Garth A. Covernton

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Garth A. Covernton is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Garth A. Covernton has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Pollution, 8 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Garth A. Covernton's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (11 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (8 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (3 papers). Garth A. Covernton is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (11 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (8 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (3 papers). Garth A. Covernton collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Garth A. Covernton's co-authors include Sarah E. Dudas, John F. Dower, Kieran Cox, Hailey L. Davies, Francis Juanes, Christopher M. Pearce, Helen Gurney‐Smith, Stephen Chastain, Peter S. Ross and Dorothy A. Horn and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Garth A. Covernton

13 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Human Consumption of Micr... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Human Consumption of Microplastics
    2019 1.8k citations Kieran Cox, Garth A. Covernton et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Garth A. Covernton 2.0k 1.5k 463 322 306 15 2.3k
Maddison Carbery 2.2k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 475 1.0× 314 1.0× 336 1.1× 13 2.4k
Hailey L. Davies 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 378 0.8× 303 0.9× 280 0.9× 17 1.9k
Geetika Bhagwat 1.6k 0.8× 901 0.6× 459 1.0× 249 0.8× 280 0.9× 15 1.8k
Fermín Pérez‐Guevara 2.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.2× 657 1.4× 380 1.2× 334 1.1× 72 3.0k
Gurusamy Kutralam-Muniasamy 2.6k 1.3× 1.9k 1.3× 603 1.3× 344 1.1× 336 1.1× 57 2.9k
Ilaria Savino 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 343 0.7× 227 0.7× 251 0.8× 9 1.8k
Abolfazl Golieskardi 1.8k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 361 0.8× 160 0.5× 207 0.7× 6 1.9k
Denise Rinaldo 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 387 0.8× 400 1.2× 397 1.3× 7 2.1k
Maria P. Herrling 1.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 406 0.9× 281 0.9× 224 0.7× 12 2.1k
Hanyu Wang 2.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.2× 766 1.7× 254 0.8× 288 0.9× 16 2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Rochman, Chelsea M., et al.. (2025). Food availability is a critical factor in microplastic toxicity testing using Daphnia magna. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 44(11). 3262–3270.
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Rochman, Chelsea M., Garth A. Covernton, Ludovic Hermabessière, et al.. (2025). Where Is All the Plastic? How Microplastic Partitions across Environmental Compartments within a Large Pelagic In-Lake Mesocosm. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(19). 9768–9778. 2 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A., Adam H. Metherel, Bailey C. McMeans, et al.. (2024). Increasing microplastic exposure had minimal effects on fatty acid composition in zooplankton and yellow perch in a large, in-lake mesocosm experiment. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 81(12). 1717–1727.
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Ammendolia, Justine, et al.. (2024). Passing plastic: traces of plastic in the fecal samples of a high Arctic seabird in Tunu (East Greenland). Arctic Science. 11. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A., et al.. (2022). Depuration of anthropogenic particles by Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas): Feasibility and efficacy. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 181. 113886–113886. 7 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A., Kieran Cox, Hailey L. Davies, et al.. (2022). Large size (>100‐μm) microplastics are not biomagnifying in coastal marine food webs of British Columbia, Canada. Ecological Applications. 32(7). e2654–e2654. 35 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A., Hailey L. Davies, Kieran Cox, et al.. (2021). A Bayesian analysis of the factors determining microplastics ingestion in fishes. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 413. 125405–125405. 72 indexed citations
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Davies, Hailey L., et al.. (2021). A preliminary analysis of ingestion and egestion of microplastic fibres in the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 542-543. 151589–151589. 6 indexed citations
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Provencher, Jennifer F., et al.. (2020). Proceed with caution: The need to raise the publication bar for microplastics research. The Science of The Total Environment. 748. 141426–141426. 87 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A. & Christopher D. G. Harley. (2020). Multi-scale variation in salinity: a driver of population size and structure in the muricid gastropod Nucella lamellosa. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 643. 1–19. 4 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A., et al.. (2019). Microplastics in bivalves and their habitat in relation to shellfish aquaculture proximity in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 11. 357–374. 74 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, Garth A. Covernton, Hailey L. Davies, et al.. (2019). Human Consumption of Microplastics. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(12). 7068–7074. 1751 indexed citations breakdown →
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Covernton, Garth A., Christopher M. Pearce, Helen Gurney‐Smith, et al.. (2019). Size and shape matter: A preliminary analysis of microplastic sampling technique in seawater studies with implications for ecological risk assessment. The Science of The Total Environment. 667. 124–132. 192 indexed citations
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Covernton, Garth A., et al.. (2019). Synergies on the coast: Challenges facing shellfish aquaculture development on the central and north coast of British Columbia. Marine Policy. 101. 108–117. 22 indexed citations
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Dudas, Sarah E., Garth A. Covernton, Matthew Miller, et al.. (2018). Does habitat influence bivalve microplastic concentration?. Western CEDAR (Western Washington University). 2 indexed citations

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