HISTAGRA researcher Stefania Barca, ranked 37th most cited in the world in History 2025

 

 

HISTAGRA-CISPAC researcher Stefania Barca is listed by the specialized website Top 2% Scientists as the 37th most cited in the field of history worldwide.

The composite score-based ranking gives her a score of 179,073 with a total of 122 citations.

 

 

The complete data are:

 

Ranking based on composite score    179073

Total citations                                                                   122

H index                                                                           7.00

Hm index                                                                        5.05

Number of single-author articles                             14

Total citations to single-author articles                        49

Number of single-author + first-author articles     21    

Total citations to single-author articles + first author     75

Number of single-author articles + first author + last author     23

Total citations to single-author articles + first author + last author     105

Composite score                                                   2. 56

Number of distinct citing articles                         99.00

Proportion of total citations to distinct citing articles     1.23

Percentage of self-citations:                                                     10.66%

 

 

Stefania Barca is an accredited full professor in Contemporary History, and a senior Beatriz Galindo Distinguished Researcher in the Department of History at USC. Originally from Italy, where she was an associate professor in Modern History (2014) and in Economic History (2013), between 2009 and 2021 she worked as a senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra. (Portugal), where she held various research leadership positions and supervised PhD and postdoctoral research. Previously, she was a visiting research fellow in the Agricultural Studies Program at Yale University (2005-06), and received sabbatical fellowships at the Universities of Berkeley (2006-08) and Lund (2015-16); most recently, she was the fourth “Zennstrom” Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University (2021). Her research interests lie in Environmental History and Political Ecology, with focus on the industrial era. She researched hydropower and the making of industrial landscapes (18th-20th century); environmental mobilizations (peasant, indigenous and workers) in Italy, Brazil and Portugal from the 1970s to the present; and is currently researching Just Transition from a feminist perspective, with a special focus on care work. She has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals; her latest book is Trabajadores de la Tierra. Labour, ecologuy and reproduction in the age of climate change (Londres: Pluto press, 2024). Other books include Enclosing Water. Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley (Cambridge, Reino Unido: White Horse Press 2010), which was awarded the Turku Book Prize in 2011; and the short book Forces of Reproduction. Notes for a Counterhegemonic Antrhopocene, published by the Cambridge University Press en 2020. She is active in feminist, climate justice, and degrowth networks, and her work has been translated and disseminated in several