Sofía Ávila

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 870 citations indexed

About

Sofía Ávila is a scholar working on Pollution, Sociology and Political Science and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofía Ávila has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 870 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Pollution, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Sofía Ávila's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (8 papers), Mining and Resource Management (5 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers). Sofía Ávila is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (8 papers), Mining and Resource Management (5 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers). Sofía Ávila collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Mexico and Canada. Sofía Ávila's co-authors include Brototi Roy, Leah Temper, Arnim Scheidel, Joan Martínez Alier, Daniela Del Bene, Federico Demaria, Grettel Navas, Juan Liu, Sara Mingorría and Irmak Ertör and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecological Economics and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Sofía Ávila

10 papers receiving 821 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.

Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

2020 295 citations Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene et al. Global Environmental Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sofía Ávila Spain	8	438	212	209	207	153	11	870
Brototi Roy Spain	10	348 0.8×	188 0.9×	195 0.9×	133 0.6×	131 0.9×	15	895
Andrea Brock United Kingdom	10	298 0.7×	182 0.9×	144 0.7×	155 0.7×	141 0.9×	15	683
Daniela Del Bene Spain	12	722 1.6×	381 1.8×	328 1.6×	147 0.7×	271 1.8×	19	1.4k
Stephanie A. Malin United States	16	639 1.5×	191 0.9×	495 2.4×	112 0.5×	79 0.5×	49	1.2k
Carol Hunsberger Canada	19	295 0.7×	150 0.7×	315 1.5×	169 0.8×	83 0.5×	33	1.0k
Ethemcan Turhan Sweden	11	251 0.6×	80 0.4×	167 0.8×	108 0.5×	104 0.7×	27	616
Begüm Özkaynak Türkiye	16	316 0.7×	154 0.7×	119 0.6×	97 0.5×	156 1.0×	27	769
Murat Arsel Netherlands	18	354 0.8×	378 1.8×	237 1.1×	54 0.3×	315 2.1×	38	1.1k
Alexander Dunlap Norway	23	828 1.9×	486 2.3×	279 1.3×	343 1.7×	433 2.8×	62	1.7k
Mine Işlar Sweden	15	323 0.7×	49 0.2×	316 1.5×	113 0.5×	103 0.7×	29	819

Countries citing papers authored by Sofía Ávila

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sofía Ávila

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofía Ávila

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

1.

Ávila, Sofía. (2025). Solar Capitalism: accumulation strategies and socio-ecological futures. Sustainability Science. 20(4). 1541–1556. 7 indexed citations

2.

Ávila, Sofía. (2024). Debates sobre la transición justa en México. Desarrollo, demandas obreras y ambientalismo popular. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 36–36. 1 indexed citations

3.

Ávila, Sofía. (2023). Seis ejes ecológico-políticos en torno a la transición energética. 21–30.

4.

Busch, Henner, et al.. (2023). Mining coal while digging for justice: Investigating justice claims against a coal-phase out in five countries. The Extractive Industries and Society. 15. 101275–101275. 14 indexed citations

5.

Ávila, Sofía, et al.. (2021). (Counter)mapping renewables: Space, justice, and politics of wind and solar power in Mexico. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 5(3). 1056–1085. 43 indexed citations

6.

Temper, Leah, Sofía Ávila, Daniela Del Bene, et al.. (2020). Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 123004–123004. 184 indexed citations

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Scheidel, Arnim, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, et al.. (2020). Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview. Global Environmental Change. 63. 102104–102104. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Hanaček, Ksenija, Brototi Roy, Sofía Ávila, & Giorgos Kallis. (2019). Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins. Ecological Economics. 169. 106495–106495. 51 indexed citations

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Ávila, Sofía. (2018). Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts. Sustainability Science. 13(3). 599–616. 165 indexed citations

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Ávila, Sofía. (2017). Contesting energy transitions: wind power and conflicts in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Journal of Political Ecology. 24(1). 107 indexed citations

11.

Cabral, João Alexandre, Sofía Ávila, & João Carlos Marques. (1999). Acute and Sublethal Effects of a Non-Ionic Surfactant, Genapol OXD-080, on Mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki (Girard). Ecotoxicology. 8(4). 245–252. 3 indexed citations

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