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Anna Sanchez-Vidal

Anna Sanchez-Vidal

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 40 5738 5307 102 100 129 7436

Anna Sanchez-Vidal publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Anna Sanchez-Vidal between 2002 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Anna Sanchez-Vidal published across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025, averaging 7.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2013. 23 of the 170 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2013. 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 3 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 20 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 16 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 14 publications
2002 2025

170 publications in total across all disciplines

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Anna Sanchez-Vidal: publications per year, 2002 to 2025
Year Publications
2002 1
2003 1
2004 3
2005 2
2006 0
2007 3
2008 2
2009 5
2010 8
2011 3
2012 13
2013 20
2014 5
2015 5
2016 6
2017 11
2018 8
2019 5
2020 14
2021 11
2022 16
2023 5
2024 9
2025 14
Total 170
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Anna Sanchez-Vidal publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Sanchez-Vidal sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 128–137 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 129 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557 129
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Anna Sanchez-Vidal D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna Sanchez-Vidal sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 40 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296 40
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Anna Sanchez-Vidal is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research emphasizes pollution, oceanography, industrial and manufacturing engineering, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, marine biology and ecology research, heavy metals in the environment, geochemistry and elemental analysis, marine biology and environmental chemistry, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Recent publications include:

  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Seagrasses provide a novel ecosystem service by trapping marine plastics, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Microplastic fluxes in a large and a small Mediterranean river catchments: The Têt and the Rhône, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A systematic review on microplastic pollution in water, sediments, and organisms from 50 coastal lagoons across the globe, 2022, Environmental Pollution

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Miquel Canals
  • Marc Cerdà-Domènech
  • Antoni Calafat
  • William P. de Haan
  • David Amblàs

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Pollution

Best Publications

  • The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

    Lucy C. Woodall;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Gordon L.J. Paterson

  • Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

    Sabine Gollner;Stefanie Kaiser;Lena Menzel;Daniel O.B. Jones

  • Floating microplastics and aggregate formation in the Western Mediterranean Sea.

    William P de Haan;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Nureiev Shipboard Scientific Party

  • The imprint of microfibres in southern European deep seas.

    Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Richard C. Thompson;Miquel Canals;William P. de Haan

  • Microplastics composition and load from three wastewater treatment plants discharging into Mersin Bay, north eastern Mediterranean Sea.

    Ceyhun Akarsu;Halil Kumbur;Kerem Gokdag;Ahmet Erkan Kıdeyş

  • Interaction of dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012

    X. Durrieu de Madron;L. Houpert;P. Puig;A. Sanchez-Vidal

  • Seagrasses provide a novel ecosystem service by trapping marine plastics.

    Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;William P. de Haan;Javier Romero

  • Impacts on the deep-sea ecosystem by a severe coastal storm

    Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Miquel Canals;Antoni M. Calafat;Galderic Lastras

  • Cascades in Mediterranean Submarine Grand Canyons

    Miquel Canals;Roberto Danovaro;Serge Heussner;Vasilios Lykousis

  • Organic matter in sediments of canyons and open slopes of the Portuguese, Catalan, Southern Adriatic and Cretan Sea margins

    Antonio Pusceddu;Silvia Bianchelli;Miquel Canals;Anna Sanchez-Vidal

  • The quest for seafloor macrolitter: a critical review of background knowledge, current methods and future prospects

    Miquel Canals;Christopher K Pham;Melanie Bergmann;Lars Gutow

  • Role of slowly settling particles in the ocean carbon cycle

    Iván J. Alonso-González;Javier Arístegui;Cindy Lee;Anna Sanchez-Vidal

  • Identifying Toxic Impacts of Metals Potentially Released during Deep-Sea Mining—A Synthesis of the Challenges to Quantifying Risk

    Chris Hauton;Alastair Brown;Sven Thatje;Nélia C. Mestre

  • Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea

    Christopher T. Hayes;Kassandra M. Costa;Robert F. Anderson;Eva María Calvo

  • Composition and spatio-temporal variability of particle fluxes in the Western Alboran Gyre, Mediterranean Sea

    J Fabres;A Calafat;A Sanchez-Vidal;M Canals

  • Microplastic fluxes in a large and a small Mediterranean river catchments: The Têt and the Rhône, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.

    Mel Constant;Mel Constant;Wolfgang Ludwig;Wolfgang Ludwig;Philippe Kerhervé;Philippe Kerhervé;Jennifer Sola;Jennifer Sola

  • Accumulation rates of major constituents of hemipelagic sediments in the deep Alboran Sea: a centennial perspective of sedimentary dynamics

    P Masqué;J Fabres;M Canals;J.A Sanchez-Cabeza

  • Integrated study of Mediterranean deep canyons: Novel results and future challenges

    Miquel Canals;Daniel Martin;Anna Sánchez-Vidal

  • Millennial-scale variability in the productivity signal from the Alboran Sea record, Western Mediterranean Sea

    Ana Moreno;Isabel Cacho;Isabel Cacho;Miquel Canals;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Particle fluxes dynamics in Blanes submarine canyon (Northwestern Mediterranean)

    Diana Zúñiga;M. Mar Flexas;Anna Sanchez-Vidal;Johan Coenjaerts

  • Impact of dense shelf water cascading on the transfer of organic matter to the deep western Mediterranean basin

    A. Sanchez-Vidal;C. Pasqual;P. Kerhervé;A. Calafat

Frequent Co-Authors

Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
Antoni Calafat
Antoni Calafat University of Barcelona
Serge Heussner
Serge Heussner Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pere Puig
Pere Puig Spanish National Research Council
Albert Palanques
Albert Palanques Spanish National Research Council
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University
Jacobo Martín
Jacobo Martín Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society
Galderic Lastras
Galderic Lastras University of Barcelona
X. Durrieu de Madron
X. Durrieu de Madron University of Perpignan
Antonio Pusceddu
Antonio Pusceddu University of Cagliari

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