| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance | Environmental Science & Technology | 2002 | 7,009 |
| 2 | Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology† | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 5,091 |
| 3 | Fluorescence Excitation−Emission Matrix Regional Integration to Quantify Spectra for Dissolved Organic Matter | Environmental Science & Technology | 2003 | 4,818 |
| 4 | Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 3,694 |
| 5 | Evaluation of Specific Ultraviolet Absorbance as an Indicator of the Chemical Composition and Reactivity of Dissolved Organic Carbon | Environmental Science & Technology | 2003 | 3,579 |
| 6 | Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks | Environmental Science & Technology | 2011 | 3,486 |
| 7 | Advanced Oxidation Processes for Organic Contaminant Destruction Based on the Fenton Reaction and Related Chemistry | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2006 | 3,190 |
| 8 | Partnerships fromcannibals with forks: The triple bottom line of 21st-century business | Environmental Quality Management | 1998 | 3,156 |
| 9 | Comprehensive Evaluation of Antibiotics Emission and Fate in the River Basins of China: Source Analysis, Multimedia Modeling, and Linkage to Bacterial Resistance | Environmental Science & Technology | 2015 | 3,092 |
| 10 | Removal of synthetic dyes from wastewaters: a review | Environment International | 2004 | 2,751 |
| 11 | Radical Generation by the Interaction of Transition Metals with Common Oxidants | Environmental Science & Technology | 2004 | 2,616 |
| 12 | Identifying Small Molecules via High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Communicating Confidence | Environmental Science & Technology | 2014 | 2,549 |
| 13 | Dynamic Molecular Structure of Plant Biomass-Derived Black Carbon (Biochar) | Environmental Science & Technology | 2010 | 2,387 |
| 14 | Global Distribution of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate in Wildlife | Environmental Science & Technology | 2001 | 2,269 |
| 15 | Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 2,215 |
| 16 | Trimmed Spearman-Karber method for estimating median lethal concentrations in toxicity bioassays | Environmental Science & Technology | 1977 | 2,202 |
| 17 | Modeled Environmental Concentrations of Engineered Nanomaterials (TiO2, ZnO, Ag, CNT, Fullerenes) for Different Regions | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 2,170 |
| 18 | Sources, Fate and Transport of Perfluorocarboxylates | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 2,142 |
| 19 | A review on the human health impact of airborne particulate matter | Environment International | 2015 | 2,078 |
| 20 | Persulfate-Based Advanced Oxidation: Critical Assessment of Opportunities and Roadblocks | Environmental Science & Technology | 2020 | 2,070 |
| 21 | Microplastic Ingestion by Zooplankton | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 2,056 |
| 22 | ES&T Special Report: Priority pollutants: I-a perspective view | Environmental Science & Technology | 1979 | 2,041 |
| 23 | Comparison of Arsenic(V) and Arsenic(III) Sorption onto Iron Oxide Minerals: Implications for Arsenic Mobility | Environmental Science & Technology | 2003 | 2,021 |
| 24 | Plastic and Human Health: A Micro Issue? | Environmental Science & Technology | 2017 | 1,946 |
| 25 | Present and Long-Term Composition of MSW Landfill Leachate: A Review | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2002 | 1,866 |
| 26 | Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways, and Effects | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 1,856 |
| 27 | A review of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their human health effects | Environment International | 2013 | 1,842 |
| 28 | Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions | Environment International | 2017 | 1,828 |
| 29 | Ingested Microscopic Plastic Translocates to the Circulatory System of the Mussel, Mytilus edulis (L.) | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,799 |
| 30 | Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Food and Personal Care Products | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 1,792 |
| 31 | Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Aggregation, Deposition, and Enhanced Contaminant Transport | Environmental Science & Technology | 2018 | 1,759 |
| 32 | Electricity Generation Using an Air-Cathode Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell in the Presence and Absence of a Proton Exchange Membrane | Environmental Science & Technology | 2004 | 1,736 |
| 33 | Widespread Sexual Disruption in Wild Fish | Environmental Science & Technology | 1998 | 1,733 |
| 34 | Advanced Oxidation Processes in Water/Wastewater Treatment: Principles and Applications. A Review | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2014 | 1,697 |
| 35 | Occurrence of a New Generation of Disinfection Byproducts | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 1,674 |
| 36 | An overview of commercially used brominated flame retardants, their applications, their use patterns in different countries/regions and possible modes of release | Environment International | 2003 | 1,654 |
| 37 | Few-Layered Graphene Oxide Nanosheets As Superior Sorbents for Heavy Metal Ion Pollution Management | Environmental Science & Technology | 2011 | 1,646 |
| 38 | Ecological and toxicological effects of inorganic nitrogen pollution in aquatic ecosystems: A global assessment | Environment International | 2006 | 1,630 |
| 39 | Soil Contamination in China: Current Status and Mitigation Strategies | Environmental Science & Technology | 2015 | 1,616 |
| 40 | Exposure Modeling of Engineered Nanoparticles in the Environment | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,615 |
| 41 | Chromium toxicity in plants | Environment International | 2005 | 1,601 |
| 42 | A Technical, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of Amine-Based CO2 Capture Technology for Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Control | Environmental Science & Technology | 2002 | 1,599 |
| 43 | Antibiotic Resistance Genes as Emerging Contaminants: Studies in Northern Colorado | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 1,593 |
| 44 | Molecular Weight, Polydispersity, and Spectroscopic Properties of Aquatic Humic Substances | Environmental Science & Technology | 1994 | 1,553 |
| 45 | Identification of Estrogenic Chemicals in STW Effluent. 1. Chemical Fractionation and in Vitro Biological Screening | Environmental Science & Technology | 1998 | 1,550 |
| 46 | O/C and OM/OC Ratios of Primary, Secondary, and Ambient Organic Aerosols with High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometry | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,545 |
| 47 | Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta | Environment International | 2021 | 1,538 |
| 48 | Plastic Resin Pellets as a Transport Medium for Toxic Chemicals in the Marine Environment | Environmental Science & Technology | 2001 | 1,524 |
| 49 | Are We Speaking the Same Language? Recommendations for a Definition and Categorization Framework for Plastic Debris | Environmental Science & Technology | 2019 | 1,524 |
| 50 | Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood | Environment International | 2022 | 1,522 |
| 51 | Removal of residual pharmaceuticals from aqueous systems by advanced oxidation processes | Environment International | 2009 | 1,519 |
| 52 | Nanoparticle Silver Released into Water from Commercially Available Sock Fabrics | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,518 |
| 53 | Uptake and Accumulation of Polystyrene Microplastics in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Toxic Effects in Liver | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 1,514 |
| 54 | Mechanisms of Slow Sorption of Organic Chemicals to Natural Particles | Environmental Science & Technology | 1996 | 1,512 |
| 55 | Transitional Adsorption and Partition of Nonpolar and Polar Aromatic Contaminants by Biochars of Pine Needles with Different Pyrolytic Temperatures | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,507 |
| 56 | Ion Release Kinetics and Particle Persistence in Aqueous Nano-Silver Colloids | Environmental Science & Technology | 2010 | 1,480 |
| 57 | Synthesizing Nanoscale Iron Particles for Rapid and Complete Dechlorination of TCE and PCBs | Environmental Science & Technology | 1997 | 1,470 |
| 58 | Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) as a Source of Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 1,468 |
| 59 | Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Water with Sulfate Radicals Generated by the Conjunction of Peroxymonosulfate with Cobalt | Environmental Science & Technology | 2003 | 1,461 |
| 60 | Domestic Wastewater Treatment as a Net Energy Producer–Can This be Achieved? | Environmental Science & Technology | 2011 | 1,460 |
| 61 | Water and waste water filtration. Concepts and applications | Environmental Science & Technology | 1971 | 1,459 |
| 62 | Human Consumption of Microplastics | Environmental Science & Technology | 2019 | 1,459 |
| 63 | Pharmaceuticals and Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in U.S. Drinking Water | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 1,447 |
| 64 | The Role of Phosphorus in the Eutrophication of Receiving Waters: A Review | Journal of Environmental Quality | 1998 | 1,419 |
| 65 | Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in the Environment and in People: A Meta-Analysis of Concentrations | Environmental Science & Technology | 2004 | 1,413 |
| 66 | Gas/Particle Partitioning and Secondary Organic Aerosol Yields | Environmental Science & Technology | 1996 | 1,406 |
| 67 | Oxidation of Pharmaceuticals during Ozonation and Advanced Oxidation Processes | Environmental Science & Technology | 2003 | 1,406 |
| 68 | Sources of fine organic aerosol. 2. Noncatalyst and catalyst-equipped automobiles and heavy-duty diesel trucks | Environmental Science & Technology | 1993 | 1,380 |
| 69 | Environmental Applications of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,367 |
| 70 | Production of Electricity during Wastewater Treatment Using a Single Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell | Environmental Science & Technology | 2004 | 1,365 |
| 71 | Fluorescence Spectroscopy Reveals Ubiquitous Presence of Oxidized and Reduced Quinones in Dissolved Organic Matter | Environmental Science & Technology | 2005 | 1,361 |
| 72 | Uptake and Effects of Microplastics on Cells and Tissue of the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis L. after an Experimental Exposure | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 1,347 |
| 73 | Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles to Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Environmental Science & Technology | 2008 | 1,343 |
| 74 | Coupled Partitioning, Dilution, and Chemical Aging of Semivolatile Organics | Environmental Science & Technology | 2006 | 1,342 |
| 75 | Known and Unexplored Organic Constituents in the Earth's Atmosphere | Environmental Science & Technology | 2007 | 1,340 |
| 76 | Fate of Endocrine-Disruptor, Pharmaceutical, and Personal Care Product Chemicals during Simulated Drinking Water Treatment Processes | Environmental Science & Technology | 2005 | 1,332 |
| 77 | Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanomaterials: Single-Wall Nanotube, Multi-Wall Nanotube, and Fullerene | Environmental Science & Technology | 2005 | 1,318 |
| 78 | Liquefaction Resistance of Soils: Summary Report from the 1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF Workshops on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils | Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering - ASCE | 2001 | 1,317 |
| 79 | Carbon Footprint of Nations: A Global, Trade-Linked Analysis | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 1,310 |
| 80 | Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality | Environment International | 2020 | 1,310 |
| 81 | Mercury in the Aquatic Environment: A Review of Factors Affecting Methylation | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2001 | 1,302 |
| 82 | Adsorption and desorption of natural organic matter on iron oxide: mechanisms and models | Environmental Science & Technology | 1994 | 1,296 |
| 83 | Environmental Transformations of Silver Nanoparticles: Impact on Stability and Toxicity | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 1,296 |
| 84 | Soil erosion and the global carbon budget | Environment International | 2003 | 1,292 |
| 85 | Enabling Graphene Oxide Nanosheets as Water Separation Membranes | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 1,282 |
| 86 | Preparative isolation of aquatic humic substances | Environmental Science & Technology | 1981 | 1,281 |
| 87 | Reductive Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Methanes by Iron Metal | Environmental Science & Technology | 1994 | 1,274 |
| 88 | Peer Reviewed: Tracking the Distribution of Persistent Organic Pollutants | Environmental Science & Technology | 1996 | 1,272 |
| 89 | Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 RNA in Sewage and Correlation with Reported COVID-19 Prevalence in the Early Stage of the Epidemic in The Netherlands | Environmental Science and Technology Letters | 2020 | 1,269 |
| 90 | Bio-mediated soil improvement | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 1,265 |
| 91 | Life-Cycle Assessment of Biodiesel Production from Microalgae | Environmental Science & Technology | 2009 | 1,261 |
| 92 | Heavy metals in food crops: Health risks, fate, mechanisms, and management | Environment International | 2019 | 1,260 |
| 93 | Principles of electrokinetic remediation | Environmental Science & Technology | 1993 | 1,254 |
| 94 | A Critical Review of the Risks to Water Resources from Unconventional Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States | Environmental Science & Technology | 2014 | 1,254 |
| 95 | Extensive Sorption of Organic Compounds to Black Carbon, Coal, and Kerogen in Sediments and Soils: Mechanisms and Consequences for Distribution, Bioaccumulation, and Biodegradation | Environmental Science & Technology | 2005 | 1,249 |
| 96 | Arsenite and Arsenate Adsorption on Ferrihydrite: Kinetics, Equilibrium, and Adsorption Envelopes | Environmental Science & Technology | 1998 | 1,248 |
| 97 | Novel brominated flame retardants: A review of their analysis, environmental fate and behaviour | Environment International | 2011 | 1,229 |
| 98 | Photocatalyzed destruction of water contaminants | Environmental Science & Technology | 1991 | 1,227 |
| 99 | Polyfluorinated Compounds: Past, Present, and Future | Environmental Science & Technology | 2011 | 1,227 |
| 100 | Advanced Oxidation Processes for Wastewater Treatment: Formation of Hydroxyl Radical and Application | Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology | 2012 | 1,221 |
