Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Article	Citations
The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview	134
Recent advances in the applications of nano-agrochemicals for sustainable agricultural development	117
Absorption, distribution, and toxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the brain: a review	89
Occurrence, human exposure, and risk of microplastics in the indoor environment	80
Plastic particles in soil: state of the knowledge on sources, occurrence and distribution, analytical methods and ecological impacts	53
PFAS fate and destruction mechanisms during thermal treatment: a comprehensive review	48
Chlorpyrifos in environment and food: a critical review of detection methods and degradation pathways	47
PFAS soil and groundwater contamination via industrial airborne emission and land deposition in SW Vermont and Eastern New York State, USA	45
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	41
Insufficient evidence for the existence of natural trifluoroacetic acid	41
Distribution and fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater treatment facilities	39
Phthalate pollution: environmental fate and cumulative human exposure index using the multivariate analysis approach	38
Macroplastics in rivers: present knowledge, issues and challenges	36
The influence of global climate change on accumulation and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in Arctic food webs	36
Metals in microplastics: determining which are additive, adsorbed, and bioavailable	33
Mercury pollution in China: implications on the implementation of the Minamata Convention	32
Frequency of use of household products containing VOCs and indoor atmospheric concentrations in homes	30
Influence of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a review from the climate change perspective	30
PFAS on atmospheric aerosol particles: a review	29
Distribution and ecological risk assessment of typical antibiotics in the surface waters of seven major rivers, China	29
Polyvinyl chloride in consumer and environmental plastics, with a particular focus on metal-based additives	29
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	28
Why analysing microplastics in floodplains matters: application in a sedimentary context	27
Assessment of emerging polar organic pollutants linked to contaminant pathways within an urban estuary using non-targeted analysis	27
Advances in research on petroleum biodegradability in soil	27

Emerging investigator series: microplastic sources, fate, toxicity, detection, and interactions with micropollutants in aquatic ecosystems – a review of reviews	27
Emerging investigator series: municipal wastewater as a year-round point source of neonicotinoid insecticides that persist in an effluent-dominated stream	25
Surface-water/groundwater boundaries affect seasonal PFAS concentrations and PFAA precursor transformations	25
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	24
A review on nirS-type and nirK-type denitrifiers via a scientometric approach coupled with case studies	24
Lithium-ion battery recycling: a source of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the environment?	23
Ecotoxicology of persistent organic pollutants in birds	22
Characterizing photochemical ageing processes of microplastic materials using multivariate analysis of infrared spectra	21
Are cosmetics a significant source of PFAS in Europe? product inventories, chemical characterization and emission estimates	21
Recent progress in research on PM2.5 in subways	21
Particulate matter and ultrafine particles in urban air pollution and their effect on the nervous system	21
A food web bioaccumulation model for the accumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fish: how important is renal elimination?	21
Critical review of antibiotic resistance genes in the atmosphere	20
Chemical characteristics, leaching, and stability of the ubiquitous tire rubber-derived toxicant 6PPD-quinone	20
Can determination of extractable organofluorine (EOF) be standardized? First interlaboratory comparisons of EOF and fluorine mass balance in sludge and water matrices	20
Micro- and nanoplastic transfer in freezing saltwater: implications for their fate in polar waters	20
Research progress in the enhancement technology of soil vapor extraction of volatile petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants	19
Finding essentiality feasible: common questions and misinterpretations concerning the “essential-use” concept	19
Updated knowledge, partitioning and ecological risk of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in global aquatic environments	19
Fates and spatial variations of accumulation mode particles in a multi-zone indoor environment during the HOMEChem campaign	19
Geochemical controls on CO2 interactions with deep subsurface shales: implications for geologic carbon sequestration	19
Review of ecotoxicological studies of widely used polystyrene nanoparticles	18
Microplastic profusion in food and drinking water: are microplastics becoming a macroproblem?	18
Ionization selectivity of electrospray and atmospheric pressure photoionization FT-ICR MS for petroleum refinery wastewater dissolved organic matter	18
Water monitoring by means of digital microscopy identification and classification of microalgae	18
Emerging investigator series: the role of chemical properties in human exposure to environmental chemicals	18
Uptake of perfluorinated alkyl acids by crops: results from a field study	18
A review of PFAS fingerprints in fish from Norwegian freshwater bodies subject to different source inputs	17
Influence of climate change on persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in the Arctic: state of knowledge and recommendations for future research	17
Identifying sources of groundwater salinity and major hydrogeochemical processes in the Lower Kabul Basin aquifer, Afghanistan	17
A review of microplastic fibres: generation, transport, and vectors for metal(loid)s in terrestrial environments	17
Chemical recovery and browning of Nova Scotia surface waters in response to declining acid deposition	17
Ammonia fluxes and emission factors under an intensively managed wetland rice ecosystem	17
The fate of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in a marine food web influenced by land-based sources in the Norwegian Arctic	16
The Sea Spray Chemistry and Particle Evolution study (SeaSCAPE): overview and experimental methods	16
Effects of nanoplastics on microalgae and their trophic transfer along the food chain: recent advances and perspectives	16
Use and release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in consumer food packaging in U.S. and Canada	16
COVID-19 lockdowns induced land surface temperature variability in mega urban agglomerations in India	15
Distribution, sources and exposure risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils, and indoor and outdoor dust from Port Harcourt city, Nigeria	15
Research status of volatile organic compound (VOC) removal technology and prospect of new strategies: a review	15
Evaluating atmospheric mercury (Hg) uptake by vegetation in a chemistry-transport model	15
Emerging investigator series: chemical and physical properties of organic mixtures on indoor surfaces during HOMEChem	15
Brown carbon aerosols in the Indo-Gangetic Plain outflow: insights from excitation emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy	14
Vanadium: environmental hazard or environmental opportunity? A perspective on some key research needs	14
Evaluation, optimization, and application of three independent suspect screening workflows for the characterization of PFASs in water	14
Adsorption of progesterone onto microplastics and its desorption in simulated gastric and intestinal fluids	14
A pandemic-induced environmental dilemma of disposable masks: solutions from the perspective of the life cycle	14
Concentrations and properties of ice nucleating substances in exudates from Antarctic sea-ice diatoms	14
Development of a PFAS reaction library: identifying plausible transformation pathways in environmental and biological systems	14
Determination of acrolein in ambient air and in the atmosphere of environmental test chambers	13

Reactivity-directed analysis – a novel approach for the identification of toxic organic electrophiles in drinking water	13
The case for a more precise definition of regulated PFAS	13
Organophosphate flame retardants and diesters in the urine of e-waste dismantling workers: associations with indoor dust and implications for urinary biomonitoring	13
Kinetics of the oxidation of ammonia and amines with hydroxyl radicals in the aqueous phase	13
In situ monitoring of triclosan in environmental water with subnanomolar detection limits using eco-friendly electrochemical sensors modified with cyclodextrins	13
Indoor black carbon and brown carbon concentrations from cooking and outdoor penetration: insights from the HOMEChem study	13
Toxicity of hydraulic fracturing wastewater from black shale natural-gas wells influenced by well maturity and chemical additives	13
Enhanced tetrabromobisphenol A debromination by nanoscale zero valent iron particles sulfidated with S0 dissolved in ethanol	12
Screening of pesticide distributions in foods of animal origin: a matrix-based approach for biotransfer factor modeling of grazing mammals	12
Assessing and managing environmental hazards of polymers: historical development, science advances and policy options	12
Formation pathways of aldehydes from heated cooking oils	12
Nitrogen fixing bacteria facilitate microbial biodegradation of a bio-based and biodegradable plastic in soils under ambient and future climatic conditions	12
Adsorption of double-stranded ribonucleic acids (dsRNA) to iron (oxyhydr-)oxide surfaces: comparative analysis of model dsRNA molecules and deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA)	12
Direct and indirect photodegradation of atrazine and S-metolachlor in agriculturally impacted surface water and associated C and N isotope fractionation	12
The oxidative potential of fresh and aged elemental carbon-containing airborne particles: a review	12
Refinement and extension of COSMO-RS-trained fragment contribution models for predicting the partition properties of C10–20 chlorinated paraffin congeners	12
Microaerobic conditions in anaerobic sludge promote changes in bacterial composition favouring biodegradation of polymeric siloxanes	12
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	12
Emerging investigator series: contributions of reactive nitrogen species to transformations of organic compounds in water: a critical review	12
Joint effects of antibiotics and quorum sensing inhibitors on resistance development in bacteria	11
Identification of source areas of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Ulsan, South Korea, using hybrid receptor models and the conditional bivariate probability function	11
Photochemical weathering of polyurethane microplastics produced complex and dynamic mixtures of dissolved organic chemicals	11
Spatiotemporal trends and characteristics of microplastic contamination in a large river-dominated estuary	11
Non-targeted identification and semi-quantitation of emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in US rainwater	11
MFI, BEA and FAU zeolite scavenging role in neonicotinoids and radical species elimination	11
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	11
Abiotic reduction of nitrite by Fe(ii): a comparison of rates and N2O production	11
Aerobic biotransformation of a novel highly functionalized polyfluoroether-based surfactant using activated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant	11
Influences of climate change on long-term time series of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Arctic and Antarctic biota	11
Suspect and non-target screening of ovarian follicular fluid and serum – identification of anthropogenic chemicals and investigation of their association to fertility	11
Use of sequential extraction and mercury stable isotope analysis to assess remobilization of sediment-bound legacy mercury	10
Unraveling biogeochemical complexity through better integration of experiments and modeling	10
Anthropogenic influences on Zambian water quality: hydropower and land-use change	10
Photodegradation of polyolefin thin films in simulated freshwater conditions	10
Legacy and emerging airborne per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) collected on PM2.5 filters in close proximity to a fluoropolymer manufacturing facility	10
Detection of microalgae objects based on the Improved YOLOv3 model	10
Demystifying mercury geochemistry in contaminated soil–groundwater systems with complementary mercury stable isotope, concentration, and speciation analyses	10
Interactions with freshwater biofilms cause rapid removal of common herbicides through degradation – evidence from microcosm studies	10
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon occurrence in forest soils in response to fires: a summary across sites	10
Divergent response of heavy metal bioavailability in soil rhizosphere to agricultural land use change from paddy fields to various drylands	10
Wildfires in the western United States are mobilizing PM2.5-associated nutrients and may be contributing to downwind cyanobacteria blooms	10
Effects of environmental factors on nitrofurantoin photolysis in water and its acute toxicity assessment	10
Associations between the indoor microbiome, environmental characteristics and respiratory infections in junior high school students of Johor Bahru, Malaysia	10
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	10
Concentrations of halogenated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls in house dust from Lagos, Nigeria	9
Secondary organic aerosol formation from monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: insights from laboratory studies	9
Characterising and communicating the potential hazard posed by potentially toxic elements in indoor dusts from schools across Lagos, Nigeria	9
Increased prevalence of indoor Aspergillus and Penicillium species is associated with indoor flooding and coastal proximity: a case study of 28 moldy buildings	9
Aerobic BTEX biodegradation increases yield of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids from biotransformation of a polyfluoroalkyl surfactant, 6:2 FtTAoS	9
Microbial vesicle-mediated communication: convergence to understand interactions within and between domains of life	9
Assessing the source of the photochemical formation of hydroxylating species from dissolved organic matter using model sensitizers	8
Effect of dissolved solids released from biochar on soil microbial metabolism	8
pH affects the aqueous-phase nitrate-mediated photooxidation of phenolic compounds: implications for brown carbon formation and evolution	8
Implications of sample treatment on characterization of riverine dissolved organic matter	8
Kinetics of oligomer-forming reactions involving the major functional groups present in atmospheric secondary organic aerosol particles	8
Indexical and statistical approaches to investigate the integrated origins of elements in the sediment of Teesta River, Bangladesh: sediment quality and ecological risk assessment	8
Fluorophores in surface freshwaters: importance, likely structures, and possible impacts of climate change	8
The dependence of soot particle ice nucleation ability on its volatile content	8
Impact of global warming on regional cycling of mercury and persistent organic pollutants on the Tibetan Plateau: current progress and future prospects	8
To be or not to be degraded: in defense of persistence assessment of chemicals	8
Temperature-induced diurnal redox potential in soil	8
Response of sediment phosphorus partitioning to lanthanum-modified clay amendment and porewater chemistry in a small eutrophic lake	7
Heteroaggregation of PS microplastic with ferrihydrite leads to rapid removal of microplastic particles from the water column	7
Partitioning of reactive oxygen species from indoor surfaces to indoor aerosols	7
Partitioning between polyurethane foam and the gas phase: data compilation, uncertainty estimation and implications for air sampling	7
Persistent, mobile, and toxic plastic additives in Canada: properties and prioritization	7
Alternative methods of monitoring emerging contaminants in water: a review	7
Investigating the dynamics of methylmercury bioaccumulation in the Beaufort Sea shelf food web: a modeling perspective	7
Physicochemical characterization of particulate matter in a cement production plant	7
Field based studies on aging characteristics of pristine and aged plastic debris in a coastal environment, Bohai Bay, China	7
Bioaccessibility of potentially toxic elements in mine residue particles	7
Towards improved characterization of the fate and impact of hydraulic fracturing chemicals to better secure regional water quality	7
POPs in Antarctic ecosystems: is climate change affecting their temporal trends?	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
Investigating the origin and tissue concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in seafood and health risk in Niger Delta, Nigeria	7
Distribution of legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in riverine and coastal sediments of Southeastern North Carolina, USA	7
Effects of carbamazepine in aquatic biota	7
Characterization of inhalation exposure to gaseous elemental mercury during artisanal gold mining and e-waste recycling through combined stationary and personal passive sampling	7
Thermal decomposition mechanism and kinetics of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and other perfluorinated carboxylic acids: a theoretical study	7

Monitoring the influence of wastewater effluent on a small drinking water system using EEM fluorescence spectroscopy coupled with a PARAFAC and PCA statistical approach	7
Biological calcium carbonate with a unique organic–inorganic composite structure to enhance biochar stability	7
Near-source hypochlorous acid emissions from indoor bleach cleaning	7
Ferrihydrite transformations in flooded paddy soils: rates, pathways, and product spatial distributions	7
Mercury methylation and methylmercury demethylation in boreal lake sediment with legacy sulphate pollution	7
Degradation mechanisms of simple aliphatic amines under ozonation: a DFT study	6
Thallium adsorption onto phyllosilicate minerals	6
Groundwaters in Northeastern Pennsylvania near intense hydraulic fracturing activities exhibit few organic chemical impacts	6
Punching above its weight: life cycle energy accounting and environmental assessment of vanadium microalloying in reinforcement bar steel	6
Effect of geochemical conditions on PFAS release from AFFF-impacted saturated soil columns	6
Associations of observed home dampness and mold with the fungal and bacterial dust microbiomes	6
Emission inventory of PFASs and other fluorinated organic substances for the fluoropolymer production industry in Europe	6
Epidemiological significance of the occurrence and persistence of rotaviruses in water and sewage: a critical review and proposal for routine microbiological monitoring	6
Graphical tools for the planning and interpretation of polyurethane foam based passive air sampling campaigns	6
Quantum chemical calculation of the vapor pressure of volatile and semi volatile organic compounds	6
Linking biodegradation kinetics, microbial composition and test temperature – Testing 40 petroleum hydrocarbons using inocula collected in winter and summer	6
Extracellular polymeric substances enhance dissolution and microbial methylation of mercury sulfide minerals	6
Oil & gas produced water retention ponds as potential passive treatment for radium removal and beneficial reuse	6
ARKA: a framework of dimensionality reduction for machine-learning classification modeling, risk assessment, and data gap-filling of sparse environmental toxicity data	6
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	6
Direct and nitrite-sensitized indirect photolysis of effluent-derived phenolic contaminants under UV254irradiation	6
Tracing the sources and depositional history of mercury to coastal northeastern U.S. lakes	6
Iodine emission from the reactive uptake of ozone to simulated seawater	6
Screening the baseline fish bioconcentration factor of various types of surfactants using phospholipid binding data	6
Effects of dissolved organic matter characteristics on the photosensitized degradation of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment wetlands	6
Early and late cyanobacterial bloomers in a shallow, eutrophic lake	6
Indoor and outdoor air quality impacts of cooking and cleaning emissions from a commercial kitchen	6
Mercury in air and soil on an urban-rural transect in East Africa	6
The geno-toxicological impacts of microplastic (MP) exposure on health: mechanistic pathways and research trends from a Chinese perspective	6
Surface properties and rising velocities of pristine and weathered plastic pellets	5
Effect of trace elements in the toxicity of copper to Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	5
Electrochemistry-coupled to liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-density functional theory as a new tool to mimic the environmental degradation of selected phenylurea herbicides	5
Fate of pyrene on mineral surfaces during thermal remediation as a function of temperature	5
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in white-tailed sea eagle eggs from Sweden: temporal trends (1969–2021), spatial variations, fluorine mass balance, and suspect screening	5
Evaluating the pH-dependence of DOM absorbance, fluorescence, and photochemical production of singlet oxygen	5
Aerosol dynamics modeling of sub-500 nm particles during the HOMEChem study	5
TcO2 oxidative dissolution by birnessite under anaerobic conditions: a solid–solid redox reaction impacting the environmental mobility of Tc-99	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
Emerging investigator series: quantifying the impact of cloud cover on solar irradiance and environmental photodegradation	5
Importance of meteorology and chemistry in determining air pollutant levels during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian cities	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
A novel Ca/Mn-modified biochar recycles P from solution: mechanisms and phosphate efficiency	5
The influence of hardness at varying pH on zinc toxicity and lability to a freshwater microalga, Chlorella sp.	5
Introducing a nested multimedia fate and transport model for organic contaminants (NEM)	5
Combining predictive and analytical methods to elucidate pharmaceutical biotransformation in activated sludge	5
Exploring controls on perfluorocarboxylic acid (PFCA) gas–particle partitioning using a model with observational constraints	5
Alkyl-phenanthrenes in early life stage fish: differential toxicity in Atlantic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) embryos	5
Changes in neighborhood air quality after idling of an urban oil production site	5
Particle characterisation and bioaccessibility of manganese in particulate matter in silico- and ferromanganese smelters	5
Assessing residential indoor and outdoor bioaerosol characteristics using the ultraviolet light-induced fluorescence-based wideband integrated bioaerosol sensor	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
Water–rock interaction and the concentrations of major, trace, and rare earth elements in hydrocarbon-associated produced waters of the United States	5
Photolysis of the herbicide dicamba in aqueous solutions and on corn (Zea mays) epicuticular waxes	5
An experimental and modeling study on the penetration of spilled oil into thawing frozen soil	5
The human fecal microbiome contributes to the biotransformation of the PFAS surfactant 8:2 monosubstituted polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester	5
Ranking the accelerated weathering of plastic polymers	5