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D-Index
40
Citations
4829
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8183
National Ranking
248

Agustín Merino publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Agustín Merino sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Agustín Merino D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Agustín Merino sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Agustín Merino is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and focuses their research primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly work contributes extensively to the understanding of soil properties, ecosystem fire effects, and soil carbon dynamics.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. These areas highlight a broad investigation into soil processes and environmental impacts.

Merino's work covers several key topics, notably:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Coal and Its By-products
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Frequent collaborators in their research include Pablo Souza-Alonso, Bruno Chávez-Vergara, Xosé Luís Otero, Carlos J. Villalba-Martínez, and Beatriz Omil. These collaborations indicate a network of partnerships that contribute to multi-authored research outputs.

Merino's research has been published in various scientific journals, with repeated contributions to Forest Ecology and Management, The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Waste Management.

Among their recent scholarly papers are:

  • Chemical, physical and morphological properties of biochars produced from agricultural residues: Implications for their use as soil amendment (2020) in Waste Management
  • Post-fire ecological restoration in Latin American forest ecosystems: Insights and lessons from the last two decades (2022) in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Chemical and mineralogical characterization and potential use of ash from Amazonian biomasses as an agricultural fertilizer and for soil amendment (2021) in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Organic matter quality of forest floor as a driver of C and P dynamics in acacia and eucalypt plantations established on a Ferralic Arenosols, Congo (2020) in Forest Ecosystems
  • Soil organic matter dynamics and microbial metabolism along an altitudinal gradient in Highland tropical forests (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Responses of soil organic matter and greenhouse gas fluxes to soil management and land use changes in a humid temperate region of southern Europe.

    Agustı́n Merino;Pilar Pérez-Batallón;Felipe Macı́as

  • Testing the ability of visual indicators of soil burn severity to reflect changes in soil chemical and microbial properties in pine forests and shrubland

    José A. Vega;Teresa Fontúrbel;Agustín Merino;Cristina Fernández

  • Nutrient exports under different harvesting regimes in fast-growing forest plantations in southern Europe

    A. Merino;M.A. Balboa;R. Rodríguez Soalleiro;J.G. Álvarez González

  • Temporal variations and distribution of carbon stocks in aboveground biomass of radiata pine and maritime pine pure stands under different silvicultural alternatives

    Miguel Ángel Balboa-Murias;Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro;Agustín Merino;Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González

  • Soil erosion under different harvesting managements in steep forestlands from northern Spain

    J. M. Edeso;A. Merino;M. J. González;P. Marauri

  • Chemical, physical and morphological properties of biochars produced from agricultural residues: Implications for their use as soil amendment.

    Paloma Campos;Ana Z. Miller;Heike Knicker;Manuel F. Costa-Pereira

  • Variations in soil carbon sequestration and their determinants along a precipitation gradient in seasonally dry tropical forest ecosystems.

    Julio Campo;Agustín Merino

  • Carbon sequestration potential and physicochemical properties differ between wildfire charcoals and slow-pyrolysis biochars.

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Agustin Merino;Thomas D. Bucheli

  • Forest floor chemical transformations in a boreal forest fire and their correlations with temperature and heating duration

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Agustín Merino;Robert Bryant

  • Influence of tree species on carbon sequestration in afforested pastures in a humid temperate region

    César Pérez-Cruzado;Pablo Mansilla-Salinero;Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro;Agustín Merino

  • Metal accumulation in cattle raised in a serpentine-soil area: relationship between metal concentrations in soil, forage and animal tissues.

    M. Miranda;J.L. Benedito;I. Blanco-Penedo;C. López-Lamas

  • A management tool for estimating bioenergy production and carbon sequestration in Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus nitens grown as short rotation woody crops in north-west Spain

    César Pérez-Cruzado;Agustín Merino;Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro

  • Soil organic matter in soil physical fractions in adjacent semi-natural and cultivated stands in temperate Atlantic forests

    Nahia Gartzia-Bengoetxea;Ander González-Arias;Agustín Merino;Inazio Martínez de Arano

  • Influence of edaphic factors and tree nutritive status on the productivity of Pinus radiata D. Don plantations in northwestern Spain

    F Sánchez-Rodrı́guez;R Rodrı́guez-Soalleiro;E Español;C.A López

  • Carbon and nutrient stocks in mature Quercus robur L. stands in NW Spain

    Miguel A. Balboa-Murias;Alberto Rojo;Juan G. Álvarez;Agustín Merino

  • Soil changes and tree growth in intensively managed Pinus radiata in northern Spain.

    Agustı́n Merino;Alejandro Fernández-López;Fernando Solla-Gullón;José Miguel Edeso

  • Soil properties in a hilly area following different harvesting management practices

    A. Merino;J.M. Edeso;M.J. González;P. Marauri

  • Effects of sylvicultural practices on nutrient status in a Pinus radiata plantation: Nutrient export by tree removal and nutrient dynamics in decomposing logging residues

    Guzmán Ouro;Pilar Pérez-Batallón;Agustín Merino

  • Seeding and mulching + seeding effects on post‐fire runoff, soil erosion and species diversity in Galicia (NW Spain)

    C. Fernández;J.A. Vega;E. Jiménez;D.C.S. Vieira

  • Nutrition and growth in newly established plantations of Eucalyptus globulus in northwestern Spain

    Agustín Merino;Ángel Rodríguez López;Jesús Brañas;Roque Rodríguez-Soalleiro

  • Soil fertility rehabilitation in young Pinus radiata D. Don. plantations from northern Spain after intensive site preparation

    A Merino;J.M Edeso

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Vega
José A. Vega Xunta de Galicia
Cristina Santín
Cristina Santín Swansea University
Stefan H. Doerr
Stefan H. Doerr Swansea University
Felipe Macías
Felipe Macías University of Santiago de Compostela
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jordi Cortina
Jordi Cortina University of Alicante
Ken Oyama
Ken Oyama National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jan Jacob Keizer
Jan Jacob Keizer University of Aveiro
Friedrich Beese
Friedrich Beese University of Göttingen

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