Diego Herrera

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Diego Herrera is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Herrera has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 4 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Diego Herrera's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 papers) and Stress and Burnout Research (3 papers). Diego Herrera is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 papers) and Stress and Burnout Research (3 papers). Diego Herrera collaborates with scholars based in United States, Indonesia and United Kingdom. Diego Herrera's co-authors include Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino, Laura J. Sonter, Gillian L. Galford, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, C.J. Moran, D. J. Barrett, Catalina Sandoval, Brendan Fisher and Christopher D. Golden and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Diego Herrera

20 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

2017 359 citations Laura J. Sonter, Diego Herrera et al. Nature Communications profile →
Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

2019 261 citations Robin Naidoo, Drew Gerkey et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Herrera United States	13	690	362	213	120	115	30	1.2k
Kamaljit K. Sangha Australia	19	684 1.0×	212 0.6×	322 1.5×	72 0.6×	285 2.5×	73	1.4k
Maksym Polyakov Australia	20	650 0.9×	489 1.4×	202 0.9×	38 0.3×	195 1.7×	66	1.2k
Julia H. Haggerty United States	18	576 0.8×	186 0.5×	368 1.7×	130 1.1×	154 1.3×	45	1.3k
Roz Pidcock France	5	550 0.8×	241 0.7×	185 0.9×	57 0.5×	157 1.4×	6	1.7k
Adele Sateriano Italy	15	864 1.3×	328 0.9×	94 0.4×	114 0.9×	206 1.8×	35	1.3k
Donald G. Hodges United States	18	626 0.9×	357 1.0×	100 0.5×	54 0.5×	68 0.6×	91	1.1k
Carlos F. Mena Ecuador	22	603 0.9×	140 0.4×	316 1.5×	37 0.3×	104 0.9×	55	1.2k
Matthias K. B. Lüdeke Germany	22	785 1.1×	143 0.4×	301 1.4×	51 0.4×	167 1.5×	45	1.5k
Tapan Kumar Nath Malaysia	22	771 1.1×	229 0.6×	262 1.2×	29 0.2×	143 1.2×	88	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Diego Herrera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Herrera

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fuss, Sabine, et al.. (2022). Committed to restoring tropical forests: an overview of Brazil’s and Indonesia’s restoration targets and policies. Environmental Research Letters. 17(9). 93002–93002. 16 indexed citations

Herrera, Diego. (2021). Cambios en los rituales funerarios durante la Pandemia del Covid 19 en Ecuador. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(3).

Herrera, Diego. (2020). GÖTZ, Shirley (Editora) (2019). América Latina y Asia Pacífico. Relaciones y proyecciones de cara a un mundo turbulento. Santiago (Chile): Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 296 páginas. Rep Hip UNR (National University of Rosario). 131–132.

Herrera, Diego, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 in Ecuador: Imported Control Strategies without Context in a Challenged Healthcare System. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104(2). 414–415. 5 indexed citations

Herrera, Diego, et al.. (2020). Covid 19. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2).

Naidoo, Robin, Drew Gerkey, David Hole, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world. Science Advances. 5(4). eaav3006–eaav3006. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

Fisher, Brendan, Diego Herrera, Diane K. Adams, et al.. (2019). Can nature deliver on the sustainable development goals?. The Lancet Planetary Health. 3(3). e112–e113. 7 indexed citations

Sippy, Rachel, et al.. (2019). Seasonal patterns of dengue fever in rural Ecuador: 2009-2016. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(5). e0007360–e0007360. 20 indexed citations

Herrera, Diego, et al.. (2019). Prevalencia y factores asociados a la infección por Virus del Papiloma Humano (HPV) en mujeres en edad reproductiva del personal sanitario de tres unidades de salud de Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas. 7(11). 1–4.

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Herrera, Diego, et al.. (2018). Phoneutrismo en Ecuador: reporte de un caso clínico. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3).

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Herrera, Diego, Alicia M. Ellis, Brendan Fisher, et al.. (2017). Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children’s health across 35 developing countries. Nature Communications. 8(1). 811–811. 67 indexed citations

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Sonter, Laura J., Diego Herrera, D. J. Barrett, et al.. (2017). Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1013–1013. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herrera, Diego, et al.. (2016). Emergency Department of a Rural Hospital in Ecuador. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 17(1). 66–72. 4 indexed citations

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Sills, Erin O., Diego Herrera, A. Justin Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2015). Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132590–e0132590. 103 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Alexander, Juan Robalino, Diego Herrera, & Catalina Sandoval. (2015). Protected Areas’ Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation – Development Interactions to Inform Planning. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0129460–e0129460. 133 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Alexander, Juan Robalino, Catalina Sandoval, & Diego Herrera. (2015). Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil's Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1681). 20140273–20140273. 58 indexed citations

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Cano, Isaac, Magí Lluch-Ariet, David Gómez-Cabrero, et al.. (2014). Biomedical research in a Digital Health Framework. Journal of Translational Medicine. 12(Suppl 2). S10–S10. 16 indexed citations

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Siegel, Herrick J., Diego Herrera, & Jason Gay. (2013). Silver Negative Pressure Dressing With Vacuum-assisted Closure of Massive Pelvic and Extremity Wounds. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 472(3). 830–835. 17 indexed citations

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Herrera, Diego, et al.. (2011). Quantifying the reduction in nonmedical costs after the introduction of a rural county hospital in Ecuador.. PubMed. 29(6). 423–7. 2 indexed citations

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Herrera, Diego. (2003). School success of Moroccan youth in Barcelona. Theoretical insights for practical questions. Athenea Digital Revista de pensamiento e investigación social. 1(4). 97–97. 2 indexed citations

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