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Most cited papers in Environmental Quality and Pollution

Environmental Quality and Pollution

What are the most cited papers in Environmental Quality and Pollution?

The most cited paper in Environmental Quality and Pollution is "Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies" (Fangjie J. Zhao, Yibing Ma, Yong‐Guan Zhu et al., 2014), with 2,198 citations. Next come "Entropy method for determination of weight of evaluating indicators in fuzzy synthetic evaluation for water quality assessment" (1,070) and "Advanced Modelling of Soil Organic Carbon Content in Coal Mining Areas Using Integrated Spectral Analysis: A Dengcao Coal Mine Case Study" (958).

Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 139 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies Fangjie J. Zhao, Yibing Ma, Yong‐Guan Zhu et al. · Environmental Science & Technology 16 Dec 2014 2,198
2 Entropy method for determination of weight of evaluating indicators in fuzzy synthetic evaluation for water quality assessment Zhihong Zou, Yi Yun, Jing-nan SUN · Journal of Environmental Sciences Sep 2006 1,070
3 Advanced Modelling of Soil Organic Carbon Content in Coal Mining Areas Using Integrated Spectral Analysis: A Dengcao Coal Mine Case Study Gill Ammara, Xiaojun Nie, Chang Liu · International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) Open access 14 Jun 2024 958
4 Review and challenges of policies of environmental protection and sustainable development in China Kunmin Zhang, Zongguo Wen · Journal of Environmental Management 5 Sep 2007 716
5 Heavy metal pollution in China: Origin, pattern and control Shuiping Cheng · Environmental Science and Pollution Research May 2003 666
6 On the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment YU Guo-pei · Shijie dili yanjiu 2006 640
7 Linking ecosystem services and landscape patterns to assess urban ecosystem health: A case study in Shenzhen City, China Jian Zhong Peng, Yanxu Liu, Jiansheng Wu et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning 13 Jul 2015 440
8 Value of ecosystem services in China Zhongxin Chen, Xinshi Zhang · Chinese Science Bulletin May 2000 412
9 Heavy metal concentrations in soils and plant accumulation in a restored manganese mineland in Guangxi, South China M.S. Li, Y.P. Luo, Zhiyao Su · Environmental Pollution 3 Oct 2006 409
10 What is a healthy ecosystem? Robert Costanza, Michael T. Mageau · Aquatic Ecology Mar 1999 408
11 Ecological restoration of mineland with particular reference to the metalliferous mine wasteland in China: A review of research and practice M.S. Li · The Science of The Total Environment 30 Jun 2005 408
12 Characterizing landscape pattern and ecosystem service value changes for urbanization impacts at an eco-regional scale Shiliang Su, Rui Xiao, Zhenlan Jiang et al. · Applied Geography 30 Dec 2011 408
13 Soil and soil environmental quality monitoring in China: A review Yanguo Teng, Jin Wu, Sijin Lu et al. · Environment International 27 May 2014 398
14 Pollution and Potential Ecological Risk Evaluation of Heavy Metals in the Sediments around Dongjiang Harbor, Tianjin Weihua Guo, Xianbin Liu, Zhanguang Liu et al. · Procedia Environmental Sciences Open access 2010 381
15 Natural and Human Factors Affect the Distribution of Soil Heavy Metal Pollution: a Review Qiao-Chu Zhang, Chengchen Wang · Water Air & Soil Pollution Jul 2020 372
16 Effects of soil acidification and liming on the phytoavailability of cadmium in paddy soils of central subtropical China Hanhua Zhu, Cheng Chen, Chao Xu et al. · Environmental Pollution 27 Oct 2016 372
17 Impact of Soil Heavy Metal Pollution on Food Safety in China Xiuying Zhang, Taiyang Zhong, Lei Liu et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 7 Aug 2015 370
18 Integrating the MCR and DOI models to construct an ecological security network for the urban agglomeration around Poyang Lake, China Lu Dai, Yaobin Liu, Xiaoyi Luo · The Science of The Total Environment 26 Aug 2020 360
19 Heavy metal pollution in intertidal sediments from Quanzhou Bay, China Ruilian Yu, Xing Yuan, Yuanhui Zhao et al. · Journal of Environmental Sciences 2008 346
20 Risk analysis of heavy metal concentration in surface waters across the rural-urban interface of the Wen-Rui Tang River, China Liyin Qu, Hong Huang, Fang Xia et al. · Environmental Pollution Open access 18 Mar 2018 342
21 Heavy metals in urban soils with various types of land use in Beijing, China Xinghui Xia, Xi Chen, Ruimin Liu et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials 31 Dec 2010 337
22 Thinking strategically, the competitive edge in business, politics and everyday life Manfred Joseph Holler · European Journal of Political Economy Oct 1992 336
23 Coupling coordination analysis and spatiotemporal heterogeneity between urbanization and ecosystem health in Chongqing municipality, China Weijie Li, Yong Wang, Shiyou Xie et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 5 Jun 2021 334
24 Spatiotemporal differentiation and the factors influencing urbanization and ecological environment synergistic effects within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration Zhenbo Wang, Longwu Liang, Zhan Sun et al. · Journal of Environmental Management 15 May 2019 327
25 Conflict or coordination? Assessing land use multi-functionalization using production-living-ecology analysis De Zhou, Jianchun Xu, Zhulu Lin · The Science of The Total Environment Nov 2016 322
26 Coupling ecosystem services supply and human ecological demand to identify landscape ecological security pattern: A case study in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, China Liqing Zhang, Jian Zhong Peng, Yanxu Liu et al. · Urban Ecosystems 17 Dec 2016 317
27 Combining AHP with GIS in synthetic evaluation of eco-environment quality—A case study of Hunan Province, China Xiong Ying, Guangming Zeng, Guiqiu Chen et al. · Ecological Modelling 21 Jul 2007 299
28 Considerations for the development of a terrestrial index of ecological integrity James K. Andreasen, Robert V. O’Neill, Reed F. Noss et al. · Ecological Indicators Aug 2001 292
29 A remote sensing urban ecological index and its application Hanqiu Xu 2013 290
30 Technologies for removing heavy metal from contaminated soils on farmland: A review Hai Lin, Ziwei Wang, Chenjing Liu et al. · Chemosphere 23 Jun 2022 277
31 Regional ecosystem health response to rural land use change: A case study in Lijiang City, China Jian Zhong Peng, Yanxu Liu, Tianyi Li et al. · Ecological Indicators 5 Sep 2016 271
32 Assessing sustainability of urbanization by a coordinated development index for an Urbanization-Resources-Environment complex system: A case study of Jing-Jin-Ji region, China Xuegang Cui, Chuanglin Fang, Haimeng Liu et al. · Ecological Indicators 18 Sep 2018 267
33 Urbanization, land use, and water quality in Shanghai Wenwei Ren, Yang Zhong, John F. Meligrana et al. · Environment International 12 May 2003 264
34 Evaluation of ecological city and analysis of obstacle factors under the background of high-quality development: Taking cities in the Yellow River Basin as examples Yu Chen, Mengke Zhu, Junlin Lu et al. · Ecological Indicators Open access 11 Aug 2020 260
35 Linking ecosystem services and ecosystem health to ecological risk assessment: A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration Peng Kang, Weiping Chen, Ying Hou et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 5 May 2018 256
36 Using fuzzy theory and information entropy for water quality assessment in Three Gorges region, China Li Liu, Jianzhong Zhou, Xueli An et al. · Expert Systems with Applications 27 Aug 2009 252
37 Ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of Xiawan Port based on modified potential ecological risk index Huina Zhu, Xingzhong Yuan, Guangming Zeng et al. · Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China Jun 2012 246
38 Heavy metals and metalloids in the surface sediments of the Xiangjiang River, Hunan, China: distribution, contamination, and ecological risk assessment Liyuan Chai, Huan Li, Zhihui Yang et al. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research 19 Oct 2016 240
39 New ecological redline policy (ERP) to secure ecosystem services in China Yang Bai, Bo Jiang, Min Wang et al. · Land Use Policy Open access 19 Sep 2015 232
40 A remote sensing index for assessment of regional ecological changes Hanqiu Xu · China Environmental Science 2013 230
41 Heavy metals pollution in poultry and livestock feeds and manures under intensive farming in Jiangsu Province, China. Long Cang, Yujun Wang, Dongmei Zhou et al. · PubMed 2004 228
42 Energy and Environment: Challenges and Achievements in Rapid Urbanization Litao Wang, Hongxing Yang, Qunhui Wang et al. · The Scientific World JOURNAL Open access 2013 225
43 Building ecological security patterns based on ecosystem services value reconstruction in an arid inland basin: A case study in Ganzhou District, NW China Yun Wang, Jinghu Pan · Journal of Cleaner Production 12 Sep 2019 224
44 Study on the coordinated relationship between Urban Land use efficiency and ecosystem health in China Xue Xie, Bin Xing Fang, Hanzeyu Xu et al. · Land Use Policy 28 Dec 2020 222
45 Comprehensive assessment of harmful heavy metals in contaminated soil in order to score pollution level Haodong Zhao, Yan Wu, Xiping Lan et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 3 Mar 2022 219
46 Assessment Model of Ecoenvironmental Vulnerability Based on Improved Entropy Weight Method Xianqi Zhang, Chenbo Wang, Enkuan Li et al. · The Scientific World JOURNAL Open access 2014 217
47 Emergy analysis of Chinese agriculture G.Q. Chen, M.M. Jiang, Bin Chen et al. · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 20 Feb 2006 214
48 Accumulation of Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn in plants and hyperaccumulator choice in Lanping lead–zinc mine area, China Yanqun Zu, Yuan Li, Christian Schvartz et al. · Environment International 11 Dec 2003 214
49 Status of heavy metals in agricultural soils as affected by different patterns of land use Shaowen Huang, Jiyun Jin · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 3 Jun 2007 211
50 Ecosystem health assessment based on ecological integrity and ecosystem services demand in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China Zhenzhen Pan, Jianhua He, Dianfeng Liu et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 2 Feb 2021 203

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