Tim van Emmerik

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
132 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Tim van Emmerik is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim van Emmerik has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Pollution, 50 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Tim van Emmerik's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (90 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (48 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (18 papers). Tim van Emmerik is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (90 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (48 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (18 papers). Tim van Emmerik collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Tim van Emmerik's co-authors include Laurent Lebreton, Lourens Meijer, Anna Schwarz, Christian Schmidt, Ruud van der Ent, Louise Schreyers, Caroline van Calcar, Paul Vriend, Yvette Mellink and Nick van de Giesen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Tim van Emmerik

123 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean

2021 851 citations Tim van Emmerik, Christian Schmidt et al. profile →
Rivers as Plastic Reservoirs

2022 195 citations Tim van Emmerik, Rahel Hauk et al. profile →
River export of macro- and microplastics to seas by sources worldwide

2023 144 citations Paul Vriend, Tim van Emmerik et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim van Emmerik Netherlands	35	3.6k	2.3k	918	638	569	132	5.1k
Christian Schmidt Germany	29	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	170 0.3×	559 1.0×	73	4.3k
Bruno Tassin France	38	7.5k 2.1×	6.0k 2.6×	547 0.6×	319 0.5×	477 0.8×	105	9.0k
A. T. Williams United Kingdom	51	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	205 0.2×	594 0.9×	1.3k 2.2×	183	6.8k
Nelson Rangel-Buitrago Colombia	38	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	120 0.1×	433 0.7×	761 1.3×	142	4.2k
Michel Riksen Netherlands	26	1.1k 0.3×	663 0.3×	263 0.3×	490 0.8×	444 0.8×	77	2.7k
Gerald Schernewski Germany	29	1.2k 0.3×	909 0.4×	259 0.3×	481 0.8×	558 1.0×	114	2.8k
Ruud van der Ent Netherlands	26	835 0.2×	618 0.3×	1.3k 1.4×	2.6k 4.1×	346 0.6×	60	4.5k
Mônica F. Costa Brazil	44	5.9k 1.6×	3.9k 1.7×	237 0.3×	719 1.1×	998 1.8×	123	8.0k
Stefano Aliani Italy	26	2.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	129 0.1×	355 0.6×	452 0.8×	67	3.1k
Gert Everaert Belgium	24	1.0k 0.3×	735 0.3×	340 0.4×	202 0.3×	439 0.8×	88	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Tim van Emmerik

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim van Emmerik

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim van Emmerik

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All Works

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Yadav, Vinay, Xunchang Fei, Mohit Arora, et al.. (2025). Gaps in quantifying environmental losses of plastics impede effective solutions. Nature Reviews Materials. 10(10). 717–719. 1 indexed citations

Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2025). Plastic pollution and water hyacinths consistently co-occur in the lower Saigon river. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 1(4). 45001–45001.

Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2024). Efficient plastic detection in coastal areas with selected spectral bands. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 207. 116914–116914. 6 indexed citations

Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2024). Mismanaged plastic waste as a predictor for river plastic pollution. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175463–175463. 12 indexed citations

Schreyers, Louise, et al.. (2024). Revealing the role of land-use features on macrolitter distribution in Swiss freshwaters. Environmental Pollution. 362. 124911–124911.

Hauk, Rahel, et al.. (2024). Flood-induced buttertub spill reveals riverine macroplastic transport dynamics. Environmental Sciences Europe. 36(1). 1 indexed citations

Tasseron, Paolo, et al.. (2024). Riverbank plastic distributions and how to sample them. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 5 indexed citations

Schreyers, Louise, Tim van Emmerik, Fredrik Huthoff, et al.. (2024). River plastic transport and storage budget. Water Research. 259. 121786–121786. 10 indexed citations

Kapelan, Zoran, et al.. (2024). Detecting floating litter in freshwater bodies with semi-supervised deep learning. Water Research. 266. 122405–122405. 6 indexed citations

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Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2024). Division and retention of floating plastic at river bifurcations. Environmental Pollution. 345. 123490–123490. 4 indexed citations

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Hurley, Rachel, Hans Fredrik Veiteberg Braaten, Luca Nizzetto, et al.. (2023). Measuring riverine macroplastic: Methods, harmonisation, and quality control. Water Research. 235. 119902–119902. 28 indexed citations

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Roebroek, Caspar T. J., Shaun Harrigan, Tim van Emmerik, et al.. (2020). Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 25003–25003. 116 indexed citations

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Wendt‐Potthoff, Katrin, Tamara Avellán, Tim van Emmerik, et al.. (2020). Monitoring Plastics in Rivers and Lakes: Guidelines for the Harmonization of Methodologies. UNU Collections (United Nations University). 18 indexed citations

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Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2020). Automated River Plastic Monitoring Using Deep Learning and Cameras. Earth and Space Science. 7(8). 90 indexed citations

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Popp, Andrea, Stefanie Lutz, Sina Khatami, Tim van Emmerik, & Wouter Knoben. (2019). A Global Survey on the Perceptions and Impacts of Gender Inequality in the Earth and Space Sciences. Earth and Space Science. 6(8). 1460–1468. 29 indexed citations

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Emmerik, Tim van, Andrea Popp, Anna Solcerová, Hannes Müller‐Thomy, & Rolf Hut. (2018). Reporting negative results to stimulate experimental hydrology: discussion of “The role of experimental work in hydrological sciences – insights from a community survey”. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 63(8). 1269–1272. 4 indexed citations

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Lutz, Stefanie, Andrea Popp, Tim van Emmerik, et al.. (2018). HESS Opinions: Science in today's media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(7). 3589–3599. 4 indexed citations

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Wada, Yoshihide, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Ad de Roo, et al.. (2017). Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(8). 4169–4193. 191 indexed citations

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Wada, Yoshihide, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Ad de Roo, et al.. (2017). Human-water interface in hydrological modeling: Current statusand future directions. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 7 indexed citations

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Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2014). Impact of diurnal variation in vegetation water content on radar backscatter from maize during water stress. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 62 indexed citations

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