''Chemosphere'' is a biweekly

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published since 1972 by

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and covering

environmental chemistry Environmental chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in natural places. It should not be confused with green chemistry, which seeks to reduce potential pollution at its source. It can be defined as ...

. In July 2023, the journal was put on hold in the

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Master Journal List due to quality concerns. By May 2024, the journal had marked more than 60 papers with expressions of concern, typically citing "unusual changes" of authorship prior to publication and "potential undisclosed conflicts of interest" by reviewers and handling editors. In December 16, 2024, Web of Science delisted the journal. This followed an incident in which the journal published a paper claiming that household products made of black plastic contained dangerous amount of toxic chemicals, leading to the media warning readers to throw away black plastic products. However, the study was found to have a math error in calculating the reference dose for a 60 kg adult, which made the abundance of BDE-209, a toxic

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found in the plastic appear to exceed U.S. limits (the estimated daily dose of the flame retardant was not questioned or corrected). The authors later published a correction note, while claiming the error "does not affect the overall conclusion of the paper."

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been

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: *2020–2024: Jacob de Boer (

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) and Shane Snyder (

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) *2024–present: Jacob de Boer, Willie Peijnenburg (

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), and Yeomin Yoon (

Ewha Womans University Ewha Womans University () is a private women's research university in Seoul, South Korea. It was originally founded as Ewha Haktang on May 31, 1886, by missionary Mary F. Scranton. Currently, Ewha Womans University is one of the world's largest f ...

)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 8.1.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/chemosphere Elsevier academic journals Chemistry journals Academic journals established in 1972 Environmental chemistry Biweekly journals