The editors at Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (formally Journal of Environmental Monitoring, JEM, until 2012) would like to introduce the most cited articles of 2010 and 2011, and use this chance to highlight some of the fantastic work that the environmental science community is producing right now.
As of now, all of the below articles will be free for 4 weeks (until Monday 16th Sept),* so make the most of this opportunity to download the full papers!
Top 3 Cited Reviews:
- B Nowack & F Gottschalk: The release of engineered nanomaterials to the environment. (DOI: 10.1039/c0em00547a).A critical review on the environmental release of nanomaterials and our current ability to quantitatively monitor their concentration in the environment. Nowack and Gottschalk discuss the limits of our knowledge in measuring nanomaterial release, and why.
- JW Martin et. al.: PFOS or PreFOS? Are perfluorooctane sulfonate precursors (PreFOS) important determinants of human and environmental perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) exposure? (DOI: 10.1039/c0em00295j).A critical review on the extent to which perfluorooctanesulfonate precursors (preFOS) play a role in human or environmental exposure to the global pollutant, prefluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS).
- M Elsner: Stable isotope fractionation to investigate natural transformation mechanisms of organic contaminants: principles, prospects and limitations (DOI: 10.1039/c0em00277a)A critical review on the use of gas chromatography ratio mass spectrometry (GC-IRMS) and its use in the analysis of organic contaminants in environmental samples.
Top 10 Cited Research Papers:
- P Westerhoff et. al.: Occurrence and removal of titanium at full scale wastewater treatment plants: implications for TiO2 nanomaterials (DOI: 10.1039/c1em10017c).A paper on the titanium concentrations of treated water samples from a range of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), showing evidence of Nanoscale particles passing through WWTPs, with the ability to enter aquatic systems.
- RI MacCspie et. al.: Challenges for physical characterization of silver nanoparticles under pristine and environmentally relevant conditions (DOI: 10.1039/c1em10024f)A paper which discusses the reasons behind our limitations in the measurement of silver nanoparticles in the environment, and presents an approach to developing routine screening.
- F Wania et. al.: Spatial and temporal pattern of pesticides in the global atmosphere (DOI: 10.1039/c0em00134a).A paper on the measurement of a number of banned organochloride pesticides and a number of current-use pesticides, as part of the Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) study.
- R Ashauer et. al.: Advantages of toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic modelling in aquatic ecotoxicology and risk assessment (DOI: 10.1039/c0em00234h)
- L Hanssen et. al.: Perfluorinated compounds in maternal serum and cord blood from selected areas of South Africa: results of a pilot study (DOI: 10.1039/b924420d)
- KR Smith et. al.: Estimating personal PM2.5 exposures using CO measurements in Guatemalan households cooking with wood fuel (DOI: 10.1039/b916068j)
- GS Bilotta et. al.: Assessing catchment-scale erosion and yields of suspended solids from improved temperate grassland (DOI: 10.1039/b921584k)
- YQ Cai et. al.: Investigation of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in mollusks from coastal waters in the Bohai Sea of China (DOI: 10.1039/b909302h)
- BK Gaiser et. al.: Effects of silver and cerium dioxide micro- and nano-sized particles on Daphnia magna (DOI: 10.1039/c1em10060b)
- HY Guo et. al.: TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles negatively affect wheat growth and soil enzyme activities in agricultural soil (DOI: 10.1039/c0em00611d)
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