Bas Boots

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Bas Boots is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bas Boots has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Pollution, 8 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Bas Boots's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (15 papers), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (7 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers). Bas Boots is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (15 papers), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (7 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers). Bas Boots collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy. Bas Boots's co-authors include Dannielle S. Green, Carlos Rocha, Richard C. Thompson, Julia D. Sigwart, Shan Jiang, Nessa E. O’Connor, David Blockley, Louise Kregting, Nicholas Clipson and Quentin Crowley and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Bas Boots

35 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Effects of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems: Above and Below Ground

2019 1.0k citations Bas Boots, Dannielle S. Green et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bas Boots United Kingdom	21	2.0k	1.1k	830	226	221	38	2.6k
Thijs Bosker Netherlands	24	2.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	781 0.9×	550 2.4×	214 1.0×	74	3.5k
Dannielle S. Green United Kingdom	20	2.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	278 1.2×	400 1.8×	35	3.0k
Xin Ke China	22	1.6k 0.8×	639 0.6×	353 0.4×	214 0.9×	52 0.2×	51	2.2k
Renren Wu China	21	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	425 0.5×	279 1.2×	80 0.4×	46	2.7k
Harm Gooren Netherlands	7	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	647 0.8×	186 0.8×	73 0.3×	8	1.9k
Yi Huang China	27	3.5k 1.7×	1.8k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	274 1.2×	67 0.3×	80	4.6k
Melanie Sapp United Kingdom	22	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	439 0.5×	165 0.7×	116 0.5×	34	2.6k
Stefan Hempel Germany	30	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	773 0.9×	255 1.1×	69 0.3×	55	5.3k
Zacharias Steinmetz Germany	16	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	481 0.6×	117 0.5×	38 0.2×	28	2.3k
Yuanze Sun China	20	1.5k 0.7×	649 0.6×	636 0.8×	167 0.7×	39 0.2×	45	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Bas Boots

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bas Boots

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bas Boots. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bas Boots 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 Bas Boots. Bas Boots is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jolly, Desmond A., E. Kaitlynn Allen, Hayley K. McIlwraith, et al.. (2025). Eco-friendly or eco-threat? The environmental risks of natural and semi-synthetic fibers. Environmental Research Communications. 7(5). 52502–52502. 1 indexed citations

White, Hannah J., et al.. (2025). The impacts of smoked cigarette butt leachate on a common freshwater gastropod, Lymnaea stagnalis. Environmental Pollution. 376. 126425–126425.

Boots, Bas, et al.. (2024). Above- and below-ground field study on the impacts of conventional and alternative mesoplastics on Hordeum vulgare growth and soil invertebrate communities. Chemosphere. 365. 143393–143393. 4 indexed citations

Boots, Bas, et al.. (2024). Impacts of pristine, aged and leachate of conventional and biodegradable plastics on plant growth and soil organic carbon. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(8). 11766–11780. 10 indexed citations

Green, Dannielle S., et al.. (2024). Rapid, detrimental response of estuarine benthic macrofauna communities to pollution by littered cigarette filters and e-liquid. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 209(Pt B). 117208–117208.

Boots, Bas, et al.. (2023). Physical and chemical effects of conventional microplastic glitter versus alternative glitter particles on a freshwater plant (Lemnaceae: Lemna minor). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 263. 115291–115291. 6 indexed citations

Green, Dannielle S., et al.. (2023). Disposable e-cigarettes and cigarette butts alter the physiology of an aquatic plant Lemna minor (Lemnaceae). The Science of The Total Environment. 892. 164457–164457. 9 indexed citations

Green, Dannielle S., Bethanie Carney Almroth, Melanie Bergmann, et al.. (2022). Time to kick the butt of the most common litter item in the world: Ban cigarette filters. The Science of The Total Environment. 865. 161256–161256. 23 indexed citations

Green, Dannielle S., Louise Kregting, & Bas Boots. (2021). Effects of cigarette butts on marine keystone species (Ulva lactuca L. and Mytilus edulis L.) and sediment microphytobenthos. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 165. 112152–112152. 23 indexed citations

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Green, Dannielle S., et al.. (2021). The ecological impacts of discarded cigarette butts. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 37(2). 183–192. 63 indexed citations

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Green, Dannielle S., Louise Kregting, & Bas Boots. (2020). Smoked cigarette butt leachate impacts survival and behaviour of freshwater invertebrates. Environmental Pollution. 266(Pt 3). 115286–115286. 45 indexed citations

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Green, Dannielle S., et al.. (2020). All that glitters is litter? Ecological impacts of conventional versus biodegradable glitter in a freshwater habitat. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 402. 124070–124070. 49 indexed citations

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Boots, Bas, et al.. (2019). Effects of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems: Above and Below Ground. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(19). 11496–11506. 1033 indexed citations breakdown →

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Green, Dannielle S., Louise Kregting, Bas Boots, et al.. (2018). A comparison of sampling methods for seawater microplastics and a first report of the microplastic litter in coastal waters of Ascension and Falkland Islands. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 137. 695–701. 117 indexed citations

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D’Ugo, Emilio, Fabio Magurano, Stefania Marcheggiani, et al.. (2017). Detection of Coxiella burnetii in Urban River Water. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 17(7). 514–516. 7 indexed citations

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D’Ugo, Emilio, Stefania Marcheggiani, Roberto Giuseppetti, et al.. (2016). Detection of Human Enteric Viruses in Freshwater from European Countries. Food and Environmental Virology. 8(3). 206–214. 21 indexed citations

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Greer, Brett, Sara McNamee, Bas Boots, et al.. (2016). A validated UPLC–MS/MS method for the surveillance of ten aquatic biotoxins in European brackish and freshwater systems. Harmful Algae. 55. 31–40. 65 indexed citations

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Green, Dannielle S., Bas Boots, & Tasman P. Crowe. (2012). Effects of Non-Indigenous Oysters on Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e48410–e48410. 35 indexed citations

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Snyder, Bruce A., Bas Boots, & Paul F. Hendrix. (2009). Competition between invasive earthworms (Amynthas corticis, Megascolecidae) and native North American millipedes (Pseudopolydesmus erasus, Polydesmidae): Effects on carbon cycling and soil structure. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 41(7). 1442–1449. 46 indexed citations

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Kessel, Chris van, Bas Boots, Marie‐Anne de Graaff, et al.. (2006). Total soil C and N sequestration in a grassland following 10 years of free air CO ₂ enrichment. Global Change Biology. 12(11). 2187–2199. 38 indexed citations

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