Jorge Rocha

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Jorge Rocha is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jorge Rocha has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Jorge Rocha's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers). Jorge Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (9 papers). Jorge Rocha collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Brazil and France. Jorge Rocha's co-authors include Patrícia Abrantes, Cláudia M. Viana, Eduardo Gomes, Dulce Freire, Paulo Pereira, Inês Boavida-Portugal, César Capinha, Carla A. Sousa, Arnaud Banos and Sandra Oliveira 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

Jorge Rocha

74 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Agricultural land systems importance for supporting food security and sustainable development goals: A systematic review

2021 320 citations Cláudia M. Viana, Patrícia Abrantes et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jorge Rocha Portugal	22	676	258	231	208	176	78	1.7k
Rimjhim Aggarwal United States	23	589 0.9×	300 1.2×	343 1.5×	152 0.7×	153 0.9×	43	1.7k
R.J.A. van Lammeren Netherlands	20	445 0.7×	132 0.5×	114 0.5×	137 0.7×	88 0.5×	102	1.2k
Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro Brazil	21	864 1.3×	267 1.0×	191 0.8×	141 0.7×	97 0.6×	125	2.2k
Carlos F. Mena Ecuador	22	603 0.9×	316 1.2×	128 0.6×	104 0.5×	56 0.3×	55	1.2k
Chuan Liao United States	24	434 0.6×	168 0.7×	249 1.1×	264 1.3×	57 0.3×	70	1.5k
Nicholas R. Magliocca United States	28	1.2k 1.8×	355 1.4×	415 1.8×	216 1.0×	148 0.8×	84	2.5k
Luxon Nhamo South Africa	29	509 0.8×	306 1.2×	174 0.8×	137 0.7×	313 1.8×	75	2.3k
Christophe Le Page France	25	955 1.4×	256 1.0×	341 1.5×	293 1.4×	79 0.4×	93	2.2k
Gustavo J. Nagy Uruguay	25	483 0.7×	192 0.7×	382 1.7×	299 1.4×	67 0.4×	62	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jorge Rocha

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Inácio, Miguel, Luís Valença Pinto, Katažyna Bogdzevič, et al.. (2025). Tourism impacts on marine and coastal ecosystem services: A systematic review. Geography and sustainability. 6(2). 100277–100277. 2 indexed citations

Capinha, César, et al.. (2024). SPECTRE: Standardised Global Spatial Data on Terrestrial SPecies and ECosystems ThREats. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(1). 2 indexed citations

Tenedório, José António, et al.. (2023). 100 Years of Land-Use and Land-Cover Data: What Has Been the Effect of Spatial Planning in Coastal Land-Use and Land-Cover Change?. Sustainability. 15(9). 7636–7636. 3 indexed citations

Rocha, Jorge, et al.. (2023). Revisiting city tourism in the longer run: an exploratory analysis based on LBSN data. Current Issues in Tourism. 27(4). 584–599. 12 indexed citations

Oliveira, Sandra, César Capinha, & Jorge Rocha. (2023). Predicting the time of arrival of the Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) to new countries based on trade patterns of tyres and plants. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(11). 2362–2374. 4 indexed citations

Rocha, Jorge, et al.. (2023). Isolation and characterization of Lactobacillus casei A14.2, a strain with immunomodulating activity on Apis mellifera. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 30(4). 103612–103612. 1 indexed citations

Gomes, Eduardo, et al.. (2023). Trends in High Nature Value Farmland and Ecosystem Services Valuation: A Bibliometric Review. Land. 12(10). 1952–1952. 3 indexed citations

Viana, Cláudia M., Robert Gilmore Pontius, & Jorge Rocha. (2023). Four Fundamental Questions to Evaluate Land Change Models with an Illustration of a Cellular Automata–Markov Model. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(10). 2497–2511. 8 indexed citations

Santos, Pedro Pinto, Susana Pereira, Jorge Rocha, et al.. (2022). The role of susceptibility, exposure and vulnerability as drivers of flood disaster risk at the parish level. Environmental Earth Sciences. 81(19). 5 indexed citations

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Rocha, Jorge, et al.. (2022). Automatic detection of vegetation cover changes in urban-rural interface areas. MethodsX. 9. 101643–101643. 1 indexed citations

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Rocha, Jorge, et al.. (2022). Assessment of primary healthcare accessibility and inequality in north-eastern Kazakhstan. Geospatial health. 17(1). 14 indexed citations

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Capinha, César, et al.. (2022). The current and future distribution of the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) on Madeira Island. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(9). e0010715–e0010715. 9 indexed citations

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Capinha, César, et al.. (2022). Spatial correlates of COVID-19 first wave across continental Portugal. Geospatial health. 17(s1). 3 indexed citations

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Monteiro, António T., Cláudia Carvalho‐Santos, Richard Lucas, et al.. (2021). Progress in Grassland Cover Conservation in Southern European Mountains by 2020: A Transboundary Assessment in the Iberian Peninsula with Satellite Observations (2002–2019). Remote Sensing. 13(15). 3019–3019. 6 indexed citations

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Osório, Hugo Costa, Jorge Rocha, Rita Roquette, et al.. (2020). Seasonal Dynamics and Spatial Distribution of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in a Temperate Region in Europe, Southern Portugal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(19). 7083–7083. 13 indexed citations

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Santos, Teresa, K. Lobato, Jorge Rocha, & José António Tenedório. (2020). Modeling Photovoltaic Potential for Bus Shelters on a City-Scale: A Case Study in Lisbon. Applied Sciences. 10(14). 4801–4801. 10 indexed citations

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Gomes, Eduardo, Arnaud Banos, Patrícia Abrantes, Jorge Rocha, & Markus Schläpfer. (2020). Future land use changes in a peri-urban context: Local stakeholder views. The Science of The Total Environment. 718. 137381–137381. 23 indexed citations

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Gomes, Eduardo, Patrícia Abrantes, Arnaud Banos, Jorge Rocha, & Michael Buxton. (2018). Farming under urban pressure: Farmers' land use and land cover change intentions. Applied Geography. 102. 58–70. 42 indexed citations

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Rocha, Jorge. (2006). O PAPEL DOS JORNALISTAS NOS PROCESSOS INTERACIONAIS DO PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Rocha, Jorge. (1999). Um Modelo para o Sistema Presa-Predador. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 1 indexed citations

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