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ArticleNature2025

Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic.

Sophie Ten Hietbrink, Dušan Materić, Rupert Holzinger, Sjoerd Groeskamp, Helge Niemann

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sophie Ten Hietbrink *Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0000-7363
Dušan Materić *Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. dusan.materic@ufz.de.ORCID 0000-0002-6454-3456
Rupert HolzingerInstitute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1902-1824
Sjoerd GroeskampNIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 't Horntje (Texel), The Netherlands.
Helge NiemannNIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 't Horntje (Texel), The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-3468-8304

Funding

Dutch Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plastic pollution of the marine realm is widespread, with most scientific attention given to macroplastics and microplastics

Indexed as

MicroplasticsPlasticsSeawaterWater Pollutants, ChemicalAtlantic OceanEnvironmental MonitoringPolyethylene TerephthalatesPolystyrenesPolyvinyl ChlorideMicroplasticsPlasticsPolyethylene TerephthalatesPolystyrenesPolyvinyl ChlorideWater Pollutants, Chemical

Identifiers

PMID40634739
PMCPMC12240857

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