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Utrecht University

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Microplastic research output and top contributors from Utrecht University.

265
Papers
0
Tier 1 Papers
27,677
Citations
84% of papers are collaborative — co-authored with researchers from other institutions. Only 42 papers list Utrecht University as the sole institution. How attribution works →

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Top Authors

showing 50 of 263 affiliated authors
Author Papers
Erik van Sebille 47
Rupert Holzinger 23
Helge Niemann 20
Dušan Materić 16
Juliette Legler 15
Florian Meirer 11
Raymond Pieters 9
Hanna M. Dusza 9
Thomas Röckmann 9
Svenja M. Mintenig 9
Joris T. Eggenhuisen 9
Roel Vermeulen 8
Delphine Lobelle 7
Victor Onink 7
Bert M. Weckhuysen 7
Hilde Aardema 7
Esther S. Lenssen 6
Luke A. Parker 6
Philippe Delandmeter 6
Annemarie P. van Wezel 6
Elena M. Höppener 5
Mikael Kaandorp 5
Jorke H. Kamstra 5
Flemming R. Cassee 5
Laurens D. B. Mandemaker 5
Sieger Henke 4
Erik Zettler 4
Ina Vollmer 4
Ingeborg M. Kooter 4
Christian Kehl 4
Annemijne E. T. van den Berg 4
Stefan C. Dekker 4
Gerhard J. Herndl 4
Lonneke L. IJsseldijk 4
Linda Amaral‐Zettler 4
D. Vethaak 4
Runyu Zou 4
Andrea M. Brunner 4
Claudio Pierard 3
Ana Maria de Roda Husman 3
Kas J. Adriaans 3
David Wichmann 3
A. van den Berg 3
Florian Pohl 3
Jin Yang 3
Yvonne Spychala 3
A. Dick Vethaak 3
Amir Raoof 2
S. Majid Hassanizadeh 2
Ellen van Donk 2

Top Papers

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Microplastics in freshwaters and drinking water: Critical review and assessment of data quality
2019 Tier 2 2,298 citations
Beyond Mechanical Recycling: Giving New Life to Plastic Waste
2020 Tier 2 1,657 citations
Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging
2016 Tier 2 1,413 citations
Microplastics and human health
2021 Tier 2 1,319 citations
More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
2021 Tier 2 1,251 citations
Ecology of the plastisphere
2020 Tier 2 1,179 citations
The plastic brain: neurotoxicity of micro- and nanoplastics
2020 Tier 2 691 citations
Dissolved organic carbon leaching from plastics stimulates microbial activity in the ocean
2018 Tier 2 679 citations
Plastic pollution in the Arctic
2022 Tier 2 541 citations
Quality Criteria for the Analysis of Microplastic in Biota Samples: A Critical Review
2018 Tier 2 528 citations
Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper
2020 Tier 2 494 citations
The challenges of water, waste and climate change in cities
2016 Tier 2 443 citations
Microplastic in a macro filter feeder: Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae
2015 Tier 2 433 citations
An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter
2021 Tier 2 431 citations
Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment
2022 Tier 2 424 citations
A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution
2024 Tier 2 380 citations
All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea
2017 Tier 2 375 citations
Plastics in sea surface waters around the Antarctic Peninsula
2019 Tier 2 364 citations
The Parcels v2.0 Lagrangian framework: new field interpolation schemes
2019 Tier 2 351 citations
Antibiotic resistance genes in treated wastewater and in the receiving water bodies: A pan-European survey of urban settings
2019 Tier 2 341 citations
Micro- and Nanoplastics in Alpine Snow: A New Method for Chemical Identification and (Semi)Quantification in the Nanogram Range
2020 Tier 2 329 citations
Closing the gap between small and smaller: towards a framework to analyse nano- and microplastics in aqueous environmental samples
2018 Tier 2 316 citations
Transport and Burial of Microplastics in Deep-Marine Sediments by Turbidity Currents
2020 Tier 2 310 citations
Urbanization: an increasing source of multiple pollutants to rivers in the 21st century
2021 Tier 2 301 citations
The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview
2021 Tier 2 301 citations
The composition of bacterial communities associated with plastic biofilms differs between different polymers and stages of biofilm succession
2019 Tier 2 296 citations
Micro- and Nanoplastics Breach the Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB): Biomolecular Corona’s Role Revealed
2023 Tier 2 285 citations
A scientific perspective on microplastics in nature and society: Evidence review report
2019 Tier 2 274 citations
The occurrence and degradation of aquatic plastic litter based on polymer physicochemical properties: A review
2018 Tier 2 266 citations
The Role of Ekman Currents, Geostrophy, and Stokes Drift in the Accumulation of Floating Microplastic
2019 Tier 2 262 citations
Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice
2022 Tier 2 258 citations
Toward the Systematic Identification of Microplastics in the Environment: Evaluation of a New Independent Software Tool (siMPle) for Spectroscopic Analysis
2020 Tier 2 255 citations
Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris
2023 Tier 2 239 citations
Biotechnological methods to remove microplastics: a review
2023 Tier 2 216 citations
Risks of floating microplastic in the global ocean
2020 Tier 2 212 citations
A systems approach to understand microplastic occurrence and variability in Dutch riverine surface waters
2020 Tier 2 209 citations
Particle toxicology and health - where are we?
2019 Tier 2 207 citations
Riverine microplastic and microbial community compositions: A field study in the Netherlands
2021 Tier 2 193 citations
Measuring Marine Plastic Debris from Space: Initial Assessment of Observation Requirements
2019 Tier 2 187 citations
Release of primary microplastics from consumer products to wastewater in the Netherlands
2015 Tier 2 182 citations
The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects
2020 Tier 2 164 citations
Anticyclonic eddies increase accumulation of microplastic in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre
2017 Tier 2 158 citations
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters
2022 Tier 2 154 citations
Risk assessment of plastic pollution on marine diversity in the Mediterranean Sea
2019 Tier 2 154 citations
Ingestion and Chronic Effects of Car Tire Tread Particles on Freshwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates
2018 Tier 2 152 citations
Influence of Near‐Surface Currents on the Global Dispersal of Marine Microplastic
2019 Tier 2 148 citations
Modeling the Fate and Transport of Plastic Debris in Freshwaters: Review and Guidance
2017 Tier 2 147 citations
Global Modeled Sinking Characteristics of Biofouled Microplastic
2021 Tier 2 144 citations
The Potential Role of Marine Fungi in Plastic Degradation – A Review
2021 Tier 2 136 citations
Nanoplastics transport to the remote, high-altitude Alps
2021 Tier 2 134 citations