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Under-researched and under-reported new findings in microplastic field

The Science of The Total Environment 2024 4 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 45 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.

Krzysztof Bohdan, Krzysztof Bohdan, Kevin C. Honeychurch Kevin C. Honeychurch

Summary

This commentary highlighted understudied and underreported areas of microplastic research emerging between 2020 and 2023, including sea surface microplastic ejection into the atmosphere, microplastic-associated chemical mixtures, and novel exposure routes. The paper argued that these new sub-categories open important frontiers that deserve greater research investment.

After over 20 years of research on microplastic (MP) pollution, there are important areas of study which are still at the inception. In particular, between 2020 and 2023 new findings on MP have emerged, which open new sub-categories of MP research. These research areas include sea surface MP ejection, direct and indirect MP influence on climate and hydrological cycle, small and nano-sized MP analysis and the relationship between MP size and abundance. Not reported or barely mentioned in previous reviews, these globally-relevant findings are here highlighted and discussed with aim to promote their further research that will potentially result in new evidence of detrimental effects of MP pollution on the biosphere.

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