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Federico Páez-Osuna publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Federico Páez-Osuna sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 225 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Federico Páez-Osuna D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Federico Páez-Osuna sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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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