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2023

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D-Index
70
Citations
15995
World Ranking
1698
National Ranking
43

Miren López de Alda 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 Miren López de Alda sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 190 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Miren López de Alda 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 Miren López de Alda sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

Miren López de Alda is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to health, toxicology, mutagenesis, pollution, environmental chemistry, food science, and analytical chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, toxic organic pollutants impact, effects and risks of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, pesticide residue analysis and safety, and the development of analytical chemistry methods.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Miren López de Alda include Cristina Postigo, Ester López-García, Damià Barceló, Lubertus Bijlsma, and Maria Vittoria Barbieri.

Publications are mostly featured in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environmental Pollution, SSRN Electronic Journal, and DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)).

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Miren López de Alda include:

  • Evaluation of the occurrence and fate of pesticides in a typical Mediterranean delta ecosystem (Ebro River Delta) and risk assessment for aquatic organisms, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Microalgae-based bioremediation of water contaminated by pesticides in peri-urban agricultural areas, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let's cooperate!, 2020, Environmental Sciences Europe
  • Fungal degradation of selected medium to highly polar pesticides by Trametes versicolor: kinetics, biodegradation pathways, and ecotoxicity of treated waters, 2021, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Priority and emerging organic microcontaminants in three Mediterranean river basins: Occurrence, spatial distribution, and identification of river basin specific pollutants, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Miren López de Alda has also contributed to book publications, notably with the title Cannabis: evidencia científica vs. controversia social, published by Dykinson eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Human exposure to endocrine disrupting compounds: Their role in reproductive systems, metabolic syndrome and breast cancer. A review.

    Monica Giulivo;Miren Lopez de Alda;Ettore Capri;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló

  • Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis.

    Kevin V. Thomas;Lubertus Bijlsma;Sara Castiglioni;Adrian Covaci

  • Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in rivers: relationships between hazard indexes and aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity indexes in the Llobregat River (NE Spain).

    Antoni Ginebreda;Isabel Muñoz;Miren López de Alda;Rikke Brix

  • Illicit drug consumption estimations derived from wastewater analysis: a critical review.

    Alexander L N van Nuijs;Sara Castiglioni;Isabela Tarcomnicu;Cristina Postigo

  • Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater in Spain: a review of sources, recent occurrence and fate in a European context.

    Anna Jurado;Enric Vàzquez-Suñé;Jesus Carrera;Miren López de Alda

  • Occurrence and behavior of pesticides in wastewater treatment plants and their environmental impact.

    Marianne Köck-Schulmeyer;Marta Villagrasa;Miren López de Alda;Raquel Céspedes-Sánchez

  • Endocrine disrupting compounds and other emerging contaminants in the environment: a survey on new monitoring strategies and occurrence data.

    M. Petrovic;E. Eljarrat;M. J. Lopez de Alda;D. Barceló

  • Evaluation of drugs of abuse use and trends in a prison through wastewater analysis.

    Cristina Postigo;Miren López de Alda;Damià Barceló;Damià Barceló

  • Study of pharmaceuticals in surface and wastewater from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico: Occurrence and environmental risk assessment

    José Abraham Rivera-Jaimes;Cristina Postigo;Rosa María Melgoza-Alemán;Jaume Aceña

  • Future water quality monitoring--adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management.

    Rolf Altenburger;Selim Ait-Aissa;Philipp Antczak;Thomas Backhaus

  • Biosensors for environmental applications: Future development trends

    S. Rodriguez-Mozaz;M.-P. Marco;M. J. Lopez de Alda;D. Barceló

  • Recent trends in the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of organic contaminants in environmental samples.

    Mira Petrovic;Marinella Farré;Miren Lopez de Alda;Sandra Perez

  • Risk assessment of pesticides detected in surface water of the Alqueva reservoir (Guadiana basin, southern of Portugal).

    P. Palma;P. Palma;M. Köck-Schulmeyer;P. Alvarenga;P. Alvarenga;L. Ledo

  • Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures

    Rolf Altenburger;Rolf Altenburger;Werner Brack;Werner Brack;Robert M. Burgess;Wibke Busch

  • Pharmaceuticals and iodinated contrast media in a hospital wastewater: A case study to analyse their presence and characterise their environmental risk and hazard

    A. Mendoza;J. Aceña;S. Pérez;M. López de Alda

  • The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.

    Werner Brack;Rolf Altenburger;Gerrit Schüürmann;Martin Krauss

  • Occurrence of pharmaceutical, recreational and psychotropic drug residues in surface water on the northern Antarctic Peninsula region.

    Silvia González-Alonso;Luis Moreno Merino;Sara Esteban;Miren López de Alda

  • Analysis of selected emerging contaminants in sewage sludge

    M.S. Díaz-Cruz;M.J. García-Galán;P. Guerra;A. Jelic

  • Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

    Iria González-Mariño;Iria González-Mariño;Jose Antonio Baz-Lomba;Nikiforos A. Alygizakis;Maria Jesús Andrés-Costa

  • Chemical and biological analysis of endocrine-disrupting hormones and estrogenic activity in an advanced sewage treatment plant

    Mathieu Muller;Fanja Rabenoelina;Patrick Balaguer;Dominique Patureau

  • Biosensors for environmental monitoringA global perspective

    S Rodriguezmozaz;M Alda;M Marco;D Barcelo

Frequent Co-Authors

Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Cristina Postigo
Cristina Postigo University of Granada
Antoni Ginebreda
Antoni Ginebreda Spanish National Research Council
Mira Petrovic
Mira Petrovic Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Lubertus Bijlsma
Lubertus Bijlsma Jaume I University
Werner Brack
Werner Brack Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
José Benito Quintana
José Benito Quintana University of Santiago de Compostela
Yolanda Picó
Yolanda Picó University of Valencia
Ester Heath
Ester Heath Jožef Stefan Institute

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