Standout Papers
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Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
2017 Standout
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
2015 StandoutScience
Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
2015 StandoutScience
Macrodebris and microplastics from beaches in Slovenia
2014
Gooseneck barnacles ( Lepas spp.) ingest microplastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
2013
Ingested plastic transfers hazardous chemicals to fish and induces hepatic stress
2013
Environmental occurrences, fate, and impacts of microplastics
2019
Risks of floating microplastic in the global ocean
2020
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
2018 Standout
Histopathological and molecular effects of microplastics in Eisenia andrei Bouché
2016
Microplastics profile along the Rhine River
2015
Microplastics in Arctic polar waters: the first reported values of particles in surface and sub-surface samples
2015
Analysis of microplastics in drinking water and other clean water samples with micro-Raman and micro-infrared spectroscopy: minimum requirements and best practice guidelines
2021
Risk assessment of microplastics in the ocean: Modelling approach and first conclusions
2018
Microplastics in the marine environment: A review of their sources, distribution processes, uptake and exchange in ecosystems
2020
Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects
2016
The distribution, characteristics and ecological risks of microplastics in the mangroves of Southern China
2019
Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood
2022 Standout
A large-scale investigation of microplastic contamination: Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in European beach sediment
2017
Plastics in soil: Analytical methods and possible sources
2017
Regime shifts in marine ecosystems: detection, prediction and management
2008
Screening for microplastics in sediment, water, marine invertebrates and fish: Method development and microplastic accumulation
2017
Microplastic pollution in lakes and lake shoreline sediments – A case study on Lake Bolsena and Lake Chiusi (central Italy)
2016
Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies
2000 StandoutNature
Microplastics in the Solent estuarine complex, UK: An initial assessment
2015
Preliminary study of the source apportionment and diversity of microplastics: Taking floating microplastics in the South China Sea as an example
2018
Floating plastic in the Kuroshio Current area, western North Pacific Ocean
2007
Daily accumulation rates of marine debris on sub-Antarctic island beaches
2012
Environmental and health hazard ranking and assessment of plastic polymers based on chemical composition
2011 Standout
Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments
2013
The applicability of reflectance micro-Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy for the detection of synthetic microplastics in marine sediments
2012
Assessment of marine debris on the Belgian Continental Shelf
2013
Long-Term Field Measurement of Sorption of Organic Contaminants to Five Types of Plastic Pellets: Implications for Plastic Marine Debris
2012
On the importance of size of plastic fragments and pellets on the strandline: a snapshot of a Brazilian beach
2009
Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris
2010
An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling
2017 Standout
Plastic particles in coastal pelagic ecosystems of the Northeast Pacific ocean
2010
Identification of microplastic in effluents of waste water treatment plants using focal plane array-based micro-Fourier-transform infrared imaging
2016
Monitoring plastic ingestion by the northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the North Sea
2011
A comparison of microscopic and spectroscopic identification methods for analysis of microplastics in environmental samples
2015
Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long-term threat
2008 Standout
On some physical and dynamical properties of microplastic particles in marine environment
2016 Standout
Impact of climate change on marine pelagic phenology and trophic mismatch
2004 StandoutNature
Species-specific plastic accumulation in the sediment and canopy of coastal vegetated habitats
2020
A standardized method for sampling and extraction methods for quantifying microplastics in beach sand
2016
Microplastic accumulation in a Zostera marina L. bed at Deerness Sound, Orkney, Scotland
2020
Identification of polymer types and additives in marine microplastic particles using pyrolysis-GC/MS and scanning electron microscopy
2013
Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation?
2016 Standout
Microplastic ingestion in fish larvae in the western English Channel
2017
Early-warning signals for critical transitions
2009 StandoutNature
Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel
2012 Standout
How microplastics quantities increase with flood events? An example from Mersin Bay NE Levantine coast of Turkey
2018
Prevalence of microplastics in Singapore’s coastal marine environment
2006
Occurrence and effects of plastic additives on marine environments and organisms: A review
2017
Microplastic fibers in the intertidal ecosystem surrounding Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia
2014
Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review
2011 Standout
Boring crustaceans damage polystyrene floats under docks polluting marine waters with microplastic
2012
Distribution and abundance of small plastic debris on beaches in the SE Pacific (Chile): A study supported by a citizen science project
2013
Microplastics in the surface sediments from the Beijiang River littoral zone: Composition, abundance, surface textures and interaction with heavy metals
2016
Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs
2015 Standout
Competitive sorption of persistent organic pollutants onto microplastics in the marine environment
2012
Plastic Accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea
2015
High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake
2014
Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment?
2016 Standout
Microplastics in bivalves cultured for human consumption
2014 Standout
On the quantity and composition of floating plastic debris entering and leaving the Tamar Estuary, Southwest England
2014
Sorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products to polyethylene debris
2016
A review of microplastic distribution in sediment profiles
2021
Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition
2018
A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda
1998 StandoutNature
Partitioning of chemical contaminants to microplastics: Sorption mechanisms, environmental distribution and effects on toxicity and bioaccumulation
2019
Relative importance of microplastics as a pathway for the transfer of hydrophobic organic chemicals to marine life
2016
Polystyrene microplastics induce gut microbiota dysbiosis and hepatic lipid metabolism disorder in mice
2018
Sorption of non-polar organic compounds by micro-sized plastic particles in aqueous solution
2016
Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
2014 Standout
Feeding type and development drive the ingestion of microplastics by freshwater invertebrates
2017
Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects
2015
Analysis of polyethylene microplastics in environmental samples, using a thermal decomposition method
2015
Pollutants bioavailability and toxicological risk from microplastics to marine mussels
2015 Standout
Marine Plastic Pollution in Waters around Australia: Characteristics, Concentrations, and Pathways
2013
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS)-based analysis and imaging of polyethylene microplastics formation during sea surf simulation
2016
Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches
2011
Are baleen whales exposed to the threat of microplastics? A case study of the Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
2012
Microplastic Moves Pollutants and Additives to Worms, Reducing Functions Linked to Health and Biodiversity
2013
Microplastics in freshwater and terrestrial environments: Evaluating the current understanding to identify the knowledge gaps and future research priorities
2017 Standout
Is there any consistency between the microplastics found in the field and those used in laboratory experiments?
2015
Ingestion and transfer of microplastics in the planktonic food web
2013 Standout
Prospects for microbiological solutions to environmental pollution with plastics
2015
Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in marine sediments along the Belgian coast
2011
Plastic contamination in the decapod crustacean Nephrops norvegicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
2011
Enhanced desorption of persistent organic pollutants from microplastics under simulated physiological conditions
2013
Persistent organic pollutants in plastic marine debris found on beaches in San Diego, California
2011
Using a forensic science approach to minimize environmental contamination and to identify microfibres in marine sediments
2015
Characteristics, seasonal distribution and surface degradation features of microplastic pellets along the Goa coast, India
2016
Plastic pollution in the South Pacific subtropical gyre
2013
Organic pollutants in microplastics from two beaches of the Portuguese coast
2010
Recent advances in toxicological research of nanoplastics in the environment: A review
2019
Neustonic microplastic and zooplankton in the North Western Mediterranean Sea
2012
Evaluation of microplastics in Jurujuba Cove, Niterói, RJ, Brazil, an area of mussels farming
2016
Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK – Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification
2016
Microplastic fragment and fiber contamination of beach sediments from selected sites in Virginia and North Carolina, USA
2020
Microplastics in freshwater ecosystems: what we know and what we need to know
2014
Here, there and everywhere. Small plastic fragments and pellets on beaches of Fernando de Noronha (Equatorial Western Atlantic)
2009
Microplastics in the marine environment
2011 Standout
Plastics and beaches: A degrading relationship
2008
Small plastic debris changes water movement and heat transfer through beach sediments
2011
How well is microlitter purified from wastewater? – A detailed study on the stepwise removal of microlitter in a tertiary level wastewater treatment plant
2016
The rise in ocean plastics evidenced from a 60-year time series
2019
New techniques for the detection of microplastics in sediments and field collected organisms
2013
Suspended microplastics in the surface water of the Yangtze Estuary System, China: First observations on occurrence, distribution
2014
The present and future of microplastic pollution in the marine environment
2013
Long-term aging and degradation of microplastic particles: Comparing in situ oceanic and experimental weathering patterns
2016
The impact of debris on marine life
2015 Standout
Plastic in North Sea Fish
2013
Accumulation of floating microplastics behind the Three Gorges Dam
2015
Transport and fate of microplastic particles in wastewater treatment plants
2016 Standout
Microplastics in Taihu Lake, China
2016
Scales of Spatial Heterogeneity of Plastic Marine Debris in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
2013
Microplastics in Singapore’s coastal mangrove ecosystems
2013
Microplastic pollution in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: Validated and opportunistic sampling
2014
Trophic level transfer of microplastic: Mytilus edulis (L.) to Carcinus maenas (L.)
2013 Standout
Microplastics in Beaches of the East Frisian Islands Spiekeroog and Kachelotplate
2012
Determination of microplastic polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) in environmental samples using thermal analysis (TGA-DSC)
2016
Biodegradable plastic bags on the seafloor: A future threat for seagrass meadows?
2017
Sorption of 3,3′,4,4′-tetrachlorobiphenyl by microplastics: A case study of polypropylene
2016
Repeated detection of polystyrene microbeads in the Lower Rhine River
2018
Occurrence and spatial distribution of microplastics in sediments from Norderney
2014
Towards sustainability in world fisheries
2002 StandoutNature
Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011
2010
Sorption capacity of plastic debris for hydrophobic organic chemicals
2013
Are marine plastic particles transport vectors for organic pollutants to the Arctic?
2010
Assessing marine debris in deep seafloor habitats off California
2009
The physical impacts of microplastics on marine organisms: A review
2013 Standout
Macroplastics at sea around Antarctica
2010
The discharge of certain amounts of industrial microplastic from a production plant into the River Danube is permitted by the Austrian legislation
2015
Microplastics in marine biota: A review
2021
Characteristics, dynamics and significance of marine snow
1988
The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene
2016
Degradable Polyethylene: Fantasy or Reality
2011
Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes
2013
The Complex Interaction between Marine Debris and Toxic Chemicals in the Ocean
2012
Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution
2020 StandoutScience
Potential Health Impact of Environmentally Released Micro- and Nanoplastics in the Human Food Production Chain: Experiences from Nanotoxicology
2015
Contributions of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in microplastic pollution research: A review
2020
Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments
2009 Standout
Marine litter on deep Arctic seafloor continues to increase and spreads to the North at the HAUSGARTEN observatory
2016
Environmental and health hazards of chemicals in plastic polymers and products
2011
Plastic debris in the open ocean
2014 Standout
Exceptional and rapid accumulation of anthropogenic debris on one of the world’s most remote and pristine islands
2017
Spatial Patterns of Plastic Debris along Estuarine Shorelines
2010
The global threat from plastic pollution
2021 StandoutScience
Interactions Between Microorganisms and Marine Microplastics: A Call for Research
2011
Effects of Microplastic on Fitness and PCB Bioaccumulation by the Lugworm Arenicola marina (L.)
2012
Size-Dependent Effects of Micro Polystyrene Particles in the Marine Copepod Tigriopus japonicus
2013
Microplastics in the seas
2014 Science
Diel and tidal rhythms in diving behaviour of pelagic sharks identified by signal processing of archival tagging data
2006
Beyond the ocean: contamination of freshwater ecosystems with (micro-)plastic particles
2015
An overview of statistical methods applied to CPR data
2003
Chemistry of Iron Sulfides
2007 Standout
Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
2010 Science
Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments
2019
When Microplastic Is Not Plastic: The Ingestion of Artificial Cellulose Fibers by Macrofauna Living in Seagrass Macrophytodetritus
2015
Microplastic—an emerging contaminant of potential concern?
2007
Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Methods Used for Identification and Quantification
2012 Standout
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Aggregation, Deposition, and Enhanced Contaminant Transport
2017 Standout
Sampling, isolating and identifying microplastics ingested by fish and invertebrates
2016
Global warming releases microplastic legacy frozen in Arctic Sea ice
2014
Marine Anthropogenic Litter
2015 Standout
Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea
2017
Uptake and Effects of Microplastics on Cells and Tissue of the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis L. after an Experimental Exposure
2012
Quantity and type of plastic debris flowing from two urban rivers to coastal waters and beaches of Southern California
2011
Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) as a Source of Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment
2016 Standout
Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends
2009 Standout
Highlights from a review of microplastics in marine sediments
2021
Single and combined effects of microplastics and pyrene on juveniles (0+ group) of the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Teleostei, Gobiidae)
2013
Plastic ingestion by mesopelagic fishes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
2011
Marine litter monitoring by Northern Fulmars in the Netherlands 1982-2003
2004
Aquatic animal telemetry: A panoramic window into the underwater world
2015 StandoutScience
Occurrence and Spatial Distribution of Microplastics in River Shore Sediments of the Rhine-Main Area in Germany
2015
All is not lost: deriving a top-down mass budget of plastic at sea
2017
Structural Diversity in Early-Stage Biofilm Formation on Microplastics Depends on Environmental Medium and Polymer Properties
2020
Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives
2021
Seafloor microplastic hotspots controlled by deep-sea circulation
2020 Science
A Thermodynamic Approach for Assessing the Environmental Exposure of Chemicals Absorbed to Microplastic
2011
Microplastic is an Abundant and Distinct Microbial Habitat in an Urban River
2014
Fulmar Litter EcoQO Monitoring in the Netherlands 1979 - 2007 in relation to EU Directive 2000/59/EC on Port Reception Facilities
2009
The Impact of Microplastics on Salp Feeding in the Tropical Pacific
2012
Fast microplastics identification with stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
2018
Degradation in soil behavior of artificially aged polyethylene films with pro‐oxidants
2015
Developing ToF‐SIMS methods for investigating the degradation of plastic debris on beaches
2010
Reducing Uncertainty and Confronting Ignorance about the Possible Impacts of Weathering Plastic in the Marine Environment
2017
Quantitation of persistent organic pollutants adsorbed on plastic debris from the Northern Pacific Gyre's “eastern garbage patch”
2010
Are There Nanoplastics in Your Personal Care Products?
2017
Are We Speaking the Same Language? Recommendations for a Definition and Categorization Framework for Plastic Debris
2019 Standout
Biodegradable and compostable alternatives to conventional plastics
2009
Plastic Debris in 29 Great Lakes Tributaries: Relations to Watershed Attributes and Hydrology
2016
Our plastic age
2009
Changes in North Sea gadoid stocks
1996
Physical Adsorption of Charged Plastic Nanoparticles Affects Algal Photosynthesis
2010
The ecological impacts of marine debris: unraveling the demonstrated evidence from what is perceived
2015
Plastic for dinner? Observations of frequent debris ingestion by pelagic predatory fishes from the central North Pacific
2013
Marine litter within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive
2013
An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record
2014
Microplastic Ingestion by Zooplankton
2013 Standout
Accumulation and Embryotoxicity of Polystyrene Nanoparticles at Early Stage of Development of Sea Urchin Embryos Paracentrotus lividus
2014
Deposit- and suspension-feeding sea cucumbers (Echinodermata) ingest plastic fragments
2008 Standout
Microplastic particles in sediments of Lagoon of Venice, Italy: First observations on occurrence, spatial patterns and identification
2013
Remote Islands Reveal Rapid Rise of Southern Hemisphere Sea Debris
2005
Microplastic contamination in an urban area: a case study in Greater Paris
2015
Defining the onset of the Anthropocene
2022 StandoutScience
The effect of wind mixing on the vertical distribution of buoyant plastic debris
2012
Trophic group and the end-Cretaceous extinction: did deposit feeders have it made in the shade?
1996
The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris
2014
A global inventory of small floating plastic debris
2015
The Arctic Ocean as a dead end for floating plastics in the North Atlantic branch of the Thermohaline Circulation
2017 Standout
A novel, highly efficient method for the separation and quantification of plastic particles in sediments of aquatic environments
2012
Screening of microplastic particles in and down-stream a wastewater treatment plant
2014
Microplastic in Aquatic Ecosystems
2016
Plastic pollution in Swiss surface waters: nature and concentrations, interaction with pollutants
2015
Microplastics in Four Estuarine Rivers in the Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A.
2014
New Insights into the Microplastic Enrichment in the Blue Carbon Ecosystem: Evidence from Seagrass Meadows and Mangrove Forests in Coastal South China Sea
2021 Standout
Comparison of the distribution and degradation of plastic debris along shorelines of the Great Lakes, North America
2014
Population synchronies within and between ocean basins: Apparent teleconnections and implications as to physical–biological linkage mechanisms
2009
Contributing to marine pollution by washing your face: Microplastics in facial cleansers
2009
The Impact of Climate Change on the World’s Marine Ecosystems
2010 StandoutScience
Passive buoyant tracers in the ocean surface boundary layer: 2. Observations and simulations of microplastic marine debris
2015
Pelagic microplastics around an archipelago of the Equatorial Atlantic
2013
Large Accumulation of Micro-sized Synthetic Polymer Particles in the Sea Surface Microlayer
2014
Degradation of plastic carrier bags in the marine environment
2010
Stratification of Living Organisms in Ballast Tanks: How Do Organism Concentrations Vary as Ballast Water Is Discharged?
2013 StandoutNobel
Monitoring the abundance of plastic debris in the marine environment
2009
Significance of interactions between microplastics and POPs in the marine environment: A critical overview
2018
Accumulation of Microplastic on Shorelines Woldwide: Sources and Sinks
2011 Standout
Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect
2012
Life in the “Plastisphere”: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris
2013 Standout
Distribution of Surface Plastic Debris in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from an 11-Year Data Set
2014
Description of the small plastics fragments in marine sediments along the Alang-Sosiya ship-breaking yard, India
2006 Standout
Potential for Plastics to Transport Hydrophobic Contaminants
2007
Assimilation of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers from Microplastics by the Marine Amphipod, Allorchestes Compressa
2014
The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic Ocean
2010
Jellyfish blooms: are populations increasing globally in response to changing ocean conditions?
2001
Nano-plastics in the aquatic environment
2015
Planetary‐scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene
2022
Ingested Microscopic Plastic Translocates to the Circulatory System of the Mussel, Mytilus edulis (L.)
2008 Standout
Ingestion of nylon threads by Gerreidae while using a tropical estuary as foraging grounds
2012
Selectivity of End-Cretaceous Marine Bivalve Extinctions
1995 Science
Plastic as a Carrier of POPs to Aquatic Organisms: A Model Analysis
2013
Transport of persistent organic pollutants by microplastics in estuarine conditions
2014
Microplastic Exposure Assessment in Aquatic Environments: Learning from Similarities and Differences to Engineered Nanoparticles
2017
Marine Strategy Framework Directive Task Group 10 Report: Marine litter
2010
Interactions between microplastics and phytoplankton aggregates: Impact on their respective fates
2015
Works of A.W.G. John being referenced
Doliolids in the German bight in 1989: Evidence for exceptional inflow into the North Sea
1990
Case history and persistence of the non-indigenous diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii in the north-east Atlantic
2001
Exceptional influx of oceanic species into the North Sea late 1997
1999
Decadal basin-scale changes in diatoms, dinoflagellates, and phytoplankton color across the North Atlantic
2005
Evidence for coupling the vertical flux of phytodetritus to the diet and seasonal life history of the deep-sea echinoid Echinus affinis
1994
Continuous Plankton Records: a possible reversal in the downward trend in the abundance of the plankton of the North Sea and the Northeast Atlantic
1984
Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?
2004 StandoutScience
Seasonal deposition of phytodetritus to the deep-sea floor
1986
Interspecific differences in the diel vertical migration of marine copepods: The implications of size, color, and morphology
1994
Using continuous plankton recorder data
2005