Plastic Interactions with Pollutants and Consequences to Aquatic Ecosystems: What We Know and What We Do Not Know.

Biomolecules · 2022 · PMC9221377 · PMID 35740921

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a clear trendno p-value reported

A clear trend of a hike in the number of studies (publications) has been observed only over the last 4 years (2018–2021).

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