| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the freshwater aquatic environment | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 1,352 |
| 2 | Occurrence, sources and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the groundwater: A review | Emerging Contaminants | 2015 | 520 |
| 3 | Occurrence, seasonal variation and human exposure to pharmaceuticals and personal care products in surface water, groundwater and drinking water in Lagos State, Nigeria | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 140 |
| 4 | An insight of environmental contamination of arsenic on animal health | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 121 |
| 5 | Sources and environmental fate of pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Arctic | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 119 |
| 6 | Levels and trends of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in the Arctic environment – An update | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 117 |
| 7 | Contaminants of emerging concern in landfill leachate in China: A review | Emerging Contaminants | 2018 | 108 |
| 8 | Emerging contaminants as global environmental hazards. A bibliometric analysis | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 98 |
| 9 | Early life exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs): A critical review | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 91 |
| 10 | Pay special attention to the transformation products of PPCPs in environment | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 90 |
| 11 | Translocation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) into plant tissues: A review | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 86 |
| 12 | Plastic litter in the European Arctic: What do we know? | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 79 |
| 13 | Assessing the persistence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment: Challenges and needs | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 77 |
| 14 | Occurrence and environmental levels of triclosan and triclocarban in selected wastewater treatment plants in Gauteng Province, South Africa | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 63 |
| 15 | Intensification of the degradation of Acid RED-18 using hydrodynamic cavitation | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 61 |
| 16 | Nanomaterial-based biosorbents: Adsorbent for efficient removal of selected organic pollutants from industrial wastewater | Emerging Contaminants | 2022 | 59 |
| 17 | Defluoridation of groundwater by calcined Mg/Al layered double hydroxide | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 58 |
| 18 | Effective adsorptive removal of amoxicillin from aqueous solutions and wastewater samples using zinc oxide coated carbon nanofiber composite | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 57 |
| 19 | The impact of a Wastewater Treatment Works in Southern Gauteng, South Africa on efavirenz and nevirapine discharges into the aquatic environment | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 55 |
| 20 | Integrative assessment of biomarker responses in teleostean fishes exposed to glyphosate-based herbicide (Excel Mera 71) | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 54 |
| 21 | Occurrence of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in wastewater and receiving waters in South Africa using LC-Orbitrap™ MS | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 54 |
| 22 | Global evolution of organochlorine pesticides research in biological and environmental matrices from 1992 to 2018: A bibliometric approach | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 53 |
| 23 | Levels and trends of current-use pesticides (CUPs) in the arctic: An updated review, 2010–2018 | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 52 |
| 24 | A review of sources, fate, levels, toxicity, exposure and transformations of organophosphorus flame-retardants and plasticizers in the environment | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 49 |
| 25 | A review of the role of emerging environmental contaminants in the development of breast cancer in women | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 48 |
| 26 | Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and “novel” brominated flame retardants in floor and elevated surface house dust from Iraq: Implications for human exposure assessment | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 48 |
| 27 | Chlorinated paraffins in the technosphere: A review of available information and data gaps demonstrating the need to support the Stockholm Convention implementation | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 48 |
| 28 | Localization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals in surface soil of Asia’s oldest oil and gas drilling site in Assam, north-east India: Implications for the bio-economy | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 47 |
| 29 | Occurrence of emerging flame retardants from e-waste recycling activities in the northern part of Vietnam | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 47 |
| 30 | Detection of novel brominated flame retardants (NBFRs) in the urban soils of Melbourne, Australia | Emerging Contaminants | 2017 | 47 |
| 31 | Photo enhanced degradation of contaminants of emerging concern in waste water | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 46 |
| 32 | Toxicological effects of TiO2 nanoparticles on plant growth promoting soil bacteria | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 45 |
| 33 | A comparative study of acidic, basic, and reactive dyes adsorption from aqueous solution onto kaolin adsorbent: Effect of operating parameters, isotherms, kinetics, and thermodynamics | Emerging Contaminants | 2022 | 42 |
| 34 | Current-use halogenated and organophosphorous flame retardants: A review of their presence in Arctic ecosystems | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 41 |
| 35 | Assessment of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from selected wastewater treatment plants of Southwestern India | Emerging Contaminants | 2021 | 41 |
| 36 | A review of halogenated natural products in Arctic, Subarctic and Nordic ecosystems | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 40 |
| 37 | Degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid by UV 253.7 and UV-H2O2: Reaction kinetics and effects of interfering substances | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 40 |
| 38 | Concentrations of organophosphate flame retardants in dust from cars, homes, and offices: An international comparison | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 39 |
| 39 | Temporal trends of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the influent of two of the largest wastewater treatment plants in Australia | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 39 |
| 40 | Comprehensive evaluation of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds in surface soils and river sediments from e-waste-processing sites in a village in northern Vietnam: Heading towards the environmentally sound management of e-waste | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 38 |
| 41 | Flammability standards for furniture, building insulation and electronics: Benefit and risk | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 38 |
| 42 | ‘New’ unintentionally produced PCBs in the Arctic | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 37 |
| 43 | Sampling strategy for estimating human exposure pathways to consumer chemicals | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 35 |
| 44 | Identifying further chemicals of emerging arctic concern based on ‘in silico’ screening of chemical inventories | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 35 |
| 45 | Ozone and ozone/hydrogen peroxide treatment to remove gemfibrozil and ibuprofen from treated sewage effluent: Factors influencing bromate formation | Emerging Contaminants | 2020 | 35 |
| 46 | A review of chlorinated paraffin contamination in Arctic ecosystems | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 34 |
| 47 | Occurrence of pharmaceuticals and perfluorinated compounds and evaluation of the availability of reclaimed water in Kinmen | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 32 |
| 48 | The role of emerging organic contaminants in the development of antimicrobial resistance | Emerging Contaminants | 2021 | 32 |
| 49 | Highly efficient removal of perfluorooctanoic acid from aqueous solution by H 2 O 2 -enhanced electrocoagulation-electroflotation technique | Emerging Contaminants | 2016 | 31 |
| 50 | Distribution, sources and risk of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in indoor dusts from electronic repair workshops in southern Nigeria | Emerging Contaminants | 2019 | 31 |
