Joana C. Prata

Plastic Particles on the Plate: Impact on Food Security and Human Health

2026 0 citations

A call to ban non-essential microplastics used in cosmetics, festival and holiday decorations

2025 Cambridge Prisms Plastics 0 citations

Do’s and don’ts of microplastic research: a comprehensive guide

2024 Water Emerging Contaminants & Nanoplastics 41 citations

The Environmental Impact of E-Waste Microplastics: A Systematic Review and Analysis Based on the Driver–Pressure–State–Impact–Response (DPSIR) Framework

2024 Environments 17 citations

(Micro)Plastic Foreign Bodies in Food and Feed: Notifications in the European Union

2024 Microplastics 3 citations

Plastic Pollution: Challenges and Innovative Solutions

2024 Environments 1 citations

Microplastics and human health: Integrating pharmacokinetics

2023 Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 144 citations

Microplastics in Terrestrial Domestic Animals and Human Health: Implications for Food Security and Food Safety and Their Role as Sentinels

2023 Animals 89 citations

Microplastics altered cellular responses, physiology, behaviour, and regeneration of planarians feeding on contaminated prey

2023 The Science of The Total Environment 12 citations

Microplastics in Sediments from a Sandy Beach in Costa Nova (Aveiro, Portugal)

2023 Sustainability 11 citations

Influence of intrinsic plastics characteristics on Nile Red staining and fluorescence

2023 Journal of Sea Research 5 citations

Impact of Poor Municipal Waste Management on Ruminant Livestock

2023 Research Square (Research Square) 0 citations

A straightforward method for microplastic extraction from organic-rich freshwater samples

2022 The Science of The Total Environment 62 citations

Mechanisms influencing the impact of microplastics on freshwater benthic invertebrates: Uptake dynamics and adverse effects on Chironomus riparius

2022 The Science of The Total Environment 54 citations

Microplastics in Internal Tissues of Companion Animals from Urban Environments

2022 Animals 50 citations

A One Health perspective on water contaminants

2022 Water Emerging Contaminants & Nanoplastics 21 citations

Airborne Microplastics

2022 6 citations

A One Health perspective of the impacts of microplastics on animal, human and environmental health

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 324 citations

Risks of Covid-19 face masks to wildlife: Present and future research needs

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 131 citations

An urgent call to think globally and act locally on landfill disposable plastics under and after covid-19 pandemic: Pollution prevention and technological (Bio) remediation solutions

2021 Chemical Engineering Journal 109 citations

Selection of microplastics by Nile Red staining increases environmental sample throughput by micro-Raman spectroscopy

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 79 citations

Preparation of biological samples for microplastic identification by Nile Red

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 71 citations

Microplastics and fibers from three areas under different anthropogenic pressures in Douro river

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 66 citations

Effects of virgin and weathered polystyrene and polypropylene microplastics on Raphidocelis subcapitata and embryos of Danio rerio under environmental concentrations

2021 The Science of The Total Environment 66 citations

Disposable over Reusable Face Masks: Public Safety or Environmental Disaster?

2021 Environments 64 citations

Airborne microplastics and fibers in indoor residential environments in Aveiro, Portugal

2021 Environmental Advances 55 citations

Suspected microplastics in Atlantic horse mackerel fish (Trachurus trachurus) captured in Portugal

2021 Marine Pollution Bulletin 54 citations

Microplastics on Barra beach sediments in Aveiro, Portugal

2021 Marine Pollution Bulletin 46 citations

The road to sustainable use and waste management of plastics in Portugal

2021 Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 23 citations

Considerations when using microplates and Neubauer counting chamber in ecotoxicity tests on microplastics

2021 Marine Pollution Bulletin 10 citations

Increased plastic pollution due to COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and recommendations

2020 Chemical Engineering Journal 1,028 citations

Contamination issues as a challenge in quality control and quality assurance in microplastics analytics

2020 Journal of Hazardous Materials 292 citations

The importance of contamination control in airborne fibers and microplastic sampling: Experiences from indoor and outdoor air sampling in Aveiro, Portugal

2020 Marine Pollution Bulletin 174 citations

Microplastics in landfill leachates: The need for reconnaissance studies and remediation technologies

2020 Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering 172 citations

Identification of microplastics in white wines capped with polyethylene stoppers using micro-Raman spectroscopy

2020 Food Chemistry 172 citations

Worldwide contamination of fish with microplastics: A brief global overview

2020 Marine Pollution Bulletin 144 citations

Major factors influencing the quantification of Nile Red stained microplastics and improved automatic quantification (MP-VAT 2.0)

2020 The Science of The Total Environment 99 citations

Effects of distance to the sea and geomorphological characteristics on the quantity and distribution of microplastics in beach sediments of Granada (Spain)

2020 The Science of The Total Environment 64 citations

Environmental status of (micro)plastics contamination in Portugal

2020 Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 53 citations

What Is the Minimum Volume of Sample to Find Small Microplastics: Laboratory Experiments and Sampling of Aveiro Lagoon and Vouga River, Portugal

2020 Water 41 citations

Environmental exposure to microplastics: An overview on possible human health effects

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 2,348 citations

Solutions and Integrated Strategies for the Control and Mitigation of Plastic and Microplastic Pollution

2019 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 513 citations

Effects of microplastics on microalgae populations: A critical review

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 452 citations

Identifying a quick and efficient method of removing organic matter without damaging microplastic samples

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 311 citations

A new approach for routine quantification of microplastics using Nile Red and automated software (MP-VAT)

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 261 citations

An easy method for processing and identification of natural and synthetic microfibers and microplastics in indoor and outdoor air

2019 MethodsX 111 citations

Effects of spatial and seasonal factors on the characteristics and carbonyl index of (micro)plastics in a sandy beach in Aveiro, Portugal

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 103 citations

Methods for sampling and detection of microplastics in water and sediment: A critical review

2018 TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 1,138 citations

Microplastics in wastewater: State of the knowledge on sources, fate and solutions

2018 Marine Pollution Bulletin 381 citations

Influence of microplastics on the toxicity of the pharmaceuticals procainamide and doxycycline on the marine microalgae Tetraselmis chuii

2018 Aquatic Toxicology 293 citations

Airborne microplastics: Consequences to human health?

2017 Environmental Pollution 1,580 citations

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