Ruth Pereira

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
202 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Ruth Pereira is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Pereira has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Pollution, 69 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 39 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ruth Pereira's work include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (60 papers), Heavy metals in environment (36 papers) and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (24 papers). Ruth Pereira is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (60 papers), Heavy metals in environment (36 papers) and Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (24 papers). Ruth Pereira collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Canada and Tunisia. Ruth Pereira's co-authors include Fernando Gonçalves, Armando C. Duarte, Teresa Rocha‐Santos, Sara C. Antunes, Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo, Joana Lourenço, Rui Ribeiro, Ana C. Freitas, Anabela Cachada and João Pinto da Costa 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

Ruth Pereira

197 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Histopathological and molecular effects of microplastics in Eisenia andrei Bouché

2016 468 citations Andrés Rodríguez-Seijo, Joana Lourenço et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Pereira Portugal	40	2.5k	1.7k	839	713	677	202	6.0k
Pierre‐Marie Badot France	42	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	684 1.0×	735 1.1×	133	8.2k
Jing Ma China	35	2.4k 1.0×	926 0.5×	729 0.9×	364 0.5×	500 0.7×	227	4.8k
Zhen Li China	45	2.2k 0.9×	938 0.6×	1.4k 1.7×	735 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	344	8.3k
Andreas Schäffer Germany	45	4.0k 1.6×	3.1k 1.8×	1.0k 1.2×	806 1.1×	545 0.8×	241	8.9k
Li Chen China	41	2.4k 1.0×	652 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	623 0.9×	821 1.2×	201	5.7k
Susana Loureiro Portugal	44	3.4k 1.3×	3.5k 2.1×	991 1.2×	1.7k 2.3×	520 0.8×	252	7.8k
Jing Ding China	51	3.6k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	609 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	965 1.4×	261	9.3k
Robert M. Burgess United States	43	2.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.7×	470 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	373 0.6×	195	6.5k
Hazrat Ali Pakistan	27	3.6k 1.5×	1.9k 1.1×	2.4k 2.8×	628 0.9×	664 1.0×	98	8.2k
Mirco Bundschuh Germany	39	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	627 0.7×	1.4k 1.9×	485 0.7×	195	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ruth Pereira

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pereira, Ruth, et al.. (2025). CUIDADOS DE ENFERMAGEM EM CONTEXTO DE VIOLÊNCIA OBSTÉTRICA: UMA ANÁLISE DA LITERATURA. LUMEN ET VIRTUS. 16(44). 133–142.

Guillén, Jorge & Ruth Pereira. (2024). Institutional Influence on Gender Entrepreneurship in Latin America. 5(1). 28–38. 1 indexed citations

Clercq, Dirk De & Ruth Pereira. (2024). How overloaded employees can use resilience and forgiveness resources to overcome dissatisfaction and maintain their knowledge-sharing efforts. International journal of organizational analysis. 33(2). 390–415. 5 indexed citations

Martins, Maria, Bruno Sousa, Inês M. Valente, et al.. (2024). Unravelling the combined impacts of drought and Cu in barley plants – double trouble?. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 209. 108546–108546. 6 indexed citations

Pedron, Tatiana, Sirine Bouguerra, José A. Ribeiro, et al.. (2024). Discarded substrates from soilless hydroponic horticulture as potential amendments for metal-contaminated soils. Chemosphere. 364. 143127–143127. 1 indexed citations

Pereira, Ruth, et al.. (2024). CUIDADO DE ENFERMAGEM HUMANIZADO AO PACIENTE ONCOLÓGICO: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA. LUMEN ET VIRTUS. 15(42). 7216–7222.

Bouguerra, Sirine, et al.. (2023). Preparation, Characterization, and Environmental Safety Assessment of Dithiocarbazate Loaded Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles. Nanomaterials. 13(2). 370–370. 4 indexed citations

Bouguerra, Sirine, Ruth Pereira, Inês P. E. Maçario, et al.. (2022). Improved efficiency of an herbicide combining bentazone and terbuthylazine – can weeds be controlled with better environmental safety?. Environmental Science Advances. 1(3). 342–355. 3 indexed citations

Soares, Cristiano, Bruno Sousa, Edgar Pinto, et al.. (2021). Foliar Application of Sodium Nitroprusside Boosts Solanum lycopersicum L. Tolerance to Glyphosate by Preventing Redox Disorders and Stimulating Herbicide Detoxification Pathways. Plants. 10(9). 1862–1862. 14 indexed citations

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Costa, João Pinto da, et al.. (2021). Biosorption potential of the shell of Corbicula fluminea towards olive oil mill waste. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 19(6). 5689–5696. 2 indexed citations

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Rodríguez-Seijo, Andrés, Joana Lourenço, Daniel Arenas-Lago, et al.. (2020). Chemical availability versus bioavailability of potentially toxic elements in mining and quarry soils. Chemosphere. 251. 126421–126421. 13 indexed citations

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Soares, Cristiano, Ruth Pereira, Maria Martins, et al.. (2020). Glyphosate-dependent effects on photosynthesis of Solanum lycopersicum L.—An ecophysiological, ultrastructural and molecular approach. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 398. 122871–122871. 37 indexed citations

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Cachada, Anabela, Ana Cláudia Dias, Amélia Reis, et al.. (2019). Multivariate Analysis for Assessing Sources, and Potential Risks of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Lisbon Urban Soils. Minerals. 9(3). 139–139. 12 indexed citations

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Bouguerra, Sirine, et al.. (2019). Effects of cobalt oxide nanomaterial on plants and soil invertebrates at different levels of biological organization. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 19(7). 3018–3034. 11 indexed citations

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Lourenço, Joana, Sérgio Marques, Verónica Nogueira, et al.. (2017). Oxidative stress and genotoxicity of an organic and an inorganic nanomaterial to Eisenia andrei : SDS/DDAB nano-vesicles and titanium silicon oxide. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 140. 198–205. 7 indexed citations

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Soares, Cristiano, Alexandra de Sousa, Manuel Azenha, et al.. (2017). SiO2 nanomaterial as a tool to improve Hordeum vulgare L. tolerance to nano-NiO stress. The Science of The Total Environment. 622-623. 517–525. 50 indexed citations

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Cachada, Anabela, Ruth Pereira, Eduardo Ferreira da Silva, & Armando C. Duarte. (2013). The prediction of PAHs bioavailability in soils using chemical methods: State of the art and future challenges. The Science of The Total Environment. 472. 463–480. 91 indexed citations

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Lourenço, Joana, Ruth Pereira, Ana Silva, et al.. (2010). Genotoxic endpoints in the earthworms sub-lethal assay to evaluate natural soils contaminated by metals and radionuclides. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 186(1). 788–795. 61 indexed citations

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Marques, Catarina R., Ruth Pereira, & Fernando Gonçalves. (2010). Toxicity evaluation of natural samples from the vicinity of rice fields using two trophic levels. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 180(1-4). 521–536. 14 indexed citations

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Pereira, Ruth, Sara C. Antunes, Sérgio Marques, & Fernando Gonçalves. (2007). Contribution for tier 1 of the ecological risk assessment of Cunha Baixa uranium mine (Central Portugal): I Soil chemical characterization. The Science of The Total Environment. 390(2-3). 377–386. 56 indexed citations

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