ReviewToxics2022
Occurrence of Natural and Synthetic Micro-Fibers in the Mediterranean Sea: A Review.
Review in Toxics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Antibiotic resistance genes are more abundant in microplastic textile biofilms than natural cotton biofilms in freshwater.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Microfibers Accumulation within a Mediterranean Submesoscale Cyclone.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Dietary rayon microfibers differentially reshape rearing water and host associated microbiomes of farmed European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax).Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Natural and Regenerated Cellulosic Microfibers Dominate Anthropogenic Particles Ingested by Commercial Fish Species from the Adriatic Sea.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Occurrence of Microplastics inAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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- Impact of Fibrous Microplastic Pollution on Commercial Seafood and Consumer Health: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Editorial for the Special Issue "Microplastics in Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Distribution and Effects".Toxics · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Among microplastics (MPs), fibers are one of the most abundant shapes encountered in the aquatic environment. Growing attention is being focused on this typology of particles since they are considered an important form of marine contamination. Information about microfibers distribution in the Mediterranean Sea is still limited and the increasing evidence of the high amount of fibers in the aquatic environment should lead to a different classification from MPs which, by definition, are composed only of synthetic materials and not natural. In the past, cellulosic fibers (natural and regenerated) have been likely included in the synthetic realm by hundreds of studies, inflating "micro-plastic" counts in both environmental matrices and organisms. Comparisons are often hampered because many of the available studies have explicitly excluded the micro-fibers (MFs) content due, for example, to methodological problems. Considering the abundance of micro-fibers in the environment, a chemical composition analysis is fundamental for toxicological assessments. Overall, the results of this review work provide the basis to monitor and mitigate the impacts of microfiber pollution on the sea ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea, which can be used to investigate other basins of the world for future risk assessment.
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