Dušan Materić

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Dušan Materić is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dušan Materić has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Pollution, 11 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dušan Materić's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (16 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (10 papers) and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (5 papers). Dušan Materić is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (16 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (10 papers) and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (5 papers). Dušan Materić collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Dušan Materić's co-authors include Rupert Holzinger, Thomas Röckmann, Elke Ludewig, Anne Kasper‐Giebl, Helge Niemann, Paul Vallelonga, Helle Astrid Kjær, Jean‐Louis Tison, Erik van Sebille and Marion Greilinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Dušan Materić

28 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice

2022 192 citations Dušan Materić, Helle Astrid Kjær et al. Environmental Research profile →
Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic

2025 23 citations Dušan Materić, Rupert Holzinger et al. Nature profile →

Peers

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Charles Rolsky United States

Rongxue Cui South Korea

Noël J. Diepens Netherlands

Vinko Zadjelovic Chile

Silvia Morgana Italy

Hongping Liao China

I. Brandts Spain

Stephen Fuller Australia

Ruiying Shi China

Maria Sighicelli Italy

Charles Rolsky United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Dušan Materić

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dušan Materić

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dušan Materić

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Materić, Dušan, et al.. (2025). Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic. Nature. 643(8071). 412–416. 23 indexed citations breakdown →

Gill, A., Robin Milner, Rupert Holzinger, et al.. (2025). Using a citizen science approach to assess nanoplastics pollution in remote high-altitude glaciers. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1864–1864. 4 indexed citations

Monikh, Fazel Abdolahpur, Dušan Materić, Eugenia Valsami‐Jones, et al.. (2025). Challenges in studying microplastics in human brain. Nature Medicine. 31(12). 4034–4035. 2 indexed citations

Wagner, Stephan, et al.. (2024). Oxidative purification of microplastics in riverine suspended matter samples — Solving the challenge of plant debris removal for microplastic analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 177876–177876. 1 indexed citations

Benedetto, Giuseppe Egidio De, et al.. (2024). Microplastics and nanoplastics size distribution in farmed mussel tissues. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 42 indexed citations

Schmidt, Christian, Dana Kühnel, Dušan Materić, et al.. (2024). A multidisciplinary perspective on the role of plastic pollution in the triple planetary crisis. Environment International. 193. 109059–109059. 6 indexed citations

Materić, Dušan, et al.. (2024). Fine micro- and nanoplastics concentrations in particulate matter samples from the high alpine site Sonnblick, Austria. Chemosphere. 352. 141410–141410. 23 indexed citations

Lompe, Kim Maren, et al.. (2023). How suitable is the gold-labelling method for the quantification of nanoplastics in natural water?. AQUA - Water Infrastructure Ecosystems and Society. 72(12). 2347–2357. 1 indexed citations

Materić, Dušan, Helle Astrid Kjær, Paul Vallelonga, et al.. (2022). Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice. Environmental Research. 208. 112741–112741. 192 indexed citations breakdown →

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Materić, Dušan, Mike Peacock, Joshua Dean, et al.. (2022). Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters. Environmental Research Letters. 17(5). 54036–54036. 122 indexed citations

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Materić, Dušan, Rupert Holzinger, & Helge Niemann. (2022). Nanoplastics and ultrafine microplastic in the Dutch Wadden Sea – The hidden plastics debris?. The Science of The Total Environment. 846. 157371–157371. 88 indexed citations

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Allen, Steve, Dušan Materić, Deonie Allen, et al.. (2022). An early comparison of nano to microplastic mass in a remote catchment's atmospheric deposition. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. 7. 100104–100104. 33 indexed citations

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Materić, Dušan, Elke Ludewig, Dominik Brunner, Thomas Röckmann, & Rupert Holzinger. (2021). Nanoplastics transport to the remote, high-altitude Alps. Environmental Pollution. 288. 117697–117697. 102 indexed citations

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Materić, Dušan, Elke Ludewig, Kangming Xu, Thomas Röckmann, & Rupert Holzinger. (2019). Brief communication: Analysis of organic matter in surface snow by PTR-MS – implications for dry deposition dynamics in the Alps. The cryosphere. 13(1). 297–307. 11 indexed citations

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Kate, I. L. ten, Paul R.D. Mason, Lùbos Polerecký, et al.. (2018). UV induced methane and volatile organic carbon emission from the Murchison meteorite. European Planetary Science Congress.

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Bennett, C.J., et al.. (2018). A comparison of methods for early prediction of anaerobic biogas potential on biologically treated municipal solid waste. Journal of Environmental Management. 232. 887–894. 11 indexed citations

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Peacock, Mike, Dušan Materić, Dolly N. Kothawala, Rupert Holzinger, & Martyn N. Futter. (2018). Understanding Dissolved Organic Matter Reactivity and Composition in Lakes and Streams Using Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS). Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 5(12). 739–744. 8 indexed citations

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Materić, Dušan, Mike Peacock, Sarah Cook, et al.. (2017). Characterisation of the semi-volatile component of Dissolved Organic Matter by Thermal Desorption – Proton Transfer Reaction – Mass Spectrometry. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15936–15936. 18 indexed citations

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Materić, Dušan, Matteo Lanza, Philipp Sulzer, et al.. (2015). Monoterpene separation by coupling proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry with fastGC. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 407(25). 7757–7763. 24 indexed citations

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Materić, Dušan, Dan Bruhn, Claire Turner, et al.. (2015). Methods in plant foliar volatile organic compounds research. Applications in Plant Sciences. 3(12). 63 indexed citations

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