ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Global Sources and Pathways of Mercury in the Context of Human Health.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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50 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Electrochemical Detection of Heavy Metals Using Graphene-Based Sensors: Advances, Meta-Analysis, Toxicity, and Sustainable Development Challenges.Biosensors · 2025Pooled it
- Alzheimer's Disease and Circulatory Imbalance of Toxic Heavy Metals: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Clinical Studies.Biological trace element research · 2025Pooled it
- Re-thinking the link between exposure to mercury and blood pressure.Archives of toxicology · 2025Pooled it
- Elucidating the link between thyroid cancer and mercury exposure: a review and meta-analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Pooled it
- Chronic mercury exposure and blood pressure in children and adolescents: a systematic review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Pooled it
- Development of a Molecularly Imprinted Pencil Graphite Electrode for the Voltammetric Detection of HgACS omega · 2026Article
- Metal Pollution in the Air and Its Effects on Vulnerable Populations: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Stable mercury isotopes as a decision-support tool for public health.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Multi-year study monitoring the mercury content in the tissues of cattle sampled in the Czech Republic between 2014 and 2023.Veterinarni medicina · 2025Article
- Mercury Isotope Variability in Pyrenean Lake Sediments during the Late Holocene: Sources, Deposition, and Environmental Controls.ACS earth & space chemistry · 2025Article
- Contrasting Magnitude and Timing of Pulsed Aqueous Methylmercury Bioaccumulation across a Reservoir Food Web.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Global mercury concentrations in biota: their use as a basis for a global biomonitoring framework.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2024Review
- Heavy Metal(oid)s Contamination and Potential Ecological Risk Assessment in Agricultural Soils.Journal of xenobiotics · 2024Article
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- Exposure and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal in Crayfish from the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River.Biological trace element research · 2024Article
- Impact of Glasgow Climate Pact and Updated Nationally Determined Contribution on Mercury Mitigation Abiding by the Minamata Convention in India.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- A high spatial resolution dataset for methylmercury exposure in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.Scientific data · 2023Article
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- Wildfires as a Source of Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) in Soil: A Case Study from Campania Region (Italy).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper reviews information from the existing literature and the EU GMOS (Global Mercury Observation System) project to assess the current scientific knowledge on global mercury releases into the atmosphere, on global atmospheric transport and deposition, and on the linkage between environmental contamination and potential impacts on human health. The review concludes that assessment of global sources and pathways of mercury in the context of human health is important for being able to monitor the effects from implementation of the Minamata Convention targets, although new research is needed on the improvement of emission inventory data, the chemical and physical behaviour of mercury in the atmosphere, the improvement of monitoring network data, predictions of future emissions and speciation, and on the subsequent effects on the environment, human health, as well as the economic costs and benefits of reducing these aspects.
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