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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 ACS ES&T Water 141 2 2,022 48 686
52 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 140 5 14,883 43 679
53 Mendeley Data 137 2 134 26 181
54 Applied Sciences 134 4 2,110 46 515
55 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 131 0 1,383 46 592
56 Journal of Materials Science 131 0 1,759 48 655
57 Molecules 128 0 2,483 38 574
58 Separation and Purification Technology 125 0 2,613 32 681
59 Environmental Science Processes & Impacts 125 0 7,389 40 604
60 Open MIND 118 6 47 15 61
61 LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) 117 2 8 2 2
62 Environments 117 3 2,141 42 480
63 Frontiers in Microbiology 112 2 6,834 43 546
64 Toxicology Letters 111 2 458 37 462
65 Environmental Technology & Innovation 108 2 4,033 41 493
66 E3S Web of Conferences 108 1 283 28 372
67 Process Safety and Environmental Protection 105 0 2,275 31 513
68 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 105 0 1,732 39 367
69 Springer water 104 1 643 30 364
70 HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) 103 0 366 12 108
71 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository 101 0 7 30 168
72 Nanomaterials 99 2 3,745 35 487
73 Bioresource Technology 99 2 2,008 35 578
74 Environmental Sciences Europe 99 2 7,234 47 516
75 Environmental Chemistry Letters 97 1 9,368 54 502
76 Journal of Environmental Sciences 95 3 2,051 24 651
77 Nature Communications 95 1 17,611 38 643
78 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology 95 2 1,949 27 471
79 Environmental Science & Technology Letters 94 1 7,573 29 485
80 Materials 90 1 2,786 39 356
81 Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 90 3 5,107 43 485
82 Environmental Geochemistry and Health 89 2 897 30 439
83 Cambridge Prisms Plastics 88 1 475 39 370
84 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 87 0 58 5 10
85 ACS Nano 85 4 2,727 28 593
86 Colloid & Polymer Science 85 0 1,875 50 430
87 AMBIO 84 0 526 26 240
88 Ecotoxicology 83 0 473 37 403
89 Applied Soil Ecology 82 1 1,922 32 496
90 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 81 0 5,979 25 280
91 ACS Omega 80 0 2,008 40 379
92 arXiv (Cornell University) 79 0 50 9 51
93 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 77 6 1,535 46 315
94 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 76 2 1,157 30 491
95 Journal of Soils and Sediments 76 0 2,737 34 426
96 Waste Management 74 0 2,402 32 404
97 ˜The œhandbook of environmental chemistry 74 0 3,729 31 225
98 NanoImpact 74 1 1,535 29 425
99 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 74 0 943 23 449
100 npj Emerging Contaminants 72 1 667 32 456