Raquel Mendonça

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Raquel Mendonça is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Raquel Mendonça has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Oceanography and 10 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Raquel Mendonça's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (15 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (8 papers). Raquel Mendonça is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (15 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (8 papers). Raquel Mendonça collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Sweden and Netherlands. Raquel Mendonça's co-authors include Sebastian Sobek, Fábio Roland, Lars J. Tranvik, Nathan Barros, David W. Clow, Roger A. Müller, Charles Verpoorter, Peter A. Raymond, Sarian Kosten and Simone Jaqueline Cardoso and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Raquel Mendonça

31 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Organic carbon burial in global lakes and reservoirs

2017 411 citations Raquel Mendonça, Roger A. Müller et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raquel Mendonça Brazil	20	738	630	500	498	275	34	1.6k
Cédric Morana Belgium	19	930 1.3×	567 0.9×	665 1.3×	612 1.2×	236 0.9×	38	1.6k
Stefan Löfgren Sweden	31	524 0.7×	483 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	809 1.6×	532 1.9×	76	2.4k
YueHan Lu United States	27	820 1.1×	193 0.3×	679 1.4×	668 1.3×	380 1.4×	80	2.1k
Cristian Gudasz Sweden	18	1.1k 1.5×	758 1.2×	944 1.9×	1.1k 2.2×	195 0.7×	27	2.2k
Peter Casper Germany	30	778 1.1×	781 1.2×	1.5k 3.0×	1.2k 2.5×	185 0.7×	73	2.6k
John T. Crawford United States	20	1.0k 1.4×	923 1.5×	939 1.9×	488 1.0×	612 2.2×	31	2.1k
Alain Tremblay Canada	14	491 0.7×	608 1.0×	311 0.6×	361 0.7×	276 1.0×	25	1.4k
Judith A. Rosentreter Australia	17	883 1.2×	725 1.2×	743 1.5×	1.1k 2.2×	181 0.7×	34	2.1k
Jason J. Venkiteswaran Canada	26	687 0.9×	310 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	670 1.3×	383 1.4×	63	2.0k
Bridget R. Deemer United States	15	780 1.1×	989 1.6×	773 1.5×	512 1.0×	465 1.7×	34	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Raquel Mendonça

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raquel Mendonça

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

All Works

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Salomão, Gabriel Negreiros, Roberto Dall’Agnol, Prafulla Kumar Sahoo, et al.. (2025). Spatial distribution, potential sources and geochemical baseline of Fe and potentially toxic elements in stream sediments in Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil. Applied Geochemistry. 190. 106483–106483.

Mendonça, Raquel, et al.. (2023). Chironomus sancticaroli (Diptera: Chironomidae) in ecotoxicology: laboratory cultures and tests. Ecotoxicology. 32(2). 223–233. 4 indexed citations

Vroom, Renske, Sarian Kosten, Rafael M. Almeida, et al.. (2023). Widespread dominance of methane ebullition over diffusion in freshwater aquaculture ponds. Frontiers in Water. 5. 6 indexed citations

Vilas–Boas, Jéssica Andrade, et al.. (2021). Three-bestseller pesticides in Brazil: Freshwater concentrations and potential environmental risks. The Science of The Total Environment. 771. 144754–144754. 84 indexed citations

Lacerot, Gissell, Sarian Kosten, Raquel Mendonça, et al.. (2021). Large fish forage lower in the food web and food webs are more truncated in warmer climates. Hydrobiologia. 7 indexed citations

Kosten, Sarian, Rafael M. Almeida, Raquel Mendonça, et al.. (2020). Better assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from global fish ponds needed to adequately evaluate aquaculture footprint. The Science of The Total Environment. 748. 141247–141247. 73 indexed citations

Paranaíba, José R., Gabrielle Rabelo Quadra, Rafael M. Almeida, et al.. (2020). Sediment drying-rewetting cycles enhance greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient and trace element release, and promote water cytogenotoxicity. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231082–e0231082. 19 indexed citations

Quadra, Gabrielle Rabelo, Sebastian Sobek, José R. Paranaíba, et al.. (2020). High organic carbon burial but high potential for methane ebullition in the sediments of an Amazonian hydroelectric reservoir. Biogeosciences. 17(6). 1495–1505. 16 indexed citations

Linkhorst, Annika, et al.. (2020). Comparing methane ebullition variability across space and time in a Brazilian reservoir. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(7). 1623–1634. 41 indexed citations

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Isidorova, Anastasija, Raquel Mendonça, & Sebastian Sobek. (2019). Reduced Mineralization of Terrestrial OC in Anoxic Sediment Suggests Enhanced Burial Efficiency in Reservoirs Compared to Other Depositional Environments. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(3). 678–688. 17 indexed citations

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Isidorova, Anastasija, Charlotte Grasset, Raquel Mendonça, & Sebastian Sobek. (2019). Methane formation in tropical reservoirs predicted from sediment age and nitrogen. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11017–11017. 27 indexed citations

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Quadra, Gabrielle Rabelo, Sebastian Sobek, José R. Paranaíba, et al.. (2019). High organic carbon burial but high potential for methane ebullition in the sediments of an Amazonian reservoir. 2 indexed citations

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Quadra, Gabrielle Rabelo, Adan Santos Lino, Anna Sobek, et al.. (2019). Environmental Risk of Metal Contamination in Sediments of Tropical Reservoirs. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 103(2). 292–301. 12 indexed citations

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Grasset, Charlotte, Gwénaël Abril, Raquel Mendonça, Fábio Roland, & Sebastian Sobek. (2019). The transformation of macrophyte‐derived organic matter to methane relates to plant water and nutrient contents. Limnology and Oceanography. 64(4). 1737–1749. 40 indexed citations

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Quadra, Gabrielle Rabelo, Fábio Roland, Nathan Barros, et al.. (2018). Far-reaching cytogenotoxic effects of mine waste from the Fundão dam disaster in Brazil. Chemosphere. 215. 753–757. 58 indexed citations

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Mendonça, Raquel, Roger A. Müller, David W. Clow, et al.. (2017). Organic carbon burial in global lakes and reservoirs. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1694–1694. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mendonça, Raquel, Sarian Kosten, Sebastian Sobek, et al.. (2016). Organic carbon burial efficiency in a subtropical hydroelectric reservoir. Biogeosciences. 13(11). 3331–3342. 35 indexed citations

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Mendonça, Raquel, Sarian Kosten, Sebastian Sobek, et al.. (2015). Organic carbon burial efficiency in a large tropical hydroelectric reservoir. 6 indexed citations

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Barros, Nathan, Raquel Mendonça, Vera L. M. Huszar, Fábio Roland, & Sarian Kosten. (2014). Carbon fluxes in an eutrophic urban lake. EGUGA. 13335.

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Cardoso, Simone Jaqueline, Luciana O. Vidal, Raquel Mendonça, et al.. (2013). Spatial variation of sediment mineralization supports differential CO2 emissions from a tropical hydroelectric reservoir. Frontiers in Microbiology. 4. 101–101. 33 indexed citations

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