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Sara Castiglioni publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara Castiglioni sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 197 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sara Castiglioni D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara Castiglioni sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sara Castiglioni is affiliated with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Pollution, Toxicology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Analytical chemistry methods development

Sara Castiglioni has published extensively in scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Food and Environmental Virology
  • Water

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Castiglioni include:

  • New psychoactive substances in several European populations assessed by wastewater-based epidemiology (2021) - Water Research
  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19 (2020) - Environmental Science & Technology
  • Monitoring psychoactive substance use at six European festivals through wastewater and pooled urine analysis (2020) - The Science of The Total Environment
  • One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste (2022) - Environmental Sciences Europe
  • A world of wastewater-based epidemiology (2023) - Nature Water

The researcher collaborates frequently with colleagues such as Ettore Zuccato, Lubertus Bijlsma, Noelia Salgueiro-González, Félix Hernández, and Alexander L.N. van Nuijs.

Best Publications

  • Removal of Pharmaceuticals in Sewage Treatment Plants in Italy

    Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Roberto Fanelli;Francesco Pomati

  • Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence-based tool to monitor community drug abuse

    Ettore Zuccato;Chiara Chiabrando;Sara Castiglioni;Sara Castiglioni;Davide Calamari

  • Strategic Survey of Therapeutic Drugs in the Rivers Po and Lambro in Northern Italy

    Davide Calamari;Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati

  • Estimating community drug abuse by wastewater analysis.

    Ettore Zuccato;Chiara Chiabrando;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati

  • Evaluation of uncertainties associated with the determination of community drug use through the measurement of sewage drug biomarkers.

    Sara Castiglioni;Lubertus Bijlsma;Adrian Covaci;Erik Emke

  • Source, occurrence and fate of antibiotics in the Italian aquatic environment

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Manuela Melis

  • Effects of a complex mixture of therapeutic drugs at environmental levels on human embryonic cells.

    Francesco Pomati;Sara Castiglioni;Ettore Zuccato;Roberto Fanelli

  • Illicit drugs, a novel group of environmental contaminants.

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Chiara Chiabrando

  • Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis.

    Kevin V. Thomas;Lubertus Bijlsma;Sara Castiglioni;Adrian Covaci

  • A multiresidue analytical method using solid-phase extraction and high-pressure liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to measure pharmaceuticals of different therapeutic classes in urban wastewaters.

    Sara Castiglioni;Renzo Bagnati;Davide Calamari;Roberto Fanelli

  • Identification of the pharmaceuticals for human use contaminating the Italian aquatic environment

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Sara Castiglioni;Roberto Fanelli

  • Identification and Measurement of Illicit Drugs and Their Metabolites in Urban Wastewater by Liquid Chromatography−Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Sara Castiglioni;Ettore Zuccato;Elisabetta Crisci;Chiara Chiabrando

  • Illicit drug consumption estimations derived from wastewater analysis: a critical review.

    Alexander L N van Nuijs;Sara Castiglioni;Isabela Tarcomnicu;Cristina Postigo

  • Spatial differences and temporal changes in illicit drug use in Europe quantified by wastewater analysis.

    Christoph Ort;Alexander L. N. van Nuijs;Jean-Daniel Berset;Lubertus Bijlsma

  • Preliminary investigation on the environmental occurrence and effects of antibiotics used in aquaculture in Italy.

    Giorgia Mary Lalumera;Davide Calamari;Paolo Galli;Sara Castiglioni

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19.

    Aaron Bivins;Devin North;Arslan Ahmad;Warish Ahmed

  • Pharmaceuticals in the environment in Italy: Causes, occurrence, effects and control

    Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni;Roberto Fanelli;Giuseppe Reitano

  • Refining correction factors for back-calculation of illicit drug use

    Emma Gracia-Lor;Ettore Zuccato;Sara Castiglioni

  • Assessing geographical differences in illicit drug consumption—A comparison of results from epidemiological and wastewater data in Germany and Switzerland

    Frederic Been;Lubertus Bijlsma;Lisa Benaglia;Jean Daniel Berset

  • Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives

    Emma Gracia-Lor;Emma Gracia-Lor;Sara Castiglioni;Richard Bade;Frederic Been

  • This record has been added to your Marked List.Effects of a complex mixture of therapeutic drugs at environmental levels on human embryonic cells

    Francesco Pomati;Sara Castiglioni;E Zuccato;R Fanelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Ettore Zuccato
Ettore Zuccato Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Kevin V. Thomas
Kevin V. Thomas University of Queensland
Lubertus Bijlsma
Lubertus Bijlsma Jaume I University
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern University of Bath
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs University of Antwerp
Roberto Fanelli
Roberto Fanelli Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Christoph Ort
Christoph Ort Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Pim de Voogt
Pim de Voogt University of Amsterdam

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