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Pavel P. Povinec

Pavel P. Povinec

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
65
Citations
13866
World Ranking
2230
National Ranking
1

Pavel P. Povinec 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 Pavel P. Povinec sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 373 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pavel P. Povinec 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 Pavel P. Povinec sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Pavel P. Povinec is affiliated with Comenius University in Slovakia and has an extensive publication record in physics and environmental science. Their research spans several specialized areas, including nuclear and high energy physics, global and planetary change, radiation, astronomy and astrophysics, and radiological and ultrasound technology.

The scientist's main topics of study include radioactive contamination and transfer, dark matter and cosmic phenomena, radioactivity and radon measurements, particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, nuclear and radioactivity studies, atomic and subatomic physics research, and archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work comprise:

  • Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The European Physical Journal C
  • Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
  • Radiocarbon

Common co-authors include:

  • R. Breier
  • M. Ješkovský
  • Jakub Kaizer
  • A. Bento
  • L. Canonica

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Pavel P. Povinec are:

  • Distribution of 241Am and Pu isotopes in the Curonian Lagoon and the south-eastern Baltic Sea seawater, suspended particles, sediments and biota, 2022, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system, 2022, Science Advances
  • Results on sub-GeV dark matter from a 10 eV threshold CRESST-III silicon detector, 2023, Physical Review D
  • Testing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with lithium aluminate targets in CRESST-III, 2022, Physical Review D
  • Temporal changes in tritium and radiocarbon concentrations in the western North Pacific Ocean (1993-2012), 2020, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Pavel P. Povinec has been recognized as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. This affiliation reflects an established position in the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • ATLAS: Technical proposal for a general-purpose p p experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

    W.W. Armstrong;W. Burris;D.M. Gingrich;P. Green

  • Quantifying Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Coastal Zone via Multiple Methods

    W.C. Burnett;P.K. Aggarwal;A. Aureli;H. Bokuniewicz

  • Tracking of Airborne Radionuclides from the Damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Reactors by European Networks

    O. Masson;A. Baeza;J. Bieringer;K. Brudecki

  • A comparison of doses from 137Cs and 210Po in marine food: A major international study

    A. Aarkrog;M.S. Baxter;A.O. Bettencourt;R. Bojanowski

  • Iodine-129 in Seawater Offshore Fukushima: distribution, inorganic speciation, sources, and budget.

    Xiaolin Hou;Pavel P. Povinec;Luyuan Zhang;Keliang Shi

  • Anthropogenic marine radioactivity

    Hugh D Livingston;Pavel P Povinec

  • Underground measurements of radioactivity

    M. Laubenstein;M. Hult;J. Gasparro;D. Arnold

  • Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the Environment

    Pavel P. Povinec;Katsumi Hirose;道夫 青山

  • Cesium, iodine and tritium in NW Pacific waters - a comparison of the Fukushima impact with global fallout

    P. P. Povinec;M. Aoyama;D. Biddulph;R. Breier

  • 90Sr, 137Cs and 239,240Pu concentration surface water time series in the Pacific and Indian Oceans - WOMARS results

    Pavel P. Povinec;Asker Aarkrog;Ken O. Buesseler;Roberta Delfanti

  • Spatial distribution of 3H, 90Sr, 137Cs and 239,240Pu in surface waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans—GLOMARD database

    Pavel P Povinec;Katsumi Hirose;Teruyuki Honda;Toshimichi Ito

  • A millennium perspective on the contribution of global fallout radionuclides to ocean science.

    Hugh D. Livingston;Pavel P. Povinec

  • Radiostrontium in the Western North Pacific: Characteristics, Behavior, and the Fukushima Impact

    Pavel P. Povinec;Katsumi Hirose;Katsumi Hirose;Michio Aoyama

  • IAEA’97 expedition to the NW Pacific Ocean—results of oceanographic and radionuclide investigations of the water column

    Pavel P Povinec;Hugh D Livingston;Shigeki Shima;Michio Aoyama

  • Separation of actinides, cesium and strontium from marine samples using extraction chromatography and sorbents

    J. J. La Rosa;W. Burnett;S. H. Lee;I. Levy

  • 90Sr and 137Cs in the Black Sea after the Chernobyl NPP accident: inventories, balance and tracer applications

    V.N. Egorov;P.P. Povinec;G.G. Polikarpov;N.A. Stokozov

  • Underwater gamma-spectrometry with HPGe and NaI(Tl) detectors

    P.P. Povinec;I. Osvath;M.S. Baxter

  • Dispersion of Fukushima radionuclides in the global atmosphere and the ocean

    Pp Povinec;M Gera;K Holý;K Hirose;K Hirose

  • Long-term simulations of the 137Cs dispersion from the Fukushima accident in the world ocean.

    Masanao Nakano;Pavel P. Povinec

  • Temporal and spatial trends in the distribution of 137Cs in surface waters of Northern European Seas—a record of 40 years of investigations

    Pavel P Povinec;Pascal Bailly du Bois;Peter J Kershaw;Hartmut Nies

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsumi Hirose
Katsumi Hirose Sophia University
Michio Aoyama
Michio Aoyama University of Tsukuba
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza National Autonomous University of Mexico
Matthias Laubenstein
Matthias Laubenstein National Institute for Nuclear Physics
S. Söldner-Rembold
S. Söldner-Rembold Imperial College London
Dominique Durand
Dominique Durand Case Western Reserve University
William C. Burnett
William C. Burnett Florida State University
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
A. J. T. Jull
A. J. T. Jull University of Arizona
Peter Steier
Peter Steier University of Vienna

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