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Geochemistry and Petrology
Geology
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Publisher Elsevier

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ISSN 00092541

Coverage 1966-2020

Scope Chemical Geology is an international journal that publishes original research papers on
isotopic and elemental geochemistry, geochronology and cosmochemistry. The Journal
focuses on chemical processes in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary petrology, low-
and high-temperature aqueous solutions, biogeochemistry, the environment and
cosmochemistry. Papers that are eld, experimentally, or computationally based are
appropriate if they are of broad international interest. The Journal generally does not publish
papers that are primarily of regional or local interest, or which are primarily focused on
remediation and applied geochemistry. The Journal also welcomes innovative papers dealing
with signi cant analytical advances that are of wide interest in the community and extend
signi cantly beyond the scope of what would be included in the methods section of a
standard research paper.

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green)
comprises the
Geochemistry quarter
and of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third
Petrology
highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category Year Quartile

Geology
Geochemistry and Petrology 1999 Q1
Geochemistry and Petrology 2000 Q1
Geochemistry and Petrology
1999 2001
2001 Q12003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019
Geochemistry and Petrology 2002 Q1

SJR Citations per document

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that

3.5 This indicator counts the number of citations received by
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ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is documents from a journal and divides them by the total
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based on the idea that 'all citations are not created number of documents published in that journal. The
equal'. SJR is a measure of scienti c in uence of 4.2
chart shows the evolution of the average number of
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journals that accounts for both the number of citations times documents published in a journal in the past two,
received by a journal and the importance or prestige of
1.4 three and four years have been cited in the current year.
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the journals where such citations come from It The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor
1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017
measures the scienti c in uence of the average article ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.
in a journal it expresses how central to the global 3

Total Cites Self-Cites Cites per document Year Value

Cites / Doc. (4 years)
2.4 1999 2.036
5k Cites / Doc. (4 years) 2000 2.320
Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's
self-citations received by a journal's published Cites / Doc. (4 years) 2001 2.673
documents during the three previous years. Cites / Doc. (4 years)
1.8 2002 3.012
2.5k Cites / Doc. (4 years) 2003 3.475
Journal Self-citation is de ned as the number of citation
1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017
from a journal citing article to articles published by the Cites / Doc. (4 years) 2004 3.519
Cites / Doc.
Cites / Doc.(4
(4years)
years) 2005 3.501
same journal.
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Cites / Doc.(4
(3years)
years) 2006 3.700
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Cites / Doc.(4
(2years)
years) 2007 4.034
Cites Year Value Cites / Doc. (4 years) 2008 4.044
S lf Cit 1999 77
External Cites per Doc Cites per Doc % International Collaboration

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and external citation per document (i.e. journal self- have been produced by researchers from several
4citations removed) received by a journal's published 60
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documents during the three previous years. External documents signed by researchers from more than one
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1999 2002 2005 2008 2011 2014 2017 1999 International
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research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those
ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research not cited during the following year.
600 600
(research articles, conference papers and reviews) in
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research articles, reviews and conference papers. Uncited documents 1999 156
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Chemical Geology
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/chemgeo

Geochemical fractionation and risk assessment of trace elements in T

sediments from tide-dominated Hooghly (Ganges) River Estuary, India
Priyanka Mondala, Marco Schintub, Barbara Marrasb, Alexandre Bettoschib,
Alessandro Marruccib, Santosh Kumar Sarkara, , Ranju Chowdhurya,
⁎

Muthuswamy Ponniah Jonathanc, Jayanta Kumar Biswasd

a
Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Calcutta 700019, India
b
Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Sanità Pubblica, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
c
Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (CIIEMAD), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Calle 30 de Junio de 1520,
Barrio la Laguna Ticoman, Del. Gustavo A. Madero, C.P.07340 Ciudad de México, Mexico
d
Department of Ecological Studies, International Centre for Ecological Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia 741235, India

ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT

Editor: Karen Johannesson The geochemical fractionation and potential mobilization of cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel and lead were studied
Keywords: in surficial sediments (top 0–10 cm; < 63 μm grain-size) of the Hooghly (Ganges) River Estuary, eastern part of India,
Trace elements using a sequential extraction procedure. The risk assessment was evaluated at three specific levels; i.e., enrichment level
Geochemical fractionation (enrichment factor, geo-accumulation index), the availability level (elements bound to different fractions, risk assess-
Bioavailability ment code, Individual and Global contamination factors) and biological toxicity level (Potential ecological risk index;
Mobility sediment quality guidelines). Different geochemical phases indicated heterogeneities in TE distribution patterns as
Environmental risk follows: (i) Cd was dominant in the exchangeable phase and significant proportion of Pb was bounded to the reducible
Hooghly River Estuary
fractions; (ii) the potential mobile fraction (ΣF1 − F3) in the sediments was higher for Cd and Pb (> 46%), reflecting
their adverse impact on benthic organisms as they are weakly bound to the sediment and can migrate to water; (iii) a
minor fraction of Cu (< 10%) was found in the oxidizable fraction suggesting less environmental risk to the aquatic
biota and (iv) the dominance of the Ni, Cr and Cu in the residual fraction supports the assumption of their geogenic
origin. Both Cd and Cu posed medium to high ecological risk values based on risk assessment code (RAC). Global
Contamination Factor (GCF) values allowed to identify the “pollution hotspots” in the study area.

1. Introduction In general, TEs in sediments can exist in different chemical forms,

Rapid urbanization and industrialization result in the increase of
trace element (TE) concentrations, especially in developing countries
including India, and their subsequent release into the estuaries where
sediments serve as the ultimate sink (Gadkar et al., 2019; Jung et al.,
2019).The complex estuarine hydrodynamics play a very important role
in the deposition, re-suspension and transportation of the TEs in the
sediments (Pourabadehei and Mulligan, 2016; Wang et al., 2016),
where they persist for long period and become bioavailable to living
organisms due to their potential to bioaccumulate and biomagnify
through food chain (Bryan and Langston, 1992; Zhou et al., 2008;
Bakshi et al., 2018). For better understanding the risk associated with
TEs, contamination indices such as Geo-accumulation Index (Igeo), En-
richment factor (EF), Potential ecological risk index (RI) and Sediment
quality guidelines (SQGs) are considered.
namely, the acid-soluble/ exchangeable fraction (F1), Reducible fraction
(F2), oxidisable fraction (F3), and residual fraction (F4) (Tessier et al.,
1979; Rauret et al., 1999; Zhang et al., 2017). Quantification of total TE
concentrations in estuarine sediments does not reflect their contamina-
tion status (Sundaray et al., 2011) since bioavailability; toxicity and
mobility of each element greatly differ depending on their mineralogical
and chemical form (Baeyens et al., 2003; Nicolau et al., 2006; Nouri
et al., 2011). Furthermore, knowledge about geochemical fractions and
speciation of TEs in sediments is required to understand their mobiliza-
tion processes as well as to identify the geochemically reactive pools,
which act as a better indication of their potential risk (Li et al., 2016;
Matong et al., 2016; Rinklebe et al., 2016). The progress of sediment
formation influence the geochemical distribution of TEs in sediments as
sediments are dynamic systems and their genesis depends on the climate
along with the position in the landscape (Rinklebe and Shaheen, 2017).

⁎
Corresponding author.
E-mail address: cusarkar@gmail.com (S.K. Sarkar).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119373
Received 27 August 2019; Received in revised form 5 November 2019; Accepted 6 November 2019
Available online 07 November 2019
0009-2541/ © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.