Serena Ducoli

964 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 653 citations indexed

About

Serena Ducoli is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Serena Ducoli has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 653 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Pollution, 11 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Serena Ducoli's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (13 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (11 papers) and Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production (3 papers). Serena Ducoli is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (13 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (11 papers) and Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production (3 papers). Serena Ducoli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Egypt and Belgium. Serena Ducoli's co-authors include Elza Bontempi, Stefania Federici, Annalisa Zacco, Laura E. Depero, Satarupa Dey, Uttpal Anand, Monika Rani, Abhijit Dey, A. Dick Vethaak and Elsayed Mousa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Chemical Communications and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Serena Ducoli

19 papers receiving 638 citations

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Biotechnological methods to remove microplastics: a review

2023 143 citations Uttpal Anand, Satarupa Dey et al. Environmental Chemistry Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Serena Ducoli Italy	14	321	311	104	87	82	21	653
Nazdaneh Yarahmadi Sweden	13	213 0.7×	122 0.4×	64 0.6×	177 2.0×	48 0.6×	28	588
Matthew Huff United States	10	119 0.4×	117 0.4×	170 1.6×	87 1.0×	62 0.8×	16	752
Fırat Burat Türkiye	15	140 0.4×	341 1.1×	113 1.1×	50 0.6×	321 3.9×	37	599
Lorenzo Cafiero Italy	14	191 0.6×	358 1.2×	211 2.0×	92 1.1×	170 2.1×	23	692
Tong Yang China	15	607 1.9×	424 1.4×	106 1.0×	107 1.2×	43 0.5×	40	866
Himanshu Kumar India	6	146 0.5×	110 0.4×	108 1.0×	30 0.3×	40 0.5×	8	500
Murat Olgaç Kangal Türkiye	16	167 0.5×	229 0.7×	215 2.1×	67 0.8×	284 3.5×	36	648
Dieter Stapf Germany	15	163 0.5×	208 0.7×	304 2.9×	61 0.7×	100 1.2×	72	847
Shah Saud Alam United States	12	138 0.4×	177 0.6×	139 1.3×	20 0.2×	56 0.7×	25	608
Yunhong Shi Ireland	15	806 2.5×	490 1.6×	119 1.1×	167 1.9×	20 0.2×	33	1.0k

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Terzaghi, Elisa, Ginevra Boldrocchi, Stefania Federici, et al.. (2025). Co-staining microplastics with Nile Red and Rose Bengal for improved optical quantification. Scientific Reports. 16(1). 2917–2917.

Ducoli, Serena, Milica Velimirović, Dóra Méhn, et al.. (2025). Quantitative evaluation of true-to-life nanoplastics using UV-visible spectroscopy and comparative analytical techniques. Environmental Science Nano. 12(11). 4935–4947.

Ducoli, Serena, Gabriela Kalčíková, Milica Velimirović, Laura E. Depero, & Stefania Federici. (2025). Production, characterization, and toxicology of environmentally relevant nanoplastics: a review. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 23(2). 649–675. 8 indexed citations

Ducoli, Serena, et al.. (2024). Comparison of different fragmentation techniques for the production of true-to-life microplastics. Talanta. 283. 127106–127106. 5 indexed citations

Rani, Monika, Serena Ducoli, Laura E. Depero, et al.. (2023). A Complete Guide to Extraction Methods of Microplastics from Complex Environmental Matrices. Molecules. 28(15). 5710–5710. 73 indexed citations

Anand, Uttpal, Satarupa Dey, Elza Bontempi, et al.. (2023). Biotechnological methods to remove microplastics: a review. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 21(3). 1787–1810. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

Anand, Uttpal, Satarupa Dey, Dipannita Parial, et al.. (2023). Algae and bacteria consortia for wastewater decontamination and transformation into biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen, biofertilizers and animal feed: a review. Environmental Chemistry Letters. 21(3). 1585–1609. 39 indexed citations

Ducoli, Serena, Stefania Federici, Mariacristina Cocca, et al.. (2023). Characterization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyamide (PA) true-to-life nanoplastics and their biological interactions. Environmental Pollution. 343. 123150–123150. 22 indexed citations

Agbaba, Jasmina, et al.. (2023). Efficiency of Coagulation/Flocculation for the Removal of Complex Mixture of Textile Fibers from Water. Processes. 11(3). 820–820. 14 indexed citations

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Rani, Monika, Serena Ducoli, Stefania Federici, & Laura E. Depero. (2023). Influx of Near-Infrared Technology in Microplastic Community: A Bibliometric Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 107–121. 9 indexed citations

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Ducoli, Serena, et al.. (2023). Exploring fragmentation techniques for the preparation of test microplastics. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Brescia). 238–242. 1 indexed citations

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Fahimi, Ario, Serena Ducoli, Stefania Federici, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the sustainability of technologies to recycle spent lithium-ion batteries, based on embodied energy and carbon footprint. Journal of Cleaner Production. 338. 130493–130493. 57 indexed citations

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Ducoli, Serena, Ario Fahimi, Elsayed Mousa, et al.. (2022). ESCAPE approach for the sustainability evaluation of spent lithium-ion batteries recovery: Dataset of 33 available technologies. Data in Brief. 42. 108018–108018. 16 indexed citations

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Zanoletti, Alessandra, Serena Ducoli, Annalisa Zacco, et al.. (2022). Accelerated and natural carbonation of a municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash mixture: Basic strategies for higher carbon dioxide sequestration and reliable mass quantification. Environmental Research. 217. 114805–114805. 38 indexed citations

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Rani, Monika, Stefania Federici, Ivano Alessandri, et al.. (2022). Quantification of ternary microplastic mixtures through an ultra-compact near-infrared spectrometer coupled with chemometric tools. Environmental Research. 216(Pt 3). 114632–114632. 24 indexed citations

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Ducoli, Serena, Stefania Federici, Andrea Zendrini, et al.. (2022). A different protein corona cloaks “true-to-life” nanoplastics with respect to synthetic polystyrene nanobeads. Environmental Science Nano. 9(4). 1414–1426. 13 indexed citations

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Ducoli, Serena, Annalisa Zacco, & Elza Bontempi. (2021). Incineration of sewage sludge and recovery of residue ash as building material: A valuable option as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Environmental Management. 282. 111966–111966. 56 indexed citations

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Assi, Ahmad, Fabjola Bilo, Alessandra Zanoletti, et al.. (2020). A Circular Economy Virtuous Example—Use of a Stabilized Waste Material Instead of Calcite to Produce Sustainable Composites. Applied Sciences. 10(3). 754–754. 18 indexed citations

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Rani, Monika, Stefania Federici, Ivano Alessandri, et al.. (2019). Miniaturized Near-Infrared (MicroNIR) Spectrometer in Plastic Waste Sorting. Materials. 12(17). 2740–2740. 84 indexed citations

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Monopoli, Marco P., Andrea Zendrini, Dan Wu, et al.. (2018). Endogenous exosome labelling with an amphiphilic NIR-fluorescent probe. Chemical Communications. 54(52). 7219–7222. 20 indexed citations

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