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Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste
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Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste

2153-5493

Published by: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jhtrbp

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 500 15 28 10
Engineering and Technology 779 20 40 11
Chemistry 953 10 12 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 45
Documents by Best Scientists*: 68
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 44
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.505
Impact Factor: 2.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Waste management, Environmental engineering, Environmental chemistry, Wastewater and Adsorption. The Waste management study featured in Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste draws parallels with the field of Bioreactor. The concepts on Environmental engineering presented in Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste can also apply to other research fields, including Pollution, Environmental remediation and Groundwater.

Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste primarily discusses Groundwater topics, particularly Groundwater pollution and Aquifer. The work on Environmental chemistry tackled in Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste brings together disciplines like Soil water, Soil contamination, Contamination and Pollutant. Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste focuses on Wastewater but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Effluent, Pulp and paper industry and Sewage treatment.

The research on Adsorption featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Chromatography, Chemical engineering, Aqueous solution and Nuclear chemistry.

  • Waste management (26.47%)
  • Environmental engineering (16.78%)
  • Environmental chemistry (15.74%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Removal of Chromium from Electroplating Industry Effluent Using Electrocoagulation (57 citations)
  • Review of Perspective, Problems, Challenges, and Future Scenario of Metal Contamination in the Urban Environment (43 citations)
  • Service Life of HDPE Geomembranes Subjected to Elevated Temperatures (41 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste:

The published articles mainly tackle studies in Waste management, Environmental engineering, Environmental chemistry, Municipal solid waste and Leachate. Fly ash is a focus of the presented Waste management works in the journal publications and they dives deep in Fly ash. The works on Environmental chemistry tackled in the most cited papers bring together disciplines like Soil water, Soil properties, Contamination, Effluent and Enrofloxacin.

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

  • Organic chemistry
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Oxygen

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Waste management, Inorganic chemistry, Hydrology, Clogging and Subsurface flow. Waste management research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Contamination, Measure (data warehouse) and Current (fluid). The journal holds forums on Inorganic chemistry that merges themes from other disciplines such as Sorghum, Adsorption, Aqueous solution and Biosorption.

Hydrology research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Wetland.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Dynamics of Clogging in Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands (0 citations)
  • Assessment of Clay Mineral Attenuation Capacity for Human Viral Pathogens (0 citations)
  • Assessing Sample Number Requirements for Municipal Solid Waste Composition Studies (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 Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Krishna R. Reddy (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rao Y. Surampalli (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • C. S. P. Ojha (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dennis G. Grubb (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Satinder Kaur Brar (10 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 Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Indian Institutes of Technology (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 44.44% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.11% of all publications and 44.44% 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

  • On-Site Sanitary Wastewater Treatment System Using 720-L Stacked Microbial Fuel Cell: Case Study

    Indrasis Das;M. M. Ghangrekar;Rajiv Satyakam;Piyush Srivastava

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • State of the Art Review of Emerging and Biogeotechnical Methods for Liquefaction Mitigation in Sands

    Meghna Sharma;Neelima Satyam;Krishna R. Reddy

    (2021)
    64 Citations
  • Strength Enhancement and Lead Immobilization of Sand Using Consortia of Bacteria and Blue-Green Algae

    Meghna Sharma;Neelima Satyam;Krishna R. Reddy

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Production of Hydrogen Peroxide Using Various Metal-Based Catalysts in Electrochemical and Bioelectrochemical Systems: Mini Review

    Sovik Das;Ashish Mishra;M. M. Ghangrekar

    (2020)
    46 Citations
  • Performance Evaluation of Microbial Fuel Cell Operated with Pd or MnO 2 as Cathode Catalyst and Chaetoceros Pretreated Anodic Inoculum

    Sovik Das;Indrajit Chakraborty;P. P. Rajesh;M. M. Ghangrekar

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • Potential of the Constructed Wetlands and the Earthworm-Based Treatment Technologies to Remove the Emerging Contaminants: A Review

    (2022)
    35 Citations
  • Improving Performance of Microbial Fuel Cell by Using Polyaniline-Coated Carbon–Felt Anode

    P. P. Rajesh;Md. T. Noori;M. M. Ghangrekar

    (2020)
    34 Citations

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