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Utrecht University

Microplastic research output and top contributors from Utrecht University.

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271
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Tier 1 Papers
25,876
Citations
80% of papers are collaborative — co-authored with researchers from other institutions. Only 55 papers list Utrecht University as the sole institution. How attribution works →

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Author Papers
Erik van Sebille 59
Rupert Holzinger 30
Dušan Materić 23
Helge Niemann 22
Juliette Legler 16
Florian Meirer 14
Bert M. Weckhuysen 12
Svenja M. Mintenig 10
Raymond Pieters 9
Roel Vermeulen 9
Hanna M. Dusza 9
Thomas Röckmann 9
Delphine Lobelle 9
Victor Onink 9
Ina Vollmer 8
Philippe Delandmeter 8
Esther S. Lenssen 7
Annemarie P. van Wezel 7
Mikael Kaandorp 7
Hilde Aardema 7
Laurens D. B. Mandemaker 6
Luke A. Parker 6
Joris T. Eggenhuisen 6
Christian Kehl 6
Jorke H. Kamstra 5
Erik Zettler 5
Linda Amaral‐Zettler 5
Annemijne E. T. van den Berg 5
Elena M. Höppener 5
Runyu Zou 5
Gerhard J. Herndl 5
Andrea M. Brunner 4
Sieger Henke 4
Hanne Ødegaard Notø 4
Lonneke L. IJsseldijk 4
Ingeborg M. Kooter 4
D. Vethaak 4
Stefan C. Dekker 4
Iris C. ten Have 4
Ramon Oord 4
Adriaan J. A. Duijndam 4
Jin Yang 3
Claudio Pierard 3
Reint Fischer 3
David Wichmann 3
Kas J. Adriaans 3
A. van den Berg 3
A. Dick Vethaak 3
Hannie J. M. van Berlo‐van den Broek 3
Marc Emanuel Schneiter 3

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
The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation
2017 Tier 607 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
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
All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea
2017 Tier 2 375 citations
Risks of Plastic Debris: Unravelling Fact, Opinion, Perception, and Belief
2017 Tier 365 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
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
Role of fungi in bioremediation of emerging pollutants
2023 Tier 196 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
The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean
2025 Tier 2 125 citations
Microbial Communities on Plastic Polymers in the Mediterranean Sea
2021 Tier 2 125 citations