| The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris E Van Sebille, S Aliani, KL Law, N Maximenko, JM Alsina, A Bagaev, ... Environmental Research Letters 15 (2), 023003, 2020 | 619 | 2020 |
| East Asian seas: a hot spot of pelagic microplastics A Isobe, K Uchida, T Tokai, S Iwasaki Marine pollution bulletin 101 (2), 618-623, 2015 | 437 | 2015 |
| Selective transport of microplastics and mesoplastics by drifting in coastal waters A Isobe, K Kubo, Y Tamura, E Nakashima, N Fujii Marine pollution bulletin 89 (1-2), 324-330, 2014 | 428 | 2014 |
| Microplastics in the southern ocean A Isobe, K Uchiyama-Matsumoto, K Uchida, T Tokai Marine pollution bulletin 114 (1), 623-626, 2017 | 415 | 2017 |
| Abundance of non-conservative microplastics in the upper ocean from 1957 to 2066 A Isobe, S Iwasaki, K Uchida, T Tokai Nature communications 10 (1), 417, 2019 | 373 | 2019 |
| A numerical study on the Changjiang diluted water in the Yellow and East China Seas PH Chang, A Isobe Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 108 (C9), 2003 | 321 | 2003 |
| Horizontal and vertical distribution of microplastics in Korean coastal waters YK Song, SH Hong, S Eo, M Jang, GM Han, A Isobe, WJ Shim Environmental science & technology 52 (21), 12188-12197, 2018 | 277 | 2018 |
| An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter C Morales-Caselles, J Viejo, E Martí, D González-Fernández, ... Nature Sustainability 4 (6), 484-493, 2021 | 258 | 2021 |
| Using numerical model simulations to improve the understanding of micro-plastic distribution and pathways in the marine environment BD Hardesty, J Harari, A Isobe, L Lebreton, N Maximenko, J Potemra, ... Frontiers in marine science 4, 30, 2017 | 255 | 2017 |
| Toward the integrated marine debris observing system N Maximenko, P Corradi, KL Law, E Van Sebille, SP Garaba, RS Lampitt, ... Frontiers in marine science 6, 447, 2019 | 249 | 2019 |
| Recent advances in ocean-circulation research on the Yellow Sea and East China Sea shelves A Isobe Journal of Oceanography 64 (4), 569-584, 2008 | 237 | 2008 |
| Fate of microplastics and mesoplastics carried by surface currents and wind waves: A numerical model approach in the Sea of Japan S Iwasaki, A Isobe, S Kako, K Uchida, T Tokai Marine Pollution Bulletin 121 (1-2), 85-96, 2017 | 217 | 2017 |
| On the origin of the Tsushima Warm Current and its seasonality A Isobe Continental Shelf Research 19 (1), 117-133, 1999 | 171 | 1999 |
| Quantification of toxic metals derived from macroplastic litter on Ookushi Beach, Japan E Nakashima, A Isobe, S Kako, T Itai, S Takahashi Environmental science & technology 46 (18), 10099-10105, 2012 | 167 | 2012 |
| Freshwater and temperature transports through the Tsushima‐Korea Straits A Isobe, M Ando, T Watanabe, T Senjyu, S Sugihara, A Manda Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 107 (C7), 2-1-2-20, 2002 | 138 | 2002 |
| A multilevel dataset of microplastic abundance in the world’s upper ocean and the Laurentian Great Lakes A Isobe, T Azuma, MR Cordova, A Cózar, F Galgani, R Hagita, LD Kanhai, ... Microplastics and Nanoplastics 1, 1-14, 2021 | 130 | 2021 |
| Percentage of microbeads in pelagic microplastics within Japanese coastal waters A Isobe Marine pollution bulletin 110 (1), 432-437, 2016 | 130 | 2016 |
| Seasonal variability in the Tsushima Warm Current, Tsushima-Korea Strait A Isobe, S Tawara, A Kaneko, M Kawano Continental Shelf Research 14 (1), 23-35, 1994 | 108 | 1994 |
| An interlaboratory comparison exercise for the determination of microplastics in standard sample bottles A Isobe, NT Buenaventura, S Chastain, S Chavanich, A Cózar, ... Marine pollution bulletin 146, 831-837, 2019 | 106 | 2019 |
| Guidelines for Harmonizing Ocean Surface Microplastic Monitoring Methods. Version 1.1. Y Michida, S Chavanich, S Chiba, MR Cordova, A Cozsar Cabanas, ... Ministry of the Environment, Japan, 2019 | 103 | 2019 |
