| Sinks and sources: Assessing microplastic abundance in river sediment and deposit feeders in an Austral temperate urban river system HA Nel, T Dalu, RJ Wasserman Science of the Total Environment 612, 950-956, 2018 | 547 | 2018 |
| A quantitative analysis of microplastic pollution along the south-eastern coastline of South Africa HA Nel, PW Froneman Marine pollution bulletin 101 (1), 274-279, 2015 | 425 | 2015 |
| Reporting guidelines to increase the reproducibility and comparability of research on microplastics W Cowger, AM Booth, BM Hamilton, C Thaysen, S Primpke, K Munno, ... Applied spectroscopy 74 (9), 1066-1077, 2020 | 403 | 2020 |
| Gathering at the top? Environmental controls of microplastic uptake and biomagnification in freshwater food webs S Krause, V Baranov, HA Nel, JD Drummond, A Kukkola, T Hoellein, ... Environmental Pollution 268, 115750, 2021 | 183 | 2021 |
| Nano and microplastic interactions with freshwater biota–current knowledge, challenges and future solutions A Kukkola, S Krause, I Lynch, GHS Smith, H Nel Environment International 152, 106504, 2021 | 178 | 2021 |
| Do microplastic loads reflect the population demographics along the southern African coastline? HA Nel, JW Hean, XS Noundou, PW Froneman Marine Pollution Bulletin 115 (1-2), 115-119, 2017 | 177 | 2017 |
| Significance of hyporheic exchange for predicting microplastic fate in rivers JD Drummond, HA Nel, AI Packman, S Krause Environmental Science & Technology Letters 7 (10), 727-732, 2020 | 141 | 2020 |
| Detection limits are central to improve reporting standards when using Nile red for microplastic quantification HA Nel, AJ Chetwynd, L Kelleher, I Lynch, I Mansfield, H Margenat, ... Chemosphere 263, 127953, 2021 | 122 | 2021 |
| An untargeted thermogravimetric analysis-fourier transform infrared-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry approach for plastic polymer identification HA Nel, AJ Chetwynd, CA Kelly, C Stark, E Valsami-Jones, S Krause, ... Environmental Science & Technology 55 (13), 8721-8729, 2021 | 82 | 2021 |
| Microplastics in freshwater sediments: Analytical methods, temporal trends, and risk of associated organophosphate esters as exemplar plastics additives S Onoja, HA Nel, MAE Abdallah, S Harrad Environmental Research 203, 111830, 2022 | 77 | 2022 |
| The potential of micro-and nanoplastics to exacerbate the health impacts and global burden of non-communicable diseases S Krause, V Ouellet, D Allen, S Allen, K Moss, HA Nel, ... Cell Reports Medicine 5 (6), 2024 | 67 | 2024 |
| Citizen science reveals microplastic hotspots within tidal estuaries and the remote Scilly Islands, United Kingdom HA Nel, GHS Smith, R Harmer, R Sykes, U Schneidewind, I Lynch, ... Marine Pollution Bulletin 161, 111776, 2020 | 62 | 2020 |
| Colour and size influences plastic microbead underestimation, regardless of sediment grain size HA Nel, T Dalu, RJ Wasserman, JW Hean Science of the Total Environment 655, 567-570, 2019 | 61 | 2019 |
| Microplastics in freshwater sediments impact the role of a main bioturbator in ecosystem functioning M Wazne, F Mermillod-Blondin, M Vallier, F Hervant, A Dumet, HA Nel, ... Environmental Science & Technology 57 (8), 3042-3052, 2023 | 60 | 2023 |
| Prevailing impacts of river management on microplastic transport in contrasting US streams: Rethinking global microplastic flux estimations A Kukkola, RL Runkel, U Schneidewind, SF Murphy, L Kelleher, ... Water Research 240, 120112, 2023 | 52 | 2023 |
| Presence of microplastics in the tube structure of the reef-building polychaete Gunnarea gaimardi (Quatrefages 1848) HA Nel, PW Froneman African Journal of Marine Science 40 (1), 87-89, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
| Hydrologic controls on the accumulation of different sized microplastics in the streambed sediments downstream of a wastewater treatment plant (Catalonia, Spain) H Margenat, HA Nel, SH Stonedahl, S Krause, F Sabater, JD Drummond Environmental Research Letters 16 (11), 115012, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| Simple yet effective modifications to the operation of the Sediment Isolation Microplastic unit to avoid polyvinyl chloride (PVC) contamination H Nel, S Krause, GHS Smith, I Lynch MethodsX 6, 2656-2661, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Easy and accessible way to calibrate a fluorescence microscope and to create a microplastic identification key A Kukkola, S Krause, Y Yonan, L Kelleher, U Schneidewind, GHS Smith, ... MethodsX 10, 102053, 2023 | 31 | 2023 |
| A systematic approach to understand hydrogeochemical dynamics in large river systems: Development and application to the River Ganges (Ganga) in India LA Richards, BG Fox, MJ Bowes, K Khamis, A Kumar, R Kumari, S Kumar, ... Water research 211, 118054, 2022 | 29 | 2022 |
