Holly Nel

2.6k total citations
28 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Holly Nel is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Holly Nel has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Pollution, 20 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Holly Nel's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (22 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (20 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (5 papers). Holly Nel is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (22 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (20 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (5 papers). Holly Nel collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and South Africa. Holly Nel's co-authors include P. William Froneman, Tatenda Dalu, Ryan J. Wasserman, Stefan Krause, Iseult Lynch, Gregory H. Sambrook Smith, Anna Kukkola, Jennifer Drummond, Xavier Siwe‐Noundou and Aaron I. Packman and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Holly Nel

28 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Holly Nel United Kingdom	18	1.6k	1.2k	314	147	127	28	1.7k
Francesco F. Ferrari Netherlands	6	1.4k 0.9×	936 0.8×	313 1.0×	178 1.2×	142 1.1×	6	1.6k
Winnie Courtene‐Jones United Kingdom	12	1.3k 0.8×	856 0.7×	318 1.0×	175 1.2×	117 0.9×	20	1.5k
Alicia Herrera Spain	17	1.4k 0.9×	954 0.8×	210 0.7×	142 1.0×	193 1.5×	45	1.5k
Shinta Werorilangi Indonesia	10	1.3k 0.8×	969 0.8×	219 0.7×	127 0.9×	103 0.8×	44	1.4k
Nian Wei China	16	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	290 0.9×	90 0.6×	113 0.9×	40	1.6k
Amanda R. McCormick United States	9	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	437 1.4×	119 0.8×	86 0.7×	15	1.9k
Amanda L. Dawson Australia	12	1.2k 0.7×	761 0.6×	264 0.8×	129 0.9×	136 1.1×	17	1.3k
Marianne Olsen Norway	12	1.2k 0.7×	948 0.8×	277 0.9×	103 0.7×	118 0.9×	28	1.3k
Inga V. Kirstein Germany	11	1.3k 0.8×	895 0.7×	345 1.1×	124 0.8×	100 0.8×	19	1.5k

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Schneidewind, Uwe, Holly Nel, Jennifer Drummond, et al.. (2025). Sediment-Water Interfaces as Traps and Sources of Microplastic Fragments and Microfibers─Insights from Stream Flume Experiments. ACS ES&T Water. 5(11). 6567–6578. 1 indexed citations

Krause, Stefan, Valérie Ouellet, Deonie Allen, et al.. (2024). The potential of micro- and nanoplastics to exacerbate the health impacts and global burden of non-communicable diseases. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(6). 101581–101581. 49 indexed citations

Schneidewind, Uwe, et al.. (2024). Does what we find depend on how we sample? Measured streambed microplastic concentrations can be affected by the choice of sampling method. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 178096–178096. 4 indexed citations

Graham, P. Mark, et al.. (2024). Determination of microplastics in sediment, water, and fish across the Orange-Senqu River basin. Water Research. 266. 122394–122394. 9 indexed citations

Danopoulos, Evangelos, Thomas H. Stanton, Yini Ma, et al.. (2023). Insights into technical challenges in the field of microplastic pollution through the lens of early career researchers (ECRs) and a proposed pathway forward. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 3 indexed citations

Kukkola, Anna, Stefan Krause, Yasmin Yonan, et al.. (2023). Easy and accessible way to calibrate a fluorescence microscope and to create a microplastic identification key. MethodsX. 10. 102053–102053. 19 indexed citations

Kukkola, Anna, Robert L. Runkel, Uwe Schneidewind, et al.. (2023). Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations. Water Research. 240. 120112–120112. 38 indexed citations

Nel, Holly, et al.. (2021). Hydrologic controls on the accumulation of different sized microplastics in the streambed sediments downstream of a wastewater treatment plant (Catalonia, Spain). Environmental Research Letters. 16(11). 115012–115012. 32 indexed citations

Kukkola, Anna, Stefan Krause, Iseult Lynch, Gregory H. Sambrook Smith, & Holly Nel. (2021). Nano and microplastic interactions with freshwater biota – Current knowledge, challenges and future solutions. Environment International. 152. 106504–106504. 131 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, Andrew J. Chetwynd, Catherine A. Kelly, et al.. (2021). An Untargeted Thermogravimetric Analysis-Fourier Transform Infrared-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Approach for Plastic Polymer Identification. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(13). 8721–8729. 61 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, et al.. (2021). Microplastics in freshwater sediments: Analytical methods, temporal trends, and risk of associated organophosphate esters as exemplar plastics additives. Environmental Research. 203. 111830–111830. 47 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, Trishan Naidoo, Emmanuel O. Akindele, et al.. (2021). Collaboration and infrastructure is needed to develop an African perspective on micro(nano)plastic pollution. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 21002–21002. 19 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, Andrew J. Chetwynd, Liam Kelleher, et al.. (2020). Detection limits are central to improve reporting standards when using Nile red for microplastic quantification. Chemosphere. 263. 127953–127953. 80 indexed citations

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Krause, Stefan, Viktor Baranov, Holly Nel, et al.. (2020). Gathering at the top? Environmental controls of microplastic uptake and biomagnification in freshwater food webs. Environmental Pollution. 268(Pt A). 115750–115750. 128 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, et al.. (2020). Citizen science reveals microplastic hotspots within tidal estuaries and the remote Scilly Islands, United Kingdom. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 161(Pt B). 111776–111776. 36 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, Stefan Krause, Gregory H. Sambrook Smith, & Iseult Lynch. (2019). Simple yet effective modifications to the operation of the Sediment Isolation Microplastic unit to avoid polyvinyl chloride (PVC) contamination. MethodsX. 6. 2656–2661. 23 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, et al.. (2018). Colour and size influences plastic microbead underestimation, regardless of sediment grain size. The Science of The Total Environment. 655. 567–570. 36 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, Tatenda Dalu, & Ryan J. Wasserman. (2017). Sinks and sources: Assessing microplastic abundance in river sediment and deposit feeders in an Austral temperate urban river system. The Science of The Total Environment. 612. 950–956. 397 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly, et al.. (2016). Do microplastic loads reflect the population demographics along the southern African coastline?. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 115(1-2). 115–119. 124 indexed citations

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Nel, Holly & P. William Froneman. (2015). A quantitative analysis of microplastic pollution along the south-eastern coastline of South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 101(1). 274–279. 282 indexed citations

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