2026 Rafael Celis: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	42	7488	7195	218	218	112	5823

Overview

Rafael Celis is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses on plant science and pollution, with an emphasis on allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, and weed control and herbicide applications.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics such as:

Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
Pesticide and herbicide environmental studies
Weed control and herbicide applications
Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
Plant parasitism and resistance
Analytical chemistry and chromatography
Biological control of invasive species

Rafael Celis has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Beatriz Gámiz, Rocío López-Cabeza, Jose Antonio Galán-Pérez, Gracia Facenda, and L. Cox.

Prominent publication venues where Rafael Celis' research has appeared include:

Plants
The Science of The Total Environment
Biology and Fertility of Soils
Environmental Technology & Innovation
Agronomy

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Rafael Celis are:

Sorption and dissipation of the allelochemicals umbelliferone and salicylic acid in a Mediterranean soil environment: Effect of olive-mill waste addition, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
Determining the effect of soil properties on the stability of scopoletin and its toxicity to target plants, 2021, Biology and Fertility of Soils
Enantiomer-Selective Characterization of the Adsorption, Dissipation, and Phytotoxicity of the Plant Monoterpene Pulegone in Soils, 2022, Plants
Soil Effects on the Bioactivity of Hydroxycoumarins as Plant Allelochemicals, 2023, Plants
Granulated organoclay as a sorbent to protect the allelochemical scopoletin from rapid biodegradation in soil, 2022, Environmental Technology & Innovation

Best Publications

Heavy Metal Adsorption by Functionalized Clays

Rafael Celis;M. Carmen Hermosin;Juan Cornejo

492
Citations
Inorganic and organic clays as carriers for controlled release of the herbicide hexazinone.

Rafael Celis;M Carmen Hermosín;M José Carrizosa;Juan Cornejo

188
Citations
Comparative sorption and leaching study of the herbicides fluometuron and 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) in a soil amended with biochars and other sorbents

Alegria Cabrera;Lucia Cox;Kurt A. Spokas;Rafael Celis

178
Citations
Effect of organic amendments on herbicide sorption as related to the nature of the dissolved organic matter.

L. Cox;R. Celis;M. C. Hermosín;J. Cornejo

172
Citations
Montmorillonite–chitosan bionanocomposites as adsorbents of the herbicide clopyralid in aqueous solution and soil/water suspensions

R. Celis;M.A. Adelino;M.C. Hermosín;J. Cornejo

167
Citations
Sorption of imidacloprid on soil clay mineral and organic components

L. Cox;W. C. Koskinen;R. Celis;M. C. Hermosin

166
Citations
Layered double hydroxides as supports for the slow release of acid herbicides.

Lucelena P Cardoso;Rafael Celis;Juan Cornejo;João B Valim

166
Citations
Interactions of pesticides with clays and layered double hydroxides: a review

J. Cornejo;R. Celis;I. Pavlovic;M. A. Ulibarri

164
Citations
Porosity and herbicide leaching in soils amended with olive-mill wastewater

L. Cox;R. Celis;M.C. Hermosín;Alex Becker

162
Citations
Sorption-Desorption of Atrazine and Simazine by Model Soil Colloidal Components

R. Celis;J. Cornejo;M. C. Hermosín;W. C. Koskinen

155
Citations
Behaviour of simazine in soil amended with the final residue of the olive-oil extraction process.

A Albarrán;R Celis;M.C Hermosı́n;A López-Piñeiro

148
Citations
Sorption of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid by Model Particles Simulating Naturally Occurring Soil Colloids

R. Celis;M.C. Hermosín;L. Cox;J. Cornejo

148
Citations
Effect of exogenous carbon on movement of simazine and 2,4-D in soils

L. Cox;A. Cecchi;R. Celis;M. C. Hermosín

133
Citations
Adsorption of the herbicide simazine by montmorillonite modified with natural organic cations.

Marta Cruz-Guzman;Rafael Celis;M. Carmen Hermosin;Juan Cornejo

124
Citations
Heavy metal adsorption by montmorillonites modified with natural organic cations

M. Cruz-Guzmán;R. Celis;M. C. Hermosín;W. C. Koskinen

120
Citations
Layered double hydroxides as adsorbents and carriers of the herbicide (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid (MCPA): systems Mg-Al, Mg-Fe and Mg-Al-Fe.

F. Bruna;R. Celis;I. Pavlovic;C. Barriga

115
Citations
Adsorption of pesticides from water by functionalized organobentonites.

Marta Cruz-Guzmán;Rafael Celis;M Carmen Hermosín;William C Koskinen

109
Citations
Sorption and Desorption of Atrazine by Sludge-Amended Soil: Dissolved Organic Matter Effects

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108
Citations
Selective modification of clay minerals for the adsorption of herbicides widely used in olive groves.

Rafael Celis;Carmen Trigo;Gracia Facenda;María Del Carmen Hermosín

102
Citations
Sorption of two polar herbicides in soils and soil clays suspensions

L. Cox;M.C. Hermosín;R. Celis;J. Cornejo

101
Citations
Triadimefon Interactions with Organoclays and Organohydrotalcites

R. Celis;W. C. Koskinen;M. C. Hermosín;M. A. Ulibarri

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Cornejo Spanish National Research Council

William C. Koskinen University of Minnesota

Kurt A. Spokas United States Department of Agriculture

Colin D. Brown University of York

José-Julio Ortega-Calvo Spanish National Research Council

Marco Trevisan Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Lis Wollesen de Jonge Aarhus University

Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota

Edward A. Nater University of Minnesota

Per Moldrup Aalborg University

External Links

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