Editorial of the Topic “Environmental and Health Issues and Solutions for Anticoccidials and Other Emerging Pollutants of Special Concern”

The editors of this Topic, entitled “Environmental and Health Issues and Solutions for Anticoccidials and other Emerging Pollutants of Special Concern”, proposed it with the knowledge that emerging pollutants continue to be of crucial importance. In addition, at the time of starting the Topic, it was suggested that the field of anticoccidial antibiotics could need special focus.

Various journals were involved in this Topical Issue, and of the submissions that were finally accepted following peer-review, six papers were published from the journal Processes, and three from Sustainability.

Chronologically, the first two papers accepted and included were “Efficiency of Coagulation/Flocculation for the Removal of Complex Mixture of Textile Fibers from Water” [1] and “Efficient Degradation of Chlortetracycline by Graphene Supported Cobalt Oxide Activated Peroxydisulfate: Performances and Mechanisms” [2], both from the journal Processes.

The third and fourth manuscripts accepted for this Topic were “Examining the Relationship between Pro-Environmental Attitudes, Self-Determination, and Sustained Intention in Eco-Friendly Sports Participation: A Study on Plogging Participants” [3] and “Effects of Chlortetracycline on the Growth of Eggplant and Associated Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities.” [4], both published in the journal Sustainability.

The fifth and sixth works were published in Processes, with the titles “Visualization Network Analysis of Studies on Agricultural Drainage Water Treatment.” [5] and “Assessing Biodegradation Processes of Atrazine in Constructed Wetland Using Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis” [6].

The last manuscripts accepted were “A Study on Sensitivity of Soil-Based Building Mixtures to Biodeterioration by Fungi: Towards Sustainable Earth Structures” [7], published in Sustainability, “Determination of 24 Trace Aromatic Substances in Rosemary Hydrosol by Dispersed Liquid-Liquid Microextraction-Gas Chromatography” [8], published in Processes, and “Removal of cefuroxime from soils by means of the bio-adsorbents pine bark, mussel shell and oak ash” [9], published in Processes.

This Topic is now closed to new submissions, with an acceptance rate near 50%. Further available data indicate that, to date, the current number of citations to individual published papers is four, while the number of views per single paper is in the range of 4038 to 667.

Finally, the editors of this Topic view it as a complement to a previous Topical Issue which had a general focus on emerging pollutants [10,11], with the current Issue including new high-quality and relevant contributions to this field of research. Looking forward, the quantification of existing and eventual new emerging pollutants will continue to be a matter of concern, as well as facing these challenges by proposing and assessing viable alternatives. In addition, it is clear that specific research dealing with anticoccidials as environmental pollutants is needed, as indicated in a recent publication [12].