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Environmental Research
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Environmental Research

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Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 17 938 2043 86

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Number of Best Scientists*: 3604
Documents by Best Scientists*: 5109
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 107
SCIMAGO H-index: 196
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.822
Impact Factor: 7.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Environmental Research?

The discussions in the journal mainly cover the fields of Environmental health, Internal medicine, Environmental chemistry, Endocrinology and Toxicity. The Environmental health study tackling the subject of Environmental exposure is the focus of it. The Environmental chemistry works featured in Environmental Research incorporate elements from Contamination and Pollutant.

The research on Air pollution tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Particulates and Air quality index.

  • Environmental health (15.85%)
  • Internal medicine (11.81%)
  • Environmental chemistry (11.07%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long-term threat (1045 citations)
  • Air pollution and daily mortality: a review and meta analysis. (767 citations)
  • Comfort and thermal sensations and associated physiological responses at various ambient temperatures (716 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Environmental Research:

The most cited articles are organized to reinforce research efforts on Environmental health, Environmental exposure, Internal medicine, Environmental chemistry and Air pollution. The Environmental health research presented in the journal papers focuses mostly on Epidemiology and, on occasion, topics in Demography. The journal publications focus on Internal medicine but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Pregnancy and Endocrinology.

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

  • Internal medicine
  • Ecology
  • Enzyme

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Environmental Research covers a variety of subjects, including Environmental health, Environmental chemistry, Chemical engineering, Adsorption and Nuclear chemistry. Topics in Environmental health explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Air pollution, Incidence (epidemiology) and Cohort. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Environmental chemistry, it also covered topics in Soil water, Sediment and Pollution.

While it focused on Chemical engineering, it was also able to explore topics like Photocatalysis and Aqueous solution. The work on Adsorption presented in Environmental Research focuses on Langmuir adsorption model in particular. Environmental Research features Nuclear chemistry research that overlaps with concepts in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Removal of metal ions using a new magnetic chitosan nano-bio-adsorbent; A powerful approach in water treatment. (9 citations)
  • Preparedness of countries to face covid-19 pandemic crisis: Strategic positioning and underlying structural factors to support strategies of prevention of pandemic threats. (9 citations)
  • Positive association between outdoor air pollution and the incidence and severity of COVID-19. A review of the recent scientific evidences. (7 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 Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • José L. Domingo (60 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 14 less than at the previous edition,
  • Antonia M. Calafat (60 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 9 less than at the previous edition,
  • Joel Schwartz (54 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 9 less than at the previous edition,
  • Joanna Burger (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ki-Hyun Kim (42 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 Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Harvard University (292 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 36 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (236 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 32 less than at the previous edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (226 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 17 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (219 papers) published 23 papers at the last edition, 42 less than at the previous edition,
  • Karolinska Institutet (162 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 6 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, 2.65% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.15% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.94% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.55% of all publications and 66.36% 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

  • Micro- and nano-plastics in edible fruit and vegetables. The first diet risks assessment for the general population.

    Gea Oliveri Conti;Margherita Ferrante;Mohamed Banni;Claudia Favara

    (2020)
    757 Citations
  • Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem.

    Karn Vohra;Alina Vodonos;Joel Schwartz;Eloise A. Marais

    (2021)
    746 Citations
  • Prevalence and hazardous impact of pharmaceutical and personal care products and antibiotics in environment: A review on emerging contaminants

    Preeti Chaturvedi;Preeti Chaturvedi;Parul Shukla;Balendu Shekher Giri;Pankaj Chowdhary

    (2021)
    641 Citations
  • Biorenewable hydrogen production through biomass gasification: A review and future prospects

    Leichang Cao;Iris K.M. Yu;Xinni Xiong;Daniel C.W. Tsang

    (2020)
    535 Citations
  • SARS-Cov-2RNA found on particulate matter of Bergamo in Northern Italy: First evidence.

    Leonardo Setti;Fabrizio Passarini;Gianluigi De Gennaro;Pierluigi Barbieri

    (2020)
    528 Citations
  • Spatial dimensions of the influence of urban green-blue spaces on human health: A systematic review.

    S.M. Labib;Sarah Lindley;Jonny J. Huck

    (2020)
    451 Citations
  • Decline in PM2.5 concentrations over major cities around the world associated with COVID-19

    Akshansha Chauhan;Ramesh P. Singh

    (2020)
    428 Citations
  • The role of air pollution (PM and NO2) in COVID-19 spread and lethality: A systematic review.

    Chiara Copat;Antonio Cristaldi;Maria Fiore;Alfina Grasso

    (2020)
    411 Citations
  • Decay of SARS-CoV-2 and surrogate murine hepatitis virus RNA in untreated wastewater to inform application in wastewater-based epidemiology.

    Warish Ahmed;Paul M. Bertsch;Kyle Bibby;Eiji Haramoto

    (2020)
    357 Citations
  • Removal of tetracycline from wastewater using g-C3N4 based photocatalysts: A review.

    (2022)
    326 Citations

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