Emma Gracia‐Lor

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Emma Gracia‐Lor is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Analytical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Emma Gracia‐Lor has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Pollution, 16 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 14 papers in Analytical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Emma Gracia‐Lor's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (20 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (13 papers) and Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (10 papers). Emma Gracia‐Lor is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (20 papers), Analytical chemistry methods development (13 papers) and Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (10 papers). Emma Gracia‐Lor collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and Norway. Emma Gracia‐Lor's co-authors include Félix Hernández, Juan V. Sancho, Sara Castiglioni, Ettore Zuccato, Roque Serrano, Nikolaos I. Rousis, María Ibáñez, Ivan Senta, Andrea Borsotti and Richard Bade and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Emma Gracia‐Lor

46 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants at the Spanish Mediterranean area of Valencia

2012 388 citations Emma Gracia‐Lor, Juan V. Sancho et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emma Gracia‐Lor Spain	28	1.5k	782	720	370	326	47	2.7k
Ivan Senta Croatia	26	1.6k 1.0×	496 0.6×	643 0.9×	300 0.8×	310 1.0×	35	2.3k
Erik Emke Netherlands	26	1.2k 0.8×	478 0.6×	527 0.7×	320 0.9×	663 2.0×	53	2.3k
Foon Yin Lai Australia	33	1.6k 1.1×	460 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	359 1.0×	768 2.4×	89	3.3k
Richard Bade Australia	27	863 0.6×	427 0.5×	458 0.6×	342 0.9×	464 1.4×	50	2.2k
Bikram Subedi United States	22	1.5k 1.0×	543 0.7×	933 1.3×	286 0.8×	211 0.6×	37	2.4k
Iria González‐Mariño Spain	22	820 0.5×	551 0.7×	476 0.7×	219 0.6×	337 1.0×	39	1.6k
Philippe G. Jorens Belgium	25	900 0.6×	519 0.7×	713 1.0×	149 0.4×	405 1.2×	43	2.2k
Peng Du China	29	772 0.5×	262 0.3×	742 1.0×	216 0.6×	440 1.3×	89	2.4k
Lubertus Bijlsma Spain	40	2.3k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	1.1k 1.5×	613 1.7×	1.2k 3.7×	105	4.8k
Reza Aalizadeh Greece	30	815 0.5×	531 0.7×	624 0.9×	513 1.4×	58 0.2×	66	2.7k

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Rey, Sonia, et al.. (2025). Ecotoxicological risk and seasonal removal of licit and illicit drugs in wastewater treatment plants: A comparison of secondary and tertiary processes. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 499. 140290–140290.

Gómez-Gómez, Beatriz, et al.. (2025). How much consumed caffeine is actually absorbed? Bioaccessibility and bioavailability in energy drinks, infusions and soft drinks. Food Chemistry. 492(Pt 3). 145626–145626. 1 indexed citations

Gracia‐Lor, Emma, et al.. (2024). Consumption of illicit drugs and benzodiazepines in six Spanish cities during different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Science of The Total Environment. 935. 173356–173356. 5 indexed citations

Gómez-Gómez, Beatriz, et al.. (2024). Investigating the Presence of Selenoneine, Ergothioneine, and Selenium-Containing Biomolecules in Fish and Fish-Derived Commercial Products. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 72(47). 26155–26164. 4 indexed citations

Gómez-Gómez, Beatriz, et al.. (2024). Se and Hg in processed fish-derived products and their fish raw materials: Occurrence, Se:Hg molar ratio, HBVSe index, bioaccessibility and Caco-2 cells toxicity. Food Research International. 192. 114851–114851. 1 indexed citations

Gracia‐Lor, Emma, et al.. (2023). Aflatoxin detoxification by thermal cooking treatment and evaluation of in vitro bioaccessibility from white and brown rice. Food Chemistry. 436. 137738–137738. 17 indexed citations

Rousis, Nikolaos I., Richard Bade, Jochen F. Mueller, et al.. (2023). Festivals following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions: Prevalence of new psychoactive substances and illicit drugs. Environment International. 178. 108075–108075. 17 indexed citations

Gracia‐Lor, Emma, et al.. (2022). Simultaneous determination of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in commercial rices using immunoaffinity column clean-up and HPLC-MS/MS. Food Chemistry. 395. 133611–133611. 74 indexed citations

Castiglioni, Sara, Noelia Salgueiro‐González, Lubertus Bijlsma, et al.. (2021). New psychoactive substances in several European populations assessed by wastewater-based epidemiology. Water Research. 195. 116983–116983. 52 indexed citations

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Rousis, Nikolaos I., Emma Gracia‐Lor, Malcolm J. Reid, et al.. (2020). Assessment of human exposure to selected pesticides in Norway by wastewater analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 723. 138132–138132. 37 indexed citations

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Gracia‐Lor, Emma, Ettore Zuccato, Félix Hernández, & Sara Castiglioni. (2019). Wastewater-based epidemiology for tracking human exposure to mycotoxins. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 382. 121108–121108. 43 indexed citations

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Causanilles, Ana, Erik Emke, Richard Bade, et al.. (2018). Comparison of phosphodiesterase type V inhibitors use in eight European cities through analysis of urban wastewater. Environment International. 115. 279–284. 29 indexed citations

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Gracia‐Lor, Emma, Nikolaos I. Rousis, Ettore Zuccato, et al.. (2017). Estimation of caffeine intake from analysis of caffeine metabolites in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 609. 1582–1588. 97 indexed citations

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Gracia‐Lor, Emma, Ettore Zuccato, & Sara Castiglioni. (2016). Refining correction factors for back-calculation of illicit drug use. The Science of The Total Environment. 573. 1648–1659. 115 indexed citations

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Ryu, Yeonsuk, Emma Gracia‐Lor, Richard Bade, et al.. (2016). Increased levels of the oxidative stress biomarker 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α in wastewater associated with tobacco use. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 39055–39055. 57 indexed citations

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Senta, Ivan, Emma Gracia‐Lor, Andrea Borsotti, Ettore Zuccato, & Sara Castiglioni. (2015). Wastewater analysis to monitor use of caffeine and nicotine and evaluation of their metabolites as biomarkers for population size assessment. Water Research. 74. 23–33. 168 indexed citations

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Gracia‐Lor, Emma, et al.. (2014). Investigation of pharmaceutical metabolites in environmental waters by LC-MS/MS. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 21(8). 5496–5510. 32 indexed citations

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Gracia‐Lor, Emma, et al.. (2012). Multi-class determination of personal care products and pharmaceuticals in environmental and wastewater samples by ultra-high performance liquid-chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Talanta. 99. 1011–1023. 97 indexed citations

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Gracia‐Lor, Emma, Juan V. Sancho, & Félix Hernández. (2011). Multi-class determination of around 50 pharmaceuticals, including 26 antibiotics, in environmental and wastewater samples by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A. 1218(16). 2264–2275. 177 indexed citations

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Hernández, Félix, María Ibáñez, Emma Gracia‐Lor, & Juan V. Sancho. (2011). Retrospective LC‐QTOF‐MS analysis searching for pharmaceutical metabolites in urban wastewater. Journal of Separation Science. 34(24). 3517–3526. 80 indexed citations

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