Roberto Rosal

12.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
177 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Roberto Rosal is a scholar working on Pollution, Materials Chemistry and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Rosal has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Pollution, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 37 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Roberto Rosal's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (59 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (39 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (27 papers). Roberto Rosal is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (59 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (39 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (27 papers). Roberto Rosal collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom. Roberto Rosal's co-authors include Francisca Fernández‐Piñas, Francisco Leganés, Miguel González-Pleiter, Eloy García‐Calvo, Karina Boltes, Ismael Rodea‐Palomares, Amadeo R. Fernández‐Alba, A. Rodríguez Rodríguez, José Antonio Perdigón-Melón and Carlos Edo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Rosal

170 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

Occurrence of emerging pollutants in urban wastewater and their removal through biological treatment followed by ozonation

2009 796 citations Roberto Rosal, A. Rodríguez Rodríguez et al. Water Research profile →
Toxicity of five antibiotics and their mixtures towards photosynthetic aquatic organisms: Implications for environmental risk assessment

2013 641 citations Miguel González-Pleiter, Soledad Gonzalo et al. Water Research profile →
Fate of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants and their environmental dispersion with effluent and sludge

2019 442 citations Carlos Edo, Miguel González-Pleiter et al. Environmental Pollution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Rosal Spain	54	4.9k	2.3k	2.2k	1.8k	1.8k	177	9.7k
Hanzhong Jia China	55	4.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	225	9.4k
Cheng Gu China	46	4.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	179	7.9k
Yiu Fai Tsang Hong Kong	53	3.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	3.3k 1.9×	281	12.3k
Dimitra A. Lambropoulou Greece	58	4.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.9×	236	11.1k
Jian Zhao China	55	4.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	5.0k 2.3×	1.7k 0.9×	3.2k 1.8×	192	10.9k
Shuguang Wang China	60	4.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.5×	4.4k 2.4×	2.9k 1.6×	298	12.9k
Jun Hou China	58	4.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	4.2k 1.9×	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	324	12.6k
Shungui Zhou China	76	4.9k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.5×	441	18.7k
Siqing Xia China	55	4.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	929 0.4×	3.8k 2.0×	1.8k 1.0×	293	9.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto Rosal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Rosal

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20 of 20 papers shown

Edo, Carlos, et al.. (2025). Microplastics at the ocean-atmosphere interface in Mexican coastal areas of two major oceans. Marine Environmental Research. 210. 107288–107288.

Petre, Alice L., et al.. (2025). Microplastics in Cuban freshwaters: Diversity, temporal changes, and effects on extracellular enzymatic activity. Environmental Pollution. 368. 125764–125764.

Blázquez‐Blázquez, Enrique, et al.. (2025). Aquatic toxicity of UV-irradiated commercial polypropylene plastic particles and associated chemicals. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 494. 138645–138645.

Schell, Theresa, Daniel Franco, Roberto Rosal, et al.. (2024). Fate and effects of an environmentally relevant mixture of microplastics in simple freshwater microcosms. Aquatic Toxicology. 276. 107104–107104. 3 indexed citations

Wayman, C. H., et al.. (2024). The potential use of birds as bioindicators of suspended atmospheric microplastics and artificial fibers. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 282. 116744–116744. 9 indexed citations

Edo, Carlos, et al.. (2024). Use of a nanoplastic carrier for assessing the aquatic toxicity of an organo-phosphite polymer additive. Environmental Pollution. 361. 124837–124837. 1 indexed citations

Wayman, C. H., et al.. (2024). Unraveling Plastic Pollution in Protected Terrestrial Raptors Using Regurgitated Pellets. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 671–684. 3 indexed citations

Pulido‐Reyes, Gerardo, Carlos Edo, Francisco Leganés, et al.. (2024). An improved method to generate secondary nanoplastics and oligomers: application in ecotoxicology. Environmental Science Nano. 12(2). 1150–1165.

Amariei, Georgiana, Ana I. Matesanz, Roberto Rosal, et al.. (2024). Proving the Antimicrobial Therapeutic Activity on a New Copper–Thiosemicarbazone Complex. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 21(4). 1987–1997. 5 indexed citations

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Edo, Carlos, Miguel González-Pleiter, Marina Albentosa, et al.. (2023). Occurrence and size distribution study of microplastics in household water from different cities in continental Spain and the Canary Islands. Water Research. 238. 120044–120044. 23 indexed citations

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Rosal, Roberto. (2021). Morphological description of microplastic particles for environmental fate studies. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 171. 112716–112716. 81 indexed citations

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Edo, Carlos, Miguel González-Pleiter, Miguel Tamayo-Belda, et al.. (2020). Microplastics in sediments of artificially recharged lagoons: Case study in a Biosphere Reserve. The Science of The Total Environment. 729. 138824–138824. 44 indexed citations

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Pulido‐Reyes, Gerardo, Sophie M. Briffa, Francisco Leganés, et al.. (2019). Internalization and toxicological mechanisms of uncoated and PVP-coated cerium oxide nanoparticles in the freshwater algaChlamydomonas reinhardtii. Environmental Science Nano. 6(6). 1959–1972. 24 indexed citations

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Martín-Betancor, Keila, et al.. (2018). Two novel cyanobacterial bioluminescent whole-cell bioreporters based on superoxide dismutases MnSod and FeSod to detect superoxide anion. Chemosphere. 201. 772–779. 10 indexed citations

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Gonzalo, Soledad, Gerardo Pulido‐Reyes, Francisca Fernández‐Piñas, et al.. (2014). A Colloidal Singularity Reveals the Crucial Role of Colloidal Stability for Nanomaterials In-Vitro Toxicity Testing: nZVI-Microalgae Colloidal System as a Case Study. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109645–e109645. 29 indexed citations

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Santiago‐Morales, Javier, María José Gómez, Sonia Herrera, et al.. (2013). Energy efficiency for the removal of non-polar pollutants during ultraviolet irradiation, visible light photocatalysis and ozonation of a wastewater effluent. Water Research. 47(15). 5546–5556. 44 indexed citations

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Santiago‐Morales, Javier, Roberto Rosal, Marı́a Dolores Hernando, et al.. (2013). Fate and transformation products of amine-terminated PAMAM dendrimers under ozonation and irradiation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 266. 102–113. 12 indexed citations

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Rodea‐Palomares, Ismael, Soledad Gonzalo, Javier Santiago‐Morales, et al.. (2012). An insight into the mechanisms of nanoceria toxicity in aquatic photosynthetic organisms. Aquatic Toxicology. 122-123. 133–143. 98 indexed citations

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Rodríguez, A. Rodríguez, Iván Muñoz, José Antonio Perdigón-Melón, et al.. (2012). Environmental optimization of continuous flow ozonation for urban wastewater reclamation. The Science of The Total Environment. 437. 68–75. 19 indexed citations

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Rosal, Roberto, A. Rodríguez Rodríguez, José Antonio Perdigón-Melón, et al.. (2008). Degradation of caffeine and identification of the transformation products generated by ozonation. Chemosphere. 74(6). 825–831. 113 indexed citations

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