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Environmental Forensics
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Environmental Forensics

1527-5922

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uenf20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 600 16 28 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 28
Documents by Best Scientists*: 43
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 44
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.407
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Forensics?

Environmental Forensics was organized to reinforce research efforts on Environmental chemistry, Environmental engineering, Contamination, Groundwater and Hydrology. Environmental chemistry research is the primary subject tackled in the journal with a focus on Heavy metals. Environmental Forensics investigates Environmental engineering research which frequently intersects with Waste management.

Environmental Forensics is mostly focused on Waste management, specifically Gasoline. It primarily discusses Groundwater topics, particularly Aquifer and Groundwater pollution. Environmental Forensics features studies on Soil water, including topics such as Soil test.

Environmental Forensics facilitates the exploration of Particulates in relation to the field of Ambient air.

  • Environmental chemistry (33.94%)
  • Environmental engineering (15.28%)
  • Contamination (12.64%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Combustion-Derived Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Environment—A Review (407 citations)
  • Perchlorate: Problems, Detection, and Solutions (255 citations)
  • Detecting Trends Using Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient (239 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Forensics:

The most cited articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Environmental chemistry, Waste management, Contamination, Environmental engineering and Gas chromatography. While Environmental chemistry is the focus of the journal papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Soil test, Particulates, Metal, Hydrocarbon and Carbon. The published papers focus on Waste management but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Biodegradation, Petroleum product and Carbon tetrachloride.

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Organic chemistry

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly tackles studies in Environmental chemistry, Contamination, Water resource management, Groundwater and Hydrology. Environmental chemistry and Arsenic are closely related fields of research discussed in it. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Contamination, it also covered topics in Oceanography and Pollution.

While it focused on Water resource management, it was also able to explore topics like Groundwater pollution and Aquifer. The study on Groundwater presented in Environmental Forensics intersects with subjects under the field of China. Water quality is a major topic of Hydrology research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Ecotoxicological risk assessment and source identification of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Çömlekci stream, Giresun, Turkey (11 citations)
  • COVID-19 pandemic: An outlook on its impact on air quality and its association with environmental variables in major cities of Punjab and Chandigarh, India (10 citations)
  • Assessment of water quality of streams in northeast Turkey by water quality index and multiple statistical methods (8 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 Environmental Forensics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Guor-Cheng Fang (45 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yuan-Jie Zhuang (18 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Scott A. Stout (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ioana G. Petrisor (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gil Oudijk (12 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 Environmental Forensics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hungkuang University (41 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Exponent (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Universiti Putra Malaysia (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 8.54% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 1.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.33% of all publications and 60.00% 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

  • Investigation of the hydrogeochemistry, groundwater quality, and associated health risks in industrialized regions of Tripura, northeast India

    (2021)
    87 Citations
  • Assessing the pollution status, ecological and health risks of surface waters in Nnewi urban, Nigeria: implications of poor waste disposal

    Ogechukwu O. Onyemesili;Johnbosco C. Egbueri;Chimankpam K. Ezugwu

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • Geochemical distribution, statistical and health risk assessment of toxic elements in groundwater from a typical mining district in Nigeria

    Monday T. Enyigwe;Obialo S. Onwuka;Johnbosco C. Egbueri

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • The impact of seasonal change on river water quality and dissolved metals in mountainous agricultural areas and risk to human health

    Azlini Razali;Sharifah Norkhadijah Syed Ismail;Suriyani Awang;Sarva Mangala Praveena

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Determination of hydrocarbon sources in major rivers and estuaries of peninsular Malaysia using aliphatic hydrocarbons and hopanes as biomarkers

    Mehrzad Keshavarzifard;Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria;Moslem Sharifinia;Peter Grathwohl

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Ultra trace simultaneous determination of 50 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in biota using pMRM GC-MS/MS

    Honoria Kwok;Jeffrey Yan;Pamela Brunswick;Mark McMaster

    (2020)
    10 Citations
  • Dendrochemical forensics as material evidence in courts: How could trees lie?

    Chris Balouet;Joel Gerard Burken;Jacques Martelain;Jonathan Lageard

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Epiphytic microalgae as biological indicators for carbon monoxide concentrations in different areas of Peninsular Malaysia

    Siti Aisyah Razli;Azlan Abas;Asmida Ismail;Murnira Othman

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Water quality variation and source apportionment using multivariate statistical analysis

    (2022)
    4 Citations
  • Measurements of ambient air fine (PM≤2.5) and coarse (PM>2.5) particulates concentrations by using of a dust monitoring system

    Guor-Cheng Fang;Yen-Ping Peng;Chao-Lang Kao;Yuan-Jie Zhuang

    (2021)
    4 Citations

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