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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
133
Citations
80668
World Ranking
59
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paulo Artaxo is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and has an extensive publication record in environmental and earth sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric studies. Their main fields of study encompass Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, while subfields include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

The research topics addressed by Paulo Artaxo revolve around atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, conservation and biodiversity, as well as plant responses to elevated CO2.

Among their recent scholarly articles are the following:

  • "Tropical and Boreal Forest - Atmosphere Interactions: A Review," 2022, Tellus B
  • "As três emergências que nossa sociedade enfrenta: saúde, biodiversidade e mudanças climáticas," 2020, Estudos Avançados

Other notable related works published in collaboration or cited in the same research area include:

  • "Influx of African biomass burning aerosol during the Amazonian dry season through layered transatlantic transport of black carbon-rich smoke," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Impact of biomass burning aerosols on radiation, clouds, and precipitation over the Amazon: relative importance of aerosol-cloud and aerosol-radiation interactions," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Amazonian biogenic volatile organic compounds under global change," 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors include Christopher Pöhlker, Meinrat O. Andreae, Marco A. Franco, Luciana V. Rizzo, and Luiz A. T. Machado. Collaborations with these researchers have contributed to a significant portion of Paulo Artaxo's publications and research impact.

The venues that frequently publish Paulo Artaxo's work are:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscience Frontiers
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Throughout their career, Paulo Artaxo has been recognized with fellowships from significant scientific organizations, including fellow status at The World Academy of Sciences since 2009 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 2006.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing. Chapter 2

    P. Forster;V. Ramaswamy;P. Artaxo;T. Berntsen

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon

    Meinrat O. Andreae;Daniel Rosenfeld;P. Artaxo;A. A. Costa

  • Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosols Through Photooxidation of Isoprene

    Magda Claeys;Bim Graham;Gyorgy Vas;Wu Wang

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Eric A. Davidson;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Paulo Artaxo;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

    Natalie Mahowald;Timothy D. Jickells;Alex R. Baker;Paulo Artaxo

  • The effect of physical and chemical aerosol properties on warm cloud droplet activation

    G. Mcfiggans;P. Artaxo;Urs Baltensperger;H. Coe

  • Rainforest Aerosols as Biogenic Nuclei of Clouds and Precipitation in the Amazon

    U. Pöschl;S. T. Martin;B. Sinha;Q. Chen

  • Atmospheric Iron Deposition: Global Distribution, Variability, and Human Perturbations*

    Natalie M. Mahowald;Sebastian Engelstaedter;Chao Luo;Andrea Sealy

  • Optical properties of humic-like substances (HULIS) in biomass-burning aerosols

    A. Hoffer;A. Gelencsér;P. Guyon;G. Kiss

  • Fine mode aerosol composition at three long-term atmospheric monitoring sites in the Amazon Basin

    Paulo Artaxo;Fábio Gerab;Marcia A. Yamasoe;José V. Martins

  • Aerosol chemistry during the wet season in central Amazonia - The influence of long-range transport

    R. W. Talbot;M. O. Andreae;H. Berresheim;P. Artaxo

  • Size distribution of biogenic aerosol particles from the amazon basin

    Paulo Artaxo;Hans-Christen Hansson

  • Water‐soluble organic compounds in biomass burning aerosols over Amazonia 1. Characterization by NMR and GC‐MS

    Bim Graham;Olga L. Mayol-Bracero;Pascal Guyon;Gregory C. Roberts

  • Impact of desert dust on the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

    Gregory S. Okin;Natalie Mahowald;Oliver A. Chadwick;Paulo Artaxo

  • A simplified description of the evolution of organic aerosol composition in the atmosphere

    C. L. Heald;J. H. Kroll;J. L. Jimenez;K. S. Docherty

  • Changes in atmos-pheric constituents and in radiative forcing

    P. Artaxo;T. Berntsen;R. Betts;D. W. Fahey

Frequent Co-Authors

Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Joel Brito
Joel Brito IMT Lille Douai
Willy Maenhaut
Willy Maenhaut Ghent University
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Olga L. Mayol-Bracero
Olga L. Mayol-Bracero University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
Scot T. Martin
Scot T. Martin Harvard University
Luiz A. T. Machado
Luiz A. T. Machado Max Planck Society
Alex Guenther
Alex Guenther University of California, Irvine
Daniel Rosenfeld
Daniel Rosenfeld Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Erik Swietlicki
Erik Swietlicki Lund University

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