Luisa Galgani

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Luisa Galgani is a scholar working on Pollution, Oceanography and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Luisa Galgani has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pollution, 13 papers in Oceanography and 9 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Luisa Galgani's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (13 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers). Luisa Galgani is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (13 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers). Luisa Galgani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Luisa Galgani's co-authors include Anja Engel, Steven Loiselle, Sonja Endres, Kai G. Schulz, Claudio Rossi, Markus Schartau, Christian Stolle, Shiye Zhao, Alessandro Donati and Ryota Nakajima and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Luisa Galgani

27 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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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.

The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean

2025 41 citations Shiye Zhao, Karin Kvale et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luisa Galgani Italy	17	498	396	292	189	175	31	1.1k
Katsiaryna Pabortsava United Kingdom	11	419 0.8×	450 1.1×	262 0.9×	198 1.0×	98 0.6×	19	991
Morgane Gallinari France	16	568 1.1×	474 1.2×	375 1.3×	209 1.1×	184 1.1×	26	1.2k
Ruth Eriksen Australia	18	352 0.7×	432 1.1×	209 0.7×	259 1.4×	91 0.5×	47	1.0k
Haibing Ding China	18	258 0.5×	299 0.8×	191 0.7×	200 1.1×	109 0.6×	47	858
Laura Hehemann Germany	8	712 1.4×	163 0.4×	473 1.6×	144 0.8×	119 0.7×	11	1.0k
Tomo Kitahashi Japan	19	351 0.7×	344 0.9×	253 0.9×	393 2.1×	117 0.7×	36	900
K. M. Schreiner United States	14	472 0.9×	161 0.4×	380 1.3×	197 1.0×	196 1.1×	28	987
Chia‐Te Chien United States	13	284 0.6×	229 0.6×	126 0.4×	118 0.6×	110 0.6×	22	639
Kathryn Berry Australia	15	744 1.5×	128 0.3×	434 1.5×	285 1.5×	69 0.4×	21	1.2k
Frances E. Hopkins United Kingdom	15	212 0.4×	375 0.9×	127 0.4×	107 0.6×	319 1.8×	26	802

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luisa Galgani

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Zhao, Shiye, Karin Kvale, Erik Zettler, et al.. (2025). The distribution of subsurface microplastics in the ocean. Nature. 641(8061). 51–61. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Galgani, Luisa, Christina Zeri, Sotirios Karavoltsos, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Role of Polystyrene Microplastics in Cu Binding in Sea Surface Waters: An Experimental Perspective for Future Research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 66–66.

Liu, Xinyu, et al.. (2025). Realtime fluorescence organic matter indicators for early warning of river pollution sources. Ecological Indicators. 179. 114214–114214.

Wu, Peipei, et al.. (2025). The potential impacts of plastic on the marine carbon cycle. Nature Sustainability. 8(10). 1154–1163. 1 indexed citations

Gaggelli, Nicola, et al.. (2024). Emerging Contaminants from Bioplastic Pollution in Marine Waters. Water. 16(24). 3676–3676. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Tao, Shiye Zhao, Lixin Zhu, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Accumulation, transformation and transport of microplastics in estuarine fronts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(6). 419–419. 2 indexed citations

Galgani, Luisa, Helmke Hepach, Kevin W. Becker, & Anja Engel. (2023). Sediment Traps: A Renowned Tool in Oceanography Applied to New Marine Pollutants. Oceanography. 1 indexed citations

García, Xavier, et al.. (2023). Modeling dissolved and particulate organic carbon dynamics at basin and sub-basin scales. The Science of The Total Environment. 884. 163840–163840. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Tao, Shiye Zhao, Lixin Zhu, et al.. (2022). Accumulation, transformation and transport of microplastics in estuarine fronts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(11). 795–805. 116 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa, Ioanna Kalantzi, Anastasia Tsiola, et al.. (2022). Marine plastics alter the organic matter composition of the air-sea boundary layer, with influences on CO2 exchange: a large-scale analysis method to explore future ocean scenarios. The Science of The Total Environment. 857(Pt 3). 159624–159624. 15 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa & Steven Loiselle. (2020). Plastic pollution impacts on marine carbon biogeochemistry. Environmental Pollution. 268(Pt A). 115598–115598. 83 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa, Anja Engel, Claudio Rossi, Alessandro Donati, & Steven Loiselle. (2018). Polystyrene microplastics increase microbial release of marine Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in microcosm experiments. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14635–14635. 76 indexed citations

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Engel, Anja, Hermann W. Bange, Michael Cunliffe, et al.. (2017). The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer. Frontiers in Marine Science. 4. 190 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa & Anja Engel. (2016). Changes in optical characteristics of surface microlayers hint to photochemically and microbially mediated DOM turnover in the upwelling region off the coast of Peru. Biogeosciences. 13(8). 2453–2473. 27 indexed citations

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Engel, Anja & Luisa Galgani. (2016). The organic sea-surface microlayer in the upwelling region off the coast of Peru and potential implications for air–sea exchange processes. Biogeosciences. 13(4). 989–1007. 95 indexed citations

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Hepach, Helmke, Birgit Quack, Susann Tegtmeier, et al.. (2016). Biogenic halocarbons from the Peruvian upwelling region as tropospheric halogen source. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(18). 12219–12237. 23 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa, Judith Piontek, & Anja Engel. (2016). Biopolymers form a gelatinous microlayer at the air-sea interface when Arctic sea ice melts. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29465–29465. 29 indexed citations

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Engel, Anja & Luisa Galgani. (2015). The organic sea surface microlayer in the upwelling region off Peru and implications for air–sea exchange processes. 8 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa, Christian Stolle, Sonja Endres, Kai G. Schulz, & Anja Engel. (2014). Effects of ocean acidification on the biogenic composition of the sea-surface microlayer: Results from a mesocosm study. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 119(11). 7911–7924. 28 indexed citations

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Galgani, Luisa, Antonio Tognazzi, Claudio Rossi, et al.. (2010). Assessing the optical changes in dissolved organic matter in humic lakes by spectral slope distributions. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology. 102(2). 132–139. 37 indexed citations

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