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Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
5543
World Ranking
6486
National Ranking
43

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 253 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira is affiliated with Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on addressing contamination and pollution issues in marine and estuarine environments.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as heavy metals in the environment, geology and paleoclimatology research, isotope analysis in ecology, geological formations and processes, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, and mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira include:

  • Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques
  • Paulo Alves de Lima Ferreira
  • Tailisi Hoppe Trevizani
  • Bianca Sung Mi Kim
  • Márcia Caruso Bı́cego

The researcher has a presence in multiple scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues such as:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Sedimentary Environments
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent papers by Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira include:

  • "Sedimentation on the southern Brazilian shelf mud depocenters: Insights on potential source areas" (2020), Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • "Organic contaminants and trace metals in the western South Atlantic upper continental margin: Anthropogenic influence on mud depocenters" (2020), Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Long-term eutrophication and contamination of the central area of Sepetiba Bay (SW Brazil)" (2021), Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • "Reconstruction of the palaeo-ecological quality status in an impacted estuary using benthic foraminifera: The Santos Estuary (São Paulo state, SE Brazil)" (2020), Marine Environmental Research
  • "Impacts of hydrodynamics and pollutants on foraminiferal fauna distribution in the Santos Estuary (SE Brazil)" (2020), Journal of Sedimentary Environments

Best Publications

  • Spatial variability in the concentrations of metals in beached microplastics

    M.C. Vedolin;C.Y.S. Teophilo;A. Turra;R.C.L. Figueira

  • Hydrodynamically driven patterns of recent sedimentation in the shelf and upper slope off Southeast Brazil

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Moysés Gonsalez Tessler;Aurea Maria Ciotti;Ilson Carlos Almeida da Silveira

  • Historical record of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs) in marine sediment cores from Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica.

    César C. Martins;Márcia C. Bícego;Neil L. Rose;Satie Taniguchi

  • Anthropogenic influences in a lagoonal environment: a multiproxy approach at the valo grande mouth, Cananéia-Iguape system (SE Brazil)

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Leticia Burone;Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira;Ana Amélia de Oliveira Lavenére-Wanderley

  • Assessment of the health quality of Ria de Aveiro (Portugal): heavy metals and benthic foraminifera.

    Virgínia A. Martins;Fabrizio Frontalini;Keila M. Tramonte;Rubens C.L. Figueira

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a large South American industrial coastal area (Santos Estuary, Southeastern Brazil): Sources and depositional history

    César de Castro Martins;Marcia Caruso Bicego;Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Rubens Cesar Figueira Figueira

  • Response of benthic foraminifera to organic matter quantity and quality and bioavailable concentrations of metals in Aveiro Lagoon (Portugal).

    Maria Virgínia Alves Martins;Frederico Silva;Lazaro L. M. Laut;Fabrizio Frontalini

  • The Southern Brazilian shelf: general characteristics, quaternary evolution and sediment distribution

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa;Valdenir Veronese Furtado;Moysés Gonsalez Tessler

  • Arsenic and trace metal contents in sediment profiles from the Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica.

    Andreza Portella Ribeiro;Rubens Cesar Figueira Figueira;César de Castro Martins;Charles Roberto de Almeida Silva

  • Nd and Pb isotope signatures on the Southeastern South American upper margin: Implications for sediment transport and source rocks

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari;Susana Marcolini;Roberto A. Violante

  • Paleolimnologically inferred eutrophication of a shallow, tropical, urban reservoir in southeast Brazil

    Sandra Costa-Böddeker;Helen Bennion;Tatiane Araújo de Jesus;Ana Luiza S. Albuquerque

  • Spatial distribution and enrichment assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments from Baixada Santista, Southeastern Brazil

    Bianca Sung Mi Kim;Alexandre Barbosa Salaroli;Paulo Alves de Lima Ferreira;Juliê Rosemberg Sartoretto

  • Multi-molecular markers and metals as tracers of organic matter inputs and contamination status from an Environmental Protection Area in the SW Atlantic (Laranjeiras Bay, Brazil)

    Cesar C. Martins;Marcia Caruso Bicego;Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira;Jose Lourenco F. Angelli

  • 150 years of anthropogenic metal input in a Biosphere Reserve: the case study of the Cananéia–Iguape coastal system, Southeastern Brazil

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Rubens Cesar Figueira Figueira;Alexandre Barbosa Salaroli;Daniel Pavani Vicente Alves

  • Combined SEM/AVS and attenuation of concentration models for the assessment of bioavailability and mobility of metals in sediments of Sepetiba Bay (SE Brazil)

    Andreza Portella Ribeiro;Ana Maria Graciano Figueiredo;José Osman dos Santos;Elizabeth Dantas

  • Spatial distribution and historical input of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in sediments from a subtropical estuary (Guaratuba Bay, SW Atlantic).

    Tatiane Combi;Satie Taniguchi;Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira;Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques

  • Distribution of 137Cs, 238Pu and 239+240Pu in sediments of the southeastern Brazilian shelf-SW Atlantic margin

    Rubens C.L. Figueira;Moyses G. Tessler;Michel M. de Mahiques;Ieda I.L. Cunha

  • A high-resolution Holocene record on the Southern Brazilian shelf: Paleoenvironmental implications

    Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques;Ilana Klein Coaracy Wainer;Leticia Burone;Renata Nagai

  • Depositional history of sedimentary linear alkylbenzenes (LABs) in a large South American industrial coastal area (Santos Estuary, Southeastern Brazil)

    César C. Martins;César C. Martins;Márcia C. Bícego;Michel M. Mahiques;Rubens C.L. Figueira

  • Hydrodynamic controls on the distribution of surface sediments from the southeast South American continental shelf between 23°S and 38°S

    R. H. Nagai;P. A. L. Ferreira;S. Mulkherjee;M. V. Martins

  • Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in marine organisms and sediments from Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica.

    Tailisi Hoppe Trevizani;Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira;Andreza Portella Ribeiro;Carolina Yume Sawamura Theophilo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques
Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques Universidade de São Paulo
Márcia Caruso Bícego
Márcia Caruso Bícego Universidade de São Paulo
César C. Martins
César C. Martins Universidade de São Paulo
Rosalinda Carmela Montone
Rosalinda Carmela Montone Universidade de São Paulo
Fabrizio Frontalini
Fabrizio Frontalini University of Urbino
João Alveirinho Dias
João Alveirinho Dias University of Algarve
Fernando Rocha
Fernando Rocha University of Aveiro
Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa
Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa Sao Paulo State University
Till J J Hanebuth
Till J J Hanebuth Coastal Carolina University
Alexander Turra
Alexander Turra Universidade de São Paulo

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