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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
10455
World Ranking
3504
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Federico Páez-Osuna is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties

Federico Páez-Osuna has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Arsenic in waters, soils, sediments, and biota from Mexico: An environmental review" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Metals and oxidative stress in aquatic decapod crustaceans: A review with special reference to shrimp and crabs" (2021) published in Aquatic Toxicology
  • "Microplastics in the tissues of commercial semi-intensive shrimp pond-farmed Litopenaeus vannamei from the Gulf of California ecoregion" (2022) published in Chemosphere
  • "Single and mixture toxicity of As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn to the rotifer Proales similis under different salinities" (2020) published in Environmental Pollution
  • "The link between COVID-19 mortality and PM2.5 emissions in rural and medium-size municipalities considering population density, dust events, and wind speed" (2021) published in Chemosphere

The common venues where the scientist has published include:

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

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Federico Páez-Osuna are:

  • Gladys Valencia-Castañeda
  • Magdalena E. Bergés-Tiznado
  • Martín G. Frías-Espericueta
  • Uriel Arreguin Rebolledo
  • Martín Federico Soto-Jiménez

Best Publications

  • The environmental impact of shrimp aquaculture: causes, effects, and mitigating alternatives.

    Federico Páez-Osuna

  • Eutrophication and macroalgal blooms in temperate and tropical coastal waters: nutrient enrichment experiments with Ulva spp.

    Mirta Teichberg;Sophia E. Fox;Ylva S. Olsen;Ivan Valiela

  • Nutrients, phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms in shrimp ponds: a review with special reference to the situation in the Gulf of California

    R Alonso-Rodrı́guez;F Páez-Osuna

  • Shrimp aquaculture development and the environment in the Gulf of California ecoregion

    F Páez-Osuna;A Gracia;F Flores-Verdugo;L P Lyle-Fritch

  • Distribution and Normalization of Heavy Metal Concentrations in Mangrove and Lagoonal Sediments from Mazatlán Harbor (SE Gulf of California)

    M.F Soto-Jiménez;F Páez-Osuna

  • Fluxes and mass balances of nutrients in a semi-intensive shrimp farm in north-western Mexico

    F. Páez-Osuna;S.R. Guerrero-Galván;A.C. Ruiz-Fernández;R. Espinoza-Angulo

  • The environmental impact of shrimp aquaculture and the coastal pollution in Mexico

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Saúl R Guerrero-Galván;Ana C Ruiz-Fernández

  • The environmental impact of shrimp aquaculture: a global perspective.

    F Páez-Osuna

  • Recent sedimentary history of anthropogenic impacts on the Culiacan River Estuary, northwestern Mexico: geochemical evidence from organic matter and nutrients.

    A.C Ruiz-Fernández;A.C Ruiz-Fernández;C Hillaire-Marcel;B Ghaleb;M Soto-Jiménez

  • Nutrient mass balances in semi-intensive shrimp ponds from Sonora, Mexico using two feeding strategies: Trays and mechanical dispersal

    R. Casillas-Hernández;F. Magallón-Barajas;G. Portillo-Clarck;F. Páez-Osuna

  • Trace metal concentrations in relation to season and gonadal maturation in the oyster Crassostrea iridescens

    F. Páez-Osuna;M.G. Frías-Espericueta;J.I. Osuna-López

  • Discharge of Nutrients from Shrimp Farming to Coastal Waters of the Gulf of California

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Saúl R. Guerrero-Galván;Ana C. Ruiz-Fernández

  • Environmental status of the Gulf of California: A pollution review

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Saúl Álvarez-Borrego;Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández;Jacqueline García-Hernández

  • Trace metals in the Mexican shrimp Penaeus vannamei from estuarine and marine environments.

    F. Páez-Osuna;C. Ruiz-Fernández

  • Metals and oxidative stress in aquatic decapod crustaceans: A review with special reference to shrimp and crabs.

    Martín Gabriel Frías-Espericueta;Juan Carlos Bautista-Covarrubias;Carmen Cristina Osuna-Martínez;Carolina Delgado-Alvarez

  • Arsenic in waters, soils, sediments, and biota from Mexico: An environmental review

    C. Cristina Osuna-Martínez;María Aurora Armienta;Magdalena E. Bergés-Tiznado;Federico Páez-Osuna

  • Trophic relationships and transference of cadmium, copper, lead and zinc in a subtropical coastal lagoon food web from SE Gulf of California.

    M.E. Jara-Marini;M.F. Soto-Jiménez;F. Páez-Osuna

  • Concentrations of selected trace metals (Cu, Pb, Zn), organochlorines (PCBs, HCB) and total PAHs in mangrove oysters from the Pacific Coast of Mexico: an overview.

    F Páez-Osuna;A.C Ruiz-Fernández;A.V Botello;G Ponce-Vélez

  • Historical trends of metal pollution recorded in the sediments of the Culiacan River Estuary, Northwestern Mexico

    A.C Ruiz-Fernández;C Hillaire-Marcel;F Páez-Osuna;B Ghaleb

  • Concentration and distribution of heavy metals in tissues of wild and farmed shrimp Penaeus vannamei from the northwest coast of Mexico

    Federico Páez-Osuna;Lucía Tron-Mayen

  • Water quality, chemical fluxes and production in semi-intensive Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) culture ponds utilizing two different feeding strategies

    R. Casillas-Hernández;H. Nolasco-Soria;T. García-Galano;O. Carrillo-Farnes

  • Arsenic, Antimony, Selenium and other trace elements in sediments of the La Paz Lagoon, Peninsula of Baja California, Mexico

    Evgueni Shumilin;Federico Páez-osuna;Carlos Green-ruiz;Dmitry Sapozhnikov

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández
Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández National Autonomous University of Mexico
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza National Autonomous University of Mexico
Felipe Galván-Magaña
Felipe Galván-Magaña Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Bassam Ghaleb
Bassam Ghaleb University of Quebec at Montreal
Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Claude Hillaire-Marcel University of Quebec at Montreal
A. Russell Flegal
A. Russell Flegal University of California, Santa Cruz
Jose L. Sericano
Jose L. Sericano Texas A&M University
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Francesco Regoli
Francesco Regoli Marche Polytechnic University
Todd M. O'Hara
Todd M. O'Hara University of Alaska Fairbanks

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