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Water Environment Research

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 353 65 110 15
Engineering and Technology 601 44 95 14
Chemistry 610 60 74 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 191
Documents by Best Scientists*: 237
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 90
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.659
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Water Environment Research?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Wastewater, Environmental engineering, Environmental chemistry, Waste management and Effluent. The Wastewater works featured in it incorporate elements from Waste disposal, Pulp and paper industry, Sewage treatment and Bioreactor. The research on Pulp and paper industry discussed in the journal draws on the closely related field of Anaerobic digestion.

The main emphasis of Water Environment Research is the research on Sewage treatment, emphasizing the topic of Activated sludge. It explores research in Bioreactor and the adjacent study of Chromatography. The research on Environmental engineering featured in Water Environment Research combines topics in other fields like Aeration, Water quality, Nitrification and Stormwater.

The journal explores research in Nitrification alongside concepts in Denitrification and other areas of study in Nitrate. The journal explores topics in Environmental chemistry which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Phosphorus and Biodegradation. It primarily discusses Waste management topics, particularly Waste treatment, Biosolids and Sludge.

  • Wastewater (27.67%)
  • Environmental engineering (22.30%)
  • Environmental chemistry (16.25%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Laboratory study of biological retention for urban stormwater management. (403 citations)
  • Determination of bicarbonate and total volatile acid concentration in anaerobic digesters using a simple titration (331 citations)
  • Urban stormwater toxic pollutants: assessment, sources, and treatability (320 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Water Environment Research:

The journal articles primarily focus on research topics in Wastewater, Environmental engineering, Sewage treatment, Waste management and Activated sludge. While work presented in the most cited publications provide substantial information on Wastewater, it also covers topics in Environmental chemistry, Waste disposal, Effluent and Pulp and paper industry. The journal articles facilitate discussions on Environmental engineering that incorporate concepts from other fields like Nitrification, Water pollution, Water quality and Surface runoff, Stormwater.

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

  • Organic chemistry
  • Oxygen
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Water Environment Research mainly deals with areas of study such as Wastewater, Pulp and paper industry, Sewage treatment, Nuclear chemistry and Effluent. Wastewater studies covered in Water Environment Research falls within the purview of Waste management. The work on Pulp and paper industry tackled in it brings together disciplines like Activated sludge, Chemical oxygen demand, Biochemical oxygen demand, Aeration and Bioreactor.

Topics in Sewage treatment were tackled in line with various other fields like Biomass, Pollutant and Chloride. The study of Adsorption and how it intertwines with concepts under Aqueous solution and Chemical engineering were explored in the presented Nuclear chemistry research. The studies on Effluent discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Suspended solids, Organic matter, Phosphorus and Water quality.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The effects of three different microplastics on enzyme activities and microbial communities in soil (27 citations)
  • Advances in water treatment technologies for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Existing concepts, emerging trends, and future prospects (18 citations)
  • Challenge for the detection of microplastics in the environment. (14 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 Water Environment Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael K. Stenstrom (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Glen T. Daigger (42 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • John T. Novak (41 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Sudhir Murthy (37 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Krishna R. Pagilla (27 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous 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 Water Environment Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Virginia Tech (37 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (29 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Davis (26 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Tongji University (23 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Maryland, College Park (23 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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 2021 edition, 3.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 8.23% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.19% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.32% of all publications and 69.26% 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

  • Microplastic concentrations, size distribution, and polymer types in the surface waters of a northern European lake

    Emilia Uurasjärvi;Samuel Hartikainen;Outi Setälä;Maiju Lehtiniemi

    (2020)
    212 Citations
  • Physicochemical properties of antibiotics: A review with an emphasis on detection in the aquatic environment

    Elnaz Jafari Ozumchelouei;Amir Hossein Hamidian;Amir Hossein Hamidian;Yu Zhang;Min Yang

    (2020)
    98 Citations
  • Advances and challenges of mainstream nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater with anammox-based processes.

    Wen-Jie Ma;Gui-Feng Li;Bao-Cheng Huang;Ren-Cun Jin

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Metagenomic prediction analysis of microbial aggregation in anammox-dominated community.

    Fangxu Jia;Yongzhen Peng;Jianwei Li;Xiyao Li

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Impacts of conductive materials on microbial community during syntrophic propionate oxidization for biomethane recovery.

    Bing Guo;Yingdi Zhang;Najiaowa Yu;Yang Liu

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • An experimental investigation on phytoremediation performance of water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes L.) for pollutants removal from paper mill effluent.

    Jogendra Singh;Vinod Kumar;Pankaj Kumar;Piyush Kumar

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Taking the water out of “wastewater”: An ineluctable oxymoron for urban water cycle sustainability

    Andrea G. Capodaglio

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Operational and structural A-stage improvements for high-rate carbon removal.

    Bernhard Wett;Peter Aichinger;Martin Hell;Martin Andersen

    (2020)
    30 Citations

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