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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 238

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Attention for Chapter 5002: Pharmaceuticals May Disrupt Natural Chemical Information Flows and Species Interactions in Aquatic Systems: Ideas and Perspectives on a Hidden Global Change
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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Chapter title
Pharmaceuticals May Disrupt Natural Chemical Information Flows and Species Interactions in Aquatic Systems: Ideas and Perspectives on a Hidden Global Change
Chapter number 5002
Book title
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 238
Published in
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, November 2015
DOI 10.1007/398_2015_5002
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-930790-9, 978-3-31-930791-6
Authors

Ellen Van Donk, Scott Peacor, Katharina Grosser, Lisette N. De Senerpont Domis, Miquel Lürling, Van Donk, Ellen, Peacor, Scott, Grosser, Katharina, De Senerpont Domis, Lisette N., Lürling, Miquel

Abstract

Over the last decades, anthropogenic activities have discharged into the environment many manmade chemicals. There is a rising concern regarding pharmaceutical products and their spread into the environment (e.g. Kümmerer 2008). Due to the enormous quantities consumed, anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, anti-depressives, hormones and blood lipid regulators are found in almost all aquatic environments (Kolpin et al. 2002; Loos et al. 2009). Most pharmaceuticals tend to enter the aquatic environment continuously (but see Sacher et al. 2008 for seasonal exception) in contrast to other pollutants such as herbicides and insecticides which are applied only at specific times related to the life cycle of the target organism, or in response to observed pest outbreaks (Rosi-Marshall and Royer 2012). Pharmaceuticals are designed to be biologically active at very low concentrations and end up in surface waters either unchanged, or as active metabolites/polar conjugates, mostly via municipal wastewater and agricultural discharges (Boxall et al. 2012).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 73 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 19%
Researcher 12 16%
Student > Master 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 22 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 20 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 20%
Chemistry 6 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 22 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2023.
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#2,099,312
of 24,003,070 outputs
Outputs from Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
#26
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#35,605
of 393,871 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
#4
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