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Middle East Technical University

Microplastic research output and top contributors from Middle East Technical University.

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Tier 1 Papers
2,834
Citations
80% of papers are collaborative — co-authored with researchers from other institutions. Only 10 papers list Middle East Technical University as the sole institution. How attribution works →

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Ahmet E. Kıdeyş 15
F. Dilek Sanin 8
Hasan Gökhan Güler 7
İpek İmamoğlu 6
Melek Canbulat Özdemir 4
İrem Şimşek 4
Kerem Gökdağ 3
Dilara Hatinoglu 3
Meryem Beklioğlu 3
Oğuzhan Altuntaş 3
Ozan Karakurt 3
Olgaç Güven 2
Ülkü Dide Türkeli 2
Korhan Özkan 2
Çağdaş Sağır 2
Dilvin Yıldız 2
Gülce Yalçın 2
Dilara Hatinoğlu 2
Elif Yaren Özen 2
Abdulrahman Adan 2
Erik Jeppesen 1
Ülkü Nіhan Tavşanoğlu 1
Balal Yousaf 1
Mustafa Korkmaz 1
Zuhal Akyürek 1
Zuhal Akyürek 1
Hakan Gürsu 1
Arzu Karahan 1
Zöhre Kurt 1
Irmak Özdemir 1
Melisa Metin 1
Nur Filiz 1
Qumber Abbas 1
Yaren Bal 1
Rumeysa Çalışkan 1
Cemreay Dede 1
Maha Dassouki Dit Tahan 1
Şeyma Ertürk 1
Halil Güler 1
Gökçe Çiftçi 1
Yasmin Naz Akyürek 1
Deniz Balkanlı 1
Gülşah Can 1
Mehrdad Forough 1
Gökhan Çelik 1
Elif N. Bahçecioğlu 1

Top Papers

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Microplastic litter composition of the Turkish territorial waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and its occurrence in the gastrointestinal tract of fish
2017 Tier 2 736 citations
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean
2021 Tier 2 274 citations
Virgin microplastics are not causing imminent harm to fish after dietary exposure
2018 Tier 2 252 citations
Microplastics composition and load from three wastewater treatment plants discharging into Mersin Bay, north eastern Mediterranean Sea
2019 Tier 2 206 citations
Removal of microplastics from wastewater through electrocoagulation-electroflotation and membrane filtration processes
2021 Tier 2 149 citations
Sewage sludge as a source of microplastics in the environment: A review of occurrence and fate during sludge treatment
2021 Tier 2 139 citations
Microplastic distribution in the surface water and sediment of the Ergene River
2023 Tier 2 114 citations
Evaluation of microplastics removal efficiency at a wastewater treatment plant discharging to the Sea of Marmara
2021 Tier 2 106 citations
Settling velocity of microplastic particles having regular and irregular shapes
2023 Tier 2 86 citations
Exposure to a microplastic mixture is altering the life traits and is causing deformities in the non-biting midge Chironomus riparius Meigen (1804)
2020 Tier 2 75 citations
Environmental emission, fate and transformation of microplastics in biotic and abiotic compartments: Global status, recent advances and future perspectives
2021 Tier 2 73 citations
Fate and effects of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microplastics during anaerobic digestion of alkaline-thermal pretreated sludge
2022 Tier 2 59 citations
Effects of a microplastic mixture differ across trophic levels and taxa in a freshwater food web: In situ mesocosm experiment
2022 Tier 2 58 citations
A review of plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems of Turkey
2021 Tier 2 57 citations
Improving the functionality of biodegradable food packaging materials via porous nanomaterials
2023 Tier 53 citations
Synthetic Lubricants Derived from Plastic Waste and their Tribological Performance
2021 Tier 48 citations
Presence of microplastics in human stomachs
2024 Tier 2 42 citations
Effectiveness of microplastics removal in wastewater treatment plants: A critical analysis of wastewater treatment processes
2022 Tier 2 39 citations
Experimental investigation on the nearshore transport of buoyant microplastic particles
2023 Tier 2 36 citations
Microplastic consumption and physiological response in Acartia clausi and Centropages typicus: Possible roles of feeding mechanisms
2021 Tier 2 30 citations
Microplastic Consumption and Its Effect on Respiration Rate and Motility of Calanus helgolandicus From the Marmara Sea
2020 Tier 2 29 citations
Shields Diagram and the Incipient Motion of Microplastic Particles
2023 Tier 2 27 citations
Riverine Microplastic Loading to Mersin Bay, Turkey on the North-eastern Mediterranean
2022 Tier 2 24 citations
Microplastics from industrial sources: A known but overlooked problem
2025 Tier 2 20 citations
Assessing microplastic pollution in a river basin: A multidisciplinary study on circularity, sustainability, and socio-economic impacts
2024 Tier 2 15 citations
Identification of Cutinolytic Esterase from Microplastic-Associated Microbiota Using Functional Metagenomics and Its Plastic Degrading Potential
2023 Tier 2 15 citations
Effect of Polystyrene Microplastics in Different Diet Combinations on Survival, Growth and Reproduction Rates of the Water Flea (Daphnia magna)
2022 Tier 2 14 citations
Microplastic retention in marine vegetation canopies under breaking irregular waves
2023 Tier 2 10 citations
Microplastics and organics – A comparative study of sorption of triclosan and malachite green onto polyethylene
2023 Tier 2 10 citations
Linear solvation energy relationships for adsorption of aromatic organic compounds by microplastics
2023 Tier 2 7 citations
Fate and effect of Polyamide-6 microplastics in mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic digestion
2024 Tier 2 6 citations
Waste-Based Vertical Planting System Proposal to Increase Productivity in Sustainable Horticulture; “PETREE”
2024 Tier 2 6 citations
Impact of accelerated UV aging on chemical structure and sorption behavior of low-density polyethylene microplastics
2025 Tier 2 5 citations
Enhancing Microplastics Recovery from Complex Sludge Samples Using COD-Guided Pretreatment
2024 Tier 2 5 citations
Numerical and Experimental Approach to Evaluate Microplastic Transport in Saturated Porous Media
2024 Tier 2 3 citations
Changes in microplastic-associated bacterial communities along a salinity gradient in Central Anatolian lakes of Türkiye
2025 Tier 2 2 citations
Bio-Aging of polyethylene during anaerobic and aerobic digestion
2025 Tier 2 2 citations
Mechanistic inferences from empirical and LSER modeling approaches concerning sorption of organic compounds by pristine and aged PE microplastics
2024 Tier 2 1 citations
Development and testing of a prototype indicator-based tool for identification of potential problem areas for marine litter in Europe's seas
2023 Tier 2 1 citations
From Shelf to Skin: Tracing Microplastic Contamination in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products across Türkiye
2026 Tier 2
Resolved Large Eddy Simulations of a Settling or Rising Spherical Microplastic Particle
2026 Tier 2
PET microplastics in mesophilic anaerobic digestion after thermal-enzyme combined disintegration
2026 Tier 2
Microplastics in Lake sediments in Robert Island, Antarctica
2024 Tier 2
Understanding Microplastics Retention Efficiency and Sorption Dynamics in Porous Media
2024 Tier 2
Impacts of plastic surface on the periphyton under different nutrient and temperature: A mesocosm experiment
2023 Tier 2
Laboratory Study of Non-buoyant Microplastic Transport Beneath Breaking Irregular Waves on a Live Sediment Bed
2023 Tier 2
Experimental Study on the Incipient Motion of Microplastic Particles with Different Shapes, Sizes, and Densities on a Live Sediment Bed
2023 Tier 2
Laboratory Investigation of Cross-shore Lagrangian Velocities of Buoyant Microplastic Particles in Irregular Waves
2023 Tier 2
COD as a Dynamic Tool for Pretreatment of Sludge Samples in Microplastic Analysis
2023 Tier 2
Linear Solvation Energy Relationships for Adsorption of Aromatic Organic Compounds by Microplastics
2023 Tier 2