Giuseppe Suaria

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Giuseppe Suaria is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Giuseppe Suaria has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Pollution, 18 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 10 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Giuseppe Suaria's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (27 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (18 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (8 papers). Giuseppe Suaria is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (27 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (18 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (8 papers). Giuseppe Suaria collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and South Africa. Giuseppe Suaria's co-authors include Stefano Aliani, Peter G. Ryan, Vonica Perold, Jasmine Lee, Marcello G. Magaldi, Carlo Giacomo Avio, Francesco Regoli, Gwendolyn L. Lattin, Andrea Pierucci and Genuario Belmonte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Giuseppe Suaria

32 papers receiving 2.3k 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 Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters

2016 587 citations Giuseppe Suaria, Carlo Giacomo Avio et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization

2020 370 citations Giuseppe Suaria, Vonica Perold et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giuseppe Suaria Italy	18	2.0k	1.3k	517	328	173	33	2.3k
Montserrat Compa Spain	25	1.9k 1.0×	960 0.7×	513 1.0×	288 0.9×	108 0.6×	53	2.1k
Filipa Bessa Portugal	19	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	224 0.4×	305 0.9×	316 1.8×	45	2.6k
Carme Alomar Spain	30	3.4k 1.7×	1.9k 1.5×	824 1.6×	557 1.7×	230 1.3×	65	3.7k
Jong-Myoung Lee South Korea	19	2.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	243 0.5×	407 1.2×	102 0.6×	50	2.6k
Róisín Nash Ireland	17	2.8k 1.4×	2.1k 1.7×	253 0.5×	714 2.2×	135 0.8×	39	3.1k
Rachel Coppock United Kingdom	8	2.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	453 0.9×	660 2.0×	95 0.5×	13	2.8k
Cecilia Martin Saudi Arabia	18	1.5k 0.7×	856 0.7×	176 0.3×	274 0.8×	275 1.6×	28	1.8k
Huiwen Cai China	15	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	162 0.3×	356 1.1×	60 0.3×	24	2.0k
Keiichi Uchida Japan	14	1.4k 0.7×	999 0.8×	190 0.4×	317 1.0×	96 0.6×	45	1.6k
Vonica Perold South Africa	21	1.4k 0.7×	920 0.7×	189 0.4×	208 0.6×	198 1.1×	36	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giuseppe Suaria

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Cesarini, Giulia, Luca Gallitelli, Giuseppe Suaria, et al.. (2025). Multi-matrix approach to microplastic pollution in the bivalve Donax trunculus, sediment and water along the Mediterranean coasts. Environmental Pollution. 375. 126318–126318. 2 indexed citations

Dessì, Claudia, Stefano Aliani, Maria Cristina Follesa, et al.. (2025). Weathered microplastics alter deep sea benthic biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment. Environmental Pollution. 386. 127209–127209.

Cózar, Andrés, Manuel Arias, Giuseppe Suaria, et al.. (2024). Proof of concept for a new sensor to monitor marine litter from space. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4637–4637. 28 indexed citations

López, Ana D. Forero, Ana C. Ronda, I.L. Lehr, et al.. (2024). Paint particle pollution in aquatic environments: Current advances and analytical challenges. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 480. 135744–135744. 11 indexed citations

Perold, Vonica, Maëlle Connan, Giuseppe Suaria, et al.. (2024). Regurgitated skua pellets containing the remains of South Atlantic seabirds can be used as biomonitors of small buoyant plastics at sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 203. 116400–116400. 6 indexed citations

Suaria, Giuseppe, et al.. (2023). Abundance and composition of small floating plastics in the eastern and southern sectors of the Atlantic Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 193. 115109–115109. 12 indexed citations

Aliani, Stefano, Amy Lusher, François Galgani, et al.. (2023). Reproducible pipelines and readiness levels in plastic monitoring. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(5). 290–291. 21 indexed citations

Saliu, Francesco, Montserrat Compa, Marina Lasagni, et al.. (2023). Plastitar in the Mediterranean Sea: New records and the first geochemical characterization of these novel formations. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 196. 115583–115583. 7 indexed citations

Saliu, Francesco, Marina Lasagni, M. Clemenza, et al.. (2023). The interactions of plastic with tar and other petroleum derivatives in the marine environment: A general perspective. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 197. 115753–115753. 7 indexed citations

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Wieczorek, Alina M., María López‐Acosta, Ivana Bušelić, et al.. (2022). Productivity, pressure, and new perspectives: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on marine early-career researchers. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 79(8). 2298–2310. 5 indexed citations

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Papageorgiou, Dimitris, Konstantinos Topouzelis, Giuseppe Suaria, Stefano Aliani, & Paolo Corradi. (2022). Sentinel-2 Detection of Floating Marine Litter Targets with Partial Spectral Unmixing and Spectral Comparison with Other Floating Materials (Plastic Litter Project 2021). Remote Sensing. 14(23). 5997–5997. 25 indexed citations

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Aracri, Simona, Francesco Giorgio-Serchi, Giuseppe Suaria, et al.. (2021). Soft Robots for Ocean Exploration and Offshore Operations: A Perspective. Soft Robotics. 8(6). 625–639. 117 indexed citations

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Topouzelis, Konstantinos, Dimitris Papageorgiou, Giuseppe Suaria, & Stefano Aliani. (2021). Floating marine litter detection algorithms and techniques using optical remote sensing data: A review. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 170. 112675–112675. 91 indexed citations

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Suaria, Giuseppe, Vonica Perold, Jasmine Lee, et al.. (2020). Microfibers in oceanic surface waters: A global characterization. Science Advances. 6(23). eaay8493–eaay8493. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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Suaria, Giuseppe, et al.. (2020). Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition. Environment International. 136. 105494–105494. 194 indexed citations

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Palatinus, Andreja, Manca Kovač Viršek, Mateja Grego, et al.. (2019). Marine litter in the Croatian part of the middle Adriatic Sea: Simultaneous assessment of floating and seabed macro and micro litter abundance and composition. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 139. 427–439. 76 indexed citations

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Ryan, Peter G., Giuseppe Suaria, Vonica Perold, et al.. (2019). Sampling microfibres at the sea surface: The effects of mesh size, sample volume and water depth. Environmental Pollution. 258. 113413–113413. 82 indexed citations

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Suaria, Giuseppe, Stefano Aliani, Silvia Merlino, & M. Abbate. (2018). The Occurrence of Paraffin and Other Petroleum Waxes in the Marine Environment: A Review of the Current Legislative Framework and Shipping Operational Practices. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. 25 indexed citations

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Suaria, Giuseppe, Carlo Giacomo Avio, Gwendolyn L. Lattin, et al.. (2016). The Mediterranean Plastic Soup: synthetic polymers in Mediterranean surface waters. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37551–37551. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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Suaria, Giuseppe, Mihaela Melinte‐Dobrinescu, Gabriel Ion, & Stefano Aliani. (2015). First observations on the abundance and composition of floating debris in the North-western Black Sea. Marine Environmental Research. 107. 45–49. 52 indexed citations

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