Marcia Pimentel

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Marcia Pimentel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcia Pimentel has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 2 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Marcia Pimentel's work include Transboundary Water Resource Management (4 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (2 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (2 papers). Marcia Pimentel is often cited by papers focused on Transboundary Water Resource Management (4 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (2 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (2 papers). Marcia Pimentel collaborates with scholars based in United States and Philippines. Marcia Pimentel's co-authors include David Pimentel, David Pimentel, Michael McNair, L. Buck, Jeremy P. Kamil, Rebecca M. Harman, Thomas W. Culliney and Vickie A. Vaclavik and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Marcia Pimentel

15 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment

2003 688 citations David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
Food, energy, and society

1979 547 citations David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcia Pimentel United States	10	675	319	302	251	212	15	1.8k
Bojana Bajželj United Kingdom	13	650 1.0×	370 1.2×	244 0.8×	213 0.8×	133 0.6×	16	1.4k
P. Gerber Netherlands	5	1.4k 2.1×	418 1.3×	187 0.6×	397 1.6×	248 1.2×	11	2.4k
Timothy B. Sulser United States	24	955 1.4×	387 1.2×	445 1.5×	193 0.8×	192 0.9×	58	2.8k
C. Opio Italy	11	1.6k 2.4×	475 1.5×	205 0.7×	484 1.9×	265 1.3×	17	2.7k
Mauricio Rosales United States	6	1.8k 2.7×	512 1.6×	323 1.1×	471 1.9×	468 2.2×	7	3.6k
Ignácio Pérez Domínguez Spain	19	593 0.9×	199 0.6×	173 0.6×	404 1.6×	112 0.5×	56	1.8k
Franz Weiß Italy	11	1.2k 1.7×	242 0.8×	164 0.5×	429 1.7×	206 1.0×	18	2.0k
Alon Shepon Israel	17	745 1.1×	396 1.2×	138 0.5×	187 0.7×	177 0.8×	30	1.7k
Sumil K Thakrar United States	11	516 0.8×	211 0.7×	148 0.5×	237 0.9×	123 0.6×	17	1.6k
Tiziano Gomiero Italy	21	577 0.9×	169 0.5×	783 2.6×	199 0.8×	190 0.9×	29	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcia Pimentel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcia Pimentel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marcia Pimentel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marcia Pimentel. The network helps show where Marcia Pimentel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcia Pimentel

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

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (2008). Corn and Cellulosic Ethanol Cause Major Problems. Energies. 1(1). 35–37. 13 indexed citations

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (2006). Global environmental resources versus world population growth. Ecological Economics. 59(2). 195–198. 94 indexed citations

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (2003). Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 78(3). 660S–663S. 688 indexed citations breakdown →

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (2003). World Population, Food, Natural Resources, and Survival. World Futures. 59(3-4). 145–167. 38 indexed citations

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (1999). Population Growth, Environmental Resources and Global Food. Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 9(1-2). 35–44. 4 indexed citations

Vaclavik, Vickie A., et al.. (1998). Dimensions of Food. 5 indexed citations

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (1997). Too Many People for Food Resources and the Environment. Politics and the Life Sciences. 16(2). 217–219. 3 indexed citations

Pimentel, David, et al.. (1997). Impact of Population Growth on Food Supplies and Environment. Population and Environment. 19(1). 9–14. 41 indexed citations

Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (1997). How many people can the earth support?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 12(6). 246–246. 6 indexed citations

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Pimentel, David, Michael McNair, L. Buck, Marcia Pimentel, & Jeremy P. Kamil. (1997). The Value of Forests to World Food Security. Human Ecology. 25(1). 91–120. 147 indexed citations

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Pimentel, David, et al.. (1994). Natural resources and an optimum human population. Population and Environment. 15(5). 347–369. 116 indexed citations

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Culliney, Thomas W., David Pimentel, & Marcia Pimentel. (1992). Pesticides and natural toxicants in foods. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 41(3-4). 297–320. 34 indexed citations

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Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (1990). Comment: Adverse Environmental Consequences of the Green Revolution. Population and Development Review. 16. 329–329. 32 indexed citations

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Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (1985). Energy use in Food Processing for Nutrition and Development. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 7(2). 1–10. 6 indexed citations

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Pimentel, David & Marcia Pimentel. (1979). Food, energy, and society. TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University). 547 indexed citations breakdown →

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