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Environmental Geochemistry and Health
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Environmental Geochemistry and Health

0269-4042

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10653

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 95 203 313 38
Earth Science 161 65 92 22
Chemistry 355 78 104 22
Engineering and Technology 573 30 38 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 447
Documents by Best Scientists*: 527
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 24
SCIMAGO H-index: 99
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.871
Impact Factor: 3.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Geochemistry and Health?

The journal facilitates discussions on Environmental chemistry, Soil water, Contamination, Environmental engineering and Pollution. The research on Environmental chemistry tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Soil contamination, Pollutant, Sediment, Groundwater and Arsenic. Environmental Geochemistry and Health focuses on Soil contamination as well as the interrelated topic of Soil classification.

The journal features research on Groundwater in an attempt to reinforce studies in the field of Hydrology. The works on Arsenic deal in particular with Arsenic contamination of groundwater. The journal explores issues in Soil water which can be linked to other research areas like Agronomy, Cadmium and Environmental remediation.

  • Environmental chemistry (37.30%)
  • Soil water (20.86%)
  • Contamination (14.30%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Soil factors associated with zinc deficiency in crops and humans (453 citations)
  • Arsenic in groundwater in six districts of West Bengal, India. (353 citations)
  • The geochemistry of iodine - a review. (345 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Geochemistry and Health:

The published articles generally zeroe in on subjects such as Environmental chemistry, Soil water, Environmental engineering, Arsenic and Contamination. The Environmental chemistry research presented in the journal articles focuses mostly on Cadmium and, on occasion, topics in Zinc and Mercury (element). While work presented in the journal publications provide substantial information on Environmental engineering, it also covers topics in Health risk assessment, Environmental remediation, Pollution and Groundwater.

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

  • Ecology
  • Internal medicine
  • Botany

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The aim of Environmental Geochemistry and Health is to expand the discussion of research in Environmental chemistry, Soil water, Pollution, Contamination and Groundwater. In the journal, Sediment, Organic matter, Soil contamination and Environmental remediation are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Environmental chemistry research. The journal addresses concerns in Soil water which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Agriculture and Metal.

While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Pollution, it also covered topics in Pollutant, Environmental health, Health risk assessment, Public health and Spatial distribution. The Health risk assessment study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Toxicology. The work on Groundwater tackled in Environmental Geochemistry and Health brings together disciplines like Water quality and Nitrate.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Poor groundwater quality and high potential health risks in the Datong Basin, northern China: research from published data. (57 citations)
  • Health risks associated with fluoride intake from rural drinking water supply and inverse mass balance modeling to decipher hydrogeochemical processes in Vattamalaikarai River basin, South India. (28 citations)
  • Groundwater quality for potable and irrigation uses and associated health risk in southern part of Gu’an County, North China Plain (25 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 Geochemistry and Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kyoung-Woong Kim (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yong Sik Ok (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tatiana Minkina (40 papers) published 29 papers at the last edition, 18 more than at the previous edition,
  • Michael J. Watts (30 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Svetlana Sushkova (25 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 11 more than at the previous 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 Geochemistry and Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (214 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • British Geological Survey (65 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Kangwon National University (45 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (41 papers) published 28 papers at the last edition, 21 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, 3.31% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.02% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.13% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.32% of all publications and 64.53% 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

  • The mechanisms of biochar interactions with microorganisms in soil

    Andrey V. Gorovtsov;Tatiana M. Minkina;Saglara S. Mandzhieva;Leonid V. Perelomov

    (2020)
    244 Citations
  • Quality criteria for groundwater use from a rural part of Wanaparthy District, Telangana State, India, through ionic spatial distribution (ISD), entropy water quality index (EWQI) and principal component analysis (PCA)

    N Subba Rao;B Sunitha;N Adimalla;M Chaudhary

    (2020)
    243 Citations
  • Controlling factors and mechanism of groundwater quality variation in semiarid region of South India: an approach of water quality index (WQI) and health risk assessment (HRA)

    Narsimha Adimalla

    (2020)
    225 Citations
  • Heavy metals contamination in urban surface soils of Medak province, India, and its risk assessment and spatial distribution.

    Narsimha Adimalla

    (2020)
    203 Citations
  • Heavy metals pollution assessment and its associated human health risk evaluation of urban soils from Indian cities: a review.

    Narsimha Adimalla

    (2020)
    186 Citations
  • Climate change and its effect on groundwater quality.

    Maurizio Barbieri;Marino Domenico Barberio;Francesca Banzato;Andrea Billi

    (2021)
    172 Citations
  • Poor groundwater quality and high potential health risks in the Datong Basin, northern China: research from published data.

    Xiaodong He;Peiyue Li;Peiyue Li;Jianhua Wu;Miaojun Wei

    (2021)
    150 Citations

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