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. 2023 Jun 15;57(25):9119–9129. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c09353

Table 1. Numbers of Substances Found with the “ANST/POL” and “BIOL/Occur” Searches along with Total Reports, Total Counts, and Percentage of the Total Represented by the Top 100 to 500.

  ANST/POL search
BIOL/Occur search
Search/with number of CASRNs used Total CASRN citationsa Total CASRN countsb % of total Total CASRN citationsa Total CASRN countsb % of total
Initial list of CASRNs (23,458) 105,410 468,383   479,636 21,828,774  
Final CASRNs (19,776) 89,959 413,007   359,641 9,251,975  
Top 10   36,128 8.8%   950,454 10%
top 100   140,527 34%   3,303,278 36%
top 200   190,759 47%   4,469,288 48%
top 300   222,788 54%   5,214,655 56%
top 500   262,875 64%   6,166,490 67%
Lead   6,224 1.5%   73,043 0.79%
Cadmium   4,692 1.1%   82,544 0.89%
p,p′-DDT   1,571 0.38%   15,534 0.17%
2,3,7,8-TCDD   743 0.18%   10,066 0.11%
a

Total citation counts of CASRNs for all years of the search window (Jan 1978–Apr 2018 for ANST/POL and Jan 1966–Dec 2021 for BIOL/Occur). Note that the BIOL/Occur search used the ANST/POL CASRN list (Table S4).

b

Total citation counts for each CASRN over the search window (1978–2018 for ANST/POL and 1966–2021 for BIOL/Occur).