Thomas Mani

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Mani is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Mani has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pollution, 10 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 2 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Mani's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (10 papers) and Radar Systems and Signal Processing (1 paper). Thomas Mani is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (10 papers) and Radar Systems and Signal Processing (1 paper). Thomas Mani collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Thomas Mani's co-authors include Patricia Burkhardt‐Holm, Armin Hauk, U. Walter, Gunnar Gerdts, Sebastian Primpke, Claudia Lorenz, Marco Pittroff, Florian R. Storck, Matthias Egger and Robin de Vries and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Mani

14 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Microplastics profile along the Rhine River 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 250 500 750
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.

  1. Microplastics profile along the Rhine River
    2015 759 citations Thomas Mani, Armin Hauk et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Mani Switzerland 10 1.4k 1.1k 253 92 92 16 1.4k
Marianne Olsen Norway 12 1.2k 0.8× 948 0.8× 277 1.1× 103 1.1× 118 1.3× 28 1.3k
Nicholas J. Craig Australia 11 1.3k 0.9× 989 0.9× 298 1.2× 104 1.1× 112 1.2× 17 1.4k
Ico Martínez Spain 15 1.1k 0.8× 856 0.8× 173 0.7× 101 1.1× 177 1.9× 35 1.3k
Kryss Waldschläger Netherlands 12 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 274 1.1× 102 1.1× 63 0.7× 25 1.5k
Win Cowger United States 16 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 235 0.9× 89 1.0× 133 1.4× 32 1.7k
Elena Esiukova Russia 15 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 294 1.2× 204 2.2× 75 0.8× 43 1.5k
Saeed Sadri United Kingdom 3 1.2k 0.9× 891 0.8× 232 0.9× 124 1.3× 125 1.4× 3 1.3k
Ivo Int-Veen Germany 5 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 288 1.1× 76 0.8× 81 0.9× 5 1.5k
Holly Nel United Kingdom 18 1.6k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 314 1.2× 147 1.6× 127 1.4× 28 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Mani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Mani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thomas Mani. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Thomas Mani. The network helps show where Thomas Mani may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Mani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Mani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Mani based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Mani. Thomas Mani is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Trois, Cristina, et al.. (2024). Wasted shores: Using drones to monitor the spatio-temporal evolution of debris accumulation hotspots on South Africa's Umgeni River. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 176791–176791. 3 indexed citations
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Mellink, Yvette, Tim van Emmerik, & Thomas Mani. (2024). Wind- and rain-driven macroplastic mobilization and transport on land. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 3898–3898. 15 indexed citations
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Egger, Matthias, et al.. (2022). Pelagic distribution of plastic debris (> 500 µm) and marine organisms in the upper layer of the North Atlantic Ocean. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 13465–13465. 25 indexed citations
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Leone, Giulia, Ana I. Catarino, Ine Pauwels, et al.. (2021). Integrating Bayesian Belief Networks in a toolbox for decision support on plastic clean-up technologies in rivers and estuaries. Environmental Pollution. 296. 118721–118721. 8 indexed citations
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Vries, Robin de, Matthias Egger, Thomas Mani, & Laurent Lebreton. (2021). Quantifying Floating Plastic Debris at Sea Using Vessel-Based Optical Data and Artificial Intelligence. Remote Sensing. 13(17). 3401–3401. 32 indexed citations
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Vries, Robin de, Matthias Egger, Thomas Mani, & Laurent Lebreton. (2021). Quantifying Floating Plastic Debris at Sea Using Vessel-Based Optical Data and Artificial Intelligence. 2015 january. 1118–1121. 1 indexed citations
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Vries, Robin de, Matthias Egger, Thomas Mani, & Laurent Lebreton. (2021). Vessel-based optical data and artificial intelligence for sampling mega-plastic concentrations on the high seas. 1 indexed citations
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Burkhardt‐Holm, Patricia, et al.. (2021). Microplastics in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica): A Forensic Approach for Discrimination between Environmental and Vessel-Induced Microplastics. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(23). 15900–15911. 76 indexed citations
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Mani, Thomas & Patricia Burkhardt‐Holm. (2019). Seasonal microplastics variation in nival and pluvial stretches of the Rhine River – From the Swiss catchment towards the North Sea. The Science of The Total Environment. 707. 135579–135579. 131 indexed citations
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Mani, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Using castor oil to separate microplastics from four different environmental matrices. Analytical Methods. 11(13). 1788–1794. 112 indexed citations
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Mani, Thomas, Sebastian Primpke, Claudia Lorenz, Gunnar Gerdts, & Patricia Burkhardt‐Holm. (2019). Microplastic Pollution in Benthic Midstream Sediments of the Rhine River. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(10). 6053–6062. 189 indexed citations
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Mani, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Repeated detection of polystyrene microbeads in the Lower Rhine River. Environmental Pollution. 245. 634–641. 82 indexed citations
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Mani, Thomas, Armin Hauk, U. Walter, & Patricia Burkhardt‐Holm. (2015). Microplastics profile along the Rhine River. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17988–17988. 759 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mani, Thomas, et al.. (2013). Numerical Computational Technique for Scattering from Underwater Objects. Defence Science Journal. 63(1). 119–126.

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