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Célia M. Manaia publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Célia M. Manaia sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 208 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Célia M. Manaia D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Célia M. Manaia sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Célia M. Manaia is affiliated with the Catholic University of Portugal in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. With a significant number of publications in these fields, they explore the impacts of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics on the environment, mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and factors related to bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Biofilms and Quorum Sensing
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Infections and Bacterial Resistance

Their work spans various subfields, such as pollution, molecular biology, molecular medicine, ecology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. These subfields support a multidisciplinary approach to understanding antibiotic resistance and environmental contamination.

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include Ivone Vaz-Moreira, Olga C. Nunes, Catarina Ferreira, Kevin C. Jones, and Zongwei Cai. Collaboration with these researchers reflects a network focused on antibiotic resistance and environmental microbiology.

Célia M. Manaia publishes often in prominent venues, including:

  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Environmental Science Advances
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Among the recent papers are:

  • "Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment," 2020, Environment International
  • "Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment," 2020, The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
  • "Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples," 2023, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Monitoring antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater environments: The challenges of filling a gap in the One-Health cycle," 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Investigating the impact of UV-C/H2O2 and sunlight/H2O2 on the removal of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance determinants and toxicity present in urban wastewater," 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal

The thematic focus of these works centers on antibiotic residues, resistance genes monitoring, environmental impacts of antibiotics, and wastewater treatment processes. This body of research contributes data and analysis relevant to understanding environmental dissemination of antibiotic resistance and emerging treatment technologies.

Best Publications

  • Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes spread into the environment: a review.

    L. Rizzo;C.M. Manaia;C. Merlin;T. Schwartz

  • Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework

    Thomas U. Berendonk;Célia M. Manaia;Christophe Merlin;Despo Fatta-Kassinos

  • Urban wastewater treatment plants as hotspots for the release of antibiotics in the environment: a review

    I. Michael;L. Rizzo;C.S. McArdell;C.M. Manaia

  • The potential implications of reclaimed wastewater reuse for irrigation on the agricultural environment: The knowns and unknowns of the fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes - A review.

    Anastasis Christou;Ana Agüera;Josep Maria Bayona;Eddie Cytryn

  • Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment

    Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz;Ivone Vaz-Moreira;Saulo Varela Della Giustina;Marta Llorca

  • Antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial residues and bacterial community composition in urban wastewater.

    Ana Novo;Sandra André;Paula Viana;Olga C. Nunes

  • Wastewater reuse in irrigation: a microbiological perspective on implications in soil fertility and human and environmental health.

    Cristina Becerra-Castro;Ana Rita Lopes;Ivone Vaz-Moreira;Elisabete F. Silva

  • Antibiotic resistance in European wastewater treatment plants mirrors the pattern of clinical antibiotic resistance prevalence

    Katariina M. M. Pärnänen;Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha;David Kneis;Thomas U. Berendonk

  • Performance of secondary wastewater treatment methods for the removal of contaminants of emerging concern implicated in crop uptake and antibiotic resistance spread: A review

    Pawel Krzeminski;Maria Concetta Tomei;Popi Karaolia;Alette Langenhoff

  • A brief multi-disciplinary review on antimicrobial resistance in medicine and its linkage to the global environmental microbiota.

    Leon Cantas;Syed Qaswar Ali Shah;Lina M. Cavaco;Célia Manaia

  • Critical knowledge gaps and research needs related to the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance.

    D. G.Joakim Larsson;Antoine Andremont;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Kristian Koefoed Brandt

  • Antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants: Tackling the black box.

    Célia M. Manaia;Jaqueline Rocha;Nazareno Scaccia;Roberto Marano

  • Assessing the Risk of Antibiotic Resistance Transmission from the Environment to Humans: Non-Direct Proportionality between Abundance and Risk

    Célia M. Manaia

  • Bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance in water habitats: searching the links with the human microbiome.

    Ivone Vaz-Moreira;Olga C. Nunes;Célia M. Manaia

  • Toward a Comprehensive Strategy to Mitigate Dissemination of Environmental Sources of Antibiotic Resistance.

    Peter J. Vikesland;Amy Pruden;Pedro J.J. Alvarez;Diana Aga

  • Antibiotic resistance genes in treated wastewater and in the receiving water bodies: A pan-European survey of urban settings.

    Damiano Cacace;Despo Fatta-Kassinos;Celia M. Manaia;Eddie Cytryn

  • Antibiotic resistance of enterococci and related bacteria in an urban wastewater treatment plant.

    Miguel Ferreira da Silva;Igor Tiago;António Veríssimo;Rui A R Boaventura

  • Continuous ozonation of urban wastewater: Removal of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli and antibiotic resistance genes and phytotoxicity.

    I. C. Iakovides;I. Michael-Kordatou;Nuno F. F. Moreira;Ana R. Ribeiro

  • Solar treatment (H2O2, TiO2-P25 and GO-TiO2 photocatalysis, photo-Fenton) of organic micropollutants, human pathogen indicators, antibiotic resistant bacteria and related genes in urban wastewater.

    Nuno F.F. Moreira;Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha;M. Inmaculada Polo-López;Luisa M. Pastrana-Martínez

  • Diversity and antibiotic resistance of Aeromonas spp. in drinking and waste water treatment plants.

    Vânia Figueira;Ivone Vaz-Moreira;Márcia Silva;Célia M. Manaia

Frequent Co-Authors

Despo Fatta-Kassinos
Despo Fatta-Kassinos University of Cyprus
Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo University of Salerno
Thomas Schwartz
Thomas Schwartz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Adrián M.T. Silva
Adrián M.T. Silva University of Porto
Peter Vandamme
Peter Vandamme Ghent University
Amy Pruden
Amy Pruden Virginia Tech
Peter Schumann
Peter Schumann Leibniz Association
José L. Martínez
José L. Martínez Spanish National Research Council
Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Philippe F.-X. Corvini
Philippe F.-X. Corvini University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

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