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Environmental Pollution
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Environmental Pollution

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 9 1364 2894 103

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 3966
Documents by Best Scientists*: 5484
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 120
SCIMAGO H-index: 328
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.205
Impact Factor: 7.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Pollution?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental chemistry, Pollution, Ecology, Soil water and Pollutant. Environmental Pollution holds forums on Environmental chemistry that merges themes from other disciplines such as Sediment, Contamination, Soil contamination and Cadmium. The journal investigates Sediment research which frequently intersects with Hydrology.

The majority of Hydrology studies presented zero in on Surface water. Pollution and Air pollution are closely related fields of research discussed in it. The work on Air pollution tackled in it brings together disciplines like Particulates and Air quality index.

The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Ecology, apply to Zoology as well. Environmental Pollution links adjacent topics like Soil water with Agronomy.

  • Environmental chemistry (33.88%)
  • Pollution (11.12%)
  • Ecology (10.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Human health effects of air pollution (2299 citations)
  • Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems (2110 citations)
  • The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: a review. (1715 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Pollution:

The most cited articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental chemistry, Soil contamination, Soil water, Ecology and Pollution. Aside from discussions in Environmental chemistry, the published articles also deal with the subject of Cadmium which intersects with Zinc disciplines. The journal publications explore issues in Soil water which can be linked to other research areas like Organic matter and Agronomy.

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:

Environmental chemistry, Pollution, Microplastics, Pollutant and Soil water are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. In Environmental Pollution, Contamination, Environmental remediation, Biochar, Dry weight and Seawater are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Environmental chemistry research. Environmental Pollution explores topics in Biochar which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Husk and Microbial population biology.

It holds forums on Pollution that merges themes from other disciplines such as Particulates, Sediment, Atmospheric sciences and Air quality index. The study on Pollutant presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Environmental engineering.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Estimating 2013–2019 NO2 exposure with high spatiotemporal resolution in China using an ensemble model (1 citations)
  • South polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) as biovectors for long-range transport of persistent organic pollutants to Antarctica. (0 citations)
  • PM2.5 exposure in association with AD-related neuropathology and cognitive outcomes. (0 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 Pollution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Baoshan Xing (101 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Shu Tao (98 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Kevin C. Jones (88 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Shinsuke Tanabe (86 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • William J. Manning (73 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 Pollution (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (1770 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 275 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhejiang University (395 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 77 less than at the previous edition,
  • Peking University (362 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 53 less than at the previous edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (298 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 25 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing University (223 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 31 less 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 2022 edition, 1.98% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 24.24% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.08% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 9.09% of all publications and 58.59% 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

  • Understanding plastic degradation and microplastic formation in the environment: A review

    Kai Zhang;Amir Hossein Hamidian;Aleksandra Tubić;Yu Zhang

    (2021)
    1348 Citations
  • Microplastics as pollutants in agricultural soils

    Manish Kumar;Xinni Xiong;Mingjing He;Daniel C.W. Tsang

    (2020)
    732 Citations
  • Adsorption of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater by modified biochar: A review.

    Ning Cheng;Bing Wang;Bing Wang;Pan Wu;Xinqing Lee

    (2021)
    728 Citations
  • Role of the chronic air pollution levels in the Covid-19 outbreak risk in Italy.

    Daniele Fattorini;Francesco Regoli

    (2020)
    627 Citations
  • Sewage sludge application as a vehicle for microplastics in eastern Spanish agricultural soils

    Pim van den Berg;Esperanza Huerta-Lwanga;Fabio Corradini;Violette Geissen

    (2020)
    625 Citations
  • Fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants and their environmental dispersion with effluent and sludge.

    Carlos Edo;Miguel González-Pleiter;Francisco Leganés;Francisca Fernández-Piñas

    (2020)
    581 Citations

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