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Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
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Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

1064-3389

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/best20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 50 169 182 58
Engineering and Technology 158 61 64 36

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 430
Documents by Best Scientists*: 341
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 31
SCIMAGO H-index: 157
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.788
Impact Factor: 13.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology?

Waste management, Environmental chemistry, Environmental engineering, Wastewater and Pollutant are the subjects of interest in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. Waste management research discussed connects with the study of Environmental remediation. The concepts on Environmental chemistry presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Soil water, Contamination, Biodegradation and Adsorption.

Issues in Environmental engineering were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Water quality, Water pollution, Pollution and Groundwater. It connects the study in Wastewater with the closely related area of Effluent.

  • Waste management (24.54%)
  • Environmental chemistry (21.94%)
  • Environmental engineering (17.76%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Advanced Oxidation Processes for Organic Contaminant Destruction Based on the Fenton Reaction and Related Chemistry (2515 citations)
  • PRESENT AND LONG-TERM COMPOSITION OF MSW LANDFILL LEACHATE: A REVIEW (1600 citations)
  • Mercury in the Aquatic Environment: A Review of Factors Affecting Methylation (1206 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology:

The most cited papers investigate areas of study like Waste management, Environmental chemistry, Environmental engineering, Wastewater and Sewage treatment. While the published papers focused on Waste management, they were also able to explore topics like Environmental remediation and Anaerobic digestion. The most cited papers with studies in Environmental engineering featured incorporate elements of Contamination, Soil contamination, Water pollution, Groundwater and Wetland.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Ecology
  • Organic chemistry
  • Oxygen

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology is mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental chemistry, Waste management, Pollutant, Environmental protection and Pulp and paper industry. The presented research on Environmental chemistry deals specifically with Toxicity but it also addresses topics in Detoxification. The study on Waste management featured in the journal expounds on the topic of Wastewater in particular.

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology explores research in Pollutant and the adjacent study of Photocatalysis. The journal links adjacent topics like Environmental protection with Current (fluid). The study on Pulp and paper industry presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Sewage treatment.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Recent developments of doped g-C3N4 photocatalysts for the degradation of organic pollutants (110 citations)
  • Non-stomatal limitation of photosynthesis by soil salinity (26 citations)
  • Contributions of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in microplastic pollution research: A review (24 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Yong Sik Ok (24 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nanthi Bolan (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jörg Rinklebe (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jacek Namieśnik (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Piet N.L. Lens (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Florida (42 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (38 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (29 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (24 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Gdańsk University of Technology (21 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 1.47% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 24.63% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.43% of all publications and 49.25% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Microplastics in the soil environment: Occurrence, risks, interactions and fate – A review

    Baile Xu;Fei Liu;Zachary Cryder;Dan Huang

    (2020)
    609 Citations
  • Cadmium stress in plants: A critical review of the effects, mechanisms, and tolerance strategies

    Taoufik El Rasafi;Abdallah Oukarroum;Abdelmajid Haddioui;Hocheol Song

    (2020)
    549 Citations
  • Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soils: A systematic analysis

    Unknown

    (2022)
    340 Citations
  • Production technologies, current role, and future prospects of biofuels feedstocks: A state-of-the-art review

    Arianna Callegari;Silvia Bolognesi;Daniele Cecconet;Andrea G. Capodaglio

    (2020)
    298 Citations
  • Occurrence of contaminants in drinking water sources and the potential of biochar for water quality improvement:A review

    Kumuduni Niroshika Palansooriya;Yi Yang;Yiu Fai Tsang;Binoy Sarkar

    (2020)
    276 Citations
  • Antibiotic resistome in the livestock and aquaculture industries: Status and solutions

    Yi Zhao;Qiu E. Yang;Xue Zhou;Feng-Hua Wang

    (2021)
    274 Citations
  • Chemical and biological immobilization mechanisms of potentially toxic elements in biochar-amended soils

    Tharanga Bandara;Ashley Franks;Jianming Xu;Nanthi Bolan

    (2020)
    273 Citations
  • Ensuring planetary survival: the centrality of organic carbon in balancing the multifunctional nature of soils

    Unknown

    (2022)
    230 Citations
  • Plastic ingestion by marine fish in the wild

    Ana Markic;Jean-Claude Gaertner;Nabila Gaertner-Mazouni;Albert A. Koelmans

    (2020)
    220 Citations
  • Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the environment: Plant uptake, translocation, bioaccumulation, and human health risks

    S. Keerthanan;Chamila Jayasinghe;Jayanta Kumar Biswas;Meththika Vithanage

    (2021)
    181 Citations

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