| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Microplastics in the marine environment | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2011 | 5,005 |
| 2 | Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2011 | 3,896 |
| 3 | The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris: a review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2002 | 2,888 |
| 4 | Effects of terrestrial runoff on the ecology of corals and coral reefs: review and synthesis | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2005 | 1,736 |
| 5 | Occurrence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tract of pelagic and demersal fish from the English Channel | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2013 | 1,447 |
| 6 | Contaminant-stimulated Reactive Oxygen Species Production and Oxidative Damage in Aquatic Organisms | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2001 | 1,430 |
| 7 | The impact of debris on marine life | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2015 | 1,415 |
| 8 | The plastic in microplastics: A review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2017 | 1,324 |
| 9 | Microplastic pollution in the surface waters of the Laurentian Great Lakes | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2013 | 1,322 |
| 10 | Synthetic fibers in atmospheric fallout: A source of microplastics in the environment? | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2016 | 1,310 |
| 11 | A Marine Biotic Index to Establish the Ecological Quality of Soft-Bottom Benthos Within European Estuarine and Coastal Environments | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2000 | 1,257 |
| 12 | Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in marine sediments along the Belgian coast | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2011 | 1,072 |
| 13 | Contributing to marine pollution by washing your face: Microplastics in facial cleansers | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2009 | 1,052 |
| 14 | High-levels of microplastic pollution in a large, remote, mountain lake | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 1,022 |
| 15 | Microplastics: Finding a consensus on the definition | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2019 | 995 |
| 16 | Release of synthetic microplastic plastic fibres from domestic washing machines: Effects of fabric type and washing conditions | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2016 | 977 |
| 17 | Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2018 | 947 |
| 18 | Impacts of pollution on coastal and marine ecosystems including coastal and marine fisheries and approach for management: a review and synthesis | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2004 | 906 |
| 19 | Plastic ingestion by planktivorous fishes in the North Pacific Central Gyre | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2010 | 903 |
| 20 | Validation of ATR FT-IR to identify polymers of plastic marine debris, including those ingested by marine organisms | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2018 | 828 |
| 21 | Origin of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Coastal Marine Sediments: Case Studies in Cotonou (Benin) and Aquitaine (France) Areas | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2000 | 823 |
| 22 | A Comparison of Plastic and Plankton in the North Pacific Central Gyre | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2001 | 809 |
| 23 | International policies to reduce plastic marine pollution from single-use plastics (plastic bags and microbeads): A review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2017 | 780 |
| 24 | Suspended microplastics in the surface water of the Yangtze Estuary System, China: First observations on occurrence, distribution | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 760 |
| 25 | Microplastic fibers in the intertidal ecosystem surrounding Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 756 |
| 26 | Ammonia toxicity in fish | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2002 | 749 |
| 27 | Widespread distribution of microplastics in subsurface seawater in the NE Pacific Ocean | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 736 |
| 28 | The Estuarine Quality Paradox, Environmental Homeostasis and the difficulty of detecting anthropogenic stress in naturally stressed areas | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2007 | 732 |
| 29 | Plastic contamination in the decapod crustacean Nephrops norvegicus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2011 | 730 |
| 30 | New techniques for the detection of microplastics in sediments and field collected organisms | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2013 | 726 |
| 31 | Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2011 | 703 |
| 32 | Persistent organic pollutants carried by synthetic polymers in the ocean environment | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2007 | 698 |
| 33 | Ingestion of microplastics by commercial fish off the Portuguese coast | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2015 | 686 |
| 34 | Marine Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Situation, Problems and Prospects for Future Research | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2000 | 671 |
| 35 | Hypoxia: from molecular responses to ecosystem responses | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2002 | 661 |
| 36 | Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2011 | 654 |
| 37 | Geochemistry of Major and Trace Elements in Sediments of the Ria de Vigo (NW Spain): an Assessment of Metal Pollution | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2000 | 652 |
| 38 | Large microplastic particles in sediments of tributaries of the River Thames, UK – Abundance, sources and methods for effective quantification | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2017 | 651 |
| 39 | Characterisation, quantity and sorptive properties of microplastics extracted from cosmetics | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2015 | 635 |
| 40 | Microplastics in Singapore’s coastal mangrove ecosystems | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 627 |
| 41 | Association of metals with plastic production pellets in the marine environment | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2010 | 626 |
| 42 | The Gulf: A young sea in decline | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2010 | 619 |
| 43 | Numerical modelling of floating debris in the world’s oceans | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2012 | 610 |
| 44 | Biomonitoring of heavy metal availability in the marine environment | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 1995 | 607 |
| 45 | A comparison of microscopic and spectroscopic identification methods for analysis of microplastics in environmental samples | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2015 | 602 |
| 46 | Quality assessment of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis): Comparison between commercial and wild types | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2014 | 562 |
| 47 | Environmental impacts of dredging and other sediment disturbances on corals: A review | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2012 | 561 |
| 48 | A critical assessment of visual identification of marine microplastic using Raman spectroscopy for analysis improvement | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2015 | 561 |
| 49 | Abundance, size and polymer composition of marine microplastics ≥ 10 μm in the Atlantic Ocean and their modelled vertical distribution | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2015 | 560 |
| 50 | The mussel watch — A first step in global marine monitoring | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 1975 | 559 |
