Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió is a scholar working on Pollution, Molecular Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Pollution, 13 papers in Molecular Medicine and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (13 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (6 papers). Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (16 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (13 papers) and Water Treatment and Disinfection (6 papers). Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Tunisia and Costa Rica. Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió's co-authors include Carles Borrego, José Luís Balcázar, Sara Rodríguez‐Mozaz, Meritxell Gros, ‪Damià Barceló, Elisabet Marti, Belinda Huerta, Jéssica Subirats, Sergi Sabater and Itziar Lekunberri and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió

25 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in hospital and urban wastewaters and their impact on the receiving river
    2014 1.3k citations Sara Rodríguez‐Mozaz, Elisabet Marti et al. Water Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió Spain 16 1.7k 714 395 367 350 25 2.3k
Michal Rysz United States 8 1.9k 1.1× 706 1.0× 289 0.7× 377 1.0× 296 0.8× 12 2.4k
Qingbin Yuan China 19 1.6k 0.9× 652 0.9× 236 0.6× 373 1.0× 326 0.9× 43 2.2k
Mariya Munir United States 15 1.6k 0.9× 736 1.0× 230 0.6× 302 0.8× 347 1.0× 23 2.3k
Heather Storteboom United States 7 2.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 466 1.2× 291 0.8× 441 1.3× 10 2.5k
Ruoting Pei United States 12 2.1k 1.3× 1.0k 1.5× 563 1.4× 553 1.5× 555 1.6× 21 3.1k
Eddie Cytryn Israel 12 2.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.7× 458 1.2× 319 0.9× 496 1.4× 15 2.7k
Fengxia Yang China 25 1.4k 0.8× 714 1.0× 256 0.6× 224 0.6× 489 1.4× 72 2.2k
Shuyu Jia China 22 1.5k 0.9× 657 0.9× 409 1.0× 658 1.8× 487 1.4× 57 2.3k
Elisabet Marti Spain 21 2.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.7× 606 1.5× 460 1.3× 543 1.6× 26 3.4k
Monika Harnisz Poland 32 2.3k 1.4× 1.2k 1.7× 409 1.0× 501 1.4× 577 1.6× 100 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió. Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sànchez-Melsió, Alexandre, et al.. (2025). Bacteriophages as Vehicles for Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Onyar River, Spain. Microbial Ecology. 88(1). 41–41. 1 indexed citations
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Sacristán‐Soriano, Oriol, Carles Borrego, Francisco Hortas, et al.. (2024). Variability of faecal microbiota and antibiotic resistance genes in flocks of migratory gulls and comparison with the surrounding environment. Environmental Pollution. 359. 124563–124563. 4 indexed citations
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Sacristán‐Soriano, Oriol, Marta I. Sánchez, Esteban Alonso, et al.. (2024). Winged resistance: Storks and gulls increase carriage of antibiotic resistance by shifting from paddy fields to landfills. The Science of The Total Environment. 914. 169946–169946. 8 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Carlos E., Didier Ramírez-Morales, Mario Masís-Mora, et al.. (2023). Occurrence and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater in Costa Rica. Chemosphere. 339. 139746–139746. 26 indexed citations
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Gros, Meritxell, Josep Mas‐Pla, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, et al.. (2022). Antibiotics, antibiotic resistance and associated risk in natural springs from an agroecosystem environment. The Science of The Total Environment. 857(Pt 1). 159202–159202. 32 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Marta I., Andy J. Green, Juan Manuel Peralta‐Sánchez, et al.. (2021). Faecal microbiota and antibiotic resistance genes in migratory waterbirds with contrasting habitat use. The Science of The Total Environment. 783. 146872–146872. 57 indexed citations
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Pantanella, Fabrizio, Itziar Lekunberri, Antonella Gagliardi, et al.. (2020). Effect of Urban Wastewater Discharge on the Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Two Italian Rivers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(18). 6813–6813. 18 indexed citations
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Veigas, Bruno, et al.. (2020). Water safety screening via multiplex LAMP-Au-nanoprobe integrated approach. The Science of The Total Environment. 741. 140447–140447. 3 indexed citations
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Gros, Meritxell, Elisabet Marti, José Luís Balcázar, et al.. (2019). Fate of pharmaceuticals and antibiotic resistance genes in a full-scale on-farm livestock waste treatment plant. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 378. 120716–120716. 74 indexed citations
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Subirats, Jéssica, Xisca Timoner, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, et al.. (2018). Emerging contaminants and nutrients synergistically affect the spread of class 1 integron-integrase (intI1) and sul1 genes within stable streambed bacterial communities. Water Research. 138. 77–85. 97 indexed citations
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Llorca, Marta, Marinella Farré, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, et al.. (2018). Perfluoroalkyl phosphonic acids adsorption behaviour and removal by wastewater organisms. The Science of The Total Environment. 636. 273–281. 8 indexed citations
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Subirats, Jéssica, et al.. (2017). Abundance of carbapenemase genes (blaKPC, blaNDM and blaOXA-48) in wastewater effluents from Tunisian hospitals. Environmental Pollution. 229. 371–374. 58 indexed citations
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Lekunberri, Itziar, et al.. (2016). Abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in five municipal wastewater treatment plants in the Monastir Governorate, Tunisia. Environmental Pollution. 219. 353–358. 116 indexed citations
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Subirats, Jéssica, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, Carles Borrego, José Luís Balcázar, & Pascal Simonet. (2016). Metagenomic analysis reveals that bacteriophages are reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 48(2). 163–167. 120 indexed citations
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Sànchez-Melsió, Alexandre, et al.. (2015). Diversity of Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotic Group archaea in freshwater karstic lakes and their segregation between planktonic and sediment habitats. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 91(4). 42 indexed citations
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Proia, Lorenzo, Daniel von Schiller, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, et al.. (2015). Occurrence and persistence of antibiotic resistance genes in river biofilms after wastewater inputs in small rivers. Environmental Pollution. 210. 121–128. 163 indexed citations
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Rodríguez‐Mozaz, Sara, Elisabet Marti, Belinda Huerta, et al.. (2014). Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in hospital and urban wastewaters and their impact on the receiving river. Water Research. 69. 234–242. 1293 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ganigué, Ramon, Jordi Gabarró, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, et al.. (2009). Long-term operation of a partial nitritation pilot plant treating leachate with extremely high ammonium concentration prior to an anammox process. Bioresource Technology. 100(23). 5624–5632. 74 indexed citations
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Sànchez-Melsió, Alexandre, Joan Cáliz, M. Dolors Balaguer, Jesús Colprim, & Xavier Vilá. (2009). Development of batch-culture enrichment coupled to molecular detection for screening of natural and man-made environments in search of anammox bacteria for N-removal bioreactors systems. Chemosphere. 75(2). 169–179. 43 indexed citations

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