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Rubén J. Lara 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 Rubén J. Lara sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 123 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Rubén J. Lara 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 Rubén J. Lara sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Rubén J. Lara is a researcher affiliated with Universidad Nacional del Sur in Argentina, with a research focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work contributes primarily to the fields of Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Endocrinology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research explores various topics related to marine environments, including marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, microbial community ecology and physiology, geology and paleoclimatology research, marine and coastal plant biology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and water resources management and optimization.

Rubén J. Lara has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Marine Environmental Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Frequent scientific collaborators include John E. Garzón-Cardona, Gérmán A. Kopprio, Cecília Alonso, Boris Koch, and Bernd Krock.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Rubén J. Lara encompass a range of topics in microbial ecology and marine environmental science:

  • "Vibrio and Bacterial Communities Across a Pollution Gradient in the Bay of Bengal: Unraveling Their Biogeochemical Drivers," 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • "Chemically unidentified dissolved organic carbon: A pivotal piece for microbial activity in a productive area of the Northern Patagonian shelf," 2021, Marine Environmental Research
  • "Influence of microphytobenthos on the sedimentary organic matter composition in two contrasting estuarine microhabitats," 2021, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • "Prevalence, O-genotype and Shiga toxin (Stx) 2 subtype of Stx-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from Argentinean beef cattle," 2021, Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
  • "Towards the outwelling hypothesis in a Patagonian estuary: First support from lipid markers and bacterial communities," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

The body of their work spans interdisciplinary study of microbial community dynamics alongside chemical and biological processes affecting marine and estuarine environments. This includes investigation of pollution gradients, organic matter composition, and microbial activity related to environmental gradients and food webs.

Rubén J. Lara's contributions reflect an integration of microbial ecology with broader planetary and environmental sciences, addressing complex interactions in marine ecosystems and their biogeochemical frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Mangroves, a major source of dissolved organic carbon to the oceans

    Thorsten Dittmar;Norbert Hertkorn;Gerhard Kattner;Rubén J. Lara

  • Molecular evidence for lignin degradation in sulfate-reducing mangrove sediments (Amazônia, Brazil)

    Thorsten Dittmar;Rubén José Lara

  • River or mangrove? Tracing major organic matter sources in tropical Brazilian coastal waters

    Thorsten Dittmar;Rubén José Lara;Gerhard Kattner

  • Driving Forces Behind Nutrient and Organic Matter Dynamics in a Mangrove Tidal Creek in North Brazil

    T. Dittmar;R.J. Lara

  • Studies on Holocene mangrove ecosystem dynamics of the Bragança Peninsula in north-eastern Pará, Brazil

    H. Behling;M.C.L. Cohen;R.J. Lara

  • Ecohydrology as a new tool for sustainable management of estuaries and coastal waters

    E. Wolanski;L. A. Boorman;Luís Chícharo;E. Langlois-Saliou

  • Dissolved organic matter and nutrients in the Lena River, Siberian Arctic: Characteristics and distribution

    Rubén J Lara;Volker Rachold;Gerhard Kattner;Hans W Hubberten

  • Do mangroves rather than rivers provide nutrients to coastal environments south of the Amazon River? Evidence from long-term flux measurements

    Thorsten Dittmar;Rubén José Lara

  • Temporal changes of mangrove vegetation boundaries in Amazonia: Application of GIS and remote sensing techniques

    Marcelo C.L. Cohen;Rubén J. Lara

  • Tracing dissolved organic substances and nutrients from the Lena River through Laptev Sea (Arctic)

    Gerhard Kattner;J. M. Lobbes;H. P. Fitznar;R. Engbrodt

  • A model of Holocene mangrove development and relative sea-level changes on the Braganca Peninsula (northern Brazil)

    Marcelo C. L. Cohen;Pedro W. M. Souza Filho;Rubén J. Lara;Hermann Behling

  • Dissolved organic matter in Arctic multi-year sea ice during winter: major components and relationship to ice characteristics

    David N. Thomas;Rubén J. Lara;Hajo Eicken;Gerhard Kattner

  • The Subsiding Macrotidal Barrier Estuarine System of the Eastern Amazon Coast, Northern Brazil

    Pedro W. M. Souza-Filho;Guilherme C. Lessa;Marcelo C. L. Cohen;Francisco R. Costa

  • Characteristics of suspended particulate organic matter in the southwestern Atlantic: Influence of temperature, nutrient and phytoplankton features on the stable isotope signature

    Ruben Jose Lara;Viviana Andrea Alder;Viviana Andrea Alder;Claudio Atilio Franzosi;Gerhard Kattner

  • Amino acid composition of seawater and dissolved humic substances in the Greenland Sea

    U. Hubberten;R. J. Lara;Gerhard Kattner

  • Amazonian mangrove dynamics during the last millennium: The relative sea-level and the Little Ice Age

    M.C.L. Cohen;H. Behling;R.J. Lara

  • A highly sensitive and specific multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus

    S.B. Neogi;N. Chowdhury;M. Asakura;A. Hinenoya

  • Factors influencing the variability of Mg, Ca and K in waters of a mangrove creek in Braganca, North Brazil

    M.C.L. Cohen;R.J. Lara;J.F. da F. Ramos;T. Dittmar

  • Sediment porewater salinity, inundation frequency and mangrove vegetation height in Bragança, North Brazil: an ecohydrology-based empirical model

    Rubén J. Lara;Marcelo C. L. Cohen

  • Non-Redfield carbon and nitrogen cycling in the Arctic: Effects of ecosystem structure and dynamics

    Kendra L. Daly;Douglas W. R. Wallace;Walker O. Smith;Annelie Skoog

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Kattner
Gerhard Kattner Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marcelo C.L. Cohen
Marcelo C.L. Cohen Louisiana State University
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
David N. Thomas
David N. Thomas University of Helsinki
Martin Graeve
Martin Graeve Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Luitgard Schwendenmann
Luitgard Schwendenmann University of Auckland
Gopinath Balakrish Nair
Gopinath Balakrish Nair Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
Urban Tillmann
Urban Tillmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jorge Eduardo Marcovecchio
Jorge Eduardo Marcovecchio National Technological University

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