2026 Antonio Tovar-Sánchez: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	43	7169	6890	208	208	150	6386

Overview

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular focus on oceanography and ecology. Their research covers significant subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work centers around marine and coastal ecosystems, mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine biology and ecology research, heavy metals in the environment, marine and coastal plant biology, geology and paleoclimatology, and coral and marine ecosystems studies.

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez has published in several prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

The Science of The Total Environment
SSRN Electronic Journal
Frontiers in Marine Science
Chemosphere
Biogeosciences

Several recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research:

"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a tool for hazard assessment: The 2021 eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma Island (Spain)" (2022) - The Science of The Total Environment
"Water quality monitoring with Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 satellites during the 2021 volcanic eruption in La Palma (Canary Islands)" (2022) - The Science of The Total Environment
"Spatial distribution and level of contamination of potentially toxic elements in sediments and soils of a biological reserve wetland, northern Amazon region of Ecuador" (2021) - Journal of Environmental Management
"Characterizing the surface microlayer in the Mediterranean Sea: trace metal concentrations and microbial plankton abundance" (2020) - Biogeosciences
"Using a UAV-Mounted Multispectral Camera for the Monitoring of Marine Macrophytes" (2021) - Frontiers in Marine Science

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez's collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorships with Gabriel Navarro, Araceli Rodríguez-Romero, Alejandro Román, Erica Sparaventi, and Gema Ruiz. These partnerships have contributed to multidisciplinary research outputs across environmental science topics.

The scientist has also contributed to academic books, notably publishing with Springer Nature. One such publication is "Sunscreens in Coastal Ecosystems" (2020), which has been cited in related research contexts.

Best Publications

FeCycle: Attempting an iron biogeochemical budget from a mesoscale SF6 tracer experiment in unperturbed low iron waters

P W Boyd;Cliff S Law;D A Hutchins;E R Abraham

311
Citations
Sunscreen Products as Emerging Pollutants to Coastal Waters

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez;David Sánchez-Quiles;Gotzon Basterretxea;Juan L. Benedé

299
Citations
Are sunscreens a new environmental risk associated with coastal tourism

David Sánchez-Quiles;Antonio Tovar-Sánchez

288
Citations
Quantifying Trace Elements in Individual Aquatic Protist Cells with a Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microprobe

Benjamin S. Twining;Stephen B. Baines;Nicholas S. Fisher;Jörg Maser

273
Citations
The impact of surface-adsorbed phosphorus on phytoplankton Redfield stoichiometry

Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Fei-Xue Fu;Douglas G. Capone

259
Citations
A trace metal clean reagent to remove surface-bound iron from marine phytoplankton

Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Sergio A Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Manuel Garcia-Vargas;Richard S Weaver

230
Citations
Importance of geochemical transformations in determining submarine groundwater discharge-derived trace metal and nutrient fluxes

Aaron J. Beck;Yoko Tsukamoto;Antonio Tovar-Sánchez;Miguel A. Huerta-Diaz

178
Citations
Copper aerosols inhibit phytoplankton growth in the Mediterranean Sea

Antoni Jordi;Gotzon Basterretxea;Antonio Tovar-Sánchez;Andrés Alastuey

164
Citations
Aerosol inputs enhance new production in the subtropical northeast Atlantic

Carlos M. Duarte;Jordi Dachs;Moira Llabrés;Patricia Alonso-Laita

159
Citations
Sunscreens as a source of hydrogen peroxide production in coastal waters

David Sánchez-Quiles;Antonio Tovar-Sánchez

145
Citations
Particulate iron dynamics during FeCycle in subantarctic waters southeast of New Zealand

Russell D. Frew;David A. Hutchins;Scott D. Nodder;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy

139
Citations
Submarine groundwater discharge as a source of nutrients and trace metals in a Mediterranean bay (Palma Beach, Balearic Islands)

Valentí Rodellas;Jordi Garcia-Orellana;Antonio Tovar-Sánchez;Gotzon Basterretxea

127
Citations
The significance of the episodic nature of atmospheric deposition to Low Nutrient Low Chlorophyll regions

C. Guieu;O. Aumont;A. Paytan;L. Bopp

121
Citations
Determination of UV filters in both soluble and particulate fractions of seawaters by dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

Juan L. Benedé;Alberto Chisvert;Amparo Salvador;David Sánchez-Quiles

118
Citations
Impacts of metals and nutrients released from melting multiyear Arctic sea ice

Antonio Tovar-Sánchez;Carlos M. Duarte;Juan C. Alonso;Silvia Lacorte

113
Citations
A Multiplatform Experiment to Unravel Meso- and Submesoscale Processes in an Intense Front (AlborEx)

Ananda Pascual;Simon Ruiz;Antonio Olita;Charles Troupin

103
Citations
Effects of TiO2 nanoparticles and sunscreens on coastal marine microalgae: Ultraviolet radiation is key variable for toxicity assessment.

Marta Sendra;David Sánchez-Quiles;Julián Blasco;Ignacio Moreno-Garrido

100
Citations
Krill as a central node for iron cycling in the Southern Ocean

A. Tovar-Sanchez;Carlos Duarte;S. Hernandez-Leon;S.A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy

99
Citations
Biogeneration of chromophoric dissolved organic matter by bacteria and krill in the Southern Ocean

Eva Ortega-Retuerta;Thomas K. Frazer;Carlos M. Duarte;Sergio Ruiz-Halpern

98
Citations
B vitamins as regulators of phytoplankton dynamics

Caterina Panzeca;Antonio Tovar-Sanchez;Susana Agustí;Isabel Reche

93
Citations
Effects of Oceanic Mesoscale and Submesoscale Frontal Processes on the Vertical Transport of Phytoplankton

Simón Ruiz;Mariona Claret;Ananda Pascual;Antonio Olita

90
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos M. Duarte King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy University of Southern California

Julián Blasco Spanish National Research Council

Susana Agustí King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ananda Pascual National Research Council (CNR)

Joaquín Tintoré Spanish National Research Council

Jordi Garcia-Orellana Autonomous University of Barcelona

Simón Ruiz Spanish National Research Council

David A. Hutchins University of Southern California

Amala Mahadevan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

External Links

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