Paula Castro

2.3k total citations
69 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Paula Castro is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Paula Castro has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Social Psychology and 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Paula Castro's work include Social Representations and Identity (24 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (22 papers) and Community Health and Development (21 papers). Paula Castro is often cited by papers focused on Social Representations and Identity (24 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (22 papers) and Community Health and Development (21 papers). Paula Castro collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and France. Paula Castro's co-authors include Susana Batel, Raquel Bertoldo, Maria Luı́sa Lima, Carla Mouro, Patrick Devine‐Wright, Sally Stares, Caroline Howarth, George Gaskell, Agnes Allansdottir and Nick Allum and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Resources Conservation and Recycling.

In The Last Decade

Paula Castro

62 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paula Castro Portugal 22 775 552 387 244 191 69 1.6k
Leila Scannell Canada 13 2.8k 3.6× 711 1.3× 471 1.2× 388 1.6× 229 1.2× 18 3.6k
Patricia L. Winter United States 17 737 1.0× 541 1.0× 473 1.2× 91 0.4× 194 1.0× 46 1.7k
Joseph Reser Australia 25 1.5k 1.9× 1.0k 1.8× 282 0.7× 225 0.9× 189 1.0× 70 2.5k
Bruce Tranter Australia 25 1.1k 1.4× 423 0.8× 114 0.3× 260 1.1× 85 0.4× 113 2.0k
Kari Marie Norgaard United States 19 1.4k 1.8× 661 1.2× 148 0.4× 179 0.7× 50 0.3× 30 2.2k
Zoe Leviston Australia 29 1.5k 1.9× 1.2k 2.2× 224 0.6× 102 0.4× 196 1.0× 69 2.6k
Maria Lewicka Poland 18 3.3k 4.3× 310 0.6× 717 1.9× 497 2.0× 142 0.7× 39 4.3k
Lisa Zaval United States 13 885 1.1× 634 1.1× 150 0.4× 61 0.3× 131 0.7× 18 1.6k
Anna Rabinovich United Kingdom 19 696 0.9× 422 0.8× 219 0.6× 72 0.3× 65 0.3× 38 1.4k
José Manuel Sabucedo Cameselle Spain 21 1.0k 1.3× 217 0.4× 408 1.1× 108 0.4× 98 0.5× 142 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Paula Castro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paula Castro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paula Castro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paula Castro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paula Castro 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 Paula Castro. Paula Castro 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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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2025). Sense of place narratives of residents in neighbourhoods under touristic pressure: Making, entering and enjoying local sociocultural worlds. British Journal of Social Psychology. 64(4). e70016–e70016.
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2025). Making sense of absent-yet-present others: Representing the liminal vegetative state beyond life and death. Social Science & Medicine. 373. 118021–118021. 1 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2024). The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers’ comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press. Public Understanding of Science. 34(1). 59–75.
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Montali, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action. British Journal of Social Psychology. 62(4). 1733–1752. 5 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2023). Understanding the Paradoxical Effects of (Environmental) Activists and Their Discourses: When and How are They Penalized for Seeking Change?. Environmental Communication. 17(7). 740–758. 3 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2023). Shaping citizenship: Dynamic relations between the reified and the consensual universes in defining the “good foreign resident”. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 11(2). 555–569. 2 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2023). Golden Visas and everyday citizenship: views of the new Chinese migration in Portugal. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46(10). 2067–2088. 4 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2022). Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship. Environmental Communication. 16(4). 535–549. 10 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2020). From one new law to (many) new practices? Multidisciplinary teams re‐constructing the meaning of a new disability law. British Journal of Social Psychology. 60(3). 966–987. 5 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2020). Is the press presenting (neoliberal) foreign residency laws in a depoliticised way? The case of investment visas and the reconfiguring of citizenship. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 8(2). 748–766. 6 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula. (2019). In defence of social psychology attending to the institutional dimension: Potentialities for extending comprehension of the ecological and political. Portugese Journal of Social Sciences. 18(2). 137–152. 3 indexed citations
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Mouro, Carla & Paula Castro. (2017). Cognitive polyphasia in the reception of legal innovations for biodiversity conservation. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 8 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2012). Representações da deficiência na imprensa portuguesa: hegemonia e emancipação. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 12. 367–386. 1 indexed citations
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Howarth, Caroline, Nikos Kalampalikis, & Paula Castro. (2011). 50 years of research on social representations: central debates and challenging questions. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 20(2). 1–11. 1 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, et al.. (2009). Local is beautiful? Governing science-society relations in Europe. Portugese Journal of Social Sciences. 8(2). 191–207. 4 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, Margarida V. Garrido, Elizabeth Reis, & João Menezes. (2008). Ambivalence and conservation behaviour: An exploratory study on the recycling of metal cans. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 29(1). 24–33. 68 indexed citations
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Castro, Paula, Margarida V. Garrido, Carla Mouro, Rosa Novo, & Rute Pires. (2004). Contributos para uma cartografia da investigação em Psicologia em Portugal: uma análise a partir dos trabalhos apresentados no V Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT).
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Castro, Paula. (1995). Contributos para uma comparação crítica de três tradições em Psicologia Social: Atitudes, representações sociais e cognição social. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 10(3). 155–173. 1 indexed citations

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