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The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems
The study of microplastics and their impact on aquatic ecosystems has received increasing attention in recent years. Drawing from an analysis of 814 papers related to microplastics published between 2013 and 2022 in the Web of Science Core Repository, this paper explores trends, focal points, and na...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10303708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37368639 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11060539 |
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author | Wang, Yaochun Liu, Guohao Wang, Yixia Mu, Hongli Shi, Xiaoli Wang, Chao Wu, Naicheng |
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description | The study of microplastics and their impact on aquatic ecosystems has received increasing attention in recent years. Drawing from an analysis of 814 papers related to microplastics published between 2013 and 2022 in the Web of Science Core Repository, this paper explores trends, focal points, and national collaborations in freshwater microplastics research, providing valuable insights for future studies. The findings reveal three distinct stages of microplastics: nascent development (2013–2015), slow rise (2016–2018), and rapid development (2019–2022). Over time, the focus of research has shifted from “surface”, “effect”, “microplastic pollution”, and “tributary” to “toxicity”, “species”, “organism”, “threat”, “risk”, and “ingestion”. While international cooperation has become more prevalent, the extent of collaboration remains limited, mostly concentrated among English-speaking countries or English and Spanish/Portuguese-speaking countries. Future research directions should encompass the bi-directional relationship between microplastics and watershed ecosystems, incorporating chemical and toxicological approaches. Long-term monitoring efforts are crucial to assessing the sustained impacts of microplastics. |
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spelling | pubmed-103037082023-06-29 The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems Wang, Yaochun Liu, Guohao Wang, Yixia Mu, Hongli Shi, Xiaoli Wang, Chao Wu, Naicheng Toxics Review The study of microplastics and their impact on aquatic ecosystems has received increasing attention in recent years. Drawing from an analysis of 814 papers related to microplastics published between 2013 and 2022 in the Web of Science Core Repository, this paper explores trends, focal points, and national collaborations in freshwater microplastics research, providing valuable insights for future studies. The findings reveal three distinct stages of microplastics: nascent development (2013–2015), slow rise (2016–2018), and rapid development (2019–2022). Over time, the focus of research has shifted from “surface”, “effect”, “microplastic pollution”, and “tributary” to “toxicity”, “species”, “organism”, “threat”, “risk”, and “ingestion”. While international cooperation has become more prevalent, the extent of collaboration remains limited, mostly concentrated among English-speaking countries or English and Spanish/Portuguese-speaking countries. Future research directions should encompass the bi-directional relationship between microplastics and watershed ecosystems, incorporating chemical and toxicological approaches. Long-term monitoring efforts are crucial to assessing the sustained impacts of microplastics. MDPI 2023-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10303708/ /pubmed/37368639 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11060539 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Wang, Yaochun Liu, Guohao Wang, Yixia Mu, Hongli Shi, Xiaoli Wang, Chao Wu, Naicheng The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems |
title | The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems |
title_full | The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems |
title_fullStr | The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems |
title_full_unstemmed | The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems |
title_short | The Global Trend of Microplastic Research in Freshwater Ecosystems |
title_sort | global trend of microplastic research in freshwater ecosystems |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10303708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37368639 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics11060539 |
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