Environmental Sciences Europe

Papers
(The TQCC of Environmental Sciences Europe is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban population exposure to air pollution in Europe over the last decades158
Environmental fate of tetracycline antibiotics: degradation pathway mechanisms, challenges, and perspectives153
Mercury in the terrestrial environment: a review151
Analysis of the polyester clothing value chain to identify key intervention points for sustainability99
Persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances pose an equivalent level of concern to persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) and very persistent and very84
High concentration and high dose of disinfectants and antibiotics used during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten human health75
Circular economy: advancement of European Union countries72
Adverse effects in the fish embryo acute toxicity (FET) test: a catalogue of unspecific morphological changes versus more specific effects in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos72
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in Chinese drinking water: risk assessment and geographical distribution67
An emerging role of microplastics in the etiology of lung ground glass nodules63
Handling climate change education at universities: an overview63
Long-term exposure to high-concentration silver nanoparticles induced toxicity, fatality, bioaccumulation, and histological alteration in fish (Cyprinus carpio)61
Carbon footprinting of universities worldwide: Part I—objective comparison by standardized metrics59
Pyrolysis kinetic modelling of abundant plastic waste (PET) and in-situ emission monitoring58
Rapid photocatalytic degradation of phenol from water using composite nanofibers under UV55
Challenges of the Blue Economy: evidence and research trends52
Impact of environmental factors on human semen quality and male fertility: a narrative review51
The impact of scrubber discharge on the water quality in estuaries and ports51
Heavy metal pollutants and their spatial distribution in surface sediments from Thondi coast, Palk Bay, South India51
Photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline in aqueous systems under visible light irridiation using needle-like SnO2 nanoparticles anchored on exfoliated g-C3N450
How to coordinate the relationship between renewable energy consumption and green economic development: from the perspective of technological advancement48
Toxic effects of UV filters from sunscreens on coral reefs revisited: regulatory aspects for “reef safe” products47
The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let’s cooperate!47
PFAS accumulation in indigenous and translocated aquatic organisms from Belgium, with translation to human and ecological health risk47
Broadening the GMO risk assessment in the EU for genome editing technologies in agriculture46
Oceanic long-range transport of organic additives present in plastic products: an overview46
Exhaust emission factors of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from European road vehicles44
The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry43
One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science–policy body on chemicals and waste42
Getting in control of persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances to protect water resources: strategies from diverse perspectives42
Economic policy instruments for sustainable phosphorus management: taking into account climate and biodiversity targets41
Environmental fate and effects of water-soluble synthetic organic polymers used in cosmetic products40
Year-round pesticide contamination of public sites near intensively managed agricultural areas in South Tyrol38
An assessment of requirements in investments, new technologies, and infrastructures to achieve the SDGs38
Urban heat resilience at the time of global warming: evaluating the impact of the urban parks on outdoor thermal comfort37
Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in water and sediment from Volturno River, Southern Italy: occurrence, distribution and risk assessment36
Air quality index variation before and after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive study on 87 capital, industrial and polluted cities of the world35
MIXed plastics biodegradation and UPcycling using microbial communities: EU Horizon 2020 project MIX-UP started January 202035
Distribution, source apportionment, and health risk assessment of phthalate esters in indoor dust samples across China35
Monitoring sustainable development by means of earth observation data and machine learning: a review35
Natural and anthropogenic driving forces as key elements in the Lower Danube Basin–South-Eastern Carpathians–North-Western Black Sea coast area lakes: a broken stepping stones for fish in a climatic c34
Antibiotic resistance genes in different animal manures and their derived organic fertilizer33
Toxicity and risk of plant-produced alkaloids to Daphnia magna32
Microplastic analysis using chemical extraction followed by LC-UV analysis: a straightforward approach to determine PET content in environmental samples32
Effectiveness of plants and green infrastructure utilization in ambient particulate matter removal32
Climate change: Does international research fulfill global demands and necessities?31
PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated sites31
Natural alkaloids from narrow-leaf and yellow lupins transfer to soil and soil solution in agricultural fields31
Bioaccumulation assessment of nanomaterials using freshwater invertebrate species30
DRASTIC, GOD, and SI approaches for assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution: a review28
Quantifying the streamflow response to groundwater abstractions for irrigation or drinking water at catchment scale using SWAT and SWAT–MODFLOW27
Evaluating ecological risks and tracking potential factors influencing heavy metals in sediments in an urban river26
Advanced oxidation processes for the removal of cyanobacterial toxins from drinking water26
Modeling the synergistic effects of toxicant mixtures25
Cyanobacteria and their secondary metabolites in three freshwater reservoirs in the United Kingdom25
Diverging trends of plasticizers (phthalates and non-phthalates) in indoor and freshwater environments—why?25
Pesticides and pesticide-related products in ambient air in Germany25
Occurrence and multiple-level ecological risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in two shallow lakes of China25
Threshold effects of environmental regulation types on green investment by heavily polluting enterprises25
Terrestrial ecological restoration in China: identifying advances and gaps25
Effects of glyphosate-based herbicides and their active ingredients on earthworms, water infiltration and glyphosate leaching are influenced by soil properties25
Radiological survey on radon entry path in an underground mine and implementation of an optimized mitigation system24
Characterization of petroleum-based plastics and their absorbed trace metals from the sediments of the Marina Beach in Chennai, India24
Plastic contamination in agricultural soils: a review24
Analysis of microbial populations in plastic–soil systems after exposure to high poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) load using high-resolution molecular technique24
Human health risk exposure and ecological risk assessment of potentially toxic element pollution in agricultural soils in the district of Frydek Mistek, Czech Republic: a sample location approach24
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and association with sex hormone concentrations: results from the NHANES 2015–201623
Risk assessment of eight metals and their mixtures to aquatic biota in sediments with diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT): a case study in Pearl River intertidal zone23
Management of agricultural waste biomass as raw material for the construction sector: an analysis of sustainable and circular alternatives23
Characteristics of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in Qingcaosha Reservoir in Yangtze River Delta, China23
Toxic effects on enzymatic activity, gene expression and histopathological biomarkers in organisms exposed to microplastics and nanoplastics: a review22
Nitrogen soil surface budgets for districts in Germany 1995 to 201721
Unravelling the chemical exposome in cohort studies: routes explored and steps to become comprehensive21
Sorptive removal of short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during drinking water treatment using activated carbon and anion exchanger21
Fate of recycled tyre granulate used on artificial turf20
Impact of wastewater treatment plants on microbiological contamination for evaluating the risks of wastewater reuse20
Municipal waste incineration fly ashes: from a multi-element approach to market potential evaluation20
Quantitative analysis of cadmium in rice roots based on LIBS and chemometrics methods19
Economic growth, energy consumption and environmental degradation nexus in heterogeneous countries: does education matter?19
The influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable consumption: an international study19
Influence of 200 years of water resource management on a typical central European river. Does industrialization straighten a river?19
NORMAN guidance on suspect and non-target screening in environmental monitoring19
Changes in handwashing and hygiene product usage patterns in Korea before and after the outbreak of COVID-1919
Retrospective non-target analysis to support regulatory water monitoring: from masses of interest to recommendations via in silico workflows18
Nanoparticles engineered from endophytic fungi (Botryosphaeria rhodina) against ESBL-producing pathogenic multidrug-resistant E. coli18
The future of circular environmental impact indicators for cultural heritage buildings in Europe18
Assessment of the 2021 summer flood in Central Europe17
Mast cell activation may explain many cases of chemical intolerance17
Rapid extraction of total lipids and lipophilic POPs from all EU-regulated foods of animal origin: Smedes’ method revisited and enhanced17
Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance for chemicals, foods, and drugs: assessing patterns of exposure behind a global phenomenon17
Distribution of 31 endocrine-disrupting compounds in the Taihu Lake and application of the fish plasma model16
Transitioning to lead-free ammunition use in hunting: socio-economic and regulatory considerations for the European Union and other jurisdictions16
Earthworms and rice straw enhanced soil bacterial diversity and promoted the degradation of phenanthrene16
Moderate inundation stimulates plant community assembly in the drawdown zone of China’s Three Gorges Reservoir16
Environmental fate and effects assessment of human pharmaceuticals: lessons learnt from regulatory data16
Distribution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in aerobic composting of swine manure with different antibiotics16
Different types of industrial agglomeration and green total factor productivity in China: do institutional and policy characteristics of cities make a difference?16
Evidence for antifouling biocides as one of the limiting factors for the recovery of macrophyte communities in lakes of Schleswig-Holstein16
Commentary: Assessing the endocrine disrupting effects of chemicals on invertebrates in the European Union16
Can a chemical be both readily biodegradable AND very persistent (vP)? Weight-of-evidence determination demonstrates that phenanthrene is not persistent in the environment15
Evaluation of adverse effects/events of genetically modified food consumption: a systematic review of animal and human studies15
Environmental quality standards for diclofenac derived under the European Water Framework Directive: 1. Aquatic organisms15
Environmental hazard testing of nanobiomaterials15
Reducing overall herbicide use may reduce risks to humans but increase toxic loads to honeybees, earthworms and birds15
Human impact on fluvial systems in Europe with special regard to today’s river restorations15
Subsoils—a sink for excess fertilizer P but a minor contribution to P plant nutrition: evidence from long-term fertilization trials15
Mixture toxicity analysis in zebrafish embryo: a time and concentration resolved study on mixture effect predictivity15
Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union15
GC × GC–HRMS nontarget fingerprinting of organic micropollutants in urban freshwater sediments15
Occurrence of plant secondary metabolite fingerprints in river waters from Eastern Jutland, Denmark14
Degradation of paraquat herbicide using hybrid AOP process: statistical optimization, kinetic study, and estimation of electrical energy consumption14
Quantifying the impacts of climate variation, damming, and flow regulation on river thermal dynamics: a case study of the Włocławek Reservoir in the Vistula River, Poland14
Optimization study of the adsorption of malachite green removal by MgO nano-composite, nano-bentonite and fungal immobilization on active carbon using response surface methodology and kinetic study14
Commercial preparations of pesticides exert higher toxicity and cause changes at subcellular level in earthworm Eisenia andrei14
Digging deep—implementation, standardisation and interpretation of a total oxidisable precursor (TOP) assay within the regulatory context of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in soil14
The bisphenol F and bisphenol S and cardiovascular disease: results from NHANES 2013–201614
Assessing the relevance of atmospheric heavy metal deposition with regard to ecosystem integrity and human health in Germany14
Evolution of the threshold temperature definition of a heat wave vs. evolution of the minimum mortality temperature: a case study in Spain during the 1983–2018 period14
Non-conventional learning on sustainable development: achieving the SDGs14
Does galvanic cathodic protection by aluminum anodes impact marine organisms?14
Non-target screening of organic pollutants and target analysis of halogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the atmosphere around metallurgical plants by high-resolution GC/Q-TOF-MS14
Leaching of nanoparticles from nano-enabled products for the protection of cultural heritage surfaces: a review13
Acute effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Lanzhou, China: a time-series study13
Target screening of plant secondary metabolites in river waters by liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC–HRMS)13
Consideration of risk management practices in regulatory risk assessments: evaluation of field trials with micro-dams to reduce pesticide transport via surface runoff and soil erosion13
How to measure the impact of citizen science on environmental attitudes, behaviour and knowledge? A review of state-of-the-art approaches13
Effects of agricultural land use on river biota: a meta-analysis13
Stacked genetically modified soybean harboring herbicide resistance and insecticide rCry1Ac shows strong defense and redox homeostasis disturbance after glyphosate-based herbicide application12
Long-term trends of black carbon and particle number concentration in the lower free troposphere in Central Europe12
In vivo and in vitro effects of chronical exposure to nonylphenol on lipid metabolism12
Influence of citrate and PEG coatings on the bioaccumulation of TiO2 and CeO2 nanoparticles following dietary exposure in rainbow trout12
Potassium citrate-derived porous carbon with high CO2 capture and Congo red adsorption performance12
Risk and sustainability: trade-offs and synergies for robust decision making12
Gap analysis of DNA barcoding in ERMS reference libraries for ascidians and cnidarians12
Methodological limitations in studies assessing the effects of environmental and socioeconomic variables on the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review12
Spatial distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metal pollution of sediments in coastal reclamation areas: a case study in Shenzhen Bay, China12
Multi-compartment chemical characterization and risk assessment of chemicals of emerging concern in freshwater systems of western Kenya12
Life cycle assessment of MycoWorks’ Reishi™: the first low-carbon and biodegradable alternative leather11
The Circular Economy and retail: using Deep Learning to predict business survival11
Toxicity of ZnO and Fe2O3 nano-agro-chemicals to soil microbial activities, nitrogen utilization, and associated human health risks11
Phototransformation kinetics of cyanobacterial toxins and secondary metabolites in surface waters11
Carbonaceous composite materials from calcination of azo dye-adsorbed layered double hydroxide with enhanced photocatalytic efficiency for removal of Ibuprofen in water11
Triadimefon in aquatic environments: occurrence, fate, toxicity, and ecological risk11
Multilevel responses of adult zebrafish to crude and chemically dispersed oil exposure11
Regulatory review of the environmental risk assessment of veterinary medicinal products in the European Union, with particular focus on the centralised authorisation procedure11
The potential activity of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles of Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an antibacterial agent against multidrug-resistant isolates from intensive care unit and anticancer agent11
Impact assessment of the loss of glyphosate within the EU: a literature review11
Three-dimensional hierarchical porous carbon derived from natural resources for highly efficient treatment of polluted water11
Risk assessment methodology for iron stability under water quality factors based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation11
Characterization of antibiotic resistance genes in drinking water sources of the Douhe Reservoir, Tangshan, northern China: the correlation with bacterial communities and environmental factors11
Numerical investigation of particles’ transport, deposition and resuspension under unsteady conditions in constructed stormwater ponds11
Small-scale population structuring results in differential susceptibility to pesticide exposure11
A novel LUMNAqSoP approach for prioritising groundwater monitoring stations for implementation of the Nitrates Directive11
Critical accumulation of fertilizer-derived uranium in Icelandic grassland Andosol11
Evaluation of indicators for cyanobacterial risk in 108 temperate lakes using 23 years of environmental monitoring data11
Terrestrial ecotoxicity of glyphosate, its formulations, and co-formulants: evidence from 2010–202311
A new method to assess the acute toxicity toward honeybees of the abrasion particles generated from seeds coated with insecticides11
In situ pilot application of nZVI embedded in activated carbon for remediation of chlorinated ethene-contaminated groundwater: effect on microbial communities11
Genome-edited Camelina sativa with a unique fatty acid content and its potential impact on ecosystems11
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