Ferran Romero

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 572 citations indexed

About

Ferran Romero is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ferran Romero has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 572 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Soil Science and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ferran Romero's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (4 papers). Ferran Romero is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (6 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (4 papers). Ferran Romero collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and Estonia. Ferran Romero's co-authors include Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Vicenç Acuña, Sergi Sabater, Leho Tedersoo, Maëva Labouyrie, Carme Font, Arwyn Jones, Panos Panagos, Alberto Orgiazzi and Cristiano Ballabio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Ferran Romero

17 papers receiving 561 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe

2023 161 citations Maëva Labouyrie, Cristiano Ballabio et al. Nature Communications profile →
Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide

2023 93 citations Matthias C. Rillig, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers

Ferran Romero

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You Yin China

Marlies Dietrich Austria

Daniel R. Lammel Germany

Doreen Berner Germany

Tibor Szili‐Kovács Hungary

Irene F. Torres Spain

Eva-Maria Kastl Germany

Ernest D. Osburn United States

Beibei Chen China

Larry M. Feinstein United States

You Yin China

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195 ×1.1

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81 ×0.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Ferran Romero

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ferran Romero

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ferran Romero

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ferran Romero. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ferran Romero 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 Ferran Romero. Ferran Romero is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Romero, Ferran, Maëva Labouyrie, Alberto Orgiazzi, et al.. (2025). The soil microbiome as an indicator of ecosystem multifunctionality in European soils. Nature Communications. 17(1). 705–705.

Romero, Ferran, Shuo Jiao, & Marcel G. A. van der Heijden. (2025). Impact of microbial diversity and pesticide application on plant growth, litter decomposition and carbon substrate use. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 208. 109866–109866. 2 indexed citations

Siles, José A., Alfonso Vera, Maëva Labouyrie, et al.. (2025). Land Use Interacts With Climate to Influence Microbial Diversity‐To‐Biomass Ratios Across Europe via Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen. Molecular Ecology. 34(20). e17806–e17806. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Bo, et al.. (2024). Mycorrhization enhances plant growth and stabilizes biomass allocation under drought. Global Change Biology. 30(7). e17438–e17438. 16 indexed citations

Romero, Ferran, Maëva Labouyrie, Alberto Orgiazzi, et al.. (2024). Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1847–1855. 35 indexed citations

Romero, Ferran, et al.. (2024). Accumulation of polyethylene microplastics in river biofilms and effect on the uptake, biotransformation and toxicity of the antimicrobial triclosan. Environmental Pollution. 344. 123369–123369. 4 indexed citations

Labouyrie, Maëva, Cristiano Ballabio, Ferran Romero, et al.. (2024). Interaction effects of pH and land cover on soil microbial diversity are climate‐dependent. Environmental Microbiology. 26(2). e16572–e16572. 8 indexed citations

Rillig, Matthias C., Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2023). Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide. Nature Climate Change. 13(5). 478–483. 93 indexed citations breakdown →

Labouyrie, Maëva, Cristiano Ballabio, Ferran Romero, et al.. (2023). Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3311–3311. 161 indexed citations breakdown →

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Romero, Ferran, et al.. (2023). The plant–mycorrhizal fungi collaboration gradient depends on plant functional group. Functional Ecology. 37(9). 2386–2398. 29 indexed citations

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Romero, Ferran, et al.. (2023). Soil microbial biodiversity promotes crop productivity and agro-ecosystem functioning in experimental microcosms. The Science of The Total Environment. 885. 163683–163683. 40 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez‐Cánovas, Cayetano, Daniel Bruno, Marco J. Cabrerizo, et al.. (2022). Multiple-stressors effects on Iberian freshwaters: A review of current knowledge and future research priorities. Limnetica. 41(2). 1–1. 16 indexed citations

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Perujo, Núria, Paul J. Van den Brink, Helmut Segner, et al.. (2021). A guideline to frame stressor effects in freshwater ecosystems. The Science of The Total Environment. 777. 146112–146112. 20 indexed citations

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Romero, Ferran, Vicenç Acuña, & Sergi Sabater. (2020). Multiple Stressors Determine Community Structure and Estimated Function of River Biofilm Bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 86(12). 27 indexed citations

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Romero, Ferran, Vicenç Acuña, Carme Font, Anna Freixa, & Sergi Sabater. (2019). Effects of multiple stressors on river biofilms depend on the time scale. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15810–15810. 35 indexed citations

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Acuña, Vicenç, Dolors Vidal Casellas, Carme Font, Ferran Romero, & Sergi Sabater. (2019). Nutrient attenuation dynamics in effluent dominated watercourses. Water Research. 160. 330–338. 15 indexed citations

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Romero, Ferran, Sergi Sabater, Carme Font, José Luís Balcázar, & Vicenç Acuña. (2018). Desiccation events change the microbial response to gradients of wastewater effluent pollution. Water Research. 151. 371–380. 44 indexed citations

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Romero, Ferran, Sergi Sabater, Xisca Timoner, & Vicenç Acuña. (2018). Multistressor effects on river biofilms under global change conditions. The Science of The Total Environment. 627. 1–10. 26 indexed citations

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