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71
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17014
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1600
National Ranking
679

Overview

Thomas E. McKone is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of environmental science with a concentration on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Additional subfields of their work include oncology, industrial and manufacturing engineering, strategy and management, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

The topics addressed in McKone's publications cover a range of environmental and health concerns. These include recycling and waste management techniques, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, toxic organic pollutants impact, sustainable supply chain management, technology assessment and management, risk perception and management, and air quality and health impacts.

McKone's recent publications include:

  • Exposure and toxicity characterization of chemical emissions and chemicals in products: global recommendations and implementation in USEtox (2021) published in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Risk and sustainability: trade-offs and synergies for robust decision making (2022) published in Environmental Sciences Europe
  • Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment (2023) published in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
  • Applying the hierarchy of controls to oil and gas development (2022) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • A complex systems model of breast cancer etiology: The Paradigm II Model (2023) published in PLoS ONE

They have published in several scientific journals repeatedly, with the most frequent being The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Other venues include Environmental Sciences Europe, Environmental Research Letters, PLoS ONE, and Environmental Science & Technology.

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Peter Fantke, Andrea Paulillo, Robert A. Hiatt, Lee Worden, and David H. Rehkopf.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Indoor Particulate Matter of Outdoor Origin: Importance of Size-Dependent Removal Mechanisms

    William J. Riley;Thomas E. McKone;and Alvin C. K. Lai;William W. Nazaroff

  • Defining intake fraction.

    Deborah H. Bennett;Thomas E. McKone;John S. Evans;William W. Nazaroff

  • Indoor pollutants emitted by office equipment: A review of reported data and information needs

    Hugo Destaillats;Hugo Destaillats;Randy L. Maddalena;Brett C. Singer;Alfred T. Hodgson

  • 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

  • Energy and Human Health

    Kirk R. Smith;Howard Frumkin;Kalpana Balakrishnan;Colin D. Butler

  • Hazard assessment of chemical air contaminants measured in residences

    J. M. Logue;T. E. McKone;M. H. Sherman;B. C. Singer

  • Human toxicity potentials for life-cycle assessment and toxics release inventory risk screening.

    Edgar G. Hertwich;Sarah F. Mateles;William S. Pease;Thomas E. McKone

  • USEtox fate and ecotoxicity factors for comparative assessment of toxic emissions in life cycle analysis: sensitivity to key chemical properties

    Ralph K. Rosenbaum;Mark Huijbregts;Andrew D. Henderson;Manuele Margni

  • Human exposure to volatile organic compounds in household tap water: the indoor inhalation pathway

    Thomas E. McKone

  • Pesticides and their metabolites in the homes and urine of farmworker children living in the Salinas Valley, CA.

    Asa Bradman;Donald Whitaker;Lesliam Quirós;Rosemary Castorina

  • Organophosphate urinary metabolite levels during pregnancy and after delivery in women living in an agricultural community.

    Asa Bradman;Brenda Eskenazi;Dana B. Barr;Roberto Bravo

  • Intake fraction for particulate matter: recommendations for life cycle impact assessment.

    Sebastien Humbert;Sebastien Humbert;Julian D. Marshall;Shanna Shaked;Joseph V. Spadaro;Joseph V. Spadaro

  • Grand challenges for life-cycle assessment of biofuels.

    T. E. McKone;T. E. McKone;T. E. McKone;W. W. Nazaroff;W. W. Nazaroff;P. Berck;P. Berck;M. Auffhammer;M. Auffhammer

  • Phthalate exposure and risk assessment in California child care facilities.

    Fraser W. Gaspar;Rosemary Castorina;Randy L. Maddalena;Marcia G. Nishioka

  • Comparing Estimates of Persistence and Long-Range Transport Potential among Multimedia Models

    Kathrin Fenner;Martin Scheringer;Matthew Macleod;Michael Matthies

  • General Formulation of Characteristic Travel Distance for Semivolatile Organic Chemicals in a Multimedia Environment

    Deborah H. Bennett;Thomas E. McKone;Michael Matthies;William E. Kastenberg

  • Implications of global climate change for the assessment and management of human health risks of chemicals in the natural environment.

    John M. Balbus;Alistair B.A. Boxall;Richard A. Fenske;Thomas E. McKone

  • Integrating Human Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure within Life Cycle Impact Assessment

    Stefanie Hellweg;Evangelia Demou;Raffaella Bruzzi;Arjen Meijer

  • Assessing the influence of climate variability on atmospheric concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls using a global-scale mass balance model (BETR-global).

    Matthew Macleod;William J. Riley;Thomas E. Mckone

  • The State of Multimedia Mass-Balance Modeling in Environmental Science and Decision-Making

    Matthew MacLeod;Martin Scheringer;Thomas E. McKone;Konrad Hungerbuhler

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Jolliet
Olivier Jolliet University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Deborah H. Bennett
Deborah H. Bennett University of California, Davis
Peter Fantke
Peter Fantke Technical University of Denmark
William W. Nazaroff
William W. Nazaroff University of California, Berkeley
Julian D. Marshall
Julian D. Marshall University of Washington
Arpad Horvath
Arpad Horvath University of California, Berkeley
Michael Zwicky Hauschild
Michael Zwicky Hauschild Technical University of Denmark
Asa Bradman
Asa Bradman University of California, Berkeley
John S. O. Evans
John S. O. Evans Durham University
Manuele Margni
Manuele Margni Polytechnique Montréal

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