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Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Mercury impact and mitigation studies is a research topic within Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the toxicology, environmental impacts, and global cycling of mercury and its compounds. It covers topics such as mercury exposure, health effects, bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs, emissions from anthropogenic sources, and the interactions between mercury and the environment.

  • Mercury
  • Toxicology
  • Environmental
  • Exposure
  • Health Effects
  • Methylmercury
  • Bioaccumulation
  • Emissions
  • Global Cycling
  • Aquatic Systems
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Which countries lead Mercury impact and mitigation studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2k and 594 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 United States 594 works
  3. 3 India 363 works
  4. 4 Brazil 247 works
  5. 5 Canada 197 works
  6. 6 France 171 works
  7. 7 Spain 149 works
  8. 8 Italy 143 works
  9. 9 Japan 123 works
  10. 10 Russia 110 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 48.6%United States: 14.5%India: 8.9%Brazil: 6.0%6 others listed: 21.9%49%largest
China1,986 · 48.6%United States594 · 14.5%India363 · 8.9%Brazil247 · 6.0%6 others listed894 · 21.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Mercury impact and mitigation studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mercury impact and mitigation studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 194 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 77 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 49 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 37 works
  5. 5 Ocean University of ChinaChina 34 works
  6. 6 Central South UniversityChina 28 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 26 works
  8. 8 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 26 works
  9. 9 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 26 works
  10. 10 Zhejiang UniversityChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Mercury impact and mitigation studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mercury impact and mitigation studies include George Davey Smith, Walter Churchill Willett and Stuart Pocock.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  3. 3 Stuart Pocock United Kingdom 273k citations
  4. 4 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  5. 5 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  6. 6 Dariush Mozaffarian United States 218k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Mercury impact and mitigation studies?

The most cited paper in Mercury impact and mitigation studies is "Heavy Metal Toxicity and the Environment" (Paul B. Tchounwou, Clément G. Yedjou, Anita K. Patlolla et al., 2012), with 7,216 citations. Next come "Hazards of heavy metal contamination" (6,521) and "Mercury 4.0 : from visualization to analysis, design and prediction" (5,106).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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 Book chapterOpen access 2012 7,216
2 Hazards of heavy metal contamination Lars Järup · British Medical Bulletin Dec 2003 6,521
3 Mercury 4.0 : from visualization to analysis, design and prediction Clare F. Macrae, Ioana Şovago, Simon J. Cottrell et al. · Journal of Applied Crystallography Open access 25 Nov 2019 5,106
4 Quantitative assessment of worldwide contamination of air, water and soils by trace metals Jerome O. Nriagu, Józef M. Pacyna · Nature May 1988 4,396
5 Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of Hazardous Heavy Metals: Environmental Persistence, Toxicity, and Bioaccumulation Hazrat Ali, Ezzat Khan, Ikram Ilahi · Journal of Chemistry Open access 5 Mar 2019 3,207
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Mercury impact and mitigation studies research done?

The largest centres of Mercury impact and mitigation studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Guangzhou (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guiyang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 407 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 109 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 95 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 94 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 91 works
  6. 6 QingdaoChina 75 works
  7. 7 GuiyangChina 64 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 61 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 53 works
  10. 10 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuiyangCN · 63.6 works8.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mercury impact and mitigation studies than the world average.

See Mercury impact and mitigation studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Mercury impact and mitigation studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Central South University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ocean University of China score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King Saud UniversityCentral South Univer…University of Chines…Ocean University of …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Central South UniversityChina 62.017.5%2.8×28 +10.7%
2University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.914.9%4.3×37 -3.2%
3Ocean University of ChinaChina 60.511.4%12.9×34 +57.0%
4King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 57.018.5%2.8×14 +32.9%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 55.830.3%3.0×12 -27.8%
6Beijing Normal UniversityChina 55.218.1%3.4×14 +75.7%
7Tongji UniversityChina 54.417.9%2.9×23 +8.7%
8Nanjing UniversityChina 50.815.8%3.6×17 +18.0%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 49.611.0%1.8×25 +31.3%
10Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 49.413.6%1.6×17 +43.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Mercury impact and mitigation studies, country by country

Is Mercury impact and mitigation studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Mercury impact and mitigation studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Mercury impact and mitigation studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Mercury impact and mitigation studies0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Mercury impact and mitigation studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Mercury impact and mitigation studies10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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