Two ICTA-UAB academics named among the most cited researchers worldwide
Esteve Corbera and Margarita Triguero Mas, researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, feature among researchers with the world’s most highly cited papers.
This year’s “Highly Cited Researchers” ranking by Clarivate Analytics also lists Jordi Martínez Vilalta, from the Department on Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology at the UAB, and Erik Gómez-Baggethun, researcher from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) associated at the UAB.
The 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list, released November 18 by the Web of Science Group, identifies scientists and social scientists who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year.
The 2020 list includes 6.167 highly cited researchers in various fields from more than 60 nations. The methodology behind the list draws on the data and analysis performed by bibliometric experts from the Institute for Scientific Information at the Web of Science Group.
A total of 3,896 researchers are recognized for their performance in the 21 ESI fields, and 2,493 for cross-field performance. Some Highly Cited Researchers appear in more than one field. The full 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list and executive summary can be found here.
For the second consecutive time, ICREA research professor at ICTA-UAB Esteve Corbera is listed in the cross-field category. This is the third year that researchers with cross-field impact —those with exceptional broad performance based on high impact papers across several fields— have been identified.
Esteve is an environmental social scientist and political ecologist who studies human-nature relationships, and the impact of social, policy and environmental change on resource governance. Specifically, he has conducted research on how international policies for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation have affected the land-use systems, institutions and livelihoods of rural peoples in the global South.
He has written over 90 peer-reviewed articles, several books and book chapters, and served as guest editor in 11 special issues of international academic journals. He is an editor of the journal Geoforum and participated in the 2014 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was among the world’s most cited multidisciplinary scientists in 2019 and 2020 (Clarivate analytics).
Corbera advances knowledge on the environmental and wellbeing outcomes of climate change and biodiversity conservation policies and produces scientific findings that inform global policies for sustainable land use. He also investigates the implications of global change for the vulnerability and resilience of farming communities, and their capacity to adapt, and the politics of knowledge production in conservation and environmental science and policy.
Margarita Triguero Mas is also listed in the cross-field category. Margarita holds a Doctorate in Biomedicine and a Master in Public Health from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Her doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen from CREAL-ISGlobal, investigated the associations between natural outdoor environments and health, exploring the potential mechanisms and effect modifiers of these associations. This was followed by postdoctoral research in Xavier Basagaña’s group at ISGlobal, exploring the health effects of air pollution and climatic variables. She is currently an affiliated researcher at ISGlobal and a postdoctoral researcher with the Barcelona Lab for Environmental Justice and Sustainability and the Healthy Cities and Environmental Justice research group at UAB-ICTA-IMIM (Institut de l’Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques), where she works on the European Research Council Project GreenLULUs investigating the health (in)equality impacts of urban greening.
She is interested in seeking out how the places where we live can be healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable. She is particularly interested in exploring the interplay between urban design and the social environment. As a member of the Healthy Cities and Environmental Justice research group, her aim is to bridge the fields of public health, environmental epidemiology, urban planning and environmental justice in studying the social effects of urban planning policies that aim to build healthier cities.