| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Human health effects of air pollution | Environmental Pollution | 2008 | 3,146 |
| 2 | The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review | Environmental Pollution | 2013 | 2,920 |
| 3 | Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems | Environmental Pollution | 1999 | 2,193 |
| 4 | Occurrence, behavior and effects of nanoparticles in the environment | Environmental Pollution | 2007 | 1,915 |
| 5 | Health risks of heavy metals in contaminated soils and food crops irrigated with wastewater in Beijing, China | Environmental Pollution | 2008 | 1,712 |
| 6 | Phytotoxicity of nanoparticles: Inhibition of seed germination and root growth | Environmental Pollution | 2007 | 1,481 |
| 7 | Microplastics in bivalves cultured for human consumption | Environmental Pollution | 2014 | 1,465 |
| 8 | Environmental pollution by antibiotics and by antibiotic resistance determinants | Environmental Pollution | 2009 | 1,409 |
| 9 | Chromium occurrence in the environment and methods of its speciation | Environmental Pollution | 2000 | 1,399 |
| 10 | Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater: A review of sources, fate and occurrence | Environmental Pollution | 2012 | 1,382 |
| 11 | PAH diagnostic ratios for the identification of pollution emission sources | Environmental Pollution | 2012 | 1,359 |
| 12 | A review of biochars’ potential role in the remediation, revegetation and restoration of contaminated soils | Environmental Pollution | 2011 | 1,251 |
| 13 | Environmental applications for biosurfactants | Environmental Pollution | 2005 | 1,226 |
| 14 | Bioavailability, accumulation and effects of heavy metals in sediments with special reference to United Kingdom estuaries: a review | Environmental Pollution | 1992 | 1,208 |
| 15 | Ingestion and transfer of microplastics in the planktonic food web | Environmental Pollution | 2014 | 1,187 |
| 16 | Persistent organic pollutants (POPs): state of the science | Environmental Pollution | 1999 | 1,178 |
| 17 | Multivariate statistical and GIS-based approach to identify heavy metal sources in soils | Environmental Pollution | 2001 | 1,163 |
| 18 | The present and future of microplastic pollution in the marine environment | Environmental Pollution | 2014 | 1,158 |
| 19 | Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments | Environmental Pollution | 2013 | 1,147 |
| 20 | Trophic level transfer of microplastic: Mytilus edulis (L.) to Carcinus maenas (L.) | Environmental Pollution | 2013 | 1,101 |
| 21 | Ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in sediment and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in fishes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin | Environmental Pollution | 2011 | 1,091 |
| 22 | Carbon storage and sequestration by urban trees in the USA | Environmental Pollution | 2002 | 1,037 |
| 23 | Current opinion: What is a nanoplastic? | Environmental Pollution | 2018 | 1,011 |
| 24 | A new analytical approach for monitoring microplastics in marine sediments | Environmental Pollution | 2014 | 998 |
| 25 | Pollutants bioavailability and toxicological risk from microplastics to marine mussels | Environmental Pollution | 2015 | 989 |
| 26 | Trace metal concentrations in aquatic invertebrates: why and so what? | Environmental Pollution | 2002 | 978 |
| 27 | Effects of biochar and greenwaste compost amendments on mobility, bioavailability and toxicity of inorganic and organic contaminants in a multi-element polluted soil | Environmental Pollution | 2010 | 973 |
| 28 | The influence of pH and organic matter content in paddy soil on heavy metal availability and their uptake by rice plants | Environmental Pollution | 2011 | 970 |
| 29 | Principles of microbial PAH-degradation in soil | Environmental Pollution | 2005 | 967 |
| 30 | Environmental concentrations of engineered nanomaterials: Review of modeling and analytical studies | Environmental Pollution | 2013 | 960 |
| 31 | Organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers: Sources, occurrence, toxicity and human exposure | Environmental Pollution | 2015 | 903 |
| 32 | Mechanisms of silicon-mediated alleviation of abiotic stresses in higher plants: A review | Environmental Pollution | 2007 | 885 |
| 33 | Studies on cadmium toxicity in plants: A review | Environmental Pollution | 1997 | 881 |
| 34 | A first overview of textile fibers, including microplastics, in indoor and outdoor environments | Environmental Pollution | 2017 | 875 |
| 35 | Airborne microplastics: Consequences to human health? | Environmental Pollution | 2018 | 867 |
| 36 | EU-wide survey of polar organic persistent pollutants in European river waters | Environmental Pollution | 2009 | 842 |
| 37 | The relationships between heavy metal (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Pb, Zn) levels and the size of six Mediterranean fish species | Environmental Pollution | 2003 | 840 |
| 38 | Adsorption of antibiotics on microplastics | Environmental Pollution | 2018 | 840 |
| 39 | Long-term increases in surface water dissolved organic carbon: Observations, possible causes and environmental impacts | Environmental Pollution | 2005 | 817 |
| 40 | Microplastics are taken up by mussels (Mytilus edulis) and lugworms (Arenicola marina) living in natural habitats | Environmental Pollution | 2015 | 817 |
| 41 | Urban forests and pollution mitigation: Analyzing ecosystem services and disservices | Environmental Pollution | 2011 | 812 |
| 42 | Microplastics in Taihu Lake, China | Environmental Pollution | 2016 | 807 |
| 43 | Microplastic and mesoplastic pollution in farmland soils in suburbs of Shanghai, China | Environmental Pollution | 2018 | 806 |
| 44 | Enhanced desorption of persistent organic pollutants from microplastics under simulated physiological conditions | Environmental Pollution | 2014 | 800 |
| 45 | Effects of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) on terrestrial vegetation: a review | Environmental Pollution | 2003 | 795 |
| 46 | Recent advances for dyes removal using novel adsorbents: A review | Environmental Pollution | 2019 | 791 |
| 47 | Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation | Environmental Pollution | 2011 | 790 |
| 48 | Occurrence and source analysis of typical veterinary antibiotics in manure, soil, vegetables and groundwater from organic vegetable bases, northern China | Environmental Pollution | 2010 | 780 |
| 49 | Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in the United Kingdom environment: A preliminary source inventory and budget | Environmental Pollution | 1995 | 768 |
| 50 | Microplastic pollution is widely detected in US municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent | Environmental Pollution | 2016 | 763 |
