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Eduarda Pereira

Eduarda Pereira

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Environmental Sciences
Portugal
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
14916
World Ranking
7311
National Ranking
58

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
66
Citations
14838
World Ranking
2106
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Eduarda Pereira is affiliated with the University of Aveiro in Portugal and has a research focus primarily within the field of Environmental Science.

Their published work extensively covers topics such as mercury impact and mitigation studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, geochemistry and elemental analysis, heavy metals in the environment, adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal, extraction and separation processes, and heavy metal exposure and toxicity.

They have published research in several frequent venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Chemosphere
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Some of their recent papers include:

  • What do we know about the ecotoxicological implications of the rare earth element gadolinium in aquatic ecosystems? (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web (2021, Environmental Pollution)
  • Graphene oxide/polyethyleneimine aerogel for high-performance mercury sorption from natural waters (2020, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • A green method based on living macroalgae for the removal of rare-earth elements from contaminated waters (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • New insights on the impacts of e-waste towards marine bivalves: The case of the rare earth element Dysprosium (2020, Environmental Pollution)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Eduarda Pereira include Rosa Freitas, Bruno Henriques, Amadeu M.V.M. Soares, João Pinto, and Daniela Tavares.

Their work encompasses various subfields of study within Environmental Science, notably Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Water Science and Technology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanical Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Glutathione and glutathione reductase: a boon in disguise for plant abiotic stress defense operations

    Sarvajeet Singh Gill;Naser A. Anjum;Mirza Hasanuzzaman;Ritu Gill

  • Modulation of glutathione and its related enzymes in plants’ responses to toxic metals and metalloids—A review

    Naser A. Anjum;Iqbal Ahmad;Iram Mohmood;Mário Pacheco

  • Silica coated magnetite particles for magnetic removal of Hg2+ from water.

    Penka I. Girginova;Ana L. Daniel-da-Silva;Cláudia B. Lopes;Paula Figueira

  • Catalase and ascorbate peroxidase—representative H2O2-detoxifying heme enzymes in plants

    Naser A. Anjum;Pallavi Sharma;Sarvajeet S. Gill;Mirza Hasanuzzaman

  • Lipids and proteins--major targets of oxidative modifications in abiotic stressed plants.

    Naser A. Anjum;Adriano Sofo;Antonio Scopa;Aryadeep Roychoudhury

  • Piriformospora indica: Potential and Significance in Plant Stress Tolerance.

    Sarvajeet S. Gill;Ritu Gill;Dipesh K. Trivedi;Naser A. Anjum

  • Nanoscale materials and their use in water contaminants removal-a review.

    Iram Mohmood;Cláudia Batista Lopes;Isabel Lopes;Iqbal Ahmad

  • Strain and composition distributions in wurtzite InGaN/GaN layers extracted from x-ray reciprocal space mapping

    S. Pereira;M. R. Correia;E. Pereira;K. P. O’Donnell

  • Glutathione and its dependent enzymes' modulatory responses to toxic metals and metalloids in fish: a review

    K. Srikanth;E. Pereira;A. C. Duarte;I. Ahmad

  • Silver nanoparticles in soil–plant systems

    Naser A. Anjum;Sarvajeet S. Gill;Armando C. Duarte;Eduarda Pereira

  • Jacks of metal/metalloid chelation trade in plants-an overview.

    Naser A. Anjum;Mirza Hasanuzzaman;Mohammad A. Hossain;Palaniswamy Thangavel

  • Single-bilayer graphene oxide sheet impacts and underlying potential mechanism assessment in germinating faba bean (Vicia faba L.).

    Naser A. Anjum;Neetu Singh;Manoj K. Singh;Iqbal Sayeed

  • Metal/metalloid stress tolerance in plants: role of ascorbate, its redox couple, and associated enzymes.

    Naser A. Anjum;Sarvajeet S. Gill;Ritu Gill;Mirza Hasanuzzaman

  • ATP-sulfurylase, sulfur-compounds, and plant stress tolerance.

    Naser A. Anjum;Ritu Gill;Manjeri Kaushik;Mirza Hasanuzzaman

  • Chromium removal from contaminated waters using nanomaterials – A review

    Joana C. Almeida;Celso E.D. Cardoso;Daniela S. Tavares;Rosa Freitas

  • Nanoscale copper in the soil-plant system - toxicity and underlying potential mechanisms.

    Naser A. Anjum;Vojtech Adam;Vojtech Adam;Rene Kizek;Armando C. Duarte

  • Too much is bad--an appraisal of phytotoxicity of elevated plant-beneficial heavy metal ions.

    Naser A. Anjum;Harminder P. Singh;M. Iqbal R. Khan;Asim Masood

  • Risk assessment for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in urban soils: Chemical availability as the central concept

    S.M. Rodrigues;N. Cruz;C. Coelho;B. Henriques

  • Recovery of Rare Earth Elements by Carbon-Based Nanomaterials—A Review

    Celso E D Cardoso;Joana C Almeida;Cláudia B Lopes;Tito Trindade

  • Accumulation of Mercury in Sea Bass from a Contaminated Lagoon (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal)

    S.N Abreu;E Pereira;C Vale;A.C Duarte

  • Glutathione and proline can coordinately make plants withstand the joint attack of metal(loid) and salinity stresses

    Naser A. Anjum;Ibrahim M. Aref;Armando C. Duarte;Eduarda Pereira

  • Study on bioaccumulation and biosorption of mercury by living marine macroalgae: Prospecting for a new remediation biotechnology applied to saline waters

    Bruno Henriques;Luciana S. Rocha;Cláudia B. Lopes;Paula Figueira

Frequent Co-Authors

Armando C. Duarte
Armando C. Duarte University of Aveiro
Carlos Vale
Carlos Vale University of Porto
Naser A. Anjum
Naser A. Anjum Aligarh Muslim University
Iqbal Ahmad
Iqbal Ahmad Aligarh Muslim University
Miguel A. Pardal
Miguel A. Pardal University of Coimbra
Rosa Freitas
Rosa Freitas University of Aveiro
Tito Trindade
Tito Trindade University of Aveiro
Amadeu M.V.M. Soares
Amadeu M.V.M. Soares University of Aveiro
Marta Otero
Marta Otero University of Leon
Paul F.A.M. Römkens
Paul F.A.M. Römkens Wageningen University & Research

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