Max Liboiron

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Max Liboiron is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Max Liboiron has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Pollution, 12 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Max Liboiron's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (20 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (11 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (8 papers). Max Liboiron is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (20 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (11 papers) and Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (8 papers). Max Liboiron collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Max Liboiron's co-authors include Manuel Tironi, Nerea Calvillo, Kathleen H. Pine, Josh Lepawsky, Charles Mather, Stephanie Avery‐Gomm, Louis Charron, Justine Ammendolia, Jennifer F. Provencher and Paul A. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Max Liboiron

42 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Pollution Is Colonialism

2021 223 citations Max Liboiron profile →
Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world

2018 203 citations Max Liboiron et al. Social Studies of Science profile →
Pollution Is Colonialism

2021 180 citations Max Liboiron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Max Liboiron Canada	23	657	515	491	297	188	42	2.0k
Lewis T.O. Cheung Hong Kong	26	482 0.7×	405 0.8×	1.0k 2.1×	83 0.3×	25 0.1×	72	2.0k
Andrew W. Gilg United Kingdom	28	108 0.2×	423 0.8×	793 1.6×	117 0.4×	58 0.3×	87	3.8k
Gordon Waitt Australia	41	124 0.2×	48 0.1×	2.9k 5.8×	871 2.9×	235 1.3×	180	4.9k
Karen Bickerstaff United Kingdom	21	106 0.2×	42 0.1×	1.2k 2.5×	117 0.4×	147 0.8×	34	2.3k
Kate Burningham United Kingdom	24	151 0.2×	36 0.1×	1.9k 3.8×	119 0.4×	139 0.7×	52	2.8k
Adrian Martin United Kingdom	29	101 0.2×	51 0.1×	814 1.7×	342 1.2×	253 1.3×	82	3.8k
Harold Wilhite Norway	21	258 0.4×	22 0.0×	640 1.3×	74 0.2×	72 0.4×	39	2.1k
Allan Schnaiberg United States	20	63 0.1×	61 0.1×	1.3k 2.5×	117 0.4×	206 1.1×	55	2.4k
Matthew Gandy United Kingdom	27	38 0.1×	104 0.2×	841 1.7×	926 3.1×	1.4k 7.4×	90	3.5k
Alison Anderson United Kingdom	18	164 0.2×	116 0.2×	764 1.6×	18 0.1×	27 0.1×	49	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Max Liboiron

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Liboiron, Max. (2025). How to incorporate the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the Global Plastics Treaty. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1 indexed citations

Waterton, Emma, et al.. (2024). Pollution Is Colonialism. Landscape Research. 49(3). 445–456. 2 indexed citations

Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2023). Models of justice evoked in published scientific studies of plastic pollution. FACETS. 8. 1–34. 7 indexed citations

Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2023). Review of participation of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 10 indexed citations

Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2022). Quantification and characterization of plastics in near-shore surface waters of Atlantic Canada. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 181. 113869–113869. 8 indexed citations

Liboiron, Max. (2021). Pollution Is Colonialism. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

Liboiron, Max. (2021). Pollution Is Colonialism. 223 indexed citations breakdown →

Saturno, Jacquelyn, et al.. (2020). Occurrence of plastics ingested by Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) destined for human consumption (Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 153. 110993–110993. 23 indexed citations

Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2019). Low incidence of plastic ingestion among three fish species significant for human consumption on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 141. 244–248. 30 indexed citations

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Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2019). Seeing power with a flashlight: DIY thermal sensing technology in the classroom. Social Studies of Science. 49(1). 3–28. 7 indexed citations

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Avery‐Gomm, Stephanie, et al.. (2018). Are ingested plastics a vector of PCB contamination in northern fulmars from coastal Newfoundland and Labrador?. Environmental Research. 167. 184–190. 32 indexed citations

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Ammendolia, Justine, et al.. (2018). A zero percent plastic ingestion rate by silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis) from the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 131(Pt A). 267–275. 22 indexed citations

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Eriksen, Marcus, Max Liboiron, Tim Kiessling, et al.. (2017). Microplastic sampling with the AVANI trawl compared to two neuston trawls in the Bay of Bengal and South Pacific. Environmental Pollution. 232. 430–439. 109 indexed citations

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Avery‐Gomm, Stephanie, et al.. (2017). Plastic pollution in the Labrador Sea: An assessment using the seabird northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis as a biological monitoring species. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 127. 817–822. 81 indexed citations

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Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2017). Rocky shoreline protocols miss microplastics in marine debris surveys (Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 129(2). 480–486. 22 indexed citations

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Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2016). The Challenges of Temporality to Depollution & Remediation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8 indexed citations

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Avery‐Gomm, Stephanie, et al.. (2016). A study of wrecked Dovekies (Alle alle) in the western North Atlantic highlights the importance of using standardized methods to quantify plastic ingestion. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 113(1-2). 75–80. 29 indexed citations

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Liboiron, Max, et al.. (2016). Low plastic ingestion rate in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from Newfoundland destined for human consumption collected through citizen science methods. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 113(1-2). 428–437. 69 indexed citations

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Pine, Kathleen H. & Max Liboiron. (2015). The Politics of Measurement and Action. 3147–3156. 108 indexed citations

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Morello‐Frosch, Rachel, Julia Varshavsky, Max Liboiron, Phil Brown, & Julia Green Brody. (2014). Communicating results in post-Belmont era biomonitoring studies: Lessons from genetics and neuroimaging research. Environmental Research. 136. 363–372. 28 indexed citations

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