Barbara Muraca

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Barbara Muraca is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Muraca has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Barbara Muraca's work include Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers). Barbara Muraca is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (7 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers). Barbara Muraca collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Barbara Muraca's co-authors include Austin Himes, Kai M. A. Chan, Rachelle K. Gould, Unai Pascual, Kurt Jax, Patricia Balvanera, Susan Paulson, Matthias Schmelzer, Steffen Lange and Vasilis Kostakis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Cleaner Production and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Muraca

25 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment

2016 1.2k citations Kai M. A. Chan, Patricia Balvanera et al. profile →
Research On Degrowth

2018 360 citations Barbara Muraca et al. profile →
Relational values: the key to pluralistic valuation of ecosystem services

2018 308 citations Austin Himes, Barbara Muraca Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Muraca United States	18	1.4k	731	565	520	478	27	2.7k
Karina Benessaiah United States	16	1.4k 1.0×	542 0.7×	513 0.9×	424 0.8×	406 0.8×	30	2.4k
Neil Hannahs United States	6	2.2k 1.6×	670 0.9×	393 0.7×	751 1.4×	614 1.3×	8	3.0k
Marc Tadaki New Zealand	16	1.2k 0.9×	507 0.7×	424 0.8×	650 1.3×	276 0.6×	42	2.6k
Mollie Chapman Switzerland	16	1.1k 0.8×	522 0.7×	289 0.5×	314 0.6×	357 0.7×	32	1.9k
Jordan Tam Canada	10	1.4k 1.0×	503 0.7×	392 0.7×	584 1.1×	362 0.8×	13	2.2k
Kelli L. Larson United States	34	1.7k 1.2×	506 0.7×	551 1.0×	1.4k 2.6×	420 0.9×	104	3.9k
Kurt Jax Germany	23	2.3k 1.7×	788 1.1×	757 1.3×	531 1.0×	639 1.3×	53	4.2k
Jasper O. Kenter United Kingdom	31	2.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	569 1.0×	575 1.1×	1.1k 2.2×	63	3.5k
Carena J. van Riper United States	27	965 0.7×	859 1.2×	860 1.5×	761 1.5×	414 0.9×	92	2.8k
Rachelle K. Gould United States	24	2.3k 1.7×	990 1.4×	752 1.3×	1.2k 2.4×	636 1.3×	78	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Muraca

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Muraca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Muraca

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Murali, Ranjani, Christopher B. Anderson, Barbara Muraca, et al.. (2025). Navigating diverse human–nature worldviews for more inclusive conservation. Conservation Biology. 40(1). e70144–e70144. 1 indexed citations

Himes, Austin, Barbara Muraca, Karen E. Allen, et al.. (2025). Horizontal portability: A proposal for representing place‐based relational values in research and policy. People and Nature. 7(4). 752–764.

Chapman, Mollie, et al.. (2025). Transformative Influence? The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Sustainabilities of Social Media Influencers. Environmental Communication. 19(7). 1257–1275. 1 indexed citations

Himes, Austin, Barbara Muraca, Christopher B. Anderson, et al.. (2024). Correction to: Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values. BioScience. 75(2). 188–188. 3 indexed citations

Allen, Karen E., et al.. (2024). Grassroots relational approaches to agricultural transformation in Latin America. Ecosystems and People. 20(1).

Gould, Rachelle K., Austin Himes, Mollie Chapman, et al.. (2024). Building on Spash's critiques of monetary valuation to suggest ways forward for relational values research. Environmental Values. 33(2). 139–162. 2 indexed citations

Gould, Rachelle K., Karen E. Allen, Aletta Bonn, et al.. (2023). Constraint breeds creativity: A brainstorming method to jumpstart out-of-the-box thinking for sustainability science. BioScience. 73(10). 703–710. 1 indexed citations

Arias‐Arévalo, Paola, Ana Sofía Monroy‐Sais, Sara Nelson, et al.. (2023). The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101352–101352. 29 indexed citations

Himes, Austin, Barbara Muraca, Christopher B. Anderson, et al.. (2023). Why nature matters: A systematic review of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values. BioScience. 74(1). 25–43. 60 indexed citations

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Muraca, Barbara. (2023). Von den Rechten der Natur zum konvivialen Naturschutz?. 9(2). 135–164. 1 indexed citations

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Lenzi, Dominic, Patricia Balvanera, Paola Arias‐Arévalo, et al.. (2023). Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101353–101353. 31 indexed citations

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Raymond, Christopher M., Christopher B. Anderson, Simone Athayde, et al.. (2023). An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101301–101301. 52 indexed citations

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Himes, Austin, Klaus J. Puettmann, & Barbara Muraca. (2020). Trade-offs between ecosystem services along gradients of tree species diversity and values. Ecosystem Services. 44. 101133–101133. 43 indexed citations

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Gould, Rachelle K., et al.. (2019). He ʻike ʻana ia i ka pono (it is a recognizing of the right thing): how one indigenous worldview informs relational values and social values. Sustainability Science. 14(5). 1213–1232. 91 indexed citations

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Jax, Kurt, Melania Calestani, Kai M. A. Chan, et al.. (2018). Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 35. 22–29. 151 indexed citations

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Himes, Austin & Barbara Muraca. (2018). Relational values: the key to pluralistic valuation of ecosystem services. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 35. 1–7. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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Muraca, Barbara, et al.. (2017). Viable and convivial technologies: Considerations on Climate Engineering from a degrowth perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production. 197. 1810–1822. 28 indexed citations

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Muraca, Barbara. (2016). Relational Values. 8(1). 19–38. 62 indexed citations

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Muraca, Barbara. (2015). Gutes Leben jenseits von Wachstum: eine ethische Perspektive. Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen. 1 indexed citations

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Muraca, Barbara. (2012). Towards a fair degrowth-society: Justice and the right to a ‘good life’ beyond growth. Futures. 44(6). 535–545. 69 indexed citations

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