Isabel Rivera‐Collazo

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 866 citations indexed

About

Isabel Rivera‐Collazo is a scholar working on Archeology, Geography, Planning and Development and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Isabel Rivera‐Collazo has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 866 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Archeology, 6 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 5 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Isabel Rivera‐Collazo's work include Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers), Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (6 papers) and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 papers). Isabel Rivera‐Collazo is often cited by papers focused on Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers), Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (6 papers) and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 papers). Isabel Rivera‐Collazo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Puerto Rico and United Kingdom. Isabel Rivera‐Collazo's co-authors include Arlene M. Rosen, Heather Lazrus, Michael Méndez, Dean Hardy, Marcy Rockman, Ben Orlove, J. Timmons Roberts, Benjamin P. Warner, Robert Winthrop and Kimberley Anh Thomas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Geomorphology and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Isabel Rivera‐Collazo

18 papers receiving 841 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.

  1. Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review
    2018 517 citations Kimberley Anh Thomas, Dean Hardy et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change profile →

Peers

Isabel Rivera‐Collazo
Marcy Rockman United States
Darren Ranco United States
Georgina H. Endfield United Kingdom
Qing Pei Hong Kong
Augustine Crispin India
Roselyn Kumar Australia
Scott Ingram United States
Susan A. Crate United States
Matthew A. Peeples United States
David Wilson Ireland
Marcy Rockman United States
Isabel Rivera‐Collazo
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Countries citing papers authored by Isabel Rivera‐Collazo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Isabel Rivera‐Collazo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Isabel Rivera‐Collazo

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel & Sophia Perdikaris. (2023). Climate change, site formation, and indigenous use of coastlines in Barbuda. The Holocene. 33(9). 1142–1153.
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel. (2022). Environment, climate and people: Exploring human responses to climate change. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 68. 101460–101460. 15 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel, et al.. (2022). Modeling Holocene coastal ecosystem availability and site distribution patterns for Borikén, Puerto Rico. The Holocene. 33(3). 321–334.
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Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim, Sara L. Gonzalez, & Isabel Rivera‐Collazo. (2021). Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 2020. American Anthropologist. 123(4). 898–915. 18 indexed citations
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Morris, Margaret, Petr Krysl, Isabel Rivera‐Collazo, & John A. Hildebrand. (2021). The resonant acoustic signatures of lithic debitage. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 41. 103266–103266. 4 indexed citations
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Maldonado, Julie, et al.. (2021). Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 11(3). 294–304. 17 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel, et al.. (2021). The power of archaeology to address interpretation biases in modern geomorphology. Geomorphology. 389. 107843–107843. 8 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel. (2019). Severe Weather and the Reliability of Desk-Based Vulnerability Assessments: The Impact of Hurricane Maria to Puerto Rico’s Coastal Archaeology. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 15(2). 244–263. 20 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kimberley Anh, Dean Hardy, Heather Lazrus, et al.. (2018). Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 10(2). e565–e565. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ezcurra, Paula & Isabel Rivera‐Collazo. (2018). An assessment of the impacts of climate change on Puerto Rico's Cultural Heritage with a case study on sea-level rise. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 32. 198–209. 46 indexed citations
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Wells, E. Christian, et al.. (2017). The Environmental Legacies of Colonialism in the Northern Neotropics: Introduction to the Special Issue. Environmental Archaeology. 23(1). 1–3. 9 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel, et al.. (2017). A Deep-Time Socioecosystem Framework to Understand Social Vulnerability on a Tropical Island. Environmental Archaeology. 23(1). 97–108. 13 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel, Amos Winter, Denis Scholz, et al.. (2015). Human adaptation strategies to abrupt climate change in Puerto Rico ca. 3.5 ka. The Holocene. 25(4). 627–640. 26 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel. (2015). Por el camino verde: Long-term tropical socioecosystem dynamics and the Anthropocene as seen from Puerto Rico. The Holocene. 25(10). 1604–1611. 15 indexed citations
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Rosen, Arlene M. & Isabel Rivera‐Collazo. (2012). Climate change, adaptive cycles, and the persistence of foraging economies during the late Pleistocene/Holocene transition in the Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(10). 3640–3645. 116 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Collazo, Isabel. (2006). Historical Ship Graffiti on the Walls of San Juan's Spanish Defence System: an Interim Report. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 35(1). 41–52. 10 indexed citations

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