Sara Castiglioni

16.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
140 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Sara Castiglioni is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Toxicology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Castiglioni has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Pollution, 43 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 40 papers in Toxicology. Recurrent topics in Sara Castiglioni's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (79 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (40 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (30 papers). Sara Castiglioni is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (79 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (40 papers) and Analytical chemistry methods development (30 papers). Sara Castiglioni collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Sara Castiglioni's co-authors include Ettore Zuccato, Roberto Fanelli, Renzo Bagnati, D. Calamari, Chiara Chiabrando, Francesco Pomati, Emma Gracia‐Lor, Félix Hernández, Karl Fent and Alexander L.N. van Nuijs and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sara Castiglioni

139 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Removal of Pharmaceuticals in Sewage Treatment Plants in Italy

2005 679 citations Sara Castiglioni, Renzo Bagnati et al. profile →
Strategic Survey of Therapeutic Drugs in the Rivers Po and Lambro in Northern Italy

2003 523 citations Ettore Zuccato, Sara Castiglioni et al. profile →
Estimating Community Drug Abuse by Wastewater Analysis

2008 478 citations Ettore Zuccato, Sara Castiglioni et al. profile →
Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis

2012 397 citations Kevin V. Thomas, Lubertus Bijlsma et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Castiglioni Italy	55	7.0k	3.4k	2.6k	1.8k	1.3k	140	11.4k
Ettore Zuccato Italy	52	6.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	123	10.1k
Félix Hernández Spain	74	7.7k 1.1×	4.3k 1.3×	6.3k 2.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	414	19.2k
Barbara Kasprzyk‐Hordern United Kingdom	57	8.5k 1.2×	4.1k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	960 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	203	16.7k
Christoph Ort Switzerland	47	3.9k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	550 0.4×	112	7.3k
Miren López de Alda Spain	77	9.6k 1.4×	6.7k 2.0×	3.9k 1.5×	791 0.4×	854 0.7×	206	16.4k
Roberto Fanelli Italy	48	4.6k 0.7×	3.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	668 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	262	10.9k
José Benito Quintana Spain	53	4.4k 0.6×	3.6k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	520 0.3×	341 0.3×	152	8.9k
Yolanda Picó Spain	79	6.8k 1.0×	4.4k 1.3×	5.4k 2.1×	352 0.2×	1.4k 1.1×	338	19.0k
Renzo Bagnati Italy	34	3.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	683 0.4×	696 0.6×	100	6.4k
Alexander L.N. van Nuijs Belgium	45	2.5k 0.4×	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	2.0k 1.1×	631 0.5×	185	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Castiglioni

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Castiglioni

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Castiglioni. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Castiglioni based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sara Castiglioni. Sara Castiglioni is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Salgueiro‐González, Noelia, Frederic Béen, Lubertus Bijlsma, et al.. (2024). Influent wastewater analysis to investigate emerging trends of new psychoactive substances use in Europe. Water Research. 254. 121390–121390. 17 indexed citations

Burgard, Daniel A., Marina Celia Campos‐Mañas, Félix Hernández, et al.. (2024). A key factor in monitoring cannabis consumption trends through wastewater analysis: Partitioning of THC COOH between the liquid and solid phase of influent wastewater. Water Research. 267. 122462–122462. 3 indexed citations

Kasprzyk‐Hordern, Barbara, Frederic Béen, Lubertus Bijlsma, et al.. (2023). Wastewater-based epidemiology for the assessment of population exposure to chemicals: The need for integration with human biomonitoring for global One Health actions. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 450. 131009–131009. 15 indexed citations

Guardo, Antonio Di, et al.. (2023). Modelling micropollutant cycle in Lake Como in a winter scenario: Implications for water use and reuse, ecosystem services, and the EU zero pollution action plan. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167594–167594. 3 indexed citations

Bodı́k, Igor, Sara Castiglioni, Ettore Zuccato, et al.. (2023). Monitoring Alcohol Consumption in Slovak Cities during the COVID-19 Lockdown by Wastewater-Based Epidemiology. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(3). 2176–2176. 3 indexed citations

Castiglioni, Sara, et al.. (2022). Characterisation of Bee Pollen from the Marche Region (Italy) According to the Botanical and Geographical Origin with Analysis of Antioxidant Activity and Colour, Using a Chemometric Approach. Molecules. 27(22). 7996–7996. 10 indexed citations

Pellegrinelli, Laura, Sara Castiglioni, Clementina Cocuzza, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Pre-Analytical and Analytical Methods for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 in Municipal Wastewater Samples in Northern Italy. Water. 14(5). 833–833. 8 indexed citations

Gao, Jianfa, Daniel A. Burgard, Benjamin J. Tscharke, et al.. (2022). Refining the estimation of amphetamine consumption by wastewater-based epidemiology. Water Research. 225. 119182–119182. 12 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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Gjerde, Hallvard, Linn Gjersing, Jose Antonio Baz‐Lomba, et al.. (2019). Drug Use by Music Festival Attendees: A Novel Triangulation Approach Using Self-Reported Data and Test Results of Oral Fluid and Pooled Urine Samples. Substance Use & Misuse. 54(14). 2317–2327. 10 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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Salgueiro‐González, Noelia, Sara Castiglioni, Ettore Zuccato, et al.. (2018). Recent advances in analytical methods for the determination of 4-alkylphenols and bisphenol A in solid environmental matrices: A critical review. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1024. 39–51. 44 indexed citations

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Fantuzzi, Guglielmina, Gabriella Aggazzotti, Elena Righi, et al.. (2018). Illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in swimming pool waters. The Science of The Total Environment. 635. 956–963. 27 indexed citations

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Rocchetti, Gabriele, et al.. (2018). UHPLC‐ESI‐QTOF‐MS phenolic profiling and antioxidant capacity of bee pollen from different botanical origin. International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 54(2). 335–346. 44 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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Castiglioni, Sara, et al.. (2017). Chemometric approach to the analysis of antioxidant properties and colour of typical Italian monofloral honeys. International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 52(5). 1138–1146. 34 indexed citations

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Castiglioni, Sara, et al.. (2017). Geographical characterisation of multifloral honeys from the Marche region (Italy) according to their antioxidant activity and colour using a chemometric approach. International Journal of Food Science & Technology. 53(3). 571–581. 14 indexed citations

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Prichard, Jeremy, Wendy Hall, Ettore Zuccato, et al.. (2016). SCORE Ethical research guidelines for sewage epidemiology. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 2 indexed citations

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Zuccato, Ettore & Sara Castiglioni. (2012). Consumi di sostanze stupefacenti nelle città europee. 28(6). 253–260. 3 indexed citations

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Zuccato, Ettore, Sara Castiglioni, Roberto Fanelli, & Renzo Bagnati. (2007). Inquinamento da farmaci: le evidenze (parte I). 23(2). 67–73. 3 indexed citations

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