Barbara M. Scholz‐Böttcher

What influences the distribution of microplastics in the marine environment? An interdisciplinary study reveals key factors driving microplastic in the North Sea

2025 The Science of The Total Environment 4 citations

Perspective article: Multisectoral considerations to enable a circular economy for plastics

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials 3 citations

Composition, interactions and resulting inhalation risk of micro- and nano-plastics in urban air

2025 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 3 citations

Development of a reliable preprocessing protocol for fluorescent micro- and nanoplastic analysis in human placental tissue

2025 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2 citations

Micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) in urban air: polymer composition, interactions and inhalation risk

2025 1 citations

Reliable thermal mass quantification of PVC – an ongoing challenge

2025 Microplastics and Nanoplastics 1 citations

What Influences Microplastic Distribution in the Marine Environment? A Study Highlighting the Role of Fronts and Submesoscale Processes in the North Sea

2025 0 citations

Investigating Exposure and Hazards of Micro- and Nanoplastics During Pregnancy and Early Life (AURORA Project): Protocol for an Interdisciplinary Study

2024 JMIR Research Protocols 9 citations

Investigating Exposure and Hazards of Micro- and Nanoplastics During Pregnancy and Early Life (AURORA Project): Protocol for an Interdisciplinary Study (Preprint)

2024 0 citations

Potential sources and transport of atmospheric microplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean

2024 0 citations

What Influences the Distribution of Microplastics in the Marine Environment? An Interdisciplinary Study Reveals Key Factors Driving Microplastic in the North Sea

2024 SSRN Electronic Journal 0 citations

Occurrence and backtracking of microplastic mass loads including tire wear particles in northern Atlantic air

2023 Nature Communications 87 citations

Numerical modeling of microplastic interaction with fine sediment under estuarine conditions

2023 Water Research 42 citations

Unraveling the Marine Microplastic Cycle: The First Simultaneous Data Set for Air, Sea Surface Microlayer, and Underlying Water

2023 Environmental Science & Technology 31 citations

Determination of polyurethanes within microplastics in complex environmental samples by analytical pyrolysis

2023 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 20 citations

Hitchhiking into the Deep: How Microplastic Particles are Exported through the Biological Carbon Pump in the North Atlantic Ocean

2022 Environmental Science & Technology 73 citations

Plastic in the air?! - Spider webs as spatial and temporal mirror for microplastics including tire wear particles in urban air

2022 The Science of The Total Environment 72 citations

Monitoring of microplastic pollution in the Arctic: recent developments in polymer identification, quality assurance and control, and data reporting

2022 Arctic Science 50 citations

30 years trends of microplastic pollution: Mass-quantitative analysis of archived mussel samples from the North and Baltic Seas

2022 The Science of The Total Environment 34 citations

Plastic in the Air?! – Spider webs as spatial mirrors for microplastics and tire wear in urban air

2022 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations

Microplastics including tire wear particles in the atmosphere-ocean boundary layer: A cross section through the air, sea surface microlayer and underlying water in Swedish fjord systems

2022 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 0 citations

Car and truck tire wear particles in complex environmental samples – A quantitative comparison with “traditional” microplastic polymer mass loads

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 186 citations

Microplastic Mass Concentrations and Distribution in German Bight Waters by Pyrolysis–Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry/Thermochemolysis Reveal Potential Impact of Marine Coatings: Do Ships Leave Skid Marks?

2021 Environmental Science & Technology 135 citations

Microplastics in two German wastewater treatment plants: Year-long effluent analysis with FTIR and Py-GC/MS

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 103 citations

Microplastic pollution in the Weser estuary and the German North Sea

2021 Environmental Pollution 75 citations

Microplastic extraction from sediments established? – A critical evaluation from a trace recovery experiment with a custom-made density separator

2021 Analytical Methods 13 citations

LITTER AND MICROPLASTICS MONITORING GUIDELINES ARCTIC MONITORING & ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME version 1.0 AMAP

2021 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 7 citations

30 Years Trends of Microplastic Pollution: Mass-Quantitative Analysis of Archived Mussel Samples from the North and Baltic Sea

2021 SSRN Electronic Journal 0 citations

Car and Truck Tire Wear Particles in Environmental Samples –A Comparison With “Traditional” Microplastic Mass Loads

2021 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021) 0 citations

Critical Assessment of Analytical Methods for the Harmonized and Cost-Efficient Analysis of Microplastics

2020 Applied Spectroscopy 425 citations

Comparison of pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and hyperspectral FTIR imaging spectroscopy for the analysis of microplastics

2020 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 231 citations

Microplastics analysis in environmental samples – recent pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method improvements to increase the reliability of mass-related data

2019 Analytical Methods 224 citations

Effects of microplastic particles and leaching additive on the life history and morphology of Daphnia magna

2019 Environmental Pollution 204 citations

Fleur de Sel—An interregional monitor for microplastics mass load and composition in European coastal waters?

2019 Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 56 citations

Harmonized protocol for monitoring microplastics in biota. Deliverable 4.3.

2019 IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) 27 citations

Microplastic Abundance and Distribution in German Bight Surface Waters

2019 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry 0 citations

Comparison of μ-ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and py-GCMS as identification tools for microplastic particles and fibers isolated from river sediments

2018 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 286 citations

Microplastics in European Fleur de Sel and Sea Salts: a qualitative and mass-quantitative geographic comparison