Yvette Mellink

672 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 359 citations indexed

About

Yvette Mellink is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yvette Mellink has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 359 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Pollution, 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Yvette Mellink's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (9 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (6 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (1 paper). Yvette Mellink is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (9 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (6 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (1 paper). Yvette Mellink collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Switzerland and United States. Yvette Mellink's co-authors include Tim van Emmerik, Louise Schreyers, Rahel Hauk, Kryss Waldschläger, Roy M. Frings, Thomas Mani, Helge Niemann, Merel Kooi, Charlotte Laufkötter and Paul Vriend and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Yvette Mellink

11 papers receiving 351 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Rivers as Plastic Reservoirs
    2022 195 citations Tim van Emmerik, Yvette Mellink et al. Frontiers in Water profile →

Peers

Yvette Mellink
Rahel Hauk Netherlands
Paul Vriend Netherlands
Taylor Maddalene United States
Bushra Nishat Bangladesh
Robin Treilles France
Nanik Retno Buwono Indonesia
Kenneth Otieno Kenya
Karankumar Ramteke India
Nicolás Garello Argentina
Iulian Pojar Romania
Rahel Hauk Netherlands
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Citations per year, relative to Yvette Mellink Yvette Mellink (= 1×) peers Rahel Hauk

Countries citing papers authored by Yvette Mellink

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yvette Mellink

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yvette Mellink

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yvette Mellink. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yvette Mellink 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 Yvette Mellink. Yvette Mellink is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Vriend, Paul, Thijs Bosker, Yvette Mellink, et al.. (2025). Uncertainties in Visual Observations of Floating Riverine Plastic. ACS ES&T Water. 5(7). 3920–3928. 2 indexed citations
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Mellink, Yvette, et al.. (2024). Macroplastic Fate and Transport Modeling: Freshwaters Act as Main Reservoirs. ACS ES&T Water. 4(6). 2470–2481. 9 indexed citations
3.
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
4.
Tasseron, Paolo, Tim van Emmerik, Paul Vriend, et al.. (2024). Defining plastic pollution hotspots. The Science of The Total Environment. 934. 173294–173294. 12 indexed citations
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Mellink, Yvette, Paul Vriend, Paolo Tasseron, et al.. (2023). Sample size requirements for riverbank macrolitter characterization. Frontiers in Water. 4. 21 indexed citations
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Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2023). River plastic transport and deposition amplified by extreme flood. Nature Water. 1(6). 514–522. 61 indexed citations
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Emmerik, Tim van, Louise Schreyers, Yvette Mellink, Ty Sok, & Mauricio E. Arias. (2023). Large variation in Mekong river plastic transport between wet and dry season. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 17 indexed citations
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Emmerik, Tim van, Yvette Mellink, Rahel Hauk, Kryss Waldschläger, & Louise Schreyers. (2022). Rivers as Plastic Reservoirs. Frontiers in Water. 3. 195 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mellink, Yvette, Tim van Emmerik, Merel Kooi, Charlotte Laufkötter, & Helge Niemann. (2022). The Plastic Pathfinder: A macroplastic transport and fate model for terrestrial environments. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 21 indexed citations
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Mellink, Yvette, Tim van Emmerik, Charlotte Laufkötter, Merel Kooi, & Helge Niemann. (2021). The Trash Tracker: A Macroplastic Fate and Transport Model at River Basin Scale. 1 indexed citations
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Mellink, Yvette, Mihai Adamescu, Constantin Cazacu, et al.. (2021). A practical novel assessment tool for the socio-ecological condition of Protected Areas: The Protection Level Index (PLI). Journal for Nature Conservation. 64. 126065–126065. 5 indexed citations

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