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Microplastics removal in wastewater treatment plants: a critical review

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, January 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 1,149)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
13 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
13 X users
reddit
6 Redditors

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mendeley
1001 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Microplastics removal in wastewater treatment plants: a critical review
Published in
Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, January 2020
DOI 10.1039/d0ew00397b
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1001 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 100 10%
Researcher 79 8%
Student > Master 75 7%
Student > Bachelor 66 7%
Other 28 3%
Other 96 10%
Unknown 557 56%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 113 11%
Engineering 103 10%
Chemistry 51 5%
Chemical Engineering 39 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 3%
Other 82 8%
Unknown 585 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 134. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 September 2026.
All research outputs
#391,262
of 34,331,336 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
#11
of 1,149 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,673
of 522,282 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
#3
of 165 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,331,336 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,149 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 165 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.