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Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution is a form of environmental contamination characterized by the accumulation of synthetic polymer waste in natural ecosystems, distinguished from other types of pollution by its persistence, widespread dispersion, and detrimental impacts on wildlife, habitats, and human health.

8.7K

Publications

956.8K

Citations

30.5K

Authors

5.4K

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2017–2026

7.4K

Variants

Plastics Pollution

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Publications

8.7K

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law · Science Advances · 2017 · 17.6K citations · Full text

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Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

Jenna Jambeck, Roland Geyer, Chris Wilcox et al. · Science · 2015 · 12.7K citations

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Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?

Richard C. Thompson, Ylva S. Olsen, Richard P. Mitchell et al. · Science · 2004 · 7.5K citations

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Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

Marcus Eriksen, Laurent Lebreton, Henry S. Carson et al. · PLoS ONE · 2014 · 4.6K citations · Full text

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River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

Laurent Lebreton, Joost van der Zwet, Jan-Willem Damsteeg et al. · Nature Communications · 2017 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Authors

30.5K

  1. RC
    Richard C. Thompson

    University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

    49 publications · 35.1K citations

    42

    h-index

  2. HS
    Huahong Shi

    East China Normal University, China

    45 publications · 11.7K citations

    37

    h-index

  3. AA
    Albert A. Koelmans

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    39 publications · 14.8K citations

    35

    h-index

  4. CM
    Chelsea M. Rochman

    University of Toronto, Canada

    46 publications · 14.5K citations

    34

    h-index

  5. XG
    Xuetao Guo

    Northwest A&F University, China

    36 publications · 4.9K citations

    33

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Institutions

5.4K

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    102 h-index

    1.3K publications

    149.9K citations

  2. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    80 h-index

    476 publications

    117.5K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    78 h-index

    704 publications

    113.1K citations

  4. East China Normal University

    Shanghai, China

    76 h-index

    462 publications

    101.6K citations

  5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    71 h-index

    449 publications

    45.7K citations

  6. University of Plymouth

    Plymouth, United Kingdom

    62 h-index

    182 publications

    125.5K citations

  7. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    54 h-index

    248 publications

    61K citations

  8. Northwest A&F University

    Yangling, China

    53 h-index

    371 publications

    44.8K citations

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Venues

  1. Marine Pollution Bulletin

    879 publications · 107.2K citations

    158

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  2. The Science of The Total Environment

    971 publications · 98.1K citations

    157

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  3. Environmental Pollution

    545 publications · 83.4K citations

    151

    h-index

  4. Environmental Science & Technology

    343 publications · 88.1K citations

    138

    h-index

  5. Journal of Hazardous Materials

    431 publications · 38K citations

    107

    h-index

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