2026 João Miguel Dias: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	55	2576	2345	2	2	279	10224

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Portugal Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

João Miguel Dias is affiliated with the University of Aveiro in Portugal. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work addresses several main topics including:

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Climate variability and models
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Marine and fisheries research

Their publication record includes recent papers covering diverse aspects of environmental and marine sciences. Selected publications include:

"Global and regional evolution of sea surface temperature under climate change" (2020), published in Global and Planetary Change
"Assessing salt marsh extent and condition changes with 35 years of Landsat imagery: Tagus Estuary case study" (2020), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
"Modelling the distribution of microplastics released by wastewater treatment plants in Ria de Vigo (NW Iberian Peninsula)" (2021), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
"Exploring Gender and Climate Change Nexus, and Empowering Women in the South Western Coastal Region of Bangladesh for Adaptation and Mitigation" (2022), published in Climate
"Synoptic Spatio-Temporal Variability of the Photosynthetic Productivity of Microphytobenthos and Phytoplankton in a Tidal Estuary" (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science

João Miguel Dias frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Ana Picado, Magda C. Sousa, Humberto Pereira, Américo Soares Ribeiro, and Carina L. Lopes.

Their work appears often in journals such as the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Marine Pollution Bulletin.

In addition to journal articles, João Miguel Dias has contributed to books, including a publication through Springer Nature titled "Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (2nd Edition)" in 2021.

Best Publications

SPHysics - development of a free-surface fluid solver - Part 1: Theory and formulations

M. Gomez-Gesteira;B. D. Rogers;A. J. C. Crespo;R. A. Dalrymple

471
Citations
Applicability of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for estimation of sea wave impact on coastal structures

Corrado Altomare;Alejandro J.C. Crespo;Jose M. Domínguez;Moncho Gómez-Gesteira

305
Citations
Long-crested wave generation and absorption for SPH-based DualSPHysics model

Corrado Altomare;J.M. Domínguez;A.J.C. Crespo;J. González-Cao

280
Citations
Tidal propagation in Ria de Aveiro Lagoon, Portugal

J.M. Dias;J.F. Lopes;I. Dekeyser

265
Citations
Factors influencing recent benthic foraminifera distribution on the Guadiana shelf (Southwestern Iberia)

I. Mendes;R. Gonzalez;J.M.A. Dias;F. Lobo

232
Citations
SPHysics - development of a free-surface fluid solver - Part 2: Efficiency and test cases

M. Gomez-Gesteira;A. J. C. Crespo;B. D. Rogers;R. A. Dalrymple

211
Citations
Hydrological characterisation of Ria de Aveiro, Portugal, in early summer

João Miguel Dias;JoséFortes Lopes;Ivan Dekeyser

201
Citations
Numerical modelling of armour block sea breakwater with smoothed particle hydrodynamics

C. Altomare;A. J. C. Crespo;B. D. Rogers;J. M. Dominguez

198
Citations
Fundão Dam collapse: Oceanic dispersion of River Doce after the greatest Brazilian environmental accident.

Martinho Marta-Almeida;Renato Mendes;Fabiola N. Amorim;Mauro Cirano

179
Citations
Implementation and assessment of hydrodynamic, salt and heat transport models: The case of Ria de Aveiro Lagoon (Portugal)

J. M. Dias;J. F. Lopes

173
Citations
SPH simulation of floating structures with moorings

José M. Domínguez;Alejandro J.C. Crespo;Matthew Hall;Corrado Altomare

163
Citations
A multiproxy approach of the Holocene evolution of shelf-slope circulation on the NW Iberian Continental Shelf

Virgínia Martins;Jesús Dubert;Jean-Marie Jouanneau;Olivier Weber

150
Citations
Singular spectrum analysis and forecasting of hydrological time series

C.A.F. Marques;J.A. Ferreira;A. Rocha;J.M. Castanheira

146
Citations
Spatiotemporal evolution of upwelling regime along the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula

Ines Alvarez;Ines Alvarez;Moncho Gomez-Gesteira;Maite deCastro;João Miguel Dias

141
Citations
Dispersal and deposition of suspended sediment on the shelf off the Tagus and Sado estuaries, S.W. Portugal

J.M. Jouanneau;C. Garcia;A. Oliveira;A. Rodrigues

140
Citations
Classification of washover dynamics in barrier islands

Ana Matias;Óscar Ferreira;Ana Vila-Concejo;Tiago Garcia

139
Citations
Towards simulating floating offshore oscillating water column converters with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

A.J.C. Crespo;Corrado Altomare;J.M. Domínguez;J. González-Cao

136
Citations
Comparative analysis of upwelling influence between the western and northern coast of the Iberian Peninsula

I. Alvarez;I. Alvarez;M. Gomez-Gesteira;M. deCastro;M.N. Lorenzo

129
Citations
Numerical modeling of the impact of the Ancão Inlet relocation (Ria Formosa, Portugal)

J. M. Dias;M. C. Sousa;X. Bertin;A. B. Fortunato

123
Citations
Monitoring Sandy Shores Morphologies by DGPS—A Practical Tool to Generate Digital Elevation Models

P. Baptista;L. Bastos;C. Bernardes;T. Cunha

119
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Moncho Gómez-Gesteira Universidade de Vigo

André B. Fortunato National Laboratory for Civil Engineering

Isabel Caçador University of Lisbon

Ana I. Lillebø University of Aveiro

Bernardo Duarte University of Lisbon

João Borges de Sousa University of Porto

Fernando Rocha University of Aveiro

Adelaide Almeida University of Aveiro

João Carlos Marques University of Coimbra

Armando C. Duarte University of Aveiro

External Links

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