Boyan Slat

7.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
12 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Boyan Slat is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Boyan Slat has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Pollution, 9 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 3 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Boyan Slat's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (12 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (9 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (3 papers). Boyan Slat is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (12 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (9 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (3 papers). Boyan Slat collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Boyan Slat's co-authors include Laurent Lebreton, Júlia Reisser, Anthony L. Andrady, Matthias Egger, Francesco F. Ferrari, Serena Cunsolo, Anna Schwarz, Pavla Debeljak, Jennifer Aitken and Sara Hajbane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Boyan Slat

12 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

2017 2.8k citations Laurent Lebreton, Boyan Slat et al. Nature Communications profile →
Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

2018 1.2k citations Laurent Lebreton, Boyan Slat et al. Scientific Reports profile →
The vertical distribution of buoyant plastics at sea: an observational study in the North Atlantic Gyre

2015 375 citations Júlia Reisser, Boyan Slat et al. Biogeosciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boyan Slat United States	10	5.0k	3.5k	998	533	388	12	5.5k
Henry S. Carson United States	12	4.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	910 0.9×	683 1.3×	379 1.0×	18	4.7k
Juliana A. Ivar do Sul Brazil	25	4.1k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	796 0.8×	549 1.0×	386 1.0×	34	4.6k
Valeria Hidalgo‐Ruz Chile	8	4.5k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	875 0.9×	374 0.7×	316 0.8×	9	4.7k
Lincoln Fok Hong Kong	28	3.5k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	889 0.9×	278 0.5×	352 0.9×	55	4.4k
Thomas Maes United Kingdom	29	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	551 0.6×	379 0.7×	373 1.0×	56	3.5k
Daniel McGonigle United Kingdom	10	5.3k 1.1×	3.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	534 1.0×	521 1.3×	10	5.9k
Mine Banu Tekman Germany	11	3.8k 0.8×	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	340 0.6×	440 1.1×	20	4.7k
Merel Kooi Netherlands	18	5.4k 1.1×	3.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	477 0.9×	607 1.6×	26	5.7k
Outi Setälä Finland	23	4.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	531 1.0×	314 0.8×	44	5.3k
Lixin Zhu China	26	5.0k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	386 0.7×	354 0.9×	71	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Boyan Slat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Boyan Slat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boyan Slat

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

1.

Lebreton, Laurent, Matthias Egger, & Boyan Slat. (2019). A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12922–12922. 375 indexed citations

2.

Kent, Chandra Salgado, et al.. (2019). Cetacean sightings within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Marine Biodiversity. 49(4). 2021–2027. 9 indexed citations

3.

Lebreton, Laurent, Boyan Slat, Francesco F. Ferrari, et al.. (2018). Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 4666–4666. 1182 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Garaba, Shungudzemwoyo P., Boyan Slat, Heidi M. Dierssen, et al.. (2018). Sensing Ocean Plastics with an Airborne Hyperspectral Shortwave Infrared Imager. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(20). 11699–11707. 117 indexed citations

5.

Emmerik, Tim van, Thuy-Chung Kieu-Le, Emilie Strady, et al.. (2018). A Methodology to Characterize Riverine Macroplastic Emission Into the Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. 182 indexed citations

6.

Lebreton, Laurent, et al.. (2017). River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15611–15611. 2828 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Chen, Qiqing, Júlia Reisser, Serena Cunsolo, et al.. (2017). Pollutants in Plastics within the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(2). 446–456. 152 indexed citations

8.

Kooi, Merel, Júlia Reisser, Boyan Slat, et al.. (2016). The effect of particle properties on the depth profile of buoyant plastics in the ocean. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 33882–33882. 225 indexed citations

9.

Kooi, Merel, et al.. (2016). Data from 'The effect of particle properties on the depth profile of buoyant plastics in the ocean'. Figshare. 4 indexed citations

10.

Debeljak, Pavla, Maria Pinto, Maíra Proietti, et al.. (2016). Extracting DNA from ocean microplastics: a method comparison study. Analytical Methods. 9(9). 1521–1526. 43 indexed citations

11.

Reisser, Júlia, Boyan Slat, Maíra Proietti, et al.. (2015). The vertical distribution of buoyant plastics at sea: an observational study in the North Atlantic Gyre. Biogeosciences. 12(4). 1249–1256. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

12.

Reisser, Júlia, Boyan Slat, Maíra Proietti, et al.. (2014). The vertical distribution of buoyant plastics at sea. 31 indexed citations

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