Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Science and Pollution Research is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
A state-of-the-art review on wastewater treatment techniques: the effectiveness of adsorption method347
Impact of green finance on economic development and environmental quality: a study based on provincial panel data from China329
Toxic heavy metals: impact on the environment and human health, and treatment with conducting organic polymers, a review328
A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures327
Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, economic complexity, CO2 emissions, and ecological footprint in the USA: testing the EKC hypothesis with a structural break321
Energy structure, digital economy, and carbon emissions: evidence from China308
Effect of microplastics in water and aquatic systems295
The impacts of globalization, financial development, government expenditures, and institutional quality on CO2 emissions in the presence of environmental Kuznets curve289
Dynamic relationship between technological innovations, financial development, renewable energy, and ecological footprint: fresh insights based on the STIRPAT model for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperati256
An empirical analysis of the non-linear impacts of ICT-trade openness on renewable energy transition, energy efficiency, clean cooking fuel access and environmental sustainability in South Asia246
Investigating the EKC hypothesis for China: the role of economic complexity on ecological footprint216
The dynamic nonlinear influence of ICT, financial development, and institutional quality on CO2 emission in Pakistan: new insights from QARDL approach215
Does globalization matter for ecological footprint in Turkey? Evidence from dual adjustment approach212
Linking financial development, economic growth, and ecological footprint: what is the role of technological innovation?206
The impact of tourism and natural resources on the ecological footprint: a case study of ASEAN countries205
Do fiscal decentralization and natural resources rent curb carbon emissions? Evidence from developed countries195
Nexus between green finance and climate change mitigation in N-11 and BRICS countries: empirical estimation through difference in differences (DID) approach192
Linking Information Communication Technology, trade globalization index, and CO2 emissions: evidence from advanced panel techniques186
Do public-private partnerships in energy and renewable energy consumption matter for consumption-based carbon dioxide emissions in India?185
Evaluating green innovation and performance of financial development: mediating concerns of environmental regulation183
Hydrogen fuel and fuel cell technology for cleaner future: a review183
Natural resource, globalization, urbanization, human capital, and environmental degradation in Latin American and Caribbean countries182
Occupational stress, job satisfaction, and intent to leave: nurses working on front lines during COVID-19 pandemic in Zagazig City, Egypt180
Global distribution of microplastics and its impact on marine environment—a review179
Environmental taxes, energy consumption, and environmental quality: Theoretical survey with policy implications178
Role of renewable energy and globalization on ecological footprint in the USA: implications for environmental sustainability169
Recent progress on Ag/TiO2 photocatalysts: photocatalytic and bactericidal behaviors166
3D printing filament as a second life of waste plastics—a review162
How green technology innovation affects carbon emission efficiency: evidence from developed countries proposing carbon neutrality targets162
Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases160
Trilemma assessment of energy intensity, efficiency, and environmental index: evidence from BRICS countries158
Remittance inflows affect the ecological footprint in BICS countries: do technological innovation and financial development matter?158
The dynamic linkage between globalization, financial development, energy utilization, and environmental sustainability in GCC countries158
Wavelet analysis of impact of renewable energy consumption and technological innovation on CO2 emissions: evidence from Portugal157
The dynamic links among energy consumption, tourism growth, and the ecological footprint: the role of environmental quality in 38 IEA countries153
It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO2 emission153
Tyre wear particles: an abundant yet widely unreported microplastic?150
The role of tourism, transportation and globalization in testing environmental Kuznets curve in Malaysia: new insights from quantile ARDL approach147
Analyzing carbon emission transfer network structure among provinces in China: new evidence from social network analysis146
Impact of foreign direct investment, natural resources, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth on environmental degradation: evidence from BRICS, developing, developed and global countries146
Modeling CO2 emissions in Malaysia: an application of Maki cointegration and wavelet coherence tests143
Testing pollution haven and pollution halo hypotheses for Turkey: a new perspective141
An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping141
The asymmetric effects of renewable energy consumption and trade openness on carbon emissions in Sweden: new evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression approach140
Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in OECD countries: the role of renewable, non-renewable energy, and oil prices139
The role of technology innovation and people’s connectivity in testing environmental Kuznets curve and pollution heaven hypotheses across the Belt and Road host countries: new evidence from Method of 137
The increases and decreases of the environment Kuznets curve (EKC) for 8 OECD countries135
Testing validity of the EKC hypothesis in South Korea: role of renewable energy and trade openness134
Inflammatory effects of particulate matter air pollution134
Photocatalysis: an effective tool for photodegradation of dyes—a review134
Ambient air pollution and its influence on human health and welfare: an overview132
The nexus between environmental regulations, economic growth, and environmental sustainability: linking environmental patents to ecological footprint reduction in South Asia131
Water-energy nexus: desalination technologies and renewable energy sources130
Analysis of the mechanism of the impact of internet development on green economic growth: evidence from 269 prefecture cities in China130
Impact of globalization, foreign direct investment, and energy consumption on CO2 emissions in Bangladesh: Does institutional quality matter?130
Effect of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions−an empirical investigation for developing countries130
Nexus on climate change: agriculture and possible solution to cope future climate change stresses129
Beneficial microbiomes for bioremediation of diverse contaminated environments for environmental sustainability: present status and future challenges129
Do energy use and economic policy uncertainty affect CO2 emissions in China? Empirical evidence from the dynamic ARDL simulation approach129
Green preparation of activated carbon from pomegranate peel coated with zero-valent iron nanoparticles (nZVI) and isotherm and kinetic studies of amoxicillin removal in water129
Clean energy investment and financial development as determinants of environment and sustainable economic growth: evidence from China129
The roles of nuclear energy, renewable energy, and economic growth in the abatement of carbon dioxide emissions in the G7 countries128
Understanding the dynamics of natural resources rents, environmental sustainability, and sustainable economic growth: new insights from China127
Effect of foreign direct investment on CO2 emission with the role of globalization, institutional quality with pooled mean group panel ARDL126
Digitalization and environment: how does ICT affect enterprise environmental performance?125
Magnetic nanoadsorbents’ potential route for heavy metals removal—a review124
Renewable energy, urbanization, and ecological footprint linkage in CIVETS123
Detection and removal of microplastics in wastewater: evolution and impact122
The dynamics effect of green technology innovation on economic growth and CO2 emission in Singapore: new evidence from bootstrap ARDL approach122
The effect of technological innovation, FDI, and financial development on CO2 emission: evidence from the G8 countries121
The relationship between corporate social responsibility, environmental investments and financial performance: evidence from manufacturing companies121
Dynamics among economic growth, urbanization, and environmental sustainability in IEA countries: the role of industry value-added120
Impact of renewable energy consumption, financial development and natural resources on environmental degradation in OECD countries with dynamic panel data119
The role of fixed capital formation, renewable and non-renewable energy in economic growth and carbon emission: a case study of Belt and Road Initiative project119
Impact of economic policy uncertainty on CO2 emissions: evidence from top ten carbon emitter countries118
The asymmetric effect of tourism, financial development, and globalization on ecological footprint in Turkey118
A systematic review of emerging human coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak: focus on disinfection methods, environmental survival, and control and prevention strategies116
Nexus between green logistic operations and triple bottom line: evidence from infrastructure-led Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Belt and Road host countries116
Does economic prosperity lead to environmental sustainability in developing economies? Environmental Kuznets curve theory116
Assessing energy security in Africa based on multi-dimensional approach of principal composite analysis114
Impact of financial development and technological innovation on the volatility of green growth—evidence from China113
Determinants of economic growth and environmental sustainability in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation: evidence from panel ARDL113
Effects of the spread of COVID-19 on public health of polluted cities: results of the first wave for explaining the dejà vu in the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and epidemics of future vital agents112
The influences of renewable electricity generation, technological innovation, financial development, and economic growth on ecological footprints in ASEAN-5 countries112
Foliar application of silicon nanoparticles affected the growth, vitamin C, flavonoid, and antioxidant enzyme activities of coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) plants grown in lead (Pb)-spiked soil112
The influence of financial openness, trade openness, and energy intensity on ecological footprint: revisiting the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for BRICS countries112
The distribution and impact of polystyrene nanoplastics on cucumber plants111
The effects of FDI, technological innovation, and financial development on CO2 emissions: evidence from the BRICS countries110
Mitigation strategies for reducing air pollution110
Effects of microplastics and nanoplastics on marine environment and human health109
Study on coupling coordination and spatiotemporal heterogeneity between economic development and ecological environment of cities along the Yellow River Basin109
Abundance of natural resources and environmental sustainability: the roles of manufacturing value-added, urbanization, and permanent cropland109
How energy insecurity leads to energy poverty? Do environmental consideration and climate change concerns matters109
Asymmetric investigation to track the effect of urbanization, energy utilization, fossil fuel energy and CO2 emission on economic efficiency in China: another outlook109
The environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Bangladesh: the importance of natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and hydropower consumption108
Moderating the effect of globalization on financial development, energy consumption, human capital, and carbon emissions: evidence from G20 countries108
The impact of financial development and globalization on environmental quality: evidence from South Asian economies108
Modeling the nexus between pollutant emission, energy consumption, foreign direct investment, and economic growth: new insights from China107
The determinants of environmental quality in the SAARC region: a spatial heterogeneous panel data approach107
Analyzing the association between innovation, economic growth, and environment: divulging the importance of FDI and trade openness in India107
The role of disinfectants and sanitizers during COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and deleterious effects on humans and the environment107
Can CO2 emissions and energy consumption determine the economic performance of South Korea? A time series analysis107
Accounting for the combined impacts of natural resources rent, income level, and energy consumption on environmental quality of G7 economies: a panel quantile regression approach106
Co-movement of energy prices and stock market return: environmental wavelet nexus of COVID-19 pandemic from the USA, Europe, and China106
Bioremediation of toxic heavy metals (THMs) contaminated sites: concepts, applications and challenges105
Blockchain in supply chain management: a review, bibliometric, and network analysis105
Does green finance mitigate the effects of climate variability: role of renewable energy investment and infrastructure104
Consumers’ intention-based influence factors of renewable energy adoption in Pakistan: a structural equation modeling approach104
The impact of financial development and geopolitical risk on renewable energy consumption: evidence from emerging markets104
An empirical nexus between economic growth, energy utilization, trade policy, and ecological footprint: a continent-wise comparison in upper-middle-income countries104
Municipal solid waste management during COVID-19 pandemic: effects and repercussions104
Industry 4.0 technology and circular economy practices: business management strategies for environmental sustainability103
Examining the asymmetric effects of globalization and tourism on pollution emissions in South Asia103
How does energy poverty affect economic development? A panel data analysis of South Asian countries103
Reinvigorating the role of clean energy transition for achieving a low-carbon economy: evidence from Bangladesh103
Environmental risks and toxicity of surfactants: overview of analysis, assessment, and remediation techniques103
Role of financial development, environmental-related technologies, research and development, energy intensity, natural resource depletion, and temperature in sustainable environment in Canada103
Economic policy uncertainty, energy consumption and carbon emissions in G7 countries: evidence from a panel Granger causality analysis102
Trilemma association of energy consumption, carbon emission, and economic growth of BRICS and OECD regions: quantile regression estimation102
How to achieve a win-win situation between economic growth and carbon emission reduction: empirical evidence from the perspective of industrial structure upgrading102
Alternative energy and natural resources in determining environmental sustainability: a look at the role of government final consumption expenditures in France102
Can digital finance promote corporate green innovation?101
Determinants of consumption-based carbon emissions in Chile: an application of non-linear ARDL100
Technological innovation, financialization, and ecological footprint: evidence from BEM economies100
The nexus between tourism, economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions: contemporary evidence from OECD countries100
Sustainable development and pollution: the effects of CO2 emission on population growth, food production, economic development, and energy consumption in Pakistan100
Impact of climate change on biodiversity loss: global evidence99
Heterogeneous effects of remittances and institutional quality in reducing environmental deficit in the presence of EKC hypothesis: A global study with the application of panel quantile regression99
Assessing the perceived impact of exploration and production of hydrocarbons on households perspective of environmental regulation in Ghana99
Impact of Green financing, FinTech, and financial inclusion on energy efficiency99
A comprehensive analysis of e-waste legislation worldwide98
The impact of macroeconomic and financial development on carbon dioxide emissions in Pakistan: evidence with a novel dynamic simulated ARDL approach98
Pollution, economic growth, and COVID-19 deaths in India: a machine learning evidence98
Does geopolitical risk escalate CO2 emissions? Evidence from the BRICS countries97
Urban carbon emission intensity under emission trading system in a developing economy: evidence from 273 Chinese cities97
Impact of financial development and energy consumption on environmental degradation in 184 countries using a dynamic panel model96
Striving towards environmental sustainability: how natural resources, human capital, financial development, and economic growth interact with ecological footprint in China96
Climate change and crop production nexus in Somalia: an empirical evidence from ARDL technique96
The role of natural resources, globalization, and renewable energy in testing the EKC hypothesis in MINT countries: new evidence from Method of Moments Quantile Regression approach96
Energy consumption, FDI, and urbanization linkage in coastal Mediterranean countries: re-assessing the pollution haven hypothesis96
The advantages of clay mineral modification methods for enhancing adsorption efficiency in wastewater treatment: a review96
Quantification of microplastic in Red Hills Lake of Chennai city, Tamil Nadu, India95
Do renewable energy and globalization enhance ecological footprint: an analysis of top renewable energy countries?95
Urbanization and energy consumption effects on carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from Asian-8 countries using panel data analysis95
Whether foreign direct investment can promote high-quality economic development under environmental regulation: evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China94
Construction of electric vehicle driving cycle for studying electric vehicle energy consumption and equivalent emissions94
ICT, foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in major Asia Pacific countries94
Does energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and population growth influence carbon emissions in the BRICS? Evidence from panel models robust to cross-sectional dependence and slope heterog94
The role of tourism, trade, renewable energy use and carbon dioxide emissions on economic growth: evidence of tourism-led growth hypothesis in EU-2893
Renewable energy and non-renewable energy consumption: assessing the asymmetric role of monetary policy uncertainty in energy consumption93
A study on China’s economic growth, green energy technology, and carbon emissions based on the Kuznets curve (EKC)92
Go for green: green innovation through green dynamic capabilities: accessing the mediating role of green practices and green value co-creation92
Do environmental taxes and environmental stringency policies reduce CO2 emissions? Evidence from 7 emerging economies92
Trends and future challenges in hydrogen production and storage research92
Effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles on arsenic stress in rice (Oryza sativa L.): germination, early growth, and arsenic uptake92
Analysis of CO2 emissions and energy consumption by sources in MENA countries: evidence from quantile regressions91
A causal link between renewable energy, energy efficiency, property rights, and CO2 emissions in developed countries: A road map for environmental sustainability91
The influence of consumers’ intention factors on willingness to pay for renewable energy: a structural equation modeling approach91
The role of information and communication technologies in mitigating carbon emissions: evidence from panel quantile regression91
Can nuclear energy fuel an environmentally sustainable economic growth? Revisiting the EKC hypothesis for India91
Convergence analysis of the ecological footprint: theory and empirical evidence from the USMCA countries90
Asymmetric nexus among financial globalization, non-renewable energy, renewable energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions: impact on environmental sustainability targets in India90
Asymmetric effects of energy efficiency and renewable energy on carbon emissions of BRICS economies: evidence from nonlinear panel autoregressive distributed lag model90
Renewable Energy Consumption and Environmental Sustainability in Canada: Does Political Stability Make a Difference?89
An investigation into the anthropogenic nexus among consumption of energy, tourism, and economic growth: do economic policy uncertainties matter?88
Synthesis and characterization of magnetic biochar adsorbents for the removal of Cr(VI) and Acid orange 7 dye from aqueous solution88
Phytoremediation of toxic metals present in soil and water environment: a critical review87
Pharmaceuticals as emerging contaminants in the aquatic environment of Latin America: a review87
Monetization of the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels86
Exploring the capacity of renewable energy consumption to reduce outdoor air pollution death rate in Latin America and the Caribbean region86
Environmental implications of N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve for E7 countries86
Nonrenewable and renewable energy consumption, trade openness, and environmental quality in G-7 countries: the conditional role of technological progress86
Testing environment Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in different regions84
Does financial development and foreign direct investment improve environmental quality? Evidence from belt and road countries84
Does interaction between technological innovation and natural resource rent impact environmental degradation in newly industrialized countries? New evidence from method of moments quantile regression84
Survey on Land Use/Land Cover (LU/LC) change analysis in remote sensing and GIS environment: Techniques and Challenges83
Toward a sustainable environment and economic growth in BRICS economies: do innovation and globalization matter?83
Economic complexity, tourism, energy prices, and environmental degradation in the top economic complexity countries: fresh panel evidence83
Expatiating the impact of anthropogenic aspects and climatic factors on long-term soil monitoring and management83
Energy mix outlook and the EKC hypothesis in BRICS countries: a perspective of economic freedom vs. economic growth83
Determinants of green growth in developed and developing countries83
How China is fostering sustainable growth: the interplay of green investment and production-based emission82
Is environmental regulation effective in promoting the quantity and quality of green innovation?82
On the remittances-environment led hypothesis: Empirical evidence from BRICS economies82
LPG consumption and environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in South Asia: a time-series ARDL analysis with multiple structural breaks82
Is there a tradeoff between financial globalization, economic growth, and environmental sustainability? An advanced panel analysis82
Environmental aspect of energy transition and urbanization in the OPEC member states82
Antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and resistance genes in aquaculture: risks, current concern, and future thinking82
The role of financial development, tourism, and energy utilization in environmental deficit: evidence from 20 highest emitting economies82
Artificial intelligence models versus empirical equations for modeling monthly reference evapotranspiration81
Does globalization and financial sector development affect environmental quality? A panel data investigation for the Middle East and North African countries81
Modeling CO2 emissions in South Africa: empirical evidence from ARDL based bounds and wavelet coherence techniques81
Foreign investment and CO2 emissions: do technological innovation and institutional quality matter? Evidence from system GMM approach81
Impacts of environmental taxes and technologies on greenhouse gas emissions: contextual evidence from leading emitter European countries81
Sulfur dioxide removal: An overview of regenerative flue gas desulfurization and factors affecting desulfurization capacity and sorbent regeneration81
Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in organophosphate pesticide-induced neurotoxicity and its amelioration: a review81
The intermittent effects of renewable energy on ecological footprint: evidence from developing countries81
The role of ICT in energy consumption and environment: an empirical investigation of Asian economies with cluster analysis80
Investigating the nexus between hydroelectricity energy, renewable energy, nonrenewable energy consumption on output: evidence from E7 countries80
Non-linear threshold effect of financial development on renewable energy consumption: evidence from panel smooth transition regression approach80
Application of artificial neural networks to predict the heavy metal contamination in the Bartin River80
Environmental decentralization, environmental protection investment, and green technology innovation80
Exploring the impact of tourism and energy consumption on the load capacity factor in Turkey: a novel dynamic ARDL approach80
Prospect of phytoremediation combined with other approaches for remediation of heavy metal-polluted soils79
The impact of outward foreign direct investment on green innovation: the threshold effect of environmental regulation79
The policy effect of green finance in promoting industrial transformation and upgrading efficiency in China: analysis from the perspective of government regulation and public environmental demands79
Approaches to prevent and control Campylobacter spp. colonization in broiler chickens: a review79
Air pollution exposure—the (in)visible risk factor for respiratory diseases79
Ecotoxicological risk assessment for sediments of Çavuşlu stream in Giresun, Turkey: association between garbage disposal facility and metallic accumulation79
Aluminum environmental pollution: the silent killer79
Does green credit affect the green innovation performance of high-polluting and energy-intensive enterprises? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment79
Revisiting the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis using innovation: new evidence from the top 10 innovative economies78
The role of tourism and renewable energy in testing the environmental Kuznets curve in the BRICS countries: fresh evidence from methods of moments quantile regression78
A critical review on recent developments in MOF adsorbents for the elimination of toxic heavy metals from aqueous solutions78
Value addition in the services sector and its heterogeneous impacts on CO2 emissions: revisiting the EKC hypothesis for the OPEC using panel spatial estimation techniques78
Magnetic nanoparticles incorporation into different substrates for dyes and heavy metals removal—A Review78
Do industrialization, energy importations, and economic progress influence carbon emission in Pakistan78
Testing role of green financing on climate change mitigation: Evidences from G7 and E7 countries78
Globalization and CO2 emissions nexus: evidence from the EKC hypothesis in South Asian countries78
Analysis of asymmetries in the nexus among clean energy and environmental quality in Pakistan78
Climate-resilient strategies for sustainable management of water resources and agriculture78
Prediction of irrigation groundwater quality parameters using ANN, LSTM, and MLR models77
Assessing the impact of energy internet and energy misallocation on carbon emissions: new insights from China77
Disaggregated renewable energy sources in mitigating CO2 emissions: new evidence from the USA using quantile regressions77
Nexus among CO2 emissions, remittances, and financial development: a NARDL approach for India77
Testing the moderating role of urbanization on the environmental Kuznets curve: empirical evidence from an emerging market77
Do economic policy uncertainty and geopolitical risk surge CO2 emissions? New insights from panel quantile regression approach77
Does the green credit policy affect the scale of corporate debt financing? Evidence from listed companies in heavy pollution industries in China77
Geopolitical risks, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in BRICS: an asymmetric analysis77
Abundance and distribution characteristics of microplastic in plateau cultivated land of Yunnan Province, China76
How agriculture, manufacture, and urbanization induced carbon emission? The case of Indonesia76
Effect of Environmental Regulation on High-quality Economic Development in China—An Empirical Analysis Based on Dynamic Spatial Durbin Model76
Examining the role of financial inclusion towards CO2 emissions: presenting the role of renewable energy and globalization in the context of EKC76
Organophosphate toxicity: updates of malathion potential toxic effects in mammals and potential treatments75
Heavy metal–induced stress in eukaryotic algae—mechanisms of heavy metal toxicity and tolerance with particular emphasis on oxidative stress in exposed cells and the role of antioxidant response75
How green finance and financial development promote green economic growth: deployment of clean energy sources in South Asia75
The influence of renewable energy use, human capital, and trade on environmental quality in South Africa: multiple structural breaks cointegration approach75
Health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements intake via food crops consumption: Monte Carlo simulation-based probabilistic and heavy metal pollution index75
Environmental neurotoxic pollutants: review75
The relevance of EKC hypothesis in energy intensity real-output trade-off for sustainable environment in EU-2775
Study on the interactive influence between economic growth and environmental pollution74
The nexus between economic growth, tourism development, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions in Mediterranean countries74
Microplastics in wastewater: microfiber emissions from common household laundry74
Geochemical characteristics and quality of groundwater evaluation for drinking, irrigation, and industrial purposes from a part of hard rock aquifer of South India74
Towards achieving environmental sustainability: environmental quality versus economic growth in a developing economy on ecological footprint via dynamic simulations of ARDL74
An overview of the municipal solid waste management modes and innovations in Shanghai, China74
Renewable energy, non-renewable energy, and economic growth: evidence from 26 European countries74
Heavy metal contamination and exposure risk assessment via drinking groundwater in Vehari, Pakistan73
Economic performance of Indonesia amidst CO2 emissions and agriculture: a time series analysis73
Fiscal decentralization, environmental regulation, and pollution: a spatial investigation73
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