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Environmental Research Letters
Microplastic research output and top contributing countries for Environmental Research Letters.
47
Papers
2
Tier 1 Papers
4,876
Citations
33
Countries
Publication Trend
Top Countries (33)
| Country | Papers |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 17 |
| 🇺🇸 United States | 13 |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 9 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 6 |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | 5 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 5 |
| 🇫🇷 France | 4 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | 4 |
| 🇳🇿 New Zealand | 3 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 2 |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | 2 |
| 🇬🇷 Greece | 2 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | 2 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | 2 |
| 🇷🇺 Russia | 1 |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | 1 |
| 🇹🇷 Turkey | 1 |
| 🇺🇾 UY | 1 |
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | 1 |
| 🇿🇼 ZW | 1 |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | 1 |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | 1 |
| 🇨🇳 China | 1 |
| 🇨🇷 CR | 1 |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 1 |
| 🇪🇪 EE | 1 |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | 1 |
| 🇮🇱 Israel | 1 |
| 🇰🇪 KE | 1 |
| 🇱🇻 LV | 1 |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | 1 |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | 1 |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 1 |
Top Papers
top 47 of 47 by citations
A global inventory of small floating plastic debris
2015
1,641 citations
Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics
2017
648 citations
The world’s growing municipal solid waste: trends and impacts
2020
478 citations
All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea
2017
375 citations
Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?
2020
183 citations
The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects
2020
164 citations
Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters
2022
154 citations
Modeling marine surface microplastic transport to assess optimal removal locations
2016
147 citations
Machine learning for aquatic plastic litter detection, classification and quantification (APLASTIC-Q)
2020
115 citations
Developing a groundwater watch list for substances of emerging concern: a European perspective
2018
94 citations
Polyester microplastic fibers in soil increase nitrogen loss via leaching and decrease plant biomass production and N uptake
2022
92 citations
Biodegradable plastics in aquatic ecosystems: latest findings, research gaps, and recommendations
2022
86 citations
Microplastics increase the marine production of particulate forms of organic matter
2019
83 citations
Strategies for reducing ocean plastic debris should be diverse and guided by science
2016
68 citations
Microbial abilities to degrade global environmental plastic polymer waste are overstated
2022
61 citations
Identifying hot-spots for microplastic contamination in agricultural soils—a spatial modelling approach for Germany
2021
60 citations
A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean
2020
54 citations
Modelling size distributions of marine plastics under the influence of continuous cascading fragmentation
2021
49 citations
Hydrologic controls on the accumulation of different sized microplastics in the streambed sediments downstream of a wastewater treatment plant (Catalonia, Spain)
2021
46 citations
Joint effort among research infrastructures to quantify the impact of plastic debris in the ocean
2019
38 citations
Spatial arrangement of biogenic reefs alters boundary layer characteristics to increase risk of microplastic bioaccumulation
2020
34 citations
Collaboration and infrastructure is needed to develop an African perspective on micro(nano)plastic pollution
2021
25 citations
Microplastics segregation by rise velocity at the ocean surface
2023
23 citations
Categorization of plastic debris on sixty-six beaches of the Laurentian Great Lakes, North America
2022
23 citations
A coupled Lagrangian-Eulerian model for microplastics as vectors of contaminants applied to the Mediterranean Sea
2022
19 citations
Modelling future coastal water pollution: impacts of point sources, socio-economic developments & multiple pollutants
2024
10 citations
Microplastics interact with benthic biostabilization processes
2021
10 citations
Model exploration of microplastic effects on zooplankton grazing reveal potential impacts on the global carbon cycle
2024
9 citations
Rivers as microplastic factories
2025
8 citations
From pollution to solution: a call for source control strategies for microplastics in the Ocean
2024
3 citations
Improving Environmental Sustainability of Food-Contact Polypropylene Packaging Production
2025
1 citations