Identification of environmentally relevant chemicals in bibliographic databases: a comparative analysis

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Table 13 Number of articles about PFOS in different environmental journals analyzed by WoS and various name forms in SciFinder

Journal	SciFinder	SciFinder	SciFinder	SciFinder	SciFinder	SciFinder	WoS
Journal	PFOS/rt	45298-90-6/rn	Perfluorooctane sulfonate/rt	1763-23-1/rn	Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid/rt	/all	/all¹⁾
Environmental Science and	124	39	76	89	89	148	150
Technology
Chemosphere	45	8	23	36	36	52	56
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry	20	10	15	17	11	28	28
Toxicological Sciences	17	7	15	12	6	21	26
Environmental Health Perspectives	18	6	6	13	13	20	23
Journal of Chromatography A	9	3	4	8	2	16	23
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology	16	6	9	9	9	17	18
Toxicology	15	6	4	14	14	15	17
Environmental Pollution(Oxf)	12	4	8	8	7	14	14
Reproductive Toxicology	n.i.	n.i.	n.i.	n.i.	n.i	n.i.	13

n.i.= not included.
1) All: (PFOS or “perfluorooctane sulfonate” or “perfluoro octane sulfonate” or “perfluorooctanesulfonate” or “perfluorooctane sulfonic acid” or “perfluorooctanesulfonic acid”)/tp.