Maite Arroita

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Maite Arroita is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maite Arroita has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 14 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 14 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Maite Arroita's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (15 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (14 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (13 papers). Maite Arroita is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (15 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (14 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (13 papers). Maite Arroita collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and France. Maite Arroita's co-authors include Robert O. Hall, Alison Appling, Charles B. Yackulic, Arturo Elosegi, Ibon Aristi, Emily S. Bernhardt, James B. Heffernan, Emily H. Stanley, Judson W. Harvey and Sergi Sabater and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Maite Arroita

26 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

The metabolic regimes of flowing waters

2017 268 citations Emily S. Bernhardt, James B. Heffernan et al. Limnology and Oceanography profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maite Arroita Spain	15	641	550	522	436	212	26	1.1k
David C. Depew Canada	18	373 0.6×	602 1.1×	653 1.3×	215 0.5×	324 1.5×	33	1.4k
Miquel Ribot Spain	21	334 0.5×	496 0.9×	588 1.1×	417 1.0×	100 0.5×	37	963
Lynn A. Bartsch United States	20	335 0.5×	461 0.8×	631 1.2×	390 0.9×	129 0.6×	41	985
Matthew F. Knowlton United States	23	548 0.9×	507 0.9×	831 1.6×	524 1.2×	209 1.0×	35	1.3k
Douglas D. Kane United States	17	421 0.7×	701 1.3×	861 1.6×	258 0.6×	358 1.7×	31	1.2k
Susan P. Hendricks United States	16	302 0.5×	600 1.1×	833 1.6×	540 1.2×	92 0.4×	28	1.1k
D.V. Leach United Kingdom	14	227 0.4×	250 0.5×	611 1.2×	422 1.0×	151 0.7×	17	969
Douglas M. Fiebig Germany	12	249 0.4×	539 1.0×	497 1.0×	199 0.5×	153 0.7×	14	835
Anna Lupon Spain	16	205 0.3×	205 0.4×	363 0.7×	309 0.7×	156 0.7×	41	696
Tracy N. Wiegner United States	18	171 0.3×	398 0.7×	242 0.5×	198 0.5×	313 1.5×	31	796

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maite Arroita

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Peñas, Francisco J., et al.. (2025). Predicting river ecosystem metabolism across large environmental gradients: Drivers and temporal dependencies in the Iberian Peninsula. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(5). 1152–1166. 2 indexed citations

Castro-Català, Núria De, Maite Arroita, Anna Freixa, et al.. (2024). Pollutants in urban runoff: Scientific evidence on toxicity and impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Chemosphere. 369. 143806–143806. 8 indexed citations

Arroita, Maite, et al.. (2024). Differential response of multiple stream ecosystem processes to basin- and reach-scale drivers. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176653–176653. 1 indexed citations

Arroita, Maite, et al.. (2023). The nutrient uptake bioassay (NUB): A method to estimate the nutrient uptake capacity of biofilms for the functional assessment of river ecosystems. Ecological Indicators. 154. 110776–110776. 1 indexed citations

Bernhardt, Emily S., Philip Savoy, Alison Appling, et al.. (2022). Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(8). 119 indexed citations

Feijoó, Claudia, et al.. (2022). Patterns and controls of carbon dioxide concentration and fluxes at the air–water interface in South American lowland streams. Aquatic Sciences. 84(2). 3 indexed citations

Appling, Alison, Jordan S. Read, Luke Winslow, et al.. (2018). The metabolic regimes of 356 rivers in the United States. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180292–180292. 76 indexed citations

Arroita, Maite, Arturo Elosegi, & Robert O. Hall. (2018). Twenty years of daily metabolism show riverine recovery following sewage abatement. Limnology and Oceanography. 64(S1). 58 indexed citations

Pastor, Ada, Núria Catalán, Anna Lupon, et al.. (2017). Local and regional drivers of headwater streams metabolism: insights from the first AIL collaborative project. Limnetica. 67–85. 2 indexed citations

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Bernhardt, Emily S., James B. Heffernan, Nancy B. Grimm, et al.. (2017). The metabolic regimes of flowing waters. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(S1). 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bernhardt, Emily S., James B. Heffernan, Nancy B. Grimm, et al.. (2017). The metabolic regimes of flowing waters: Metabolic regimes. 4 indexed citations

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Arroita, Maite, Lorea Flores, Aitor Larrañaga, et al.. (2016). Water abstraction impacts stream ecosystem functioning via wetted‐channel contraction. Freshwater Biology. 62(2). 243–257. 29 indexed citations

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Gómez‐Gener, Lluís, Daniel von Schiller, Rafael Marcé, et al.. (2016). Low contribution of internal metabolism to carbon dioxide emissions along lotic and lentic environments of a Mediterranean fluvial network. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 121(12). 3030–3044. 25 indexed citations

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Arroita, Maite, et al.. (2015). Changes in discharge affect more surface than subsurface breakdown of organic matter in a mountain stream. Marine and Freshwater Research. 67(12). 1826–1834. 12 indexed citations

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Schiller, Daniel von, Ibon Aristi, Lídia Ponsatí, et al.. (2015). Regulation causes nitrogen cycling discontinuities in Mediterranean rivers. The Science of The Total Environment. 540. 168–177. 33 indexed citations

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Ponsatí, Lídia, Vicenç Acuña, Ibon Aristi, et al.. (2014). Biofilm Responses to Flow Regulation by Dams in Mediterranean Rivers. River Research and Applications. 31(8). 1003–1016. 29 indexed citations

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Aristi, Ibon, Maite Arroita, Aitor Larrañaga, et al.. (2014). Flow regulation by dams affects ecosystem metabolism in Mediterranean rivers. Freshwater Biology. 59(9). 1816–1829. 65 indexed citations

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Arroita, Maite, et al.. (2014). Impact of water abstraction on storage and breakdown of coarse organic matter in mountain streams. The Science of The Total Environment. 503-504. 233–240. 31 indexed citations

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Arroita, Maite, J. Causapé, Francisco A. Comı́n, et al.. (2013). Irrigation agriculture affects organic matter decomposition in semi-arid terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 263. 139–145. 22 indexed citations

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Arroita, Maite, Ibon Aristi, Lorea Flores, et al.. (2012). The use of wooden sticks to assess stream ecosystem functioning: Comparison with leaf breakdown rates. The Science of The Total Environment. 440. 115–122. 36 indexed citations

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