Subfield · Pollution
Most cited papers in Pollution
What are the most cited papers in Pollution?
The most cited paper in Pollution is "Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made" (Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law, 2017), with 18,485 citations. Next come "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean" (13,155) and "An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C" (13,020).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,927 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law · Science Advances | 7 Jul 2017 | 18,485 |
| 2 | Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean Jenna Jambeck, Roland Geyer, Chris Wilcox et al. · Science | 12 Feb 2015 | 13,155 |
| 3 | An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C Eric D. Vance, Philip Charles Brookes, David Stewart Jenkinson · Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1987 | 13,020 |
| 4 | Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds Norio Miyaura, Akira Suzuki · Chemical Reviews | Nov 1995 | 12,838 |
| 5 | Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes coding for 16S rRNA Gerard Muyzer, Ellen C. de Waal, André Gerardus Uitterlinden · Applied and Environmental Microbiology | Mar 1993 | 11,519 |
| 6 | Development of a DTPA Soil Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper W. L. Lindsay, Wendell A. Norvell · Soil Science Society of America Journal | May 1978 | 10,001 |
| 7 | An ecological risk index for aquatic pollution control.a sedimentological approach Lars Håkanson · Water Research | 1980 | 9,700 |
| 8 | Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model J. S. Stacey, Jan D. Kramers · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Jun 1975 | 9,132 |
| 9 | Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution C. Arden Pope · JAMA | 6 Mar 2002 | 8,639 |
| 10 | An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities Douglas W. Dockery, C. Arden Pope, Xiping Xu et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 9 Dec 1993 | 8,197 |
| 11 | Microplastics in the marine environment Anthony L. Andrady · Marine Pollution Bulletin | 14 Jul 2011 | 8,102 |
| 12 | Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance Dana W. Kolpin, Edward T. Furlong, Michael T. Meyer et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | Mar 2002 | 7,962 |
| 13 | Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic? Richard C. Thompson, Ylva S. Olsen, Richard P. Mitchell et al. · Science | 6 May 2004 | 7,767 |
| 14 | Methods for detecting carcinogens and mutagens with the salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test Bruce N. Ames, Joyce McCann, Edith F. Yamasaki · Mutation Research/Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects | Dec 1975 | 7,423 |
| 15 | Heavy Metal Toxicity and the Environment Paul B. Tchounwou, Clément G. Yedjou, Anita K. Patlolla et al. · Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Polarization Phenomena in Nuclear Reactions | 2012 | 7,216 |
| 16 | Transformation of the Nitrogen Cycle: Recent Trends, Questions, and Potential Solutions James N. Galloway, Alan R. Townsend, Jan Willem Erisman et al. · Science | 15 May 2008 | 7,151 |
| 17 | Hazards of heavy metal contamination Lars Järup · British Medical Bulletin | Dec 2003 | 6,521 |
| 18 | Toxicity, mechanism and health effects of some heavy metals Monisha Jaishankar, Tenzin Tseten, Naresh Anbalagan et al. · Interdisciplinary Toxicology | Jun 2014 | 6,413 |
| 19 | Agar and broth dilution methods to determine the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial substances Irith Wiegand, Kai Hilpert, Robert E. W. Hancock · Nature Protocols | 17 Jan 2008 | 6,274 |
| 20 | The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale Jos Lelieveld, John S. Evans, Mohammed S. Fnais et al. · Nature | Sep 2015 | 6,216 |
| 21 | Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments David K. A. Barnes, François Galgani, Richard C. Thompson et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 15 Jun 2009 | 6,184 |
| 22 | A simple practice guide for dose conversion between animals and human Anroop Balachandran Nair, Shery Jacob · Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacy | 2016 | 6,160 |
| 23 | Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review Matthew Cole, Pennie Lindeque, Claudia Halsband et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin | 17 Oct 2011 | 6,043 |
| 24 | Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: A rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil P. C. Brookes, A. Landman, Gordon Pruden et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 1985 | 5,901 |
| 25 | Geochemistry of eocene calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from the Kastamonu area, Northern Turkey Angelο Peccerillo, S. R. Taylor · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology | 1976 | 5,873 |
| 26 | Origins and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance JULIAN E. DAVIES, Dorothy Davies · Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 30 Aug 2010 | 5,866 |
| 27 | Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification Valeria Hidalgo‐Ruz, Lars Gutow, Richard C. Thompson et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 9 Feb 2012 | 5,448 |
| 28 | Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review Ioannis Manisalidis, Elisavet Stavropoulou, Agathangelos Stavropoulos et al. · Frontiers in Public Health | 20 Feb 2020 | 5,270 |
| 29 | Identification of acquired antimicrobial resistance genes Ea Zankari, Henrik Hasman, Salvatore Cosentino et al. · Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 10 Jul 2012 | 5,243 |
| 30 | The Lancet Commission on pollution and health Philip J. Landrigan et al. · The Lancet | 19 Oct 2017 | 4,954 |
| 31 | Fish bioaccumulation and biomarkers in environmental risk assessment: a review Ron van der Oost, Jonny Beyer, Nico Vermeulen · Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology | 10 Dec 2002 | 4,897 |
| 32 | Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks Mark A. Oakley Browne, Phillip Crump, S. J. Niven et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 6 Sep 2011 | 4,772 |
| 33 | Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea Marcus Eriksen, Laurent Lebreton, Henry S. Carson et al. · PLoS ONE | 10 Dec 2014 | 4,735 |
| 34 | Air pollution and health Bert Brunekreef, Stephen T. Holgate · The Lancet | Oct 2002 | 4,730 |
| 35 | Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: A review Mahtab Ahmad, Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha, Jung Eun Lim et al. · Chemosphere | 27 Nov 2013 | 4,623 |
| 36 | The microbial nitrogen-cycling network Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Hannah K. Marchant, Boran Kartal · Nature Reviews Microbiology | 5 Feb 2018 | 4,604 |
| 37 | Human health effects of air pollution Marilena Kampa, Elias Castanas · Environmental Pollution | 24 Jul 2007 | 4,567 |
| 38 | The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review Stephanie Wright, Richard C. Thompson, Tamara S. Galloway · Environmental Pollution | 29 Mar 2013 | 4,529 |
| 39 | Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: agents of subtle change? Christian G. Daughton, Thomas A. Ternes · Environmental Health Perspectives | Dec 1999 | 4,496 |
| 40 | Use of p-nitrophenyl phosphate for assay of soil phosphatase activity Mohammod Ali Tabatabai, John M. Bremner · Soil Biology and Biochemistry | Nov 1969 | 4,492 |
| 41 | Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part I Klaus Kümmerer · Chemosphere | 31 Jan 2009 | 4,483 |
| 42 | Quantitative assessment of worldwide contamination of air, water and soils by trace metals Jerome O. Nriagu, Józef M. Pacyna · Nature | May 1988 | 4,396 |
| 43 | Heavy metal pollution in the environment and their toxicological effects on humans Jessica F. Briffa, Emmanuel Sinagra, Renald A. Blundell · Heliyon | Sep 2020 | 4,377 |
| 44 | Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments Edward R. Long, Donald D. MacDonald, Sherri L. Smith et al. · Environmental Management | 1995 | 4,328 |
| 45 | Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance Jessica M. A. Blair, Mark Alexander Webber, Alison J. Baylay et al. · Nature Reviews Microbiology | Dec 2014 | 4,101 |
| 46 | The occurrence of superoxide anion in the reaction of reduced phenazine methosulfate and molecular oxygen Morimitsu Nishikimi, N. Appaji Rao, Kunio Yagi · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 1972 | 4,097 |
| 47 | Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations Rudolf Amann, Brian J. Binder, Robert Olson et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology | Jun 1990 | 4,069 |
| 48 | The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris: a review José G. B. Derraik · Marine Pollution Bulletin | Sep 2002 | 4,062 |
| 49 | Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals Thomas P. Van Boeckel, Charles H. Brower, Marius Gilbert et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Mar 2015 | 4,021 |
| 50 | River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans Laurent Lebreton, Joost van der Zwet, Jan-Willem Damsteeg et al. · Nature Communications | 7 Jun 2017 | 4,013 |
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