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Authors at European Commission
Researchers ranked by microplastic research output — total papers, top-tier evidence, and citation impact.
Papers with more than 50 co-authors are excluded. How rankings work →
| Rank | Author | Institution(s) | Country | Papers | Tier 1 | Citations | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douglas Gilliland | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 23 | 0 | 1,228 | |
| 2 | Gabriella F. Schirinzi | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 21 | 0 | 1,563 | |
| 3 | Jessica Ponti | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 16 | 0 | 618 | |
| 4 | Rita La Spina | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Joint Research Center | 🇧🇪 BE | 15 | 0 | 385 | |
| 5 | Dóra Méhn | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 15 | 0 | 625 | |
| 6 | Andrea Valsesia | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 13 | 0 | 309 | |
| 7 | Georg Hanke | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 10 | 0 | 2,308 | |
| 8 | Luis F. Ruiz-Orejón | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 9 | 0 | 279 | |
| 9 | Guillaume Bucher | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 8 | 0 | 4 | |
| 10 | Håkan Emteborg | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 7 | 0 | 102 | |
| 11 | Marisa P. Sárria | RWTH Aachen University, European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇩🇪 DE | 7 | 0 | 36 | |
| 12 | Seghers John | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 6 | 0 | 102 | |
| 13 | Giacomo Ceccone | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 6 | 0 | 137 | |
| 14 | Theodorοs Grigoratos | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation | 🇧🇪 BE | 6 | 0 | 133 | |
| 15 | Caspar T. J. Roebroek | Wageningen University & Research, European Commission, Hydrion (Netherlands), ETH Zurich, University of Aveiro, Joint Research Centre, National Polytechnic School, Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | 🇳🇱 NL | 6 | 0 | 343 | |
| 16 | Lina Büngener | University of Oulu, European Commission | 🇫🇮 FI | 5 | 0 | 42 | |
| 17 | Sabrina Gioria | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, GTx (United States) | 🇧🇪 BE | 4 | 0 | 24 | |
| 18 | Hubert Rauscher | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 3 | 0 | 392 | |
| 19 | Vicente Franco | European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation | 🇧🇪 BE | 3 | 0 | 115 | |
| 20 | Antonio Borriello | European Commission, University of Technology Sydney, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 3 | 0 | 77 | |
| 21 | Andrea Pierucci | European Commission, University of Cagliari | 🇧🇪 BE | 3 | 0 | 595 | |
| 22 | Iria M. Rio‐Echevarria | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 23 | Davide Lanzoni | European Commission, University of Milan, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 24 | Panagiota Dilara | European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 113 | |
| 25 | Andrea Held | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 80 | |
| 26 | Robert Koeber | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 22 | |
| 27 | Kirsten Rasmussen | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 24 | |
| 28 | Andrea Betterle | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 176 | |
| 29 | Alexandre Angers‐Loustau | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 30 | Vikram Kestens | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 31 | Mauro Petrillo | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 32 | Susanne Belz | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 370 | |
| 33 | Elke Anklam | European Commission, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 456 | |
| 34 | Māris Stuļģis | European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 29 | |
| 35 | B. Toussaint | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 36 | Barbara Raffael | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 37 | Guy Van den Eede | European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 592 | |
| 38 | A. Valsesia | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 39 | D. Mehn | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 40 | S. Bremer-Hoffman | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 41 | F. S. Fumagalli | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 42 | D. Gilliland | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 43 | M. P. Sarria | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 44 | M. G. Schirinzi | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 45 | Elżbieta Anna Stefaniak | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 80 | |
| 46 | Breidbach Andreas | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 2 | 0 | 13 | |
| 47 | Paula Jantunen | European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Joint Research Centre | 🇧🇪 BE | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 48 | Konstantinos Chatzipanagis | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 1 | 0 | 15 | |
| 49 | Leonidas Milios | European Commission, Joint Research Center | 🇧🇪 BE | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 50 | Silvia García-Ruiz | European Commission | 🇧🇪 BE | 1 | 0 | 7 |