| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biochar as a sorbent for contaminant management in soil and water: A review | Chemosphere | 2014 | 3,175 |
| 2 | Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part I | Chemosphere | 2009 | 3,093 |
| 3 | A global perspective on the use, sales, exposure pathways, occurrence, fate and effects of veterinary antibiotics (VAs) in the environment | Chemosphere | 2006 | 2,698 |
| 4 | Occurrence, fate and effects of pharmaceutical substances in the environment- A review | Chemosphere | 1998 | 2,669 |
| 5 | Phytoremediation of heavy metals—Concepts and applications | Chemosphere | 2013 | 2,665 |
| 6 | An overview of brominated flame retardants in the environment | Chemosphere | 2002 | 2,412 |
| 7 | Phosphorus flame retardants: Properties, production, environmental occurrence, toxicity and analysis | Chemosphere | 2012 | 2,121 |
| 8 | Ecological effects, transport, and fate of mercury: a general review | Chemosphere | 2000 | 1,563 |
| 9 | A review of the environmental fate, effects, and exposures of bisphenol A | Chemosphere | 1998 | 1,459 |
| 10 | Selective removal of the heavy metal ions from waters and industrial wastewaters by ion-exchange method | Chemosphere | 2004 | 1,344 |
| 11 | The environmental fate of phthalate esters: A literature review | Chemosphere | 1997 | 1,326 |
| 12 | Application of biochar for the removal of pollutants from aqueous solutions | Chemosphere | 2015 | 1,324 |
| 13 | Toxicity of nanosized and bulk ZnO, CuO and TiO2 to bacteria Vibrio fischeri and crustaceans Daphnia magna and Thamnocephalus platyurus | Chemosphere | 2008 | 1,303 |
| 14 | Carbamazepine and diclofenac: Removal in wastewater treatment plants and occurrence in water bodies | Chemosphere | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 15 | Mechanisms of metal sorption by biochars: Biochar characteristics and modifications | Chemosphere | 2017 | 1,180 |
| 16 | A rapid spectrophotometric determination of persulfate anion in ISCO | Chemosphere | 2008 | 1,163 |
| 17 | Activated persulfate for organic chemical degradation: A review | Chemosphere | 2016 | 1,144 |
| 18 | Adsorption of phenolic compounds by activated carbon—a critical review | Chemosphere | 2005 | 1,126 |
| 19 | Pharmaceuticals as emerging contaminants and their removal from water. A review | Chemosphere | 2013 | 1,122 |
| 20 | Semi-empirical estimation of sorption of hydrophobic pollutants on natural sediments and soils | Chemosphere | 1981 | 1,076 |
| 21 | Antibiotics in the aquatic environment – A review – Part II | Chemosphere | 2009 | 1,071 |
| 22 | Pharmaceuticals in STP effluents and their solar photodegradation in aquatic environment | Chemosphere | 2003 | 1,064 |
| 23 | Engineered/designer biochar for contaminant removal/immobilization from soil and water: Potential and implication of biochar modification | Chemosphere | 2016 | 959 |
| 24 | Differentiating with fluorescence spectroscopy the sources of dissolved organic matter in soils subjected to drying | Chemosphere | 1999 | 952 |
| 25 | Phytoremediation strategies for soils contaminated with heavy metals: Modifications and future perspectives | Chemosphere | 2017 | 946 |
| 26 | Interactions between mercury and dissolved organic matter––a review | Chemosphere | 2004 | 944 |
| 27 | Drugs in the environment: emission of drugs, diagnostic aids and disinfectants into wastewater by hospitals in relation to other sources – a review | Chemosphere | 2001 | 918 |
| 28 | Polymer biodegradation: Mechanisms and estimation techniques – A review | Chemosphere | 2008 | 905 |
| 29 | Adsorption isotherm models: Classification, physical meaning, application and solving method | Chemosphere | 2020 | 904 |
| 30 | A review of personal care products in the aquatic environment: Environmental concentrations and toxicity | Chemosphere | 2011 | 846 |
| 31 | Ecological restoration of mine degraded soils, with emphasis on metal contaminated soils | Chemosphere | 2003 | 840 |
| 32 | Activation of peroxymonosulfate by base: Implications for the degradation of organic pollutants | Chemosphere | 2016 | 840 |
| 33 | An overview on the removal of synthetic dyes from water by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes | Chemosphere | 2018 | 814 |
| 34 | Chlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and chlorodibenzofurans are trace components of fly ash and flue gas of some municipal incinerators in The Netherlands | Chemosphere | 1977 | 776 |
| 35 | Occurrence and effects of plastic additives on marine environments and organisms: A review | Chemosphere | 2017 | 748 |
| 36 | Occurrence and toxicity of antibiotics in the aquatic environment: A review | Chemosphere | 2020 | 748 |
| 37 | Assessing heavy metal sources in agricultural soils of an European Mediterranean area by multivariate analysis | Chemosphere | 2006 | 737 |
| 38 | Chromium speciation, bioavailability, uptake, toxicity and detoxification in soil-plant system: A review | Chemosphere | 2017 | 735 |
| 39 | Cr(VI) removal from synthetic wastewater using coconut shell charcoal and commercial activated carbon modified with oxidizing agents and/or chitosan | Chemosphere | 2004 | 729 |
| 40 | Adsorption behavior of reactive dye in aqueous solution on chemical cross-linked chitosan beads | Chemosphere | 2003 | 722 |
| 41 | Levels and trends of brominated flame retardants in the European environment | Chemosphere | 2006 | 720 |
| 42 | Effect of biochar amendment on sorption and leaching of nitrate, ammonium, and phosphate in a sandy soil | Chemosphere | 2012 | 713 |
| 43 | Characterisation of nanoplastics during the degradation of polystyrene | Chemosphere | 2016 | 708 |
| 44 | Towards global phosphorus security: A systems framework for phosphorus recovery and reuse options | Chemosphere | 2011 | 703 |
| 45 | Phospholipid fatty acid profiles in selected members of soil microbial communities | Chemosphere | 1997 | 697 |
| 46 | Principle and applications of microbubble and nanobubble technology for water treatment | Chemosphere | 2011 | 695 |
| 47 | Loading estimates of lead, copper, cadmium, and zinc in urban runoff from specific sources | Chemosphere | 2001 | 677 |
| 48 | Classifying environmental pollutants | Chemosphere | 1992 | 674 |
| 49 | Certain organochlorine and organobromine contaminants in Swedish human milk in perspective of past 20–30 years | Chemosphere | 2000 | 674 |
| 50 | Influence of pH on persulfate oxidation of TCE at ambient temperatures | Chemosphere | 2007 | 671 |
