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Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology
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Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology

2053-1400

Published by: Royal Society of Chemistry

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/journalissues/ew#

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 125 187 262 31
Earth Science 350 15 17 10
Engineering and Technology 361 93 113 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 553
Documents by Best Scientists*: 570
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 17
SCIMAGO H-index: 74
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.875
Impact Factor: 3.1

Top Publications

  • A critical review of resource recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants – market supply potentials, technologies and bottlenecks

    Philipp Kehrein;Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht;Patricia Osseweijer;Marianna Garfi

    (2020)
    466 Citations
  • Reproducibility and sensitivity of 36 methods to quantify the SARS-CoV-2 genetic signal in raw wastewater: findings from an interlaboratory methods evaluation in the U.S.

    Brian M. Pecson;Emily Darby;Charles N. Haas;Yamrot M. Amha

    (2021)
    279 Citations
  • Editorial Perspectives: 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): what is its fate in urban water cycle and how can the water research community respond?

    Vincenzo Naddeo;Haizhou Liu

    (2020)
    200 Citations
  • Selective ion separation by capacitive deionization (CDI) based technologies: a state-of-the-art review

    Xudong Zhang;Kuichang Zuo;Xiaori Zhang;Changyong Zhang

    (2020)
    182 Citations
  • Landfill leachate contributes per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and pharmaceuticals to municipal wastewater

    Jason R. Masoner;Dana W. Kolpin;Isabelle M. Cozzarelli;Kelly L. Smalling

    (2020)
    168 Citations
  • Assessing pharmaceutical removal and reduction in toxicity provided by advanced wastewater treatment systems

    Luisa F. Angeles;Rachel A. Mullen;Irvin J. Huang;Christopher Wilson

    (2020)
    116 Citations
  • Hydrophilic trace organic contaminants in urban stormwater: occurrence, toxicological relevance, and the need to enhance green stormwater infrastructure

    Stephanie Spahr;Marc Teixidó;David L. Sedlak;Richard G. Luthy

    (2020)
    112 Citations

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