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Global research landscape of microplastics and their impact on earthworm: a bibliometric analysis

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis — a statistical review of published research — to map global trends in studies on how microplastics affect earthworms, finding steady growth in publications through 2022 with China and Europe leading the research. Earthworms are a key focus because they live in soil, help decompose organic matter, and serve as an indicator species for measuring how microplastics disrupt soil health.

2024 Discover Environment 4 citations
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Underestimated and ignored? The impacts of microplastic on soil invertebrates—Current scientific knowledge and research needs

This review highlights the critical gap in research on how microplastics affect soil invertebrates, noting that soil ecosystems receive far more plastic pollution than oceans yet the ecological consequences for soil fauna remain poorly understood and largely unstudied.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 23 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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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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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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Flow cytometric analysis of hepatopancreatic cells from Armadillidium vulgare highlights terrestrial isopods as efficient environmental bioindicators in ex vivo settings

Researchers optimized a method for analyzing individual cells from the digestive organ of pill bugs (terrestrial isopods) and used it to detect pollution-related stress across sites with different contamination levels. The findings position these common soil invertebrates as practical, early-warning biological indicators for environmental pollution monitoring.

2024 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 4 citations
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A bibliometric analysis and literature review of earthworms used as bio-indicators for assessing soil heavy metal pollution

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of two decades of studies on using earthworms as biological indicators of soil heavy metal pollution. They found that zinc, copper, cadmium, and lead are the most commonly studied metals, with growing interest in how earthworms accumulate and respond to these contaminants. The review highlights earthworms as valuable tools for monitoring soil health and identifies emerging research directions in soil pollution assessment.

2025 Journal of Environmental Sciences 2 citations
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Trends and Emerging Hotspots in Toxicology of Chironomids: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

This bibliometric analysis mapped trends and emerging research hotspots in chironomid toxicology using publications from the Web of Science and PubMed databases. The study identified growing research interest in using these aquatic insects as bioindicators for environmental pollution, including emerging contaminants like microplastics, reflecting the expanding scope of ecotoxicology research.

2025 Insects 1 citations
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Descriptive Mappings of Global‐Related Research Studies on Invertebrates in the Context of Agriculture

A bibliometric analysis using the Web of Science database examined research publications on invertebrates and agriculture from 1991 to 2022, identifying trends, key research topics, and gaps in the literature. The study provided a descriptive mapping of how invertebrate-agriculture research has evolved and expanded over three decades.

2024 The Scientific World JOURNAL 1 citations
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Flow cytometric analysis of hepatopancreatic cells from Armadillidium vulgare highlights terrestrial Isopods as efficient environmental bioindicators in ex vivo settings

This study used flow cytometry to analyze hepatopancreatic cells from pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare) as a sensitive biomonitoring tool for soil contamination. Terrestrial isopods are efficient bioindicators of soil pollution including microplastics, and this ex vivo method offers a sensitive way to detect cellular-level damage.

2023 1 citations
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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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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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Effect and environmental behaviour of microplastics in soil

This bibliometric analysis and review covers research on microplastic environmental behavior in soils from 2012 to 2022, documenting rapid growth in publications and identifying key research themes including transport, persistence, and interactions with soil biota and chemicals. The review highlights remaining knowledge gaps and emerging trends in the field of soil microplastic pollution.

2023 Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 5 citations
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Microplastics in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Scientometric Analysis

A scientometric analysis of global microplastic literature in terrestrial ecosystems (Web of Science, 1986–2020) used co-occurrence visualization and citation mapping to characterize the rapid growth of terrestrial MP research and identify emerging focus areas such as soil health, agricultural plastics, and food safety.

2020 Sustainability 77 citations
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Effect of Macroplastic on Soil Invertebrates: a Case Study Using Morphological and Molecular Approaches

Large plastic fragments — not just microplastics — were found to harm soil invertebrate communities in Russia, reducing diversity and abundance in contaminated plots, suggesting that macroplastic pollution poses underappreciated risks to soil ecosystems.

2023 Russian Journal of Ecosystem Ecology
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Trends in Soil Science over the Past Three Decades (1992–2022) Based on the Scientometric Analysis of 39 Soil Science Journals

A scientometric analysis of 39 soil science journals covering 112,911 publications from 1992 to 2022 found that the field has experienced substantial growth in output and impact, with increasing focus on ecological sustainability, microplastics, and soil-environment interactions.

2024 Agriculture 7 citations
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A Study of marine plastic pollution abatement: A bibliometric analysis on status and development trend

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of marine plastic pollution research using R software, finding that global scientific attention has grown substantially, with microplastics emerging as a central focus spanning both macro- and microscale investigations.

2023 Academic Journal of Environment & Earth Science 1 citations
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Ecological risk assessment of emerging contaminants on soil and terrestrial ecosystems (2005-2024): a bibliometric and scientometric review.

A 20-year (2005–2024) bibliometric review of ecological risk assessment studies on emerging contaminants identified key trends and gaps in understanding the risks of microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and other pollutants to soil and terrestrial ecosystems. The review found rapid growth in the field but persistent data gaps on long-term ecosystem-level effects.

2025 Environmental geochemistry and health
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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