Microplastics in Settled Dust from Indian Long-Distance Railway Coaches: Baseline Occurrence, Relative Load, and Scenario-Based Ingestion Estimates

Nisarg Mehta, Jing Wang, Barbara Kozielska

Open source

DOI: 10.3390/toxics14090822
Published: 2026-09-15
Container: Toxics
Publisher: MDPI AG
Open access: unknown

Credibility signals

uncertain Score 64/100 under policy 1.0.0. This is a metadata assessment, not a judgment of the paper's conclusions.

Show all credibility signals

supportingDOI registered: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
supportingDOI resolves: A matching record was returned by Crossref. Source: Crossref; license: CC0 metadata
not scoredDirectory of Open Access Journals: No matching DOAJ record was present in this response. No allow-list match; this is not evidence of low credibility. Source: DOAJ; license: CC0
not scoredMEDLINE indexed: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredOpenAlex core source: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredKnown publisher allow-list: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredROR affiliation: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredRetraction Watch retraction: No retraction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch expression of concern: No expression of concern notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch correction: No correction notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredRetraction Watch reinstatement: No reinstatement notice matched this DOI in the deployed snapshot. No matching event found; coverage may be incomplete. Source: Retraction Watch; license: CC BY 4.0
not scoredOpen access status: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication license: Not checked or no result supplied; no credibility inference made. Source: No authority result supplied; license: Unknown
not scoredPublication version: A publication version was supplied but is not scored. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer
supportingMetadata completeness: All 6 scored descriptive metadata groups are present. Source: Normalized work metadata; license: Caller-provided; provenance license not supplied to scorer

Cite this work

BibTeX

@article{allodium:10.3390/toxics14090822,
  title = {Microplastics in Settled Dust from Indian Long-Distance Railway Coaches: Baseline Occurrence, Relative Load, and Scenario-Based Ingestion Estimates},
  author = {Nisarg Mehta and Jing Wang and Barbara Kozielska},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Toxics},
  doi = {10.3390/toxics14090822},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics14090822}
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Microplastics in Settled Dust from Indian Long-Distance Railway Coaches: Baseline Occurrence, Relative Load, and Scenario-Based Ingestion Estimates
AU  - Nisarg Mehta
AU  - Jing Wang
AU  - Barbara Kozielska
PY  - 2026
JO  - Toxics
DO  - 10.3390/toxics14090822
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics14090822
ER  -

APA

Mehta, N., Wang, J., & Kozielska, B. (2026). Microplastics in Settled Dust from Indian Long-Distance Railway Coaches: Baseline Occurrence, Relative Load, and Scenario-Based Ingestion Estimates. Toxics. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics14090822

Source records

crossref · retrieved 2026-09-26T14:09:47.413Z