OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Sciences Europe is 12. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Urban population exposure to air pollution in Europe over the last decades	152
Environmental fate of tetracycline antibiotics: degradation pathway mechanisms, challenges, and perspectives	145
Mercury in the terrestrial environment: a review	144
Analysis of the polyester clothing value chain to identify key intervention points for sustainability	92
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 very	81
High concentration and high dose of disinfectants and antibiotics used during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten human health	74
Circular economy: advancement of European Union countries	70
Adverse effects in the fish embryo acute toxicity (FET) test: a catalogue of unspecific morphological changes versus more specific effects in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos	68
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in Chinese drinking water: risk assessment and geographical distribution	66
Exposure to low-dose nanopolystyrene induces the response of neuronal JNK MAPK signaling pathway in nematode Caenorhabditis elegans	63
Handling climate change education at universities: an overview	62
An emerging role of microplastics in the etiology of lung ground glass nodules	59
Long-term exposure to high-concentration silver nanoparticles induced toxicity, fatality, bioaccumulation, and histological alteration in fish (Cyprinus carpio)	59
Carbon footprinting of universities worldwide: Part I—objective comparison by standardized metrics	55
Pyrolysis kinetic modelling of abundant plastic waste (PET) and in-situ emission monitoring	54
Rapid photocatalytic degradation of phenol from water using composite nanofibers under UV	54
Challenges of the Blue Economy: evidence and research trends	51
The impact of scrubber discharge on the water quality in estuaries and ports	50
Heavy metal pollutants and their spatial distribution in surface sediments from Thondi coast, Palk Bay, South India	49
Photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline in aqueous systems under visible light irridiation using needle-like SnO2 nanoparticles anchored on exfoliated g-C3N4	47
How to coordinate the relationship between renewable energy consumption and green economic development: from the perspective of technological advancement	47
The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let’s cooperate!	46
Broadening the GMO risk assessment in the EU for genome editing technologies in agriculture	45
Oceanic long-range transport of organic additives present in plastic products: an overview	44
Impact of environmental factors on human semen quality and male fertility: a narrative review	44

Exhaust emission factors of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from European road vehicles	44
Toxic effects of UV filters from sunscreens on coral reefs revisited: regulatory aspects for “reef safe” products	43
PFAS accumulation in indigenous and translocated aquatic organisms from Belgium, with translation to human and ecological health risk	42
Getting in control of persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances to protect water resources: strategies from diverse perspectives	40
One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science–policy body on chemicals and waste	40
Economic policy instruments for sustainable phosphorus management: taking into account climate and biodiversity targets	40
The NORMAN Suspect List Exchange (NORMAN-SLE): facilitating European and worldwide collaboration on suspect screening in high resolution mass spectrometry	39
Environmental fate and effects of water-soluble synthetic organic polymers used in cosmetic products	39
Year-round pesticide contamination of public sites near intensively managed agricultural areas in South Tyrol	38
Urban heat resilience at the time of global warming: evaluating the impact of the urban parks on outdoor thermal comfort	37
An assessment of requirements in investments, new technologies, and infrastructures to achieve the SDGs	35
Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in water and sediment from Volturno River, Southern Italy: occurrence, distribution and risk assessment	34
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 c	34
Antibiotic resistance genes in different animal manures and their derived organic fertilizer	33
MIXed plastics biodegradation and UPcycling using microbial communities: EU Horizon 2020 project MIX-UP started January 2020	33
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 world	33
Monitoring sustainable development by means of earth observation data and machine learning: a review	32
Microplastic analysis using chemical extraction followed by LC-UV analysis: a straightforward approach to determine PET content in environmental samples	32
Toxicity and risk of plant-produced alkaloids to Daphnia magna	32
Distribution, source apportionment, and health risk assessment of phthalate esters in indoor dust samples across China	32
Bioaccumulation assessment of nanomaterials using freshwater invertebrate species	30
Natural alkaloids from narrow-leaf and yellow lupins transfer to soil and soil solution in agricultural fields	30
Effectiveness of plants and green infrastructure utilization in ambient particulate matter removal	29
Understanding the origins and variability of the fuel consumption gap: lessons learned from laboratory tests and a real-driving campaign	28
DRASTIC, GOD, and SI approaches for assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution: a review	28
Quantifying the streamflow response to groundwater abstractions for irrigation or drinking water at catchment scale using SWAT and SWAT–MODFLOW	27
Climate change: Does international research fulfill global demands and necessities?	27
GMO regulations and their interpretation: how EFSA’s guidance on risk assessments of GMOs is bound to fail	27
PFAS: forever chemicals—persistent, bioaccumulative and mobile. Reviewing the status and the need for their phase out and remediation of contaminated sites	26
Advanced oxidation processes for the removal of cyanobacterial toxins from drinking water	26
Occurrence and multiple-level ecological risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in two shallow lakes of China	25
Terrestrial ecological restoration in China: identifying advances and gaps	25
Threshold effects of environmental regulation types on green investment by heavily polluting enterprises	25
Effects of glyphosate-based herbicides and their active ingredients on earthworms, water infiltration and glyphosate leaching are influenced by soil properties	25
Evaluating ecological risks and tracking potential factors influencing heavy metals in sediments in an urban river	24
Diverging trends of plasticizers (phthalates and non-phthalates) in indoor and freshwater environments—why?	24
Modeling the synergistic effects of toxicant mixtures	24
Pesticides and pesticide-related products in ambient air in Germany	24
Characterization of petroleum-based plastics and their absorbed trace metals from the sediments of the Marina Beach in Chennai, India	24
Cyanobacteria and their secondary metabolites in three freshwater reservoirs in the United Kingdom	24
Radiological survey on radon entry path in an underground mine and implementation of an optimized mitigation system	23
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 zone	23
Screening of organic micropollutants in raw and drinking water in the Yangtze River Delta, China	22
Analysis of microbial populations in plastic–soil systems after exposure to high poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) load using high-resolution molecular technique	22
Management of agricultural waste biomass as raw material for the construction sector: an analysis of sustainable and circular alternatives	21
Unravelling the chemical exposome in cohort studies: routes explored and steps to become comprehensive	21
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 approach	21
Nitrogen soil surface budgets for districts in Germany 1995 to 2017	21
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and association with sex hormone concentrations: results from the NHANES 2015–2016	21
Plastic contamination in agricultural soils: a review	21

Toxic effects on enzymatic activity, gene expression and histopathological biomarkers in organisms exposed to microplastics and nanoplastics: a review	20
Characteristics of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in Qingcaosha Reservoir in Yangtze River Delta, China	20
Impact of wastewater treatment plants on microbiological contamination for evaluating the risks of wastewater reuse	19
Fate of recycled tyre granulate used on artificial turf	19
Municipal waste incineration fly ashes: from a multi-element approach to market potential evaluation	19
Tryptophan-like fluorescence as a fingerprint of dry-weather misconnections into storm drainage system	19
The influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable consumption: an international study	18
Nanoparticles engineered from endophytic fungi (Botryosphaeria rhodina) against ESBL-producing pathogenic multidrug-resistant E. coli	18
Retrospective non-target analysis to support regulatory water monitoring: from masses of interest to recommendations via in silico workflows	18
Influence of 200 years of water resource management on a typical central European river. Does industrialization straighten a river?	18
Quantitative analysis of cadmium in rice roots based on LIBS and chemometrics methods	18
Changes in handwashing and hygiene product usage patterns in Korea before and after the outbreak of COVID-19	18
Sorptive removal of short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during drinking water treatment using activated carbon and anion exchanger	17
Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance for chemicals, foods, and drugs: assessing patterns of exposure behind a global phenomenon	17
Mast cell activation may explain many cases of chemical intolerance	17
Economic growth, energy consumption and environmental degradation nexus in heterogeneous countries: does education matter?	17
The future of circular environmental impact indicators for cultural heritage buildings in Europe	17
Rapid extraction of total lipids and lipophilic POPs from all EU-regulated foods of animal origin: Smedes’ method revisited and enhanced	17
The toxicity of lithium to human cardiomyocytes	16
Distribution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in aerobic composting of swine manure with different antibiotics	16
Evidence for antifouling biocides as one of the limiting factors for the recovery of macrophyte communities in lakes of Schleswig-Holstein	16
Commentary: Assessing the endocrine disrupting effects of chemicals on invertebrates in the European Union	16
Assessment of the 2021 summer flood in Central Europe	16
Earthworms and rice straw enhanced soil bacterial diversity and promoted the degradation of phenanthrene	16
Environmental hazard testing of nanobiomaterials	15
Transitioning to lead-free ammunition use in hunting: socio-economic and regulatory considerations for the European Union and other jurisdictions	15
Evaluation of adverse effects/events of genetically modified food consumption: a systematic review of animal and human studies	15
Distribution of 31 endocrine-disrupting compounds in the Taihu Lake and application of the fish plasma model	15
NORMAN guidance on suspect and non-target screening in environmental monitoring	15
Different types of industrial agglomeration and green total factor productivity in China: do institutional and policy characteristics of cities make a difference?	15
GC × GC–HRMS nontarget fingerprinting of organic micropollutants in urban freshwater sediments	15
Moderate inundation stimulates plant community assembly in the drawdown zone of China’s Three Gorges Reservoir	15
Can a chemical be both readily biodegradable AND very persistent (vP)? Weight-of-evidence determination demonstrates that phenanthrene is not persistent in the environment	15
Reducing overall herbicide use may reduce risks to humans but increase toxic loads to honeybees, earthworms and birds	15
Digging deep—implementation, standardisation and interpretation of a total oxidisable precursor (TOP) assay within the regulatory context of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in soil	14
Environmental fate and effects assessment of human pharmaceuticals: lessons learnt from regulatory data	14
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, Poland	14
Environmental quality standards for diclofenac derived under the European Water Framework Directive: 1. Aquatic organisms	14
Commercial preparations of pesticides exert higher toxicity and cause changes at subcellular level in earthworm Eisenia andrei	14
Non-conventional learning on sustainable development: achieving the SDGs	14
Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union	14
Human impact on fluvial systems in Europe with special regard to today’s river restorations	14
Mixture toxicity analysis in zebrafish embryo: a time and concentration resolved study on mixture effect predictivity	14
The bisphenol F and bisphenol S and cardiovascular disease: results from NHANES 2013–2016	14
Degradation of paraquat herbicide using hybrid AOP process: statistical optimization, kinetic study, and estimation of electrical energy consumption	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-MS	14
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 period	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 erosion	13
Acute effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Lanzhou, China: a time-series study	13
The impact of the anti-diabetic drug metformin on the intestinal microbiome of larval brown trout (Salmo trutta f. fario)	13
Does galvanic cathodic protection by aluminum anodes impact marine organisms?	13
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 study	13
Occurrence of plant secondary metabolite fingerprints in river waters from Eastern Jutland, Denmark	13
Effect of total dissolved gas supersaturation on the tolerance of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus)	13
Subsoils—a sink for excess fertilizer P but a minor contribution to P plant nutrition: evidence from long-term fertilization trials	13
How to measure the impact of citizen science on environmental attitudes, behaviour and knowledge? A review of state-of-the-art approaches	12
Gap analysis of DNA barcoding in ERMS reference libraries for ascidians and cnidarians	12
Long-term trends of black carbon and particle number concentration in the lower free troposphere in Central Europe	12
Spatial distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metal pollution of sediments in coastal reclamation areas: a case study in Shenzhen Bay, China	12
Risk and sustainability: trade-offs and synergies for robust decision making	12
Multi-compartment chemical characterization and risk assessment of chemicals of emerging concern in freshwater systems of western Kenya	12
Potassium citrate-derived porous carbon with high CO2 capture and Congo red adsorption performance	12
In vivo and in vitro effects of chronical exposure to nonylphenol on lipid metabolism	12
Leaching of nanoparticles from nano-enabled products for the protection of cultural heritage surfaces: a review	12
Assessing the relevance of atmospheric heavy metal deposition with regard to ecosystem integrity and human health in Germany	12
Methodological limitations in studies assessing the effects of environmental and socioeconomic variables on the spread of COVID-19: a systematic review	12