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Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 38 6486 6007 43 41 253 5543

Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira between 1995 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira published across 32 years, from 1995 to 2026, averaging 10.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 36 publications in 2022. 17 of the 327 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1995 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 36. Peak 36 publications in 2022. 1995: 1 publication 1996: 0 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 0 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 7 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 17 publications 2014: 18 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 25 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 20 publications 2019: 21 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 19 publications 2022: 36 publications 2023: 24 publications 2024: 21 publications 2025: 16 publications 2026: 1 publication
1995 2026

327 publications in total across all disciplines

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Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira: publications per year, 1995 to 2026
Year Publications
1995 1
1996 0
1997 1
1998 1
1999 1
2000 0
2001 1
2002 0
2003 4
2004 4
2005 1
2006 7
2007 5
2008 3
2009 2
2010 10
2011 13
2012 9
2013 17
2014 18
2015 11
2016 25
2017 14
2018 20
2019 21
2020 21
2021 19
2022 36
2023 24
2024 21
2025 16
2026 1
Total 327
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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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 248–257 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 253 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208 253
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 38 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344 38
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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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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