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Microplastics and Nanoplastics

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SCImago
Q1
SJR
4.031
CiteScore
17.9
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
Microplastics and Nanoplastics
Publications
147
Citations
2 967
h-index
31
Publications
147
Citations
2 878
Top-3 citing journals
Top-3 organizations
University of Bayreuth
University of Bayreuth (13 publications)
University of Toronto
University of Toronto (9 publications)
Top-3 countries
Germany (37 publications)
Netherlands (23 publications)
USA (23 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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Science of the Total Environment
245 citations, 8.26%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
131 citations, 4.42%
Environmental Pollution
127 citations, 4.28%
Microplastics and Nanoplastics
118 citations, 3.98%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
100 citations, 3.37%
Environmental Science & Technology
77 citations, 2.6%
Chemosphere
51 citations, 1.72%
TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry
45 citations, 1.52%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
45 citations, 1.52%
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
34 citations, 1.15%
Environmental Research
29 citations, 0.98%
Environmental International
26 citations, 0.88%
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
26 citations, 0.88%
Frontiers in Marine Science
24 citations, 0.81%
Water Research
24 citations, 0.81%
Scientific Reports
23 citations, 0.78%
Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
23 citations, 0.78%
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
22 citations, 0.74%
Environmental Science: Nano
21 citations, 0.71%
Microplastics
21 citations, 0.71%
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
19 citations, 0.64%
Toxics
17 citations, 0.57%
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
16 citations, 0.54%
Journal of Environmental Management
16 citations, 0.54%
Polymers
15 citations, 0.51%
Sustainability
15 citations, 0.51%
NanoImpact
15 citations, 0.51%
Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts
14 citations, 0.47%
Frontiers in Toxicology
14 citations, 0.47%
Regional Studies in Marine Science
12 citations, 0.4%
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
12 citations, 0.4%
Nature Communications
12 citations, 0.4%
Nanomaterials
12 citations, 0.4%
Environmental Science Advances
12 citations, 0.4%
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
11 citations, 0.37%
Frontiers in Environmental Science
11 citations, 0.37%
Aquatic Toxicology
11 citations, 0.37%
Environmental Sciences Europe
10 citations, 0.34%
Environmental Geochemistry and Health
10 citations, 0.34%
Heliyon
10 citations, 0.34%
Water (Switzerland)
10 citations, 0.34%
Environments - MDPI
9 citations, 0.3%
Environmental Advances
9 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
8 citations, 0.27%
Ecological Indicators
8 citations, 0.27%
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
8 citations, 0.27%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
8 citations, 0.27%
Analytical Chemistry
8 citations, 0.27%
RSC Advances
7 citations, 0.24%
Small
7 citations, 0.24%
Environmental Research Letters
7 citations, 0.24%
Applied Soil Ecology
7 citations, 0.24%
Journal of Water Process Engineering
7 citations, 0.24%
Particle and Fibre Toxicology
7 citations, 0.24%
ACS ES&T Water
7 citations, 0.24%
Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies
7 citations, 0.24%
Marine Environmental Research
6 citations, 0.2%
International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
6 citations, 0.2%
Environmental Technology and Innovation
6 citations, 0.2%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
5 citations, 0.17%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
5 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Cleaner Production
5 citations, 0.17%
Arctic Science
5 citations, 0.17%
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
5 citations, 0.17%
Polymer Degradation and Stability
5 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Soils and Sediments
5 citations, 0.17%
Water Environment Research
5 citations, 0.17%
Chemical Engineering Journal
5 citations, 0.17%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
5 citations, 0.17%
Ocean and Coastal Management
5 citations, 0.17%
PLoS ONE
5 citations, 0.17%
Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
5 citations, 0.17%
Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
5 citations, 0.17%
Molecules
4 citations, 0.13%
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences
4 citations, 0.13%
PeerJ
4 citations, 0.13%
Talanta
4 citations, 0.13%
Current Pollution Reports
4 citations, 0.13%
Marine Policy
4 citations, 0.13%
Food and Chemical Toxicology
4 citations, 0.13%
Emerging Contaminants
4 citations, 0.13%
Atmosphere
4 citations, 0.13%
International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation
4 citations, 0.13%
Waste Management
4 citations, 0.13%
Computation
4 citations, 0.13%
Environmental Science and Technology Letters
4 citations, 0.13%
Environmental Quality Management
4 citations, 0.13%
Microchemical Journal
4 citations, 0.13%
Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health
4 citations, 0.13%
Journal of Environmental Sciences
4 citations, 0.13%
Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology
4 citations, 0.13%
Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
4 citations, 0.13%
F1000Research
4 citations, 0.13%
Communications Earth & Environment
4 citations, 0.13%
Discover Environment
4 citations, 0.13%
Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection
4 citations, 0.13%
Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
4 citations, 0.13%
Sustainable Development Goals Series
4 citations, 0.13%
Water Emerging Contaminants & Nanoplastics
4 citations, 0.13%
Nanoscale
3 citations, 0.1%
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Elsevier
1364 citations, 45.97%
Springer Nature
542 citations, 18.27%
MDPI
248 citations, 8.36%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
130 citations, 4.38%
Wiley
113 citations, 3.81%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
79 citations, 2.66%
Frontiers Media S.A.
76 citations, 2.56%
Taylor & Francis
53 citations, 1.79%
Oxford University Press
35 citations, 1.18%
IOP Publishing
21 citations, 0.71%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
17 citations, 0.57%
Canadian Science Publishing
16 citations, 0.54%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
13 citations, 0.44%
SAGE
8 citations, 0.27%
EDP Sciences
8 citations, 0.27%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
8 citations, 0.27%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
8 citations, 0.27%
Copernicus
8 citations, 0.27%
OAE Publishing Inc.
8 citations, 0.27%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
7 citations, 0.24%
Pleiades Publishing
6 citations, 0.2%
IGI Global
6 citations, 0.2%
AIP Publishing
5 citations, 0.17%
Portland Press
5 citations, 0.17%
PeerJ
5 citations, 0.17%
Japan Society on Water Environment
5 citations, 0.17%
Scientific Research Publishing
5 citations, 0.17%
IntechOpen
5 citations, 0.17%
Walter de Gruyter
4 citations, 0.13%
F1000 Research
4 citations, 0.13%
Environmental Health Perspectives
4 citations, 0.13%
Research Square Platform LLC
4 citations, 0.13%
Apex Publishing
4 citations, 0.13%
Cambridge University Press
3 citations, 0.1%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
3 citations, 0.1%
Mary Ann Liebert
3 citations, 0.1%
IWA Publishing
3 citations, 0.1%
American Geophysical Union
3 citations, 0.1%
JMIR Publications
3 citations, 0.1%
World Scientific
2 citations, 0.07%
Emerald
2 citations, 0.07%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
2 citations, 0.07%
The Royal Society
2 citations, 0.07%
Pensoft Publishers
2 citations, 0.07%
American Physical Society (APS)
2 citations, 0.07%
Asian Journal of Chemistry
2 citations, 0.07%
Hindawi Limited
2 citations, 0.07%
The Gorbatov's All-Russian Meat Research Institute
2 citations, 0.07%
Ubiquity Press
2 citations, 0.07%
The Japan Institute of Marine Engineering
2 citations, 0.07%
Brill
1 citation, 0.03%
King Saud University
1 citation, 0.03%
University of Chicago Press
1 citation, 0.03%
Optica Publishing Group
1 citation, 0.03%
American Society for Horticultural Science
1 citation, 0.03%
Japan Society of Applied Physics
1 citation, 0.03%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1 citation, 0.03%
CAB International
1 citation, 0.03%
Colegio Brasileiro de Reproducao Animal
1 citation, 0.03%
Tsinghua University Press
1 citation, 0.03%
Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering
1 citation, 0.03%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
1 citation, 0.03%
Japanese Society of Fisheries Science
1 citation, 0.03%
American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
1 citation, 0.03%
Beilstein-Institut
1 citation, 0.03%
Inter-Research Science Center
1 citation, 0.03%
ITMO University
1 citation, 0.03%
Technosphera JSC
1 citation, 0.03%
CSIRO Publishing
1 citation, 0.03%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
1 citation, 0.03%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
1 citation, 0.03%
The Open Journal
1 citation, 0.03%
The Korean Society of Environmental Health and Toxicology
1 citation, 0.03%
Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging
1 citation, 0.03%
PAGEPress Publications
1 citation, 0.03%
Brieflands
1 citation, 0.03%
Maximum Academic Press
1 citation, 0.03%
Federal Scientific Center for Hygiene F.F.Erisman
1 citation, 0.03%
Federal Medical Biological Agency
1 citation, 0.03%
Autonomous Non-profit Organization Editorial Board of the journal Uspekhi Khimii
1 citation, 0.03%
XMLink
1 citation, 0.03%
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Wageningen University and Research Centre
16 publications, 10.88%
University of Bayreuth
13 publications, 8.84%
University of Toronto
9 publications, 6.12%
University of Gothenburg
7 publications, 4.76%
Free University of Berlin
6 publications, 4.08%
Oregon State University
6 publications, 4.08%
Utrecht University
6 publications, 4.08%
Imperial College London
5 publications, 3.4%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
5 publications, 3.4%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 publications, 3.4%
Technical University of Darmstadt
5 publications, 3.4%
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
5 publications, 3.4%
University of Vienna
4 publications, 2.72%
University of Plymouth
4 publications, 2.72%
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
4 publications, 2.72%
ETH Zurich
3 publications, 2.04%
University of Bern
3 publications, 2.04%
Aarhus University
3 publications, 2.04%
University of Bergen
3 publications, 2.04%
Technical University of Denmark
3 publications, 2.04%
Duke University
3 publications, 2.04%
Technical University of Berlin
3 publications, 2.04%
University of Cologne
3 publications, 2.04%
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
3 publications, 2.04%
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
3 publications, 2.04%
Philipps University of Marburg
3 publications, 2.04%
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
3 publications, 2.04%
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
3 publications, 2.04%
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
3 publications, 2.04%
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 publications, 2.04%
Ghent University
2 publications, 1.36%
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2 publications, 1.36%
Maastricht University
2 publications, 1.36%
Roskilde University
2 publications, 1.36%
Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
2 publications, 1.36%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
2 publications, 1.36%
National Institute of Standards and Technology
2 publications, 1.36%
University of California, Santa Barbara
2 publications, 1.36%
Vrije Universiteit Medical Center
2 publications, 1.36%
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research
2 publications, 1.36%
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
2 publications, 1.36%
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2 publications, 1.36%
Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology
2 publications, 1.36%
University of British Columbia
2 publications, 1.36%
RWTH Aachen University
2 publications, 1.36%
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
2 publications, 1.36%
Federal Institute For Materials Research and Testing
2 publications, 1.36%
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
2 publications, 1.36%
Deltares
2 publications, 1.36%
University of East Anglia
2 publications, 1.36%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2 publications, 1.36%
University of Portsmouth
2 publications, 1.36%
Heriot-Watt University
2 publications, 1.36%
University of Georgia
2 publications, 1.36%
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2 publications, 1.36%
Pacific Geographical Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1 publication, 0.68%
Cukurova University
1 publication, 0.68%
Tsinghua University
1 publication, 0.68%
Basque Foundation for Science
1 publication, 0.68%
Technical University of Munich
1 publication, 0.68%
Shamir Medical Center
1 publication, 0.68%
Karolinska Institute
1 publication, 0.68%
Karolinska University Hospital
1 publication, 0.68%
Stockholm University
1 publication, 0.68%
Grenoble Alpes University
1 publication, 0.68%
Malmö University
1 publication, 0.68%
Paul Scherrer Institute
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Zurich
1 publication, 0.68%
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
1 publication, 0.68%
Chongqing University
1 publication, 0.68%
Technische Universität Dresden
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Geneva
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Basel
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Eastern Finland
1 publication, 0.68%
Aalborg University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Copenhagen
1 publication, 0.68%
Sorbonne University
1 publication, 0.68%
Edinburgh Napier University
1 publication, 0.68%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.68%
Loughborough University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Southampton
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Birmingham
1 publication, 0.68%
Johns Hopkins University
1 publication, 0.68%
Italian Institute of Technology
1 publication, 0.68%
Norwegian Institute for Air Research
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Strathclyde
1 publication, 0.68%
Pennsylvania State University
1 publication, 0.68%
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
1 publication, 0.68%
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Auckland
1 publication, 0.68%
Massey University
1 publication, 0.68%
GNS Science
1 publication, 0.68%
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0.68%
Australian Research Council
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Newcastle Australia
1 publication, 0.68%
Edith Cowan University
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Cape Town
1 publication, 0.68%
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
1 publication, 0.68%
University of Iceland
1 publication, 0.68%
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Germany, 37, 25.17%
Germany
37 publications, 25.17%
USA, 23, 15.65%
USA
23 publications, 15.65%
Netherlands, 23, 15.65%
Netherlands
23 publications, 15.65%
United Kingdom, 21, 14.29%
United Kingdom
21 publications, 14.29%
Norway, 15, 10.2%
Norway
15 publications, 10.2%
Switzerland, 12, 8.16%
Switzerland
12 publications, 8.16%
Canada, 10, 6.8%
Canada
10 publications, 6.8%
Sweden, 9, 6.12%
Sweden
9 publications, 6.12%
France, 8, 5.44%
France
8 publications, 5.44%
Denmark, 7, 4.76%
Denmark
7 publications, 4.76%
Italy, 6, 4.08%
Italy
6 publications, 4.08%
Austria, 5, 3.4%
Austria
5 publications, 3.4%
Belgium, 5, 3.4%
Belgium
5 publications, 3.4%
Australia, 4, 2.72%
Australia
4 publications, 2.72%
Spain, 4, 2.72%
Spain
4 publications, 2.72%
New Zealand, 3, 2.04%
New Zealand
3 publications, 2.04%
China, 2, 1.36%
China
2 publications, 1.36%
Greece, 2, 1.36%
Greece
2 publications, 1.36%
Ireland, 2, 1.36%
Ireland
2 publications, 1.36%
Turkey, 2, 1.36%
Turkey
2 publications, 1.36%
Philippines, 2, 1.36%
Philippines
2 publications, 1.36%
Japan, 2, 1.36%
Japan
2 publications, 1.36%
Russia, 1, 0.68%
Russia
1 publication, 0.68%
Estonia, 1, 0.68%
Estonia
1 publication, 0.68%
Portugal, 1, 0.68%
Portugal
1 publication, 0.68%
Argentina, 1, 0.68%
Argentina
1 publication, 0.68%
Brazil, 1, 0.68%
Brazil
1 publication, 0.68%
Israel, 1, 0.68%
Israel
1 publication, 0.68%
Indonesia, 1, 0.68%
Indonesia
1 publication, 0.68%
Iceland, 1, 0.68%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.68%
Madagascar, 1, 0.68%
Madagascar
1 publication, 0.68%
Malta, 1, 0.68%
Malta
1 publication, 0.68%
Mexico, 1, 0.68%
Mexico
1 publication, 0.68%
Monaco, 1, 0.68%
Monaco
1 publication, 0.68%
Slovenia, 1, 0.68%
Slovenia
1 publication, 0.68%
Trinidad and Tobago, 1, 0.68%
Trinidad and Tobago
1 publication, 0.68%
Fiji, 1, 0.68%
Fiji
1 publication, 0.68%
Finland, 1, 0.68%
Finland
1 publication, 0.68%
Czech Republic, 1, 0.68%
Czech Republic
1 publication, 0.68%
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