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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
13584
World Ranking
2608
National Ranking
64

Rafel Simó 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 Rafel Simó sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 200 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rafel Simó 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 Rafel Simó sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% 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

Rafel Simó is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and has contributed extensively to environmental and earth sciences. Their research primarily focuses on marine and atmospheric topics, bridging studies in oceanography, atmospheric science, and ecology.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Simó's research topics cover a broad range, emphasizing:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

The scientist has been published in several venues multiple times, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biogeosciences

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Simó include:

  • Open ocean and coastal new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines around the Antarctic Peninsula, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Third revision of the global surface seawater dimethyl sulfide climatology (DMS-Rev3), 2022, Earth system science data
  • Viral infection switches the balance between bacterial and eukaryotic recyclers of organic matter during coccolithophore blooms, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Marine carbonyl sulfide (OCS) and carbon disulfide (CS 2): a compilation of measurements in seawater and the marine boundary layer, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Sources, Occurrence and Characteristics of Fluorescent Biological Aerosol Particles Measured Over the Pristine Southern Ocean, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Throughout their career, Simó has collaborated frequently with a core group of co-authors, including:

  • Pablo Rodríguez-Ros
  • Marta Masdeu-Navarro
  • Pau Cortés
  • Martí Galí
  • Miguel Cabrera-Brufau

Best Publications

  • An updated climatology of surface dimethlysulfide concentrations and emission fluxes in the global ocean

    A. Lana;T. G. Bell;R. Simo;S. M. Vallina

  • A global database of sea surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) measurements and a procedure to predict sea surface DMS as a function of latitude, longitude, and month

    A. J. Kettle;M. O. Andreae;D. Amouroux;T. W. Andreae

  • Production of atmospheric sulfur by oceanic plankton: biogeochemical, ecological and evolutionary links

    Rafel Simó

  • Bacterial Community Structure Associated with a Dimethylsulfoniopropionate-Producing North Atlantic Algal Bloom

    José M. González;Rafel Simó;Ramon Massana;Joseph S. Covert

  • Chemoattraction to Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Throughout the Marine Microbial Food Web

    Justin R. Seymour;Justin R. Seymour;Justin R. Seymour;Rafel Simó;Tanvir Ahmed;Roman Stocker

  • Strong Relationship Between DMS and the Solar Radiation Dose over the Global Surface Ocean

    Sergio M. Vallina;Rafel Simó

  • Cambio global: impacto de la actividad humana sobre el sistema Tierra

    Sergio Alonso Oroza;Gerardo Benito;Jordi Dachs;Carlos M. Duarte

  • Role of vertical mixing in controlling the oceanic production of dimethyl sulphide

    Rafel Simó;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Global ocean emission of dimethylsulfide predicted from biogeophysical data

    Rafel Simó;Jordi Dachs

  • Atmospheric deposition of organic and black carbon to the global oceans

    Elena Jurado;Jordi Dachs;Carlos M. Duarte;Rafel Simó

  • Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Uptake by Marine Phytoplankton

    Maria Vila-Costa;Rafel Simó;Hyakubun Harada;Josep M. Gasol

  • Coupled dynamics of dimethylsulfoniopropionate and dimethylsulfide cycling and the microbial food web in surface waters of the North Atlantic

    Rafael Simo;Stephen D Archer;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Linda Gilpin

  • Mass budget and dynamics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Mediterranean Sea

    E. Lipiatou;E. Lipiatou;I. Tolosa;R. Simó;I. Bouloubassi

  • Effects of climate change on Mediterranean marine ecosystems: the case of the Catalan Sea

    Eva María Calvo;Rafel Simó;Rafael Coma;Marta Ribes

  • A dynamic model of oceanic sulfur (DMOS) applied to the Sargasso Sea: Simulating the dimethylsulfide (DMS) summer paradox

    S. M. Vallina;S. M. Vallina;R. Simo;T. R. Anderson;Albert Jerome Gabric

  • Atmospheric dry deposition of persistent organic pollutants to the Atlantic and inferences for the global oceans.

    Elena Jurado;Foday M. Jaward;Rainer Lohmann;Kevin C. Jones

  • Biological turnover of DMS, DMSP and DMSO in contrasting open-sea waters

    Rafel Simó;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;Gillian Malin;Joan O. Grimalt

  • Wet Deposition of Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Global Oceans

    Elena Jurado;Foday M. Jaward;Rainer Lohmann;Kevin C. Jones

  • An original mode of symbiosis in open ocean plankton

    Johan Decelle;Ian Probert;Lucie Bittner;Yves Desdevises

  • Short-term variability in the open ocean cycle of dimethylsulfide

    Rafel Simó;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Arctic sea ice melt leads to atmospheric new particle formation

    M. Dall´Osto;D. C. S. Beddows;P. Tunved;R. Krejci

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Cèlia Marrasé
Cèlia Marrasé Spanish National Research Council
Jordi Dachs
Jordi Dachs Spanish National Research Council
Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Manuel Dall'Osto
Manuel Dall'Osto Spanish National Research Council
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison University of Birmingham
David C. S. Beddows
David C. S. Beddows University of Birmingham
Colin D. O'Dowd
Colin D. O'Dowd University of Galway
Joan Albaigés
Joan Albaigés Spanish National Research Council
Ronald P. Kiene
Ronald P. Kiene University of South Alabama

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