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Martina G. Vijver

Martina G. Vijver

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
14432
World Ranking
2471
National Ranking
70

Overview

Martina G. Vijver is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has published extensively across environmental science and materials science disciplines. Their work spans a variety of interrelated subfields, including pollution, materials chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Their main research topics include nanoparticles synthesis and applications, microplastics and plastic pollution, heavy metals in the environment, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, recycling and waste management techniques, chemistry and chemical engineering, as well as pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Frequent co-authors in their work are Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg (97 joint publications), Thijs Bosker (24), Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh (15), Tom A.P. Nederstigt (14), and Zhuang Wang (12).

Their recent key publications illustrate the scope of their research interests:

  • "An emerging class of air pollutants: Potential effects of microplastics to respiratory human health?" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Remediation of heavy metal contaminated soil by biodegradable chelator-induced washing: Efficiencies and mechanisms" (2020), in Environmental Research
  • "Review and Prospects on the Ecotoxicity of Mixtures of Nanoparticles and Hybrid Nanomaterials" (2022), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Nano- and microplastics commonly cause adverse impacts on plants at environmentally relevant levels: A systematic review" (2023), The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Experimental evidence for neonicotinoid driven decline in aquatic emerging insects" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Martina G. Vijver has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Glasstree eBooks: "Synthetic Nano- and Microfibers" (2020).

The venues where this researcher has frequently published include The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Science & Technology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, and Chemosphere.

Best Publications

  • Microplastics accumulate on pores in seed capsule and delay germination and root growth of the terrestrial vascular plant Lepidium sativum.

    Thijs Bosker;Lotte J. Bouwman;Nadja R. Brun;Nadja R. Brun;Paul Behrens

  • Internal metal sequestration and its ecotoxicological relevance: a review.

    Martina G. Vijver;Cornelis A. M. Van Gestel;Roman P. Lanno;Nico M. Van Straalen

  • A large-scale investigation of microplastic contamination: Abundance and characteristics of microplastics in European beach sediment.

    Froukje A.E. Lots;Paul Behrens;Martina G. Vijver;Alice A. Horton

  • A standardized method for sampling and extraction methods for quantifying microplastics in beach sand

    Aiken Besley;Martina G. Vijver;Paul Behrens;Thijs Bosker

  • An emerging class of air pollutants: Potential effects of microplastics to respiratory human health?

    Luís Fernando Amato-Lourenço;Luciana dos Santos Galvão;Letty A. de Weger;Pieter S. Hiemstra

  • Monitoring metals in terrestrial environments within a bioavailability framework and a focus on soil extraction.

    Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg;Marina Zablotskaja;Martina G. Vijver

  • Oral sealing using glue: a new method to distinguish between intestinal and dermal uptake of metals in earthworms

    Martina G Vijver;Jos P.M Vink;Cornelis J.H Miermans;Cornelis A.M van Gestel

  • The influence of exposure and physiology on microplastic ingestion by the freshwater fish Rutilus rutilus (roach) in the River Thames, UK

    Alice A. Horton;Monika D. Jürgens;Elma Lahive;Peter M. van Bodegom

  • Exploring uptake and biodistribution of polystyrene (nano)particles in zebrafish embryos at different developmental stages.

    M. van Pomeren;N.R. Brun;W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg;M.G. Vijver

  • A review of the ecological effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF).

    S. Cucurachi;W.L.M. Tamis;M.G. Vijver;W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

  • Polystyrene nanoplastics disrupt glucose metabolism and cortisol levels with a possible link to behavioural changes in larval zebrafish

    Nadja R. Brun;Nadja R. Brun;Patrick van Hage;Ellard R. Hunting;Anna Pavlina G. Haramis

  • Reproductive toxicity of primary and secondary microplastics to three cladocerans during chronic exposure.

    Gayathri Jaikumar;Nadja R. Brun;Martina G. Vijver;Thijs Bosker

  • Pesticide mixtures in streams of several European countries and the USA.

    Verena C. Schreiner;Eduard Szöcs;Avit Kumar Bhowmik;Avit Kumar Bhowmik;Martina G. Vijver

  • Pathway analysis of systemic transcriptome responses to injected polystyrene particles in zebrafish larvae

    Wouter J. Veneman;Herman P. Spaink;Nadja R. Brun;Thijs Bosker

  • Toxicity and Accumulation of Cu and ZnO Nanoparticles in Daphnia magna

    Yinlong Xiao;Martina G. Vijver;Guangchao Chen;Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg

  • Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants in Soils and Dusts at Electronic Waste Recycling Sites: Occurrence and Possible Impacts of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers.

    Chimere May Ohajinwa;Peter M van Bodegom;Qing Xie;Jingwen Chen

  • Bioavailability in soils

    Mark E. Hodson;M. G. Vijver;W. J. G. M. Peijnenberg

  • Plastic particles adsorb to the roots of freshwater vascular plant Spirodela polyrhiza but do not impair growth

    Lena C. Dovidat;Bregje W. Brinkmann;Martina G. Vijver;Thijs Bosker

  • Response predictions for organisms water‐exposed to metal mixtures: A meta‐analysis

    Martina G. Vijver;Elise G. Elliott;Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg;Geert R. de Snoo

  • Bioavailability of contaminants estimated from uptake rates into soil invertebrates.

    N.M. van Straalen;M.H. Donker;M.G. Vijver;C.A.M. van Gestel

  • Species-specific toxicity of copper nanoparticles among mammalian and piscine cell lines

    Lan Song;Mona Connolly;Maria L Fernández-Cruz;Martina G Vijver

  • Ecological Impacts of Toxic Chemicals

    Francisco Sánchez-Bayo;Paul J. van den Brink;Reinier M. Mann;María Jesús Belzunce

Frequent Co-Authors

Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg
Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg Leiden University
Peter M. van Bodegom
Peter M. van Bodegom Leiden University
Leo Posthuma
Leo Posthuma Radboud University
Cornelis A.M. van Gestel
Cornelis A.M. van Gestel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hao Qiu
Hao Qiu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jeroen B. Guinée
Jeroen B. Guinée Leiden University
Reinout Heijungs
Reinout Heijungs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nico M. van Straalen
Nico M. van Straalen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
A. Jan Hendriks
A. Jan Hendriks Radboud University
Herman P. Spaink
Herman P. Spaink Leiden University

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