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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. 20.1% 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%
7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
20.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+17%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Mercury impact and mitigation studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 551 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 551 works
  3. 3 India 343 works
  4. 4 Brazil 227 works
  5. 5 Canada 182 works
  6. 6 France 159 works
  7. 7 Spain 136 works
  8. 8 Italy 129 works
  9. 9 Japan 115 works
  10. 10 Russia 104 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: 49.3%United States: 14.4%India: 8.9%Brazil: 5.9%6 others listed: 21.5%49%largest
China1,891 · 49.3%United States551 · 14.4%India343 · 8.9%Brazil227 · 5.9%6 others listed824 · 21.5%

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

Which institutions lead Mercury impact and mitigation studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mercury impact and mitigation studies research, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ocean University of China.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 71 works
  2. 2 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 35 works
  3. 3 Ocean University of ChinaChina 31 works
  4. 4 Central South UniversityChina 26 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 22 works
  7. 7 Institute of GeochemistryChina 20 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 19 works
  9. 9 Southwest UniversityChina 18 works
  10. 10 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 17 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mercury impact and mitigation studies include Guangming Zeng and Jianbo Shi.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 5.6k citations
  2. 2 Jianbo Shi China 3.8k citations

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

Where is Mercury impact and mitigation studies research done?

The largest centres of Mercury impact and mitigation studies research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 390 works
  2. 2 Nanjing China 104 works
  3. 3 Guangzhou China 92 works
  4. 4 Wuhan China 91 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 87 works
  6. 6 Qingdao China 72 works
  7. 7 Hangzhou China 58 works
  8. 8 Guiyang China 57 works
  9. 9 Changsha China 50 works
  10. 10 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuiyangCN · 57.1 works7.9×
← 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.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Jiangsu University, Ocean University of China and Huazhong Agricultural University 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%60%mean 25.83%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Jiangsu University: 12, 48.4%Ocean University of China: 31, 17.9%Huazhong Agricultural University: 10, 35.0%Shanghai University of Electric Power: 10, 25.0%King Saud University: 14, 22.4%University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: 35, 26.4%Shanghai Ocean University: 14, 15.2%Jiangnan University: 14, 28.6%Central South University: 26, 25.9%University of Aveiro: 14, 13.5%Jiangsu UniversityHuazhong Agricultura…Shanghai University …Ocean University of …
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Jiangsu UniversityChina 56.548.4%3.0×12 +225.4%
2 Ocean University of ChinaChina 53.317.9%11.2×31 +6.6%
3 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 44.035.0%5.5×10 +34.9%
4 Shanghai University of Electric PowerChina 42.625.0%11.4×10 -55.5%
5 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 42.122.4%2.8×14 +95.6%
6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41.926.4%3.8×35 -15.1%
7 Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 41.215.2%10.8×14 -36.5%
8 Jiangnan UniversityChina 40.428.6%4.4×14 +59.4%
9 Central South UniversityChina 40.225.9%2.9×26 +62.3%
10 University of AveiroPortugal 38.013.5%7.7×14 -26.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Mercury impact and mitigation studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 17% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.