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Bibliometric Analysis and Research Trends on Microplastic Pollution in the Soil and Terrestrial Ecosystems

This bibliometric analysis tracks research trends on microplastic pollution in soil and terrestrial ecosystems, revealing a rapidly growing field with increasing global collaboration. Researchers identified key themes including microplastic sources, soil organism impacts, and interactions with other pollutants. The study maps out knowledge gaps and suggests future research priorities for understanding how microplastics affect land-based environments.

2024 Environmental Research Engineering and Management 8 citations
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Research progress and hotspot analysis of soil microplastics: a bibliometrics-based review

This bibliometric review analyzes research trends and hotspots in the study of soil microplastics, mapping the field's growth and key focus areas over recent years. Researchers found that topics like microplastic transport, ecological effects on soil organisms, and interactions with other pollutants have become increasingly prominent research themes.

2023 Frontiers in Environmental Science 13 citations
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Soil Pollution due to Microplastics

This bibliometric analysis reviewed the scientific literature on soil microplastic pollution to map research trends, key contributors, and knowledge gaps. The study found growing global research interest in this area and highlighted that microplastics entering the food chain through contaminated soil represents an underappreciated pathway to human exposure.

2020 Insecta mundi 2 citations
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The Bibliometric Analysis of Microplastics in Soil Environments: Hotspots of Research and Trends of Development

This bibliometric analysis used CiteSpace to map research trends in soil microplastic contamination, identifying hotspots including microplastic effects on soil properties, organism interactions, and pollutant transport as key areas of growing scientific interest.

2023 Sustainability 10 citations
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Global trends and hotspots evolution in soil microplastic pollution research: A bibliometric analysis based on the Web of Science

Researchers analyzed global trends in soil microplastic research using bibliometric tools and found the field is still developing compared to water-based studies, with hotspots growing rapidly since 2018. China, the US, the Netherlands, and Australia lead publications, and the field needs to shift focus from measuring toxicity to understanding how microplastics affect entire soil ecosystems.

2024 Ecological Indicators 20 citations
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The microplastics pollution in agricultural soils global trends and prospects research: bibliometric analysis

This bibliometric analysis reviewed global research trends on microplastic pollution in agricultural soils, finding rapidly growing scientific interest and identifying key knowledge gaps. Soil microplastic contamination poses risks to soil health, crop growth, and ultimately human food safety.

2023 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 1 citations
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A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace

This bibliometric analysis used CiteSpace and VOSviewer to map soil microplastics research published from 2013–2024 in the Web of Science, identifying key research clusters, institutional contributors, and emerging themes including microplastic-antibiotic resistance interactions and soil food web effects.

2025 ArXiv.org
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Review and future trends of soil microplastics research: visual analysis based on Citespace

A bibliometric analysis of soil microplastic research revealed that the field is still in early development compared to aquatic microplastic science, with growing focus on agricultural soil contamination, food security risks, and the role of sewage sludge and plastic mulch films as primary soil inputs. The authors identify key knowledge gaps and predict future research directions.

2022 Environmental Sciences Europe 18 citations
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Microplastics’ and Nanoplastics’ Interactions with Microorganisms: A Bibliometric Study

A bibliometric analysis mapped the growing literature on interactions between microplastics, nanoplastics, and microorganisms, identifying major research themes including biodegradation, pathogen transport, and effects on soil and geochemical cycles. The field has expanded rapidly since 2016, with European and Asian institutions leading publication output.

2022 Sustainability 17 citations
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Environmental fate and impacts of microplastics in soil ecosystems: Progress and perspective

This review summarized knowledge on microplastics in soil environments, covering occurrence across agricultural, industrial, and urban soils, transport pathways, and ecological risks to soil organisms and plant communities. The authors identify key data gaps and methodological challenges that currently limit understanding of microplastic fate and impact in terrestrial systems.

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 509 citations
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A bibliometric analysis of global research hotspots and progress on microplastics in soil‒plant systems

This bibliometric analysis reviews the rapidly growing field of research on microplastics in soil and plant systems. Researchers identified key research hotspots including how microplastics affect agricultural productivity and enter the food chain through crops. The study provides a roadmap of current knowledge and points to critical gaps in understanding the long-term effects of microplastic contamination on agricultural ecosystems.

2023 Environmental Pollution 17 citations
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Research trends of microplastics in the soil environment: Comprehensive screening of effects

Researchers synthesized 106 datasets on microplastic effects on soil parameters, finding that polyethylene pellets and powders dominate experimental designs and that significant effects occurred across broad size ranges, while highlighting gaps in current soil microplastic research.

2021 Soil Ecology Letters 43 citations
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Recent advances on ecological effects of microplastics on soil environment

This review summarizes recent advances in understanding the ecological effects of microplastics on soil environments. Researchers found that soils serve as major sinks for microplastics, which can alter soil properties, affect plant growth, disrupt soil microbial communities, and interact with other pollutants. The study highlights that terrestrial microplastic pollution may be even more pervasive than aquatic contamination and warrants greater research attention.

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 322 citations
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Micro Plastic Pollution in Soil Environment: A Comprehensive Review

This comprehensive review covers sources, distribution, degradation pathways, and ecological effects of microplastics in soil environments, highlighting threats to soil fauna, microbiota, and plant growth.

2024 Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 1 citations
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Health risk analysis of microplastics in soil in the 21st century: A scientometrics review

This bibliometric review mapped global research on health risks of microplastics in soil from 2001 to the present, finding a sharp increase in publications after 2016 and identifying plastic mulch, plastic waste, and sewage sludge as the most studied MP sources in soil. The review highlighted growing concern about dietary exposure through MPs taken up by food crops grown in contaminated soils.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 9 citations
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Micro- and nanoplastics in soils: Tracing research progression from comprehensive analysis to ecotoxicological effects

Researchers conducted a large-scale analysis of 2,451 scientific publications on micro- and nanoplastics in soil published between 2006 and 2023, mapping global research trends and identifying key gaps. The review found rapidly growing interest in soil microplastic pollution and highlighted the need for interdisciplinary approaches to understand how these particles harm earthworms, soil microbes, and ultimately human health.

2023 Ecological Indicators 17 citations
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The extent and impacts of soil pollution by microplastics

This study examines the extent and impacts of soil pollution by microplastics, reviewing evidence of how microplastic particles accumulate in terrestrial environments and affect soil ecosystems, organisms, and agricultural systems.

2024 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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Migration and toxicology of microplastics in soil: A review

This review examines how microplastics migrate through soil, summarizes their known toxic effects on soil organisms and plants, and identifies key gaps in current understanding. Soils are increasingly recognized as major microplastic repositories, and their contamination has implications for food safety and ecosystem health.

2019 Environment International
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Microplastics in terrestrial environments: Reviewing current understanding to determine the positive and negative aspects of soil

This review examines microplastics in terrestrial soils, covering their sources, distribution, and effects on soil health and organisms. It finds both negative impacts on soil function and organisms, as well as some neutral or context-dependent effects, and identifies key areas for future research.

2023 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Soil Environment Pollution with Microplastic, Influence Factors and Environmental Risks

This review synthesizes research on microplastic contamination of soil environments, covering the major sources of soil microplastics, factors influencing their accumulation and distribution, and the environmental risks they pose to terrestrial ecosystems and agriculture.

2023 Ecology and Industry of Russia 3 citations