Steady theme

microplastics mps

One of 50 themes found in 20,416 EGU water abstracts (2024 to 2026). Its most distinctive words are below — they are what separates this body of work from the rest of the corpus.

microplasticsmpsmicroplasticplasticplasticspolymer

150

abstracts in this theme

0.7% of the water corpus · 48 of 50 by size

2.0%

use machine learning

11.2 points below the 13.2% corpus average

-0.16

points of share, 2024 to 2026

32 of 50 by trend

#41

of 50 for AI penetration

among the least AI-touched themes

How to read this theme

This theme holds 150 of the 20,416 water abstracts, making it the 48th-largest of the 50 themes. Between 2024 and 2026 its share barely moved, by -0.16 points.

2.0% of its abstracts were flagged as using machine learning, 11.2 points below the 13.2% corpus average. AI adoption here sits close to the corpus norm.

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microplastics mps microplastic plastic plastics polymer

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Themes are clusters found by grouping abstracts on their sentence embeddings, so their boundaries are statistical rather than official EGU categories. "Uses AI" comes from a keyword detector validated at precision 0.95 and recall 0.9. Point estimates carry roughly half a point to a point of uncertainty from the clustering. Full method on the main trends page.