ReviewHeliyon2020
Plastic pollution in the marine environment.
Review in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
105 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 951 citations in OpenAlex.
- Global microplastic pollution at levels harmful to marine life.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Pooled it
- Organic Pollutants Associated with Plastic Debris in Marine Environment: A Systematic Review of Analytical Methods, Occurrence, and Characteristics.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Combined Exposure to Polystyrene Nanoplastics and Gentamicin Promotes Liver Toxicity Through Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Apoptotic Pathways: In Vivo and In Silico Studies.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
- Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Investigating the Release and Toxicity of Microplastics/Nanoplastics From Single-Use Plastic Bags to Zebrafish.Journal of applied toxicology : JAT · 2026Article
- First Documented Fatal Gastric Obstruction Associated with Ingestion of Plastics and Vegetation in a JuvenileAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- A Pollution Detection System for Plastic Ocean Waste Based on Energy-Harvesting Radio Transmitters.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Metagenome Sequencing and Recovery of 52 Microbial Genomes from Plastic-Polluted Coastal Sediment.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Modelling the cleanup of the North Pacific Garbage Patch based on 3 years of operational experience.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Bioprocess optimization and purification of DLA produced using food and fishery waste.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Plastics and Sustainable Development - Identifying and Quantifying Ecodesign Strategies for Plastics.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2026Review
- Potential accelerated biotransformation of petrochemical plastic surfaces by anaerobic digester sludge microorganisms.Biodegradation · 2026Article
- In Vitro Fish Cell Culture: From Primary Muscle Cells to Cell-Based Meat in Cyprinidae.Biology · 2026Review
- Evaluation of riverine macro- and mesoplastic monitoring approaches.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Article
- PlasticEnz: An integrated database and screening tool combining homology and machine learning to identify plastic-degrading enzymes in meta-omics datasets.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Plastics as disruptors of feeding, digestive physiology, metabolism, and growth in fish and other aquatic ectothermic vertebrates.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- The Impact of Nanoplastics on the Quality of Fish Sperm: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Decarboxylation-Triggered Polymer Deconstruction.ACS polymers Au · 2025Review
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- Macroplastic accumulation across different surface covers, a case study of two South African rivers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
45 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Plastic pollution is recognized as a severe anthropogenic issue in the coastal and marine ecosystems across the world. Unprecedented and continuous accumulation of growing plastic contaminants into any respective aquatic ecosystem by the anthropogenic sources causes direct and/or indirect interruption to ecosystem structure, functions, and consequently, services and values. Land-based and sea-based sources are the primary sources of these contaminants in various modes that enter the ocean. In this review paper, we focused on highlighting different aspects related to plastic pollution in coastal and marine environments. Plastic pollutants are distributed in the ecosystems in different forms, with different size variations as megaplastic, macroplastic, mesoplastic, and microplastic. Microplastics in primary and secondary forms reveal a widespread distribution in the water, sediment, and biota of the marine and coastal habitats. The microplastic level of different coastal and marine ecosystems nearly ranged from 0.001-140 particles/m
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