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University of Warwick

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Microplastic research output and top contributors from University of Warwick.

67
Papers
1
Tier 1 Papers
5,405
Citations
73% of papers are collaborative — co-authored with researchers from other institutions. Only 18 papers list University of Warwick as the sole institution. How attribution works →

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Author Papers
Soroush Abolfathi 17
Jonathan Pearson 10
Gary D. Bending 7
Ben Stride 6
Sarah Cook 5
Matthew I. Gibson 3
Joseph A. Christie‐Oleza 3
Elizabeth M. H. Wellington 2
Merenchi Galappaththige Nipuni Odara 2
Gabriel Erni-Cassola 2
Mingqi Guo 2
Yixin Li 2
Xueyu Geng 2
Benny Haotian Ding 2
Richard Napier 2
Bas Boots 2
Chiara Borsetto 2
Stefan A. F. Bon 2
Dannielle S. Green 2
Vinko Zadjelovic 2
Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad 2
Robyn Wright 2
Edward Ren Kai Neo 2
Charles Sheppard 2
Vannessa Goodship 2
Evgeny V. Rebrov 2
Kurt Debattista 2
Craig J. Dedman 1
Mark P. Barrow 1
Nick Chater 1
Mira Latva 1
Sébastien Raguideau 1
Andrew R. Bottrill 1
Richard Stark 1
Lijiang Song 1
Phillip Taylor 1
Hendrik Schäfer 1
Anne Sheppard 1
Raphaël Jeanneret 1
Vasily Kantsler 1
Marco Polin 1
B.A. Shollock 1
Charlotte Dykes 1
Jonathan Pearson 1
Gary Bending 1
Soroush Abolfathi 1
Devvan Waghajiani 1
George-Catalin Obersterescu 1
Olawunmi Ogunde 1
Zihan Qu 1

Top Papers

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Distribution of plastic polymer types in the marine environment; A meta-analysis
2019 Tier 1 831 citations
Lost, but Found with Nile Red: A Novel Method for Detecting and Quantifying Small Microplastics (1 mm to 20 μm) in Environmental Samples
2017 Tier 2 761 citations
Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization
2020 Tier 2 465 citations
Effects of conventional and biodegradable microplastics on a marine ecosystem engineer (Arenicola marina) and sediment nutrient cycling
2015 Tier 2 439 citations
Effects of microplastics on European flat oysters, Ostrea edulis and their associated benthic communities
2016 Tier 2 389 citations
Microplastics Affect the Ecological Functioning of an Important Biogenic Habitat
2016 Tier 2 259 citations
The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on the Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray
2022 Tier 2 185 citations
Microplastics in freshwater systems: Dynamic behaviour and transport processes
2024 Tier 2 165 citations
Early Colonization of Weathered Polyethylene by Distinct Bacteria in Marine Coastal Seawater
2019 Tier 2 148 citations
A multi-OMIC characterisation of biodegradation and microbial community succession within the PET plastisphere
2021 Tier 2 123 citations
Microplastics in soils: an environmental geotechnics perspective
2021 Tier 2 108 citations
Polymer nanoparticles pass the plant interface
2022 Tier 2 96 citations
Uncertainty quantification of granular computing-neural network model for prediction of pollutant longitudinal dispersion coefficient in aquatic streams
2022 Tier 2 94 citations
Entrainment dominates the interaction of microalgae with micron-sized objects
2016 Tier 2 91 citations
Municipal solid waste compost: Global trends and biogeochemical cycling
2023 Tier 2 86 citations
Longitudinal dispersion of microplastics in aquatic flows using fluorometric techniques
2019 Tier 2 85 citations
Plastic pyrolysis over HZSM-5 zeolite and fluid catalytic cracking catalyst under ultra-fast heating
2022 Tier 2 84 citations
Eight urgent, fundamental and simultaneous steps needed to restore ocean health, and the consequences for humanity and the planet of inaction or delay
2019 Tier 2 78 citations
Crack nucleation using combined crystal plasticity modelling, high-resolution digital image correlation and high-resolution electron backscatter diffraction in a superalloy containing non-metallic inclusions under fatigue
2016 Tier 2 75 citations
An Efficient Data Driven-Based Model for Prediction of the Total Sediment Load in Rivers
2022 Tier 2 69 citations
Biodegradation of microplastics derived from controlled release fertilizer coating: Selective microbial colonization and metabolism in plastisphere
2024 Tier 2 68 citations
Understanding visible light and microbe-driven degradation mechanisms of polyurethane plastics: Pathways, property changes, and product analysis
2024 Tier 2 65 citations
Quantifying microplastic dispersion due to density effects
2024 Tier 2 62 citations
Environmental impacts of covid-19 pandemic: Release of microplastics, organic contaminants and trace metals from face masks under ambient environmental conditions
2022 Tier 2 58 citations
Blockchain Technology for Sustainable Waste Management
2020 Tier 2 56 citations
Deep learning for chemometric analysis of plastic spectral data from infrared and Raman databases
2022 Tier 2 55 citations
Modeling Microplastic and Solute Transport in Vegetated Flows
2023 Tier 2 50 citations
Impact of microplastic residues from polyurethane films on crop growth: Unraveling insights through transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis
2024 Tier 2 47 citations
Microplastic transport dynamics in surcharging and overflowing manholes
2023 Tier 2 28 citations
MICROPLASTICS TRANSPORT AND MIXING MECHANISMS IN THE NEARSHORE REGION
2020 Tier 2 26 citations
Water Enclosure and World-Literature: New Perspectives on Hydro-Power and World-Ecology
2020 Tier 2 24 citations
A critical review on the migration, transformation, sampling, analysis and environmental effects of microplastics in the environment
2024 Tier 2 22 citations
Nucleic acid aptamers as aptasensors for plant biology
2022 Tier 2 21 citations
Microplastics pollution in sediments of the Thames and Medway estuaries, UK: Organic matter associations and predominance of polyethylene
2024 Tier 2 18 citations
Digitally enabled business models for a circular plastic economy in Africa
2024 Tier 2 18 citations
Effect of biochar on microplastics penetration treatment within soil porous medium under the wetting-drying cycles and optimisation of soil-biochar mixing format
2024 Tier 2 18 citations
Transport dynamics of microplastics within aquatic vegetation featuring realistic plant morphology
2025 Tier 2 17 citations
Cross-modal generative models for multi-modal plastic sorting
2023 Tier 2 17 citations
British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago)
2018 Tier 2 16 citations
Use of QuEChERS as a manual and automated high-throughput protocol for investigating environmental matrices
2022 Tier 2 13 citations
Hyporheic exchange processes of pore-scale microplastics
2025 Tier 2 12 citations
Quantifying Microplastic Dispersion Due to Density Effects
2023 Tier 2 9 citations
Microplastic pollution in salt marsh and urban tributary sediment cores of the River Thames estuary, UK: Spatial and temporal accumulation trends
2024 Tier 2 8 citations
Systematic Evidence Mapping to Assess the Sustainability of Bioplastics Derived from Food Waste: Do We Know Enough?
2022 Tier 2 6 citations
Ultrasonic micro-injection moulding: characterisation of interfacial friction by varying feedstock shape and high-speed thermal imaging for microneedle feature replication
2024 Tier 2 5 citations
Uncertainty Quantification of Granular Computing-neural Network Model for Prediction of Pollutant Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficient in Aquatic Streams
2021 Tier 2 5 citations
Multi‐Scale Analysis of Dispersive Scalar Transport Across Porous Media Under Globally Nonlinear Flow Conditions
2023 Tier 2 4 citations
Neural-network force field backed nested sampling: Study of the silicon <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mtext>−</mml:mtext><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math> phase diagram
2023 Tier 2 4 citations
Protein Based Hybrid Materials of Metal Phosphate Nanoflowers and Gels for Water Remediation: Perspectives and Prospects
2025 Tier 2 3 citations
Microplastic Transport Dynamics in Surcharging and Overflowing Manholes
2023 Tier 2 3 citations