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Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado

Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
60
Citations
11035
World Ranking
1939
National Ranking
19

Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado 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 Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 218 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado 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 Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily encompasses Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work frequently appears in multiple publication venues. Key venues include Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Environmental Research, Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Research topics covered by Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado span a range of areas related to marine environments and ecological processes. Main topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Co-authorship collaborations are an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Javier Arı́stegui
  • Eva Teira
  • J. Severino P. Ibánhez
  • Marta Sebastián
  • Isabel Fuentes-Santos

Among recent scholarly contributions are the following papers:

  • Impacts of Global Change on Ocean Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Cycling, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Assessing the impact of bivalve aquaculture on the carbon circular economy, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Spatiotemporal response of dissolved organic matter diversity to natural and anthropogenic forces along the whole mainstream of the Yangtze River, 2023, Water Research
  • What Is Refractory Organic Matter in the Ocean?, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Major imprint of surface plankton on deep ocean prokaryotic structure and activity, 2020, Molecular Ecology

Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado has also contributed to book publications, including works published by Frontiers Media. One such book is titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022, published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Dissolved organic carbon leaching from plastics stimulates microbial activity in the ocean.

    Cristina Romera-Castillo;Cristina Romera-Castillo;Maria Pinto;Teresa M. Langer;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado

  • Sub-regional ecosystem variability in the Canary Current upwelling

    Javier Arístegui;Eric D. Barton;Xosé A. Álvarez-Salgado;A. Miguel P. Santos

  • Production of chromophoric dissolved organic matter by marine phytoplankton

    Cristina Romera-Castillo;Hugo Sarmento;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Josep M. Gasol

  • Turnover time of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the dark global ocean

    Teresa Serrano Catalá;Isabel Reche;Antonio Fuentes-Lema;Cristina Romera-Castillo

  • Net Production and Consumption of Fluorescent Colored Dissolved Organic Matter by Natural Bacterial Assemblages Growing on Marine Phytoplankton Exudates

    Cristina Romera-Castillo;Hugo Sarmento;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Josep M. Gasol

  • Global diversity and biogeography of deep-sea pelagic prokaryotes.

    Guillem Salazar;Francisco M Cornejo-Castillo;Verónica Benítez-Barrios;Eugenio Fraile-Nuez

  • Simultaneous determination of dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen in seawater by high temperature catalytic oxidation: conditions for precise shipboard measurements

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Axel E. J. Miller

  • Hydrographic variability off the Rías Baixas (NW Spain) during the upwelling season

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Gabriel Rosón;Fiz F. Pérez;Yolanda Pazos

  • The Portugal coastal counter current off NW Spain: new insights on its biogeochemical variability

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Francisco Figueiras;F.F. Pérez;Steve Groom

  • Impacts of Global Change on Ocean Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Cycling

    Christian Lønborg;Cátia Carreira;Tim Jickells;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado

  • Surface waters of the NW Iberian margin: Upwelling on the shelf versus outwelling of upwelled waters from the Rías Baixas

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Jesús Gago;Belén Martín Míguez;Miguel Gilcoto;Miguel Gilcoto

  • The water masses along the western boundary of the south and equatorial Atlantic

    L. Mémery;M. Arhan;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;M. J. Messias

  • Microbial and photochemical reactivity of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in a coastal upwelling system

    Mar Nieto-Cid;Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Fiz F. Pérez

  • Oceanography and fisheries of the Canary current/iberian region of theeastern north atlantic(18a,E)

    Javier Arístegui;Xosé A. Álvarez-Salgado;Eric D. Barton;Francisco G. Figueiras

  • Dissolved organic carbon support of respiration in the dark ocean.

    Javier Arı́stegui;Carlos M. Duarte;Susana Agustı́;Marylo Doval

  • Renewal time and the impact of harmful algal blooms on the extensive mussel raft culture of the Iberian coastal upwelling system (SW Europe)

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Uxío Labarta;María José Fernández-Reiriz;F. G. Figueiras

  • New production of the NW Iberian shelf during the upwelling season over the period 1982–1999

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;S. Beloso;Ian Joint;Enrique Nogueira

  • Bioavailability and bacterial degradation rates of dissolved organic matter in a temperate coastal area during an annual cycle

    Christian Lønborg;Keith Davidson;Xosé A. Alvarez-Salgado;Axel E. J. Miller

  • Assessing the microbial bioavailability and degradation rate constants of dissolved organic matter by fluorescence spectroscopy in the coastal upwelling system of the Ría de Vigo

    Christian Lønborg;Christian Lønborg;Xosé A. Álvarez-Salgado;Keith Davidson;Sandra Martínez-García

  • Nitrogen cycling in an estuarine upwelling system, the Ría de Arousa (NW Spain). I. Short-time-scale patterns of hydrodynamic and biogeochemical circulation

    Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado;Gabriel Rosón;Fiz F. Pérez;F. G. Figueiras

  • The effect of the “Prestige” oil spill on the plankton of the N–NW Spanish coast

    Manuel Varela;Antonio Bode;Jorge Lorenzo;M. Teresa Álvarez-Ossorio

  • Oceanography and fisheries of the Canary Current/Iberian region of the Eastern North Atlantic (18a, E)

    Javier Arístegui;Xose A Alvarez-Salgado;Eric D Barton;Francisco G Figueiras

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiz F. Pérez
Fiz F. Pérez Spanish National Research Council
Francisco G. Figueiras
Francisco G. Figueiras Spanish National Research Council
Josep M. Gasol
Josep M. Gasol Spanish National Research Council
Eva Teira
Eva Teira Universidade de Vigo
Javier Arístegui
Javier Arístegui University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Cèlia Marrasé
Cèlia Marrasé Spanish National Research Council
Isabel Reche
Isabel Reche University of Granada
Eric D. Barton
Eric D. Barton Spanish National Research Council
Aida F. Ríos
Aida F. Ríos Spanish National Research Council
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna

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