Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Article	Citations
The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview	119
Recent advances in the applications of nano-agrochemicals for sustainable agricultural development	97
Absorption, distribution, and toxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the brain: a review	67
Occurrence, human exposure, and risk of microplastics in the indoor environment	58
Plastic particles in soil: state of the knowledge on sources, occurrence and distribution, analytical methods and ecological impacts	42
PFAS fate and destruction mechanisms during thermal treatment: a comprehensive review	37
PFAS soil and groundwater contamination via industrial airborne emission and land deposition in SW Vermont and Eastern New York State, USA	37
Chlorpyrifos in environment and food: a critical review of detection methods and degradation pathways	35
Climate change influence on the levels and trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals of emerging Arctic concern (CEACs) in the Arctic physical environment – a review	35
Insufficient evidence for the existence of natural trifluoroacetic acid	32
The influence of global climate change on accumulation and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in Arctic food webs	32
Macroplastics in rivers: present knowledge, issues and challenges	31
Phthalate pollution: environmental fate and cumulative human exposure index using the multivariate analysis approach	29
Influence of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a review from the climate change perspective	29
Metals in microplastics: determining which are additive, adsorbed, and bioavailable	29
Frequency of use of household products containing VOCs and indoor atmospheric concentrations in homes	25
Distribution and fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater treatment facilities	25
Assessment of emerging polar organic pollutants linked to contaminant pathways within an urban estuary using non-targeted analysis	25
Why analysing microplastics in floodplains matters: application in a sedimentary context	24
Polyvinyl chloride in consumer and environmental plastics, with a particular focus on metal-based additives	23
Advances in research on petroleum biodegradability in soil	22
Distribution and ecological risk assessment of typical antibiotics in the surface waters of seven major rivers, China	22
Risk assessment of soil heavy metal contamination at the census tract level in the city of Santa Ana, CA: implications for health and environmental justice	22
Mercury pollution in China: implications on the implementation of the Minamata Convention	21
Emerging investigator series: microplastic sources, fate, toxicity, detection, and interactions with micropollutants in aquatic ecosystems – a review of reviews	21

Emerging investigator series: municipal wastewater as a year-round point source of neonicotinoid insecticides that persist in an effluent-dominated stream	20
PFOS dominates PFAS composition in ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) collected across North Carolina nearly 20 years after the end of its US production	20
PFAS on atmospheric aerosol particles: a review	19
Fates and spatial variations of accumulation mode particles in a multi-zone indoor environment during the HOMEChem campaign	18
Critical review of antibiotic resistance genes in the atmosphere	17
Ionization selectivity of electrospray and atmospheric pressure photoionization FT-ICR MS for petroleum refinery wastewater dissolved organic matter	17
Can determination of extractable organofluorine (EOF) be standardized? First interlaboratory comparisons of EOF and fluorine mass balance in sludge and water matrices	16
Water monitoring by means of digital microscopy identification and classification of microalgae	16
Research progress in the enhancement technology of soil vapor extraction of volatile petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants	16
Finding essentiality feasible: common questions and misinterpretations concerning the “essential-use” concept	16
Identifying sources of groundwater salinity and major hydrogeochemical processes in the Lower Kabul Basin aquifer, Afghanistan	16
Surface-water/groundwater boundaries affect seasonal PFAS concentrations and PFAA precursor transformations	16
The fate of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in a marine food web influenced by land-based sources in the Norwegian Arctic	16
Ecotoxicology of persistent organic pollutants in birds	16
Recent progress in research on PM2.5 in subways	15
Emerging investigator series: the role of chemical properties in human exposure to environmental chemicals	15
Geochemical controls on CO2 interactions with deep subsurface shales: implications for geologic carbon sequestration	15
Are cosmetics a significant source of PFAS in Europe? product inventories, chemical characterization and emission estimates	15
Ammonia fluxes and emission factors under an intensively managed wetland rice ecosystem	14
Updated knowledge, partitioning and ecological risk of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in global aquatic environments	14
Characterizing photochemical ageing processes of microplastic materials using multivariate analysis of infrared spectra	14
Micro- and nanoplastic transfer in freezing saltwater: implications for their fate in polar waters	14
Uptake of perfluorinated alkyl acids by crops: results from a field study	14
Effects of nanoplastics on microalgae and their trophic transfer along the food chain: recent advances and perspectives	13
Chemical recovery and browning of Nova Scotia surface waters in response to declining acid deposition	13
Evaluating atmospheric mercury (Hg) uptake by vegetation in a chemistry-transport model	13
Influence of climate change on persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in the Arctic: state of knowledge and recommendations for future research	13
Vanadium: environmental hazard or environmental opportunity? A perspective on some key research needs	13
Microplastic profusion in food and drinking water: are microplastics becoming a macroproblem?	13
COVID-19 lockdowns induced land surface temperature variability in mega urban agglomerations in India	13
Evaluation, optimization, and application of three independent suspect screening workflows for the characterization of PFASs in water	13
Nitrogen fixing bacteria facilitate microbial biodegradation of a bio-based and biodegradable plastic in soils under ambient and future climatic conditions	12
Screening of pesticide distributions in foods of animal origin: a matrix-based approach for biotransfer factor modeling of grazing mammals	12
Emerging investigator series: chemical and physical properties of organic mixtures on indoor surfaces during HOMEChem	12
In situ monitoring of triclosan in environmental water with subnanomolar detection limits using eco-friendly electrochemical sensors modified with cyclodextrins	12
Organophosphate flame retardants and diesters in the urine of e-waste dismantling workers: associations with indoor dust and implications for urinary biomonitoring	12
Distribution, sources and exposure risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils, and indoor and outdoor dust from Port Harcourt city, Nigeria	12
A review of PFAS fingerprints in fish from Norwegian freshwater bodies subject to different source inputs	12
Chemical characteristics, leaching, and stability of the ubiquitous tire rubber-derived toxicant 6PPD-quinone	12
A review on nirS-type and nirK-type denitrifiers via a scientometric approach coupled with case studies	11
The case for a more precise definition of regulated PFAS	11
Concentrations and properties of ice nucleating substances in exudates from Antarctic sea-ice diatoms	11
Enhanced tetrabromobisphenol A debromination by nanoscale zero valent iron particles sulfidated with S0 dissolved in ethanol	11
Brown carbon aerosols in the Indo-Gangetic Plain outflow: insights from excitation emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy	11
Use and release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in consumer food packaging in U.S. and Canada	11
A pandemic-induced environmental dilemma of disposable masks: solutions from the perspective of the life cycle	11
Review of ecotoxicological studies of widely used polystyrene nanoparticles	11
A food web bioaccumulation model for the accumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fish: how important is renal elimination?	11
The Sea Spray Chemistry and Particle Evolution study (SeaSCAPE): overview and experimental methods	11
Refinement and extension of COSMO-RS-trained fragment contribution models for predicting the partition properties of C10–20 chlorinated paraffin congeners	10

Non-targeted identification and semi-quantitation of emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in US rainwater	10
Associations between the indoor microbiome, environmental characteristics and respiratory infections in junior high school students of Johor Bahru, Malaysia	10
Suspect and non-target screening of ovarian follicular fluid and serum – identification of anthropogenic chemicals and investigation of their association to fertility	10
Identification of source areas of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Ulsan, South Korea, using hybrid receptor models and the conditional bivariate probability function	10
Anthropogenic influences on Zambian water quality: hydropower and land-use change	10
Interactions with freshwater biofilms cause rapid removal of common herbicides through degradation – evidence from microcosm studies	10
Development of a PFAS reaction library: identifying plausible transformation pathways in environmental and biological systems	10
Determination of acrolein in ambient air and in the atmosphere of environmental test chambers	10
MFI, BEA and FAU zeolite scavenging role in neonicotinoids and radical species elimination	10
Reactivity-directed analysis – a novel approach for the identification of toxic organic electrophiles in drinking water	10
Demystifying mercury geochemistry in contaminated soil–groundwater systems with complementary mercury stable isotope, concentration, and speciation analyses	9
A pilot study on extractable organofluorine and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water from drinking water treatment plants around Taihu Lake, China: what is missed by target PFAS analysi	9
Organic carbon, and major and trace elements reside in labile low-molecular form in the ground ice of permafrost peatlands: a case study of colloids in peat ice of Western Siberia	9
The oxidative potential of fresh and aged elemental carbon-containing airborne particles: a review	9
Joint effects of antibiotics and quorum sensing inhibitors on resistance development in bacteria	9
Particulate matter and ultrafine particles in urban air pollution and their effect on the nervous system	9
Microbial vesicle-mediated communication: convergence to understand interactions within and between domains of life	9
Detection of microalgae objects based on the Improved YOLOv3 model	9
Research status of volatile organic compound (VOC) removal technology and prospect of new strategies: a review	9
Indoor black carbon and brown carbon concentrations from cooking and outdoor penetration: insights from the HOMEChem study	9
Microaerobic conditions in anaerobic sludge promote changes in bacterial composition favouring biodegradation of polymeric siloxanes	9
Unraveling biogeochemical complexity through better integration of experiments and modeling	8
Temperature-induced diurnal redox potential in soil	8
Adsorption of progesterone onto microplastics and its desorption in simulated gastric and intestinal fluids	8
Adsorption of double-stranded ribonucleic acids (dsRNA) to iron (oxyhydr-)oxide surfaces: comparative analysis of model dsRNA molecules and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA)	8
Toxicity of hydraulic fracturing wastewater from black shale natural-gas wells influenced by well maturity and chemical additives	8
A review of microplastic fibres: generation, transport, and vectors for metal(loid)s in terrestrial environments	8
Formation pathways of aldehydes from heated cooking oils	8
Photochemical weathering of polyurethane microplastics produced complex and dynamic mixtures of dissolved organic chemicals	8
Aerobic biotransformation of a novel highly functionalized polyfluoroether-based surfactant using activated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant	7
Towards improved characterization of the fate and impact of hydraulic fracturing chemicals to better secure regional water quality	7
Characterising and communicating the potential hazard posed by potentially toxic elements in indoor dusts from schools across Lagos, Nigeria	7
Secondary organic aerosol formation from monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: insights from laboratory studies	7
Kinetics of the oxidation of ammonia and amines with hydroxyl radicals in the aqueous phase	7
Use of sequential extraction and mercury stable isotope analysis to assess remobilization of sediment-bound legacy mercury	7
Direct and indirect photodegradation of atrazine and S-metolachlor in agriculturally impacted surface water and associated C and N isotope fractionation	7
Bioaccessibility of potentially toxic elements in mine residue particles	7
Influences of climate change on long-term time series of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Arctic and Antarctic biota	7
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon occurrence in forest soils in response to fires: a summary across sites	7
Divergent response of heavy metal bioavailability in soil rhizosphere to agricultural land use change from paddy fields to various drylands	7
Concentrations of halogenated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls in house dust from Lagos, Nigeria	7
To be or not to be degraded: in defense of persistence assessment of chemicals	7
Effects of environmental factors on nitrofurantoin photolysis in water and its acute toxicity assessment	7
Enrichment of psychrophilic and acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacterial consortia – a solution toward acid mine drainage treatment in cold regions	7
Impacts of environmental levels of hydrogen peroxide and oxyanions on the redox activity of MnO2 particles	7
Partitioning between polyurethane foam and the gas phase: data compilation, uncertainty estimation and implications for air sampling	6
Implications of sample treatment on characterization of riverine dissolved organic matter	6
Ferrihydrite transformations in flooded paddy soils: rates, pathways, and product spatial distributions	6
Abiotic reduction of nitrite by Fe(ii): a comparison of rates and N2O production	6
Characterization of inhalation exposure to gaseous elemental mercury during artisanal gold mining and e-waste recycling through combined stationary and personal passive sampling	6
Effects of dissolved organic matter characteristics on the photosensitized degradation of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment wetlands	6
POPs in Antarctic ecosystems: is climate change affecting their temporal trends?	6
Photodegradation of polyolefin thin films in simulated freshwater conditions	6
Mercury in air and soil on an urban-rural transect in East Africa	6
Physicochemical characterization of particulate matter in a cement production plant	6
Heteroaggregation of PS microplastic with ferrihydrite leads to rapid removal of microplastic particles from the water column	6
Fluorophores in surface freshwaters: importance, likely structures, and possible impacts of climate change	6
Aerobic BTEX biodegradation increases yield of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids from biotransformation of a polyfluoroalkyl surfactant, 6:2 FtTAoS	6
Biological calcium carbonate with a unique organic–inorganic composite structure to enhance biochar stability	6
Increased prevalence of indoor Aspergillus and Penicillium species is associated with indoor flooding and coastal proximity: a case study of 28 moldy buildings	6
Wildfires in the western United States are mobilizing PM2.5-associated nutrients and may be contributing to downwind cyanobacteria blooms	6
Degradation mechanisms of simple aliphatic amines under ozonation: a DFT study	6
Punching above its weight: life cycle energy accounting and environmental assessment of vanadium microalloying in reinforcement bar steel	6
Monitoring the influence of wastewater effluent on a small drinking water system using EEM fluorescence spectroscopy coupled with a PARAFAC and PCA statistical approach	6
Partitioning of reactive oxygen species from indoor surfaces to indoor aerosols	5
Oil & gas produced water retention ponds as potential passive treatment for radium removal and beneficial reuse	5
The influence of hardness at varying pH on zinc toxicity and lability to a freshwater microalga, Chlorella sp.	5
Lithium-ion battery recycling: a source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the environment?	5
Emerging investigator series: human CYP2A6 catalyzes the oxidation of 6:2 fluorotelomer alcohol	5
AOPs enhance the migration of polystyrene nanoparticles in saturated quartz sand	5
The dependence of soot particle ice nucleation ability on its volatile content	5
Response of sediment phosphorus partitioning to lanthanum-modified clay amendment and porewater chemistry in a small eutrophic lake	5
Effects of carbamazepine in aquatic biota	5
Thallium adsorption onto phyllosilicate minerals	5
In situ formation of environmental endocrine disruptors from phytosterol degradation: a temporal model for agricultural soils	5
Factors affecting the mixed-layer concentrations of singlet oxygen in sunlit lakes	5
Emerging investigator series: contributions of reactive nitrogen species to transformations of organic compounds in water: a critical review	5
Water–rock interaction and the concentrations of major, trace, and rare earth elements in hydrocarbon-associated produced waters of the United States	5
pH affects the aqueous-phase nitrate-mediated photooxidation of phenolic compounds: implications for brown carbon formation and evolution	5
Groundwaters in Northeastern Pennsylvania near intense hydraulic fracturing activities exhibit few organic chemical impacts	5

TcO2 oxidative dissolution by birnessite under anaerobic conditions: a solid–solid redox reaction impacting the environmental mobility of Tc-99	5
Alkyl-phenanthrenes in early life stage fish: differential toxicity in Atlantic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) embryos	5
Kinetics of oligomer-forming reactions involving the major functional groups present in atmospheric secondary organic aerosol particles	5
Direct and nitrite-sensitized indirect photolysis of effluent-derived phenolic contaminants under UV254irradiation	5
Graphical tools for the planning and interpretation of polyurethane foam based passive air sampling campaigns	5
Linking biodegradation kinetics, microbial composition and test temperature – Testing 40 petroleum hydrocarbons using inocula collected in winter and summer	5
Assessing and managing environmental hazards of polymers: historical development, science advances and policy options	5
Impact of global warming on regional cycling of mercury and persistent organic pollutants on the Tibetan Plateau: current progress and future prospects	5
Effect of dissolved solids released from biochar on soil microbial metabolism	5
A case study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission behavior in a severely air-polluted city (Delhi, India) and the potential usage of graphene based materials for filtering air-pollutants and controlling/monitor	5
Early and late cyanobacterial bloomers in a shallow, eutrophic lake	5
Extracellular polymeric substances enhance dissolution and microbial methylation of mercury sulfide minerals	5
Investigating the dynamics of methylmercury bioaccumulation in the Beaufort Sea shelf food web: a modeling perspective	5
Challenges and policy implications of long-term changes in mass absorption cross-section derived from equivalent black carbon and elemental carbon measurements in London and south-east England in 2014	5
Read-across-based intelligent learning: development of a global q-RASAR model for the efficient quantitative predictions of skin sensitization potential of diverse organic chemicals	5
Particle characterisation and bioaccessibility of manganese in particulate matter in silico- and ferromanganese smelters	5
Mercury methylation and methylmercury demethylation in boreal lake sediment with legacy sulphate pollution	5
Indexical and statistical approaches to investigate the integrated origins of elements in the sediment of Teesta River, Bangladesh: sediment quality and ecological risk assessment	5
Field based studies on aging characteristics of pristine and aged plastic debris in a coastal environment, Bohai Bay, China	5
Assessing residential indoor and outdoor bioaerosol characteristics using the ultraviolet light-induced fluorescence-based wideband integrated bioaerosol sensor	5