critical review of human exposure to organophosphate esters with a focus on dietary intake.

    Muideen Remilekun Gbadamosi;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad

  • Human dermal absorption of chlorinated organophosphate flame retardants; implications for human exposure.

    Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Gopal Pawar;Stuart Harrad

  • Emerging and Legacy Flame Retardants in UK Indoor Air and Dust: Evidence for Replacement of PBDEs by Emerging Flame Retardants?

    Fang Tao;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah;Stuart Harrad

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Harrad
Stuart Harrad University of Birmingham
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Harald Berresheim
Harald Berresheim University of Galway
Hugo Neels
Hugo Neels University of Antwerp
Thomas F. Webster
Thomas F. Webster Boston University
Robin J. Law
Robin J. Law Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
James K. Chipman
James K. Chipman University of Birmingham
Neil L. Rose
Neil L. Rose University College London
Cynthia A. de Wit
Cynthia A. de Wit Stockholm University
Dorte Herzke
Dorte Herzke Norwegian Institute for Air Research

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