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Researcher · Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja · Ecuador

Luz María Castro

Luz María Castro publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Surgery, on topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation and Forest Management and Policy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,312,749
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ecuador
#270
of 6,574
Works
28
Citations
609
Citations per work
21.8
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 54% in Global and Planetary Change
Luz María Castro

What does Luz María Castro research?

Luz María Castro's work is mostly in Environmental Science (34%), Medicine (16%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (14%).

Physical Sciences: 9 works · 33.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 33.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 33.8% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 32.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 15.6% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 15.6% of their workSurgery: 2 works · 7.8% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 works · 5.2% of their workGastroenterology: 1 works · 2.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 14.3% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 14.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 14.3% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 3.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 3.9% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKLuz María Castro28works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences34%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences14%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science933.8%
  2. Everything else932.4%
    1. Medicine415.6%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance414.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.9%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change34% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics14% of their works
  3. 3Surgery8% of their works
  4. 4Pathology and Forensic Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5General Agricultural and Biological Sciences4% of their works
  6. 6Gastroenterology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Luz María Castro's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity Conservation, Land Use Change, Environmental Services, Tropical Deforestation, Conjoint Analysis, Discrete Choice Models, Climate Change Impacts and Forest Carbon Sequestration.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity Conservation263 topics
  2. Land Use Change192 topics
  3. Environmental Services131 topic
  4. Tropical Deforestation131 topic
  5. Conjoint Analysis101 topic
  6. Discrete Choice Models101 topic
  7. Climate Change Impacts71 topic
  8. Forest Carbon Sequestration71 topic
  9. Ecosystem Services61 topic
  10. Epidemiology62 topics
  11. Urbanization61 topic
  12. Intussusception41 topic
  13. Meckel's Diverticulum41 topic
  14. Agricultural Innovation21 topic
  15. Biodiversity Offsets21 topic
  16. Crohn's Disease21 topic
  17. Inflammatory Bowel Disease21 topic
  18. Livelihood Diversification21 topic
  19. No Net Loss21 topic

Where does Luz María Castro work?

Luz María Castro's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador.

How many publications and citations does Luz María Castro have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 609 citations for Luz María Castro, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,312,749 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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