2026 Montserrat Díaz-Raviña: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	41	3775	3531	167	164	101	5247
Environmental Sciences	41	7841	7535	232	232	105	5286

Overview

Montserrat Díaz-Raviña is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research has a strong focus on environmental science, particularly addressing the impacts of pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, and other pollutants on soil and ecosystems. Díaz-Raviña's work explores the complex interactions between microbial communities and environmental factors such as fire and chemical contaminants.

The scientist's recent papers cover diverse topics within environmental science and microbial ecology. Notable publications include:

Fire impacts on soil microorganisms: Mass, activity, and diversity (2021), Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
Key factors controlling microbial community responses after a fire: Importance of severity and recurrence (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
Effects of ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim, and amoxicillin on microbial structure and growth as emerging pollutants reaching crop soils (2022), Environmental Research
The Toxicity Exerted by the Antibiotic Sulfadiazine on the Growth of Soil Bacterial Communities May Increase over Time (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Effect of Oxytetracycline and Chlortetracycline on Bacterial Community Growth in Agricultural Soils (2020), Agronomy

Díaz-Raviña frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent co-authors include Manuel Arias-Estévez, David Fernández-Calviño, Vanesa Santás-Miguel, Avelino Núñez-Delgado, and Esperanza Álvarez-Rodríguez. These partnerships indicate a collaborative approach to addressing topics within environmental pollution and soil science.

Their work is commonly published in journals such as:

Spanish Journal of Soil Science
Environmental Research
Agronomy
The Science of The Total Environment
Preprints.org

Díaz-Raviña's main field of study is Environmental Science, with a deeper specialization in subfields including:

Pollution
Global and Planetary Change
Soil Science
Ecology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Research topics commonly addressed include:

Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
Fire effects on ecosystems
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Rangeland and Wildlife Management
Ethics in Clinical Research
Antibiotic Use and Resistance

Best Publications

Effect of Metal-Rich Sludge Amendments on the Soil Microbial Community

Erland Bååth;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Åsa Frostegård;Colin D. Campbell

485
Citations
Development of metal tolerance in soil bacterial communities exposed to experimentally increased metal levels.

M Diaz-Ravina;Erland Bååth

357
Citations
Multiple Heavy Metal Tolerance of Soil Bacterial Communities and Its Measurement by a Thymidine Incorporation Technique

Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Erland Bååth;Åsa Frostegård

220
Citations
Seasonal changes in microbial biomass and nutrient flush in forest soils

M. Díaz-Raviña;M. J. Acea;T. Carballas

197
Citations
Enzyme activities in vineyard soils long-term treated with copper-based fungicides.

David Fernández-Calviño;David Fernández-Calviño;Pedro Soler-Rovira;Alfredo Polo;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña

160
Citations
Effects of an experimental fire and post-fire stabilization treatments on soil microbial communities

M.T. Fontúrbel;A. Barreiro;J.A. Vega;A. Martín

159
Citations
Microbial biomass and metabolic activity in four acid soils

M. Diaz-Raviña;T. Carballas;M.J. Acea

135
Citations
Microbial biomass and its contribution to nutrient concentrations in forest soils

M. Díaz-Raviña;M.J. Acea;T. Carballas

132
Citations
Microbial community-based measurements to estimate heavy metal effects in soil: The use of phospholipid fatty acid patterns and bacterial community tolerance

Erland Bååth;Åsa Frostegård;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Anders Tunlid

127
Citations
Copper accumulation and fractionation in vineyard soils from temperate humid zone (NW Iberian Peninsula).

David Fernández-Calviño;Juan Carlos Nóvoa-Muñoz;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Manuel Arias-Estévez

126
Citations
Bacterial activity in a forest soil after soil heating and organic amendments measured by the thymidine and leucine incorporation techniques

Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Angeles Prieto;Erland Bååth

117
Citations
Mulching and seeding treatments for post-fire soil stabilisation in NW Spain: Short-term effects and effectiveness

M. Díaz-Raviña;A. Martín;A. Barreiro;A. Lombao

108
Citations
Fire impacts on soil microorganisms: mass, activity and diversity

Ana Barreiro;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña

105
Citations
Microbial Biomass, Community Structure and Metal Tolerance of a Naturally Pb-Enriched Forest Soil

Erland Bååth;M Diaz-Ravina;LR Bakken

102
Citations
Changes in soil microbial biomass and aggregate stability following burning and soil rehabilitation

M.C. Villar;V. Petrikova;M. Dı́az-Raviña;T. Carballas

101
Citations
Fumigation-extraction method to estimate microbial biomass in heated soils

M. Diaz-Raviña;A. Prieto;M.J. Acea;T. Carballas

100
Citations
Response of soil bacterial communities pre-exposed to different metals and reinoculated in an unpolluted soil

M Diaz-Ravina;M Diaz-Ravina;Erland Bååth

95
Citations
Community DNA hybridisation and %G+C profiles of microbial communities from heavy metal polluted soils

B.S Griffiths;M Dı́az-Raviña;K Ritz;J.W McNicol

89
Citations
Microbial community structure of vineyard soils with different pH and copper content

D. Fernandez-Calvino;A. Martin;M. Arias-Estevez;Erland Bååth

88
Citations
Recycling of environmentally problematic plant wastes generated from greenhouse tomato crops through vermicomposting

M. J. Fernández-Gómez;M. Díaz-Raviña;E. Romero;R. Nogales

88
Citations
Atrazine degradation and enzyme activities in an agricultural soil under two tillage systems

Jorge Mahía;Angela Martín;Tarsy Carballas;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña

87
Citations
Co-composting of chestnut burr and leaf litter with solid poultry manure.

E. Guerra-Rodrı́guez;M. Diaz-Raviña;M. Vázquez

86
Citations