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Ricardo Amils

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
12677
World Ranking
11391
National Ranking
217

Ricardo Amils publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ricardo Amils sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 640 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ricardo Amils D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ricardo Amils sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ricardo Amils is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans multiple scientific domains with a focus on environmental science, physics and astronomy, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work is distributed across several subfields of study, including:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Spectroscopy
  • Atmospheric Science

Ricardo Amils has contributed extensively to specific research topics such as:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Astro and Planetary Science

The recent papers that include work relevant to Amils' research environment or fields are:

  • "Natural hydrogen in the energy transition: Fundamentals, promise, and enigmas" (2023) published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Scientific novelty beyond the experiment" (2023) published in Microbial Biotechnology
  • "Astrobiology of life on Earth" (2021) published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society" (2024) published in Microbial Biotechnology
  • "Role of biogenic Fe(III) minerals as a sink and carrier of heavy metals in the Rio Tinto, Spain" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Muriel Gargaud
  • Henderson James Cleaves
  • William M. Irvine
  • Stéphane Tirard
  • Philippe Claeys

Their work is also represented heavily in key publication venues such as:

  • Microorganisms
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Polymers
  • Scientific Reports

In 2016, Ricardo Amils was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea. This membership indicates engagement with leading European scientific communities.

Best Publications

  • Microbiology: eukaryotic diversity in Spain's River of Fire.

    Linda A. Amaral Zettler;Felipe Gómez;Erik Zettler;Erik Zettler;Brendan G. Keenan

  • Microbial Ecology of an Extreme Acidic Environment, the Tinto River

    E. González-Toril;E. Llobet-Brossa;E. O. Casamayor;R. Amann

  • Microbial Community Composition and Ecology of an Acidic Aquatic Environment: The Tinto River, Spain

    A.I. López-Archilla;I. Marin;R. Amils

  • The Río Tinto Basin, Spain: Mineralogy, sedimentary geobiology, and implications for interpretation of outcrop rocks at Meridiani Planum, Mars

    David C. Fernández-Remolar;Richard V. Morris;John E. Gruener;Ricardo Amils

  • Microbial diversity in anaerobic sediments at Rio Tinto, a naturally acidic environment with a high heavy metal content.

    Irene Sánchez-Andrea;Irene Sánchez-Andrea;Nuria Rodríguez;Ricardo Amils;Ricardo Amils;José Luis Sanz

  • Phenotypic properties and microbial diversity of methanogenic granules from a full-scale upflow anaerobic sludge bed reactor treating brewery wastewater.

    Emiliano E. Díaz;Alfons J. M. Stams;Ricardo Amils;José L. Sanz

  • Inhibition of carbonate synthesis in acidic oceans on early Mars

    Alberto G. Fairén;David Fernández-Remolar;James M. Dohm;Victor R. Baker

  • Extreme environments as Mars terrestrial analogs: The Rio Tinto case

    Ricardo Amils;Ricardo Amils;Elena González-Toril;David Fernández-Remolar;Felipe Gómez

  • Astrobiology through the ages of Mars: the study of terrestrial analogues to understand the habitability of Mars.

    Alberto G. Fairén;Alfonso F. Davila;Darlene Lim;Nathan Bramall

  • The action of antibiotics on the anaerobic digestion process

    J. L. Sanz;N. Rodríguez;R. Amils

  • The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization-gas chromatography-MS and their implications for the Viking results.

    Rafael Navarro-González;Karina F. Navarro;José de la Rosa;Enrique Iñiguez

  • Phylogeny of Thiobacillus cuprinus and Other Mixotrophic Thiobacilli: Proposal for Thiomonas gen. nov.

    David Moreira;Ricardo Amils

  • Viable cyanobacteria in the deep continental subsurface.

    Fernando Puente-Sánchez;Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez;Monike Oggerin;Miriam García-Villadangos

  • Electrochemical growth of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans on a graphite electrode for obtaining a biocathode for direct electrocatalytic reduction of oxygen

    Sofía Carbajosa;Moustafá Malki;Renaud Caillard;María F. Lopez

  • Eukaryotic community distribution and its relationship to water physicochemical parameters in an extreme acidic environment, Rio Tinto (southwestern Spain).

    Angeles Aguilera;Susanna C. Manrubia;Felipe Gómez;Nuria Rodríguez

  • Stability against freezing of aqueous solutions on early Mars

    Alberto G. Fairén;Alfonso F. Davila;Luis Gago-Duport;Ricardo Amils

  • The Tinto River, an extreme acidic environment under control of iron, as an analog of the Terra Meridiani hematite site of Mars

    D. Fernández-Remolar;J. Gómez-Elvira;F. Gómez;E. Sebastian

  • Microbial community structure across the tree of life in the extreme Río Tinto

    Linda A Amaral-Zettler;Erik R Zettler;Erik R Zettler;Susanna M Theroux;Susanna M Theroux;Carmen Palacios

  • Geological record of an acidic environment driven by iron hydrochemistry: The Tinto River system

    David C. Fernández-Remolar;Nuria Rodriguez;Felipe Gómez;Ricardo Amils;Ricardo Amils

  • Microbial ecology of an extreme acidic environment, the Tinto river (vol 69, pg 4853, 2003)

    E. Gonzalez-Toril;E. Llobet-Brossa;E. O. Casamayor;R. Amann

Frequent Co-Authors

Nuria Rodríguez
Nuria Rodríguez Autonomous University of Madrid
Charles S. Cockell
Charles S. Cockell University of Edinburgh
José Luis Sanz
José Luis Sanz Autonomous University of Madrid
Alberto G. Fairén
Alberto G. Fairén Cornell University
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Frances Westall
Frances Westall Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alfonso F. Davila
Alfonso F. Davila Ames Research Center
Linda A. Amaral-Zettler
Linda A. Amaral-Zettler University of Amsterdam
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dirk Schulze-Makuch Technical University of Berlin
James M. Dohm
James M. Dohm University of Tokyo

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