Amy Brooks

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Amy Brooks is a scholar working on Pollution, Education and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Brooks has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Pollution, 7 papers in Education and 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Amy Brooks's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (7 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (6 papers) and Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (3 papers). Amy Brooks is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (7 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (6 papers) and Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (3 papers). Amy Brooks collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Amy Brooks's co-authors include Jenna Jambeck, Shunli Wang, Shoshanah Jacobs, Justine Ammendolia, Jacquelyn Saturno, Kristian Teleki, Julius Francis, Joan Fabrés, Anthony J. Ribbink and Hindrik Bouwman and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Amy Brooks

11 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Chinese import ban and its impact on global plastic waste trade

2018 630 citations Amy Brooks, Shunli Wang et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers

Amy Brooks

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Biswajit Samal India

Ved Prakash Ranjan India

Viktoria Voronova Estonia

Florin‐Constantin Mihai Romania

Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez Sweden

Peyo Stanchev United Kingdom

Marija Klõga Estonia

Tobias Nielsen Sweden

Sedat Gündoğdu Türkiye

Oluniyi O. Fadare China

Biswajit Samal India

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457 ×0.6

IME

191 ×1.0

SM

256 ×1.6

PHEOH

75 ×0.6

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Citations per year, relative to Amy Brooks Amy Brooks (= 1×) peers Biswajit Samal

Countries citing papers authored by Amy Brooks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amy Brooks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Amy Brooks. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Amy Brooks. The network helps show where Amy Brooks may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Brooks

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amy Brooks. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amy Brooks based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amy Brooks. Amy Brooks is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Brooks, Amy, et al.. (2025). Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis. Nature Sustainability. 8(6). 714–723. 6 indexed citations

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Huff, James, et al.. (2025). Emotional experiences of Black U.S. computer science and engineering students amid faculty–student interactions. European Journal of Engineering Education. 1–25.

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Marino, Maria, et al.. (2025). Advancing the circular economy of healthcare plastics: A systematic literature review. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 219. 108317–108317. 1 indexed citations

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Brooks, Amy, et al.. (2024). Are All ‘EBIPs’ Created Equal? An Exploration of Engineering Faculty Adoption of Nine Evidence-Based Instructional Practices.

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Brooks, Amy, et al.. (2024). Contextual Influences on the Adoption of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices by Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty. IEEE Transactions on Education. 67(3). 351–363.

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Huff, James & Amy Brooks. (2024). The Interview Quality Reflection Tool (IQRT): Honing the Craft of Experiential Interviews. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 23. 2 indexed citations

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Brooks, Amy, et al.. (2024). A Qualitative Exploration of Resource-Related Barriers Associated with EBIP Implementation in STEM Courses. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 1 indexed citations

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Brooks, Amy & James Huff. (2024). Evaluating the quality of interviews with a process-based, self-reflective tool. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 1 indexed citations

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Brooks, Amy, et al.. (2023). An exploratory study on how mechanical engineering undergraduates perceive participation in professional disciplinary engineering student organizations that influence their engineering identity. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education. 52(3). 236–260.

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Brooks, Amy, Avinash Kumar Singh, Gaurav Verma, et al.. (2022). Rapid Characterization of Macroplastic Input and Leakage in the Ganges River Basin. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(7). 4029–4038. 17 indexed citations

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Naji, Abolfazl, et al.. (2021). Marine plastic debris in the Arabian/Persian Gulf: Challenges, opportunities and recommendations from a transdisciplinary perspective. Marine Policy. 136. 104909–104909. 25 indexed citations

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Duncan, Emily M., Amy Brooks, Gawsia Wahidunnessa Chowdhury, et al.. (2020). Message in a bottle: Open source technology to track the movement of plastic pollution. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0242459–e0242459. 57 indexed citations

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Ammendolia, Justine, Jacquelyn Saturno, Amy Brooks, Shoshanah Jacobs, & Jenna Jambeck. (2020). An emerging source of plastic pollution: Environmental presence of plastic personal protective equipment (PPE) debris related to COVID-19 in a metropolitan city. Environmental Pollution. 269. 116160–116160. 245 indexed citations

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Brooks, Amy, Shunli Wang, & Jenna Jambeck. (2018). The Chinese import ban and its impact on global plastic waste trade. Science Advances. 4(6). eaat0131–eaat0131. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jambeck, Jenna, Britta Denise Hardesty, Amy Brooks, et al.. (2017). Challenges and emerging solutions to the land-based plastic waste issue in Africa. Marine Policy. 96. 256–263. 231 indexed citations

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