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Journal Rankings

Journals ranked by microplastic research output — total papers, top-tier evidence, and citation impact.

Papers with more than 50 co-authors are excluded. How rankings work →

Rank Journal Papers Tier 1 Citations Countries Authors
51 Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 135 1 4,077 41 588
52 Journal of Materials Science 131 0 1,759 48 655
53 ACS ES&T Water 130 2 2,019 47 625
54 Applied Sciences 126 4 2,110 44 482
55 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 125 0 1,382 44 566
56 Environmental Science Processes & Impacts 125 0 7,389 40 604
57 LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) 117 2 8 2 2
58 Molecules 115 0 2,483 36 506
59 Separation and Purification Technology 115 0 2,613 31 617
60 Environments 111 3 2,140 41 462
61 Toxicology Letters 110 1 458 35 458
62 E3S Web of Conferences 108 1 283 28 372
63 Springer water 104 1 643 30 364
64 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 102 0 1,732 37 352
65 Frontiers in Microbiology 102 1 6,834 40 501
66 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository 101 0 7 30 168
67 Environmental Technology & Innovation 98 2 4,032 40 428
68 HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) 96 0 366 11 107
69 Environmental Sciences Europe 95 2 7,234 44 484
70 Nanomaterials 93 1 3,745 33 456
71 Environmental Chemistry Letters 90 1 9,367 53 454
72 Process Safety and Environmental Protection 89 0 2,224 27 431
73 Nature Communications 89 1 17,608 38 599
74 Cambridge Prisms Plastics 87 1 475 39 370
75 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 87 0 58 5 10
76 Materials 87 1 2,786 38 341
77 Environmental Science & Technology Letters 86 1 7,572 27 445
78 Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 86 3 5,107 41 463
79 Environmental Geochemistry and Health 84 2 896 30 414
80 Journal of Environmental Sciences 84 3 2,051 21 568
81 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology 83 2 1,948 27 405
82 AMBIO 83 0 521 26 235
83 ACS Nano 80 4 2,726 25 549
84 Bioresource Technology 78 1 2,003 33 456
85 Ecotoxicology 77 0 473 36 371
86 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 76 0 5,979 25 252
87 Colloid & Polymer Science 75 0 1,696 46 390
88 ˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 74 0 3,729 31 225
89 Applied Soil Ecology 74 1 1,922 30 449
90 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 73 6 1,535 45 295
91 Journal of Soils and Sediments 70 0 2,737 34 393
92 NanoImpact 70 1 1,535 29 395
93 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 70 2 1,157 28 461
94 RSC Advances 69 1 2,626 31 355
95 ACS Omega 69 0 2,008 39 320
96 Kaggle 69 0 50 7 10
97 Emerging contaminants and associated treatment technologies 68 0 292 25 207
98 Animals 68 0 988 29 344
99 Waste Management 68 0 2,402 30 370
100 MethodsX 68 0 1,766 25 242