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2023

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D-Index
68
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14755
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1891
National Ranking
47

Manuel López-Puertas 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 Manuel López-Puertas sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 379 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Manuel López-Puertas 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 Manuel López-Puertas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Manuel López-Puertas is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has made significant contributions to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans a total of 129 publications, primarily focused on Astronomy and Astrophysics, with substantial work also in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Instrumentation, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's research interests cover various topics linked to stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, as well as astro and planetary science. Other areas of study include atmospheric ozone and climate, astrophysics and star formation studies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, astronomy and astrophysical research, and solar and space plasma dynamics.

Manuel López-Puertas has published extensively in several scientific journals, with the majority of works appearing in "Astronomy and Astrophysics." Other frequent publication venues include Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, arXiv (Cornell University), Geophysical Research Letters, and Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology).

Frequent co-authors contributing to their collaborative research include:

  • I. Ribas
  • J. A. Caballero
  • Ε. Πάλλη
  • P. J. Amado
  • A. Reiners

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Manuel López-Puertas include:

  • Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b (2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs (2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Detection of Fe and evidence for TiO in the dayside emission spectrum of WASP-33b (2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Hα and He I absorption in HAT-P-32 b observed with CARMENES (2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • A tentative detection of He I in the atmosphere of GJ 1214 b (2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Best Publications

  • MIPAS: an instrument for atmospheric and climate research

    H. Fischer;M. Birk;C. Blom;B. Carli

  • Assessment of the quality of the Version 1.07 temperature‐versus‐pressure profiles of the middle atmosphere from TIMED/SABER

    Ellis E. Remsberg;B. T. Marshall;M. Garcia-Comas;D. Krueger

  • Retrieval of temperature and tangent altitude pointing from limb emission spectra recorded from space by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)

    T. von Clarmann;N. Glatthor;U. Grabowski;M. Höpfner

  • Retrieval of mesospheric and lower thermospheric kinetic temperature from measurements of CO2 15 µm Earth Limb Emission under non‐LTE conditions

    Christopher J. Mertens;Martin G. Mlynczak;Manuel López-Puertas;Peter P. Wintersteiner

  • Non-Lte Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere

    M. López-Puertas;F. W. Taylor

  • SABER observations of mesospheric temperatures and comparisons with falling sphere measurements taken during the 2002 summer MaCWAVE campaign

    Christopher J. Mertens;Francis J. Schmidlin;Richard A. Goldberg;Ellis E. Remsberg

  • The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. First visual-channel radial-velocity measurements and orbital parameter updates of seven M-dwarf planetary systems

    T. Trifonov;M. Kürster;M. Zechmeister;L. Tal-Or

  • Observed temporal evolution of global mean age of stratospheric air for the 2002 to 2010 period

    G. P. Stiller;T. von Clarmann;F. Haenel;B. Funke

  • Composition changes after the "Halloween" solar proton event: the High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere (HEPPA) model versus MIPAS data intercomparison study

    B. Funke;A. Baumgaertner;M. Calisto;T. Egorova

  • Observations of infrared radiative cooling in the thermosphere on daily to multiyear timescales from the TIMED/SABER instrument

    Martin G. Mlynczak;Linda A. Hunt;B. Thomas Marshall;F. Javier Martin-Torres

  • Short- and medium-term atmospheric constituent effects of very large solar proton events

    C. H. Jackman;D. R. Marsh;F. M. Vitt;R. R. Garcia

  • Detection of He I λ10830 Å absorption on HD 189733 b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy

    M. Salz;S. Czesla;P. C. Schneider;E. Nagel

  • Downward transport of upper atmospheric NOx into the polar stratosphere and lower mesosphere during the Antarctic 2003 and Arctic 2002/2003 winters

    B. Funke;M. López-Puertas;S. Gil-López;T. von Clarmann

  • EChO - Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory

    G. Tinetti;J. P. Beaulieu;T. Henning;M. Meyer

  • The natural thermostat of nitric oxide emission at 5.3 μm in the thermosphere observed during the solar storms of April 2002

    Martin G. Mlynczak;F. Javier Martin‐torres;James Russell;Ken Beaumont

  • Observation of NO(x) Enhancement and Ozone Depletion in the Northern and Southern hemispheres after the October-November 2003 Solar Proton Events

    M. López-Puertas;B. Funke;S. Gil-López;T. von Clarmann

  • The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden's Star

    M. Zechmeister;S. Dreizler;I. Ribas;A. Reiners

  • Errors in Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) Kinetic Temperature Caused by Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium Model Parameters

    M. García-Comas;M. López-Puertas;B. T. Marshall;P. P. Wintersteiner

  • CARMENES: an overview six months after first light

    A. Quirrenbach;P. J. Amado;J. A. Caballero;R. Mundt

  • Detection of He I $\lambda10830$ \AA{} absorption on HD 189733 b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy

    M. Salz;S. Czesla;P. C. Schneider;E. Nagel

  • LARGE ABUNDANCES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN TITAN'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE

    M. López-Puertas;B. M. Dinelli;A. Adriani;B. Funke

  • MIPAS level 2 operational analysis

    P. Raspollini;C. Belotti;A. Burgess;B. Carli

  • Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b

    Lisa Nortmann;Lisa Nortmann;Enric Palle;Enric Palle;Michael Salz;Jorge Sanz-Forcada

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Funke
Bernd Funke Spanish National Research Council
Gabriele Stiller
Gabriele Stiller Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
T. von Clarmann
T. von Clarmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Miguel Lopez-Valverde
Miguel Lopez-Valverde Spanish National Research Council
Norbert Glatthor
Norbert Glatthor Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Höpfner
Michael Höpfner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
D. Montes
D. Montes Complutense University of Madrid
Andrea Linden
Andrea Linden Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sylvia Kellmann
Sylvia Kellmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ignasi Ribas
Ignasi Ribas Institute of Space Sciences

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