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Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)
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Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

1080-7039

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/bher20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 255 29 46 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 80
Documents by Best Scientists*: 101
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 92
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.713
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Human and Ecological Risk Assessment?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Risk assessment, Environmental chemistry, Environmental health, Environmental engineering and Ecological risk. The journal explores topics in Risk assessment which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Actuarial science, Toxicology, Environmental resource management, Risk analysis (engineering) and Risk management. The work on Environmental chemistry tackled in it brings together disciplines like Soil water, Contamination and Pollution.

Environmental health research discussed connects with the study of Health risk assessment.

  • Risk assessment (27.84%)
  • Environmental chemistry (16.19%)
  • Environmental health (13.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Health Effects of Toxin-Producing Cyanobacteria: “The CyanoHABs” (658 citations)
  • An international database for pesticide risk assessments and management (488 citations)
  • Recommended Uses of Empirically Derived, Sediment Quality Guidelines for Marine and Estuarine Ecosystems (473 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Human and Ecological Risk Assessment:

The most cited articles mainly deal with areas of study such as Risk assessment, Environmental chemistry, Ecology, Ecological risk and Environmental engineering. The Risk assessment research tackled in the journal articles is interrelated with Risk analysis (engineering) which concerns subjects like Process (engineering). While Environmental chemistry is the focus of the published articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Soil water, Water quality, Contamination and Arsenic.

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

  • Ecology
  • Internal medicine
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Environmental health, Health risk assessment, Risk assessment, Water resource management and Groundwater. In it, Contamination, Heavy metals, Nitrate and Pollution are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Health risk assessment research. The journal facilitates discussions on Contamination that incorporate concepts from other fields like Environmental chemistry, Mercury (element) and Arsenic.

While Environmental chemistry is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Soil water and Pollutant. It focuses on Risk assessment but sometimes tackles the closely related topic of Ecological risk which is concerned with Environmental resource management and Agriculture. Research in China and the interrelating topic of Ecological vulnerability were among the subjects of interest in the Water resource management studies discussed in the journal.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Ground/drinking water contaminants and cancer incidence: A case study of rural areas of South West Punjab, India (17 citations)
  • Evaluation of drinking and irrigation suitability of groundwater with special emphasizing the health risk posed by nitrate contamination using nitrate pollution index (NPI) and human health risk assessment (HHRA) (16 citations)
  • Environmental monitoring and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in farmland soils (11 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 Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Barry L. Johnson (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Glenn W. Suter (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mark G. Robson (30 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Peter M. Chapman (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Edward J. Calabrese (19 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 Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (106 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (71 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Rutgers University (35 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Exponent (31 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
  • Beijing Normal University (28 papers) published 2 papers at the last 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, 7.56% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.82% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.36% 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 62.73% 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

  • Statistical and multivariate statistical techniques to trace the sources and affecting factors of groundwater pollution in a rapidly growing city on the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Jianhua Wu;Peiyue Li;Dan Wang;Xiaofei Ren

    (2020)
    279 Citations
  • Spatial distribution, exposure, and potential health risk assessment from nitrate in drinking water from semi-arid region of South India

    Narsimha Adimalla

    (2020)
    246 Citations
  • Potential health risk of heavy metals via consumption of rice and vegetables grown in the industrial areas of Bangladesh

    Ram Proshad;Tapos Kormoker;Md. Saiful Islam;Krishno Chandra

    (2020)
    162 Citations
  • Groundwater quality under land use/land cover changes: A temporal study from 2005 to 2015 in Xi’an, Northwest China

    Song He;Peiyue Li;Jianhua Wu;Vetrimurugan Elumalai

    (2020)
    95 Citations
  • Interactions between surface water and groundwater in selected tributaries of the Wei River (China) revealed by hydrochemistry and stable isotopes

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • Groundwater quality, health risk, and major influencing factors in the lower Beiluo River watershed of northwest China

    Yanlin Li;Peiyue Li;Xinghan Cui;Song He

    (2021)
    60 Citations
  • Assessing groundwater quality and health risks of fluoride pollution in the Shasler Vagu (SV) watershed of Nalgonda, India

    Narsimha Adimalla;Sudheer Kumar Marsetty;Panpan Xu

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Spatio-temporal variations in landscape ecological risk related to road network in the Central Himalaya

    Deepika Mann;Mangalasseril Mohammad Anees;Shalini Rankavat;Pawan Kumar Joshi

    (2021)
    53 Citations
  • Major ion hydrogeochemistry and health risk of groundwater nitrate in selected rural areas of the Guanzhong Basin, China

    (2023)
    45 Citations
  • A review on remediation technologies for nickel-contaminated soil

    Xueyan Chen;Deepika Kumari;C J Cao;Grażyna Plaza

    (2020)
    44 Citations

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