Table 6.
Twenty most cited manuscript on PBDEs analysis retrieved from 1992 to 2018 from the WoS Database.
| Rank | Title | Authors/Year | Journal | Financial support | TC | TC/Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘Phthalates, Alkylphenols, Pesticides, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, and Other Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Indoor Air and Dust’. | (Rudel et al., 2003) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | Massachusetts Department of Public Health | 540 | 36 |
| 2 | ‘Distribution of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Sediments of the Pearl River Delta and Adjacent South China’. | (Mai et al., 2005) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | National Basic Research Program of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Science Foundation | 376 | 28.9 |
| 3 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in US mothers' milk’. | (Schecter et al., 2003) | Environmental Health Perspect. | Not stated | 354 | 23.6 |
| 4 | ‘Exponential increases of the brominated flame retardants, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, in the Canadian Arctic from 1981 to 2000’. | (Ikonomou et al., 2002) | Environmental Health Perspect. | Not stated | 350 | 21.9 |
| 5 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in the North American environment’. | (Hale et al., 2003) | Environ. Int. | Not stated | 339 | 22.6 |
| 6 | ‘Spatial distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in soil and combusted residue at Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling site in southeast China’. | (Leung et al., 2007) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | The Research Grants Council of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong | 334 | 30.4 |
| 7 | ‘Effects of short-term in vivo exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers on thyroid hormones and hepatic enzyme activities in weanling rats’. | (Zhou et al., 2001) | Toxicol. Sci. | U.S. EPA/UNC Toxicology Research Program | 331 | 19.5 |
| 8 | ‘Analysis of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Swedish human milk. A time-related trend study, 1972–1997’. | (Meironyté et al., 1999) | J. Toxicol. Health (Part A). | Not stated | 331 | 17.4 |
| 9 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in house dust and clothes dryer lint’. | (Stapleton et al., 2005) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Research Council Postdoctoral Research program. | 325 | 25 |
| 10 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in maternal and fetal blood samples’. | (Mazdai et al., 2003) | Environmental Health Perspect. | Not stated | 308 | 20.5 |
| 11 | ‘Exposure of Americans to polybrominated diphenyl ethers’. | (Lorber, 2008) | J. Expo. Sci. Environ. Epidemiol. | Not stated | 299 | 29.9 |
| 12 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and hexabromocyclododecane in sediment and fish from a Swedish river’. | (Sellström et al., 1998) | Environ Toxicol Chem | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency | 289 | 14.4 |
| 13 | ‘Flame retardant exposure: polybrominated diphenyl ethers in blood from Swedish workers’. | (Sjödin et al., 1999) | Environmental Health Perspect. | Not stated | 288 | 15.2 |
| 14 | ‘Effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on thyroid hormone and vitamin A levels in rats and mice’. | (Hallgren et al., 2001) | Arch. Toxicol. | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Foundation for strategic environmental research | 279 | 16.4 |
| 15 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in indoor dust in Ottawa, Canada: implications for sources and exposure’. | (Wilford et al., 2005) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | Natural Environment Research Council and Corus U.K | 271 | 20.8 |
| 16 | ‘Levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in animals representing different trophic levels of the North Sea food web’. | (Boon et al., 2002) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF), Brussels, Belgium | 267 | 16.7 |
| 17 | ‘Concentrations and spatial variations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and other organohalogen compounds in Great Lakes air’. | (Strandberg et al., 2001) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | Not stated | 266 | 15.6 |
| 18 | ‘Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls in indoor air and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in indoor air and dust in Birmingham, United Kingdom: implications for human exposure’. | (Harrad et al., 2006) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | Not stated | 256 | 21.3 |
| 19 | ‘Identification and quantification of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and methoxy-polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Baltic biota’. | (Haglund et al., 1998) | Environ. Sci. Technol. | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency “Persistent Organic Pollutants” scientific program | 251 | 12 |
| 20 | ‘Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) levels in an expanded market basket survey of US food and estimated PBDE dietary intake by age and sex’. | (Schecter et al., 2006) | Environmental Health Perspect. | CS Foundation, Warsh Mott Legacy | 245 | 20.4 |
TC total citation.