Marta Olazabal

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Marta Olazabal is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta Olazabal has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Marta Olazabal's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (20 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (17 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (11 papers). Marta Olazabal is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (20 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (17 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (11 papers). Marta Olazabal collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Italy. Marta Olazabal's co-authors include Unai Pascual, Lorenzo Chelleri, Guido Minucci, Diana Reckien, Oliver Heidrich, Johannes Flacke, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Davide Geneletti, Monica Salvia and Filomena Pietrapertosa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Marta Olazabal

45 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

  1. Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience
    2015 307 citations Marta Olazabal et al. profile →
  2. Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation
    2023 94 citations Marta Olazabal, Antonio Arjona Castro et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marta Olazabal Spain 20 989 683 302 276 227 50 1.8k
Diana Reckien Netherlands 26 1.1k 1.1× 814 1.2× 334 1.1× 389 1.4× 305 1.3× 67 2.5k
Patricia Romero‐Lankao United States 30 1.2k 1.2× 821 1.2× 381 1.3× 410 1.5× 484 2.1× 65 2.8k
Matthias Garschagen Germany 30 1.4k 1.4× 1.4k 2.1× 319 1.1× 177 0.6× 231 1.0× 114 3.0k
Darryn McEvoy Australia 23 1.2k 1.2× 1.3k 1.8× 511 1.7× 297 1.1× 310 1.4× 82 2.8k
David M. Iwaniec United States 24 1.1k 1.1× 418 0.6× 114 0.4× 239 0.9× 242 1.1× 35 2.0k
Klaus Eisenack Germany 21 958 1.0× 594 0.9× 290 1.0× 130 0.5× 79 0.3× 63 2.0k
Thomas G. Measham Australia 25 848 0.9× 839 1.2× 265 0.9× 106 0.4× 102 0.4× 61 2.3k
Jiangfeng Li China 28 1.9k 1.9× 385 0.6× 497 1.6× 265 1.0× 412 1.8× 86 2.9k
Jessica Lamond United Kingdom 22 1.8k 1.8× 751 1.1× 283 0.9× 640 2.3× 338 1.5× 118 2.6k
Arjan Wardekker Netherlands 18 664 0.7× 663 1.0× 188 0.6× 104 0.4× 227 1.0× 31 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Marta Olazabal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marta Olazabal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta Olazabal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marta Olazabal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marta Olazabal 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 Marta Olazabal. Marta Olazabal 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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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2025). Revisiting the challenges to monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning for climate adaptation. Environmental Science & Policy. 172. 104199–104199.
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2025). Transdisciplinarity in climate change adaptation: An agenda for evidence generation. PLOS Climate. 4(4). e0000612–e0000612. 4 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2025). Unlocking urban climate adaptation imaginaries. Nature Cities. 2(12). 1217–1225.
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2025). Conventional approaches to indicators and metrics undermine urban climate adaptation. npj Urban Sustainability. 6(1). 8–8.
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Amorim‐Maia, Ana Terra & Marta Olazabal. (2025). Beyond adjustment: A new paradigm for climate change adaptation in a complex world. Global Environmental Change. 93. 103027–103027. 3 indexed citations
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Herreros‐Cantis, Pablo, et al.. (2025). Knowledge diversity for climate change adaptation: A social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) approach to mental models. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 124. 105550–105550. 1 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2025). Climate justice in urban public space adaptation: Developing and testing a collective assessment tool in Hunters Point, New York City. Urban Climate. 62. 102505–102505. 1 indexed citations
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Amorim‐Maia, Ana Terra & Marta Olazabal. (2024). Localising the Global Goal on Adaptation through intersectional thinking. Cities. 154. 105349–105349. 4 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2024). A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions. AMBIO. 54(3). 520–535. 6 indexed citations
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Buzási, Attila, Sofia G. Simões, Monica Salvia, et al.. (2024). European patterns of local adaptation planning—a regional analysis. Regional Environmental Change. 24(2). 10 indexed citations
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García‐Lamarca, Melissa, et al.. (2024). The Multi-Scalar Inequities of Climate Adaptation Finance: A Critical Review. Communities in ADDI (University of the Basque Country). 10(3). 46–59. 10 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2024). Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities. Global Environmental Change. 89. 102939–102939. 10 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2024). Integrating science and the arts to deglobalise climate change adaptation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2971–2971. 12 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2024). What is limiting how we imagine climate change adaptation?. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 71. 101476–101476. 11 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2024). Examining Climate Justice in Urban Public Space Adaptation: A Thematic Synthesis of the Literature. 2(3). 271–315. 3 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2023). Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. Nature Sustainability. 6(4). 458–469. 94 indexed citations breakdown →
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2020). Están las ciudades españolas adaptándose al cambio climático. Papeles de economía española. 160–178. 1 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, et al.. (2020). Adaptation planning in large cities is unlikely to be effective. Landscape and Urban Planning. 206. 103974–103974. 69 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, Marc B. Neumann, Sébastien Foudi, & Aline Chiabai. (2018). Transparency and Reproducibility in Participatory Systems Modelling: the Case of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 35(6). 791–810. 36 indexed citations
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Olazabal, Marta, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Eduardo Olazabal, et al.. (2014). How are Italian and Spanish cities tackling climate change : a local comparative study : open access e-book. University of Twente Research Information. 2014(3). 2 indexed citations

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