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D-Index
42
Citations
6852
World Ranking
3467
National Ranking
146

José M. Murillo publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where José M. Murillo sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 103 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

José M. Murillo D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where José M. Murillo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Botany

His primary scientific interests are in Soil water, Agronomy, Soil organic matter, Tillage and Environmental engineering. His work in the fields of Soil water, such as Soil contamination, intersects with other areas such as Trace element. His Agronomy study typically links adjacent topics like Nutrient.

His Soil organic matter study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Organic matter, Soil fertility and Soil salinity. His Tillage study incorporates themes from Crop rotation and Soil quality. His studies in Environmental engineering integrate themes in fields like Soil test and Phytoremediation.

His most cited work include:

  • Heavy metal pollution of soils affected by the Guadiamar toxic flood. (268 citations)
  • Trace element and nutrient accumulation in sunflower plants two years after the Aznalcóllar mine spill. (161 citations)
  • White poplar (Populus alba) as a biomonitor of trace elements in contaminated riparian forests (159 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Agronomy, Soil water, Tillage, Soil contamination and Soil quality. His Agronomy study incorporates themes from Soil organic matter, Organic matter and Nutrient. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Environmental engineering, Horticulture, Environmental remediation and Environmental chemistry, Bioaccumulation.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Soil carbon, Plough, Crop yield, Crop rotation and Vertisol in addition to Tillage. In general Soil contamination study, his work on Soil Pollutants often relates to the realm of Trace element, thereby connecting several areas of interest. His work in Soil quality addresses issues such as Entisol, which are connected to fields such as Soil type.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (62.37%)
  • Soil water (37.63%)
  • Tillage (27.96%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2020)?

  • Agronomy (62.37%)
  • Soil contamination (24.73%)
  • Environmental remediation (12.90%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

José M. Murillo mainly investigates Agronomy, Soil contamination, Environmental remediation, Soil water and Tillage. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Organic matter, Soil test and Soil quality. The various areas that José M. Murillo examines in his Soil contamination study include Environmental chemistry, Biomonitoring and Botany, Seedling.

His Environmental remediation research integrates issues from Soil conditioner, Environmental engineering, Land reclamation and Bioaccumulation. José M. Murillo combines subjects such as Nutrient and Revegetation with his study of Soil water. His Tillage research incorporates themes from Sunflower, Soil carbon and Sowing.

Between 2011 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Reduced tillage as an alternative to no-tillage under Mediterranean conditions: A case study (45 citations)
  • Soil organic matter degradation in an agricultural chronosequence under different tillage regimes evaluated by organic matter pools, enzymatic activities and CPMAS ¹³C NMR (40 citations)
  • Soil-plant relationships and contamination by trace elements: A review of twenty years of experimentation and monitoring after the Aznalcóllar (SW Spain) mine accident (39 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Botany

José M. Murillo mainly focuses on Total organic carbon, Conservation agriculture, Land reclamation, Environmental remediation and Biomonitoring. His Conservation agriculture study combines topics in areas such as Sunflower, Soil carbon, Oleic acid and Crop rotation. His Sunflower research is under the purview of Agronomy.

His work deals with themes such as Humus, Soil quality and Mineralization, which intersect with Agronomy. His Environmental remediation study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Soil Pollutants, Environmental engineering, Soil conditioner, Phytoremediation and Soil microbiology. His Biomonitoring research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Poplar trees, Botany and Contamination, Soil contamination.

Best Publications

  • Heavy metal pollution of soils affected by the Guadiamar toxic flood.

    F Cabrera;L Clemente;E Dı́az Barrientos;R López

  • Agricultural use of three (sugar-beet) vinasse composts: effect on crops and chemical properties of a Cambisol soil in the Guadalquivir river valley (SW Spain)

    Engracia Madejón;Rafael López;José M Murillo;Francisco Cabrera

  • Substitution of peat for municipal solid waste- and sewage sludge-based composts in nursery growing media: effects on growth and nutrition of the native shrub Pistacia lentiscus L.

    J.C. Ostos;R. López-Garrido;J.M. Murillo;R. López

  • White poplar (Populus alba) as a biomonitor of trace elements in contaminated riparian forests

    Paula Madejón;Teodoro Marañón;José M Murillo;Brett H Robinson

  • Phytoextraction: an assessment of biogeochemical and economic viability

    Brett Robinson;José-Enrique Fernández;Paula Madejón;Teodoro Marañón

  • Trace element and nutrient accumulation in sunflower plants two years after the Aznalcóllar mine spill.

    P Madejón;J.M Murillo;T Marañón;F Cabrera

  • Soil biochemical response to long-term conservation tillage under semi-arid Mediterranean conditions

    E. Madejón;F. Moreno;J.M. Murillo;F. Pelegrín

  • Conservation tillage: Short- and long-term effects on soil carbon fractions and enzymatic activities under Mediterranean conditions

    Sebastiana Melero;Rosa López-Garrido;José Manuel Murillo;Félix Moreno

  • Soil physical properties, water depletion and crop development under traditional and conservation tillage in southern Spain

    F. Moreno;F. Pelegrín;J.E. Fernández;J.M. Murillo

  • Bioaccumulation of As, Cd, Cu, Fe and Pb in wild grasses affected by the Aznalcóllar mine spill (SW Spain).

    P Madejón;J.M Murillo;T Marañón;F Cabrera

  • Land treatment of olive oil mill wastewater

    F. Cabrera;R. López;A. Martinez-Bordiú;E. Dupuy de Lome

  • Trace element accumulation in woody plants of the Guadiamar Valley, SW Spain: a large-scale phytomanagement case study.

    María T. Domínguez;Teodoro Marañón;José M. Murillo;Rainer Schulin

  • Long-term impact of conservation tillage on stratification ratio of soil organic carbon and loss of total and active CaCO3

    F. Moreno;J.M. Murillo;F. Pelegrín;I.F. Girón

  • Water balance and nitrate leaching in an irrigated maize crop in SW Spain

    F. Moreno;J.A. Cayuela;J.E. Fernández;E. Fernández-Boy

  • Effect of long-term conservation tillage on soil biochemical properties in Mediterranean Spanish areas

    E. Madejón;J.M. Murillo;F. Moreno;M.V. López

  • Accumulation of heavy metals in sunflower and sorghum plants affected by the Guadiamar spill.

    J.M Murillo;T Marañón;F Cabrera;R López

  • Biomonitoring of trace elements in the leaves and fruits of wild olive and holm oak trees

    Paula Madejón;Teodoro Marañón;José M. Murillo

  • Reduced tillage as an alternative to no-tillage under Mediterranean conditions: A case study

    R. López-Garrido;E. Madejón;M. León-Camacho;I. Girón

  • Long-term effect of tillage, rotation and nitrogen fertiliser on soil quality in a Mediterranean Vertisol

    Sebastiana Melero;Rafael Jesus López-Bellido;Luis López-Bellido;Verónica Muñoz-Romero

  • Cadmium availability in soil and retention in oak roots: Potential for phytostabilization

    María T. Domínguez;Fernando Madrid;Teodoro Marañón;José M. Murillo

  • Implementation of chiselling and mouldboard ploughing in soil after 8 years of no-till management in SW, Spain: Effect on soil quality

    S. Melero;M. Panettieri;E. Madejón;H. Gómez Macpherson

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Cabrera
Francisco Cabrera Spanish National Research Council
Teodoro Marañón
Teodoro Marañón Spanish National Research Council
Félix Moreno
Félix Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Engracia Madejón
Engracia Madejón Spanish National Research Council
J.E. Fernández
J.E. Fernández Spanish National Research Council
Brett Robinson
Brett Robinson University of Canterbury
Heike Knicker
Heike Knicker Spanish National Research Council
Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes
Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes Spanish National Research Council
Luis López-Bellido
Luis López-Bellido University of Córdoba
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich

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