ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2020
Global distribution of microplastics and its impact on marine environment-a review.
Review in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Global microplastic pollution at levels harmful to marine life.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Pooled it
- Occurrence, transport, and toxicity of microplastics in tropical food chains: perspectives view and way forward.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2024Pooled it
- Rethinking microplastic cleanup: sustainable bioremediation compared to conventional physical-chemical methods.RSC advances · 2026Review
- Extracting Caprolactam from PA6 Waste: Progress in Chemical Recycling and Sustainable Practices.Polymers · 2026Review
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- A review on microplastics: sources, environmental fate, degradation pathways, and analytical identification methods.RSC advances · 2026Review
- The impact of building uses on microplastic pollution and its implications for environmental education.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Remediation of Micro- and Nanoplastics by Membrane Technologies.Membranes · 2025Review
- Microplastic pollution in the marine environment: Sources, impacts, and degradation.Journal of advanced veterinary and animal research · 2025Article
- Would the Oceans Become Toxic to Humanity Due to Use and Mismanagement of Plastics?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Polystyrene nanoplastics: optimized removal using magnetic nano-adsorbent and toxicity assessment in zebrafish embryos.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2024Article
- Concerning influences of micro/nano plastics on female reproductive health: focusing on cellular and molecular pathways from animal models to human studies.Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E · 2024Review
- Occurrence of specific pollutants in a mixture of sewage and rainwater from an urbanized area.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- The Presence of Microplastics in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Song Thrushes (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Microplastics in aquaculture - Potential impacts on inflammatory processes in Nile tilapia.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The distribution of sediment microplastics assemblages is driven by location and hydrodynamics, not sediment characteristics, in the Gulf of Maine, USA.Marine pollution bulletin · 2024Article
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- Microplastic Removal in Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) by Natural Coagulation: A Literature Review.Toxics · 2023Review
- Microplastics in soils during the COVID-19 pandemic: Sources, migration and transformations, and remediation technologies.The Science of the total environment · 2023Review
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Abstract
Microplastics are the major environmental health hazards spotted in almost all the marine habitats and biota of world. The earlier research on microplastics have mainly focused on studying abundance and distribution as well as impacts on organisms, while the existing review articles have reviewed on any one of the above aspects or the environmental fate of microplastics. The current review focuses on all the above facets thereby bringing out the incompleteness in information globally in the respective facets. Our findings suggest that among 192 countries of the world, only 22.9% (44) of the countries have carried out research regarding microplastics, while impacts on organisms have mostly targeted fish (38%), whereas studies on other highly affected organisms such as turtles (1%) are not well documented. Therefore, we suggest expanding research in all the above aspects of microplastics considering that there are several pristine marine environments and organisms that are yet unexplored. Quantifying research in these regards would enable to propose a microplastic threshold level and formulate control measures to reduce the use of plastics and its subsequent threat to the marine environment.
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