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Economics and Finance
Spain
2026

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Economics and Finance 55 1035 921 10 10 151 22695

Joan Martinez-Alier publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Joan Martinez-Alier between 1973 and 2023, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Joan Martinez-Alier published across 51 years, from 1973 to 2023, averaging 4.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 21 publications in 2002. 5 of the 247 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1973 to 2023. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 21. Peak 21 publications in 2002. 1973: 1 publication 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 2 publications 1984: 2 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 3 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 5 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 4 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 6 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 3 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 9 publications 2002: 21 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 13 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 2 publications
1973 2023

247 publications in total across all disciplines

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Joan Martinez-Alier: publications per year, 1973 to 2023
Year Publications
1973 1
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 2
1984 2
1985 1
1986 0
1987 0
1988 3
1989 2
1990 1
1991 5
1992 0
1993 4
1994 1
1995 6
1996 3
1997 3
1998 1
1999 3
2000 3
2001 9
2002 21
2003 4
2004 9
2005 0
2006 3
2007 10
2008 9
2009 11
2010 10
2011 11
2012 10
2013 15
2014 7
2015 14
2016 11
2017 6
2018 13
2019 8
2020 13
2021 7
2022 3
2023 2
Total 247
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Joan Martinez-Alier publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan Martinez-Alier sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 42–46 to 521+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 111. Most scientists, 111, have 137–141 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 147–151 publications, is where this scientist sits. 42–46 publications: 1 scientist 47–51 publications: 12 scientists 52–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–61 publications: 23 scientists 62–66 publications: 32 scientists 67–71 publications: 36 scientists 72–76 publications: 56 scientists 77–81 publications: 57 scientists 82–86 publications: 70 scientists 87–91 publications: 86 scientists 92–96 publications: 72 scientists 97–101 publications: 106 scientists 102–106 publications: 97 scientists 107–111 publications: 96 scientists 112–116 publications: 101 scientists 117–121 publications: 103 scientists 122–126 publications: 102 scientists 127–131 publications: 108 scientists 132–136 publications: 107 scientists 137–141 publications: 111 scientists 142–146 publications: 94 scientists 147–151 publications: 96 scientists 152–156 publications: 100 scientists 157–161 publications: 74 scientists 162–166 publications: 68 scientists 167–171 publications: 91 scientists 172–176 publications: 76 scientists 177–181 publications: 75 scientists 182–186 publications: 61 scientists 187–191 publications: 66 scientists 192–196 publications: 68 scientists 197–201 publications: 71 scientists 202–206 publications: 60 scientists 207–211 publications: 56 scientists 212–216 publications: 44 scientists 217–221 publications: 51 scientists 222–226 publications: 65 scientists 227–231 publications: 48 scientists 232–236 publications: 59 scientists 237–241 publications: 37 scientists 242–246 publications: 37 scientists 247–251 publications: 41 scientists 252–256 publications: 43 scientists 257–261 publications: 33 scientists 262–266 publications: 34 scientists 267–271 publications: 39 scientists 272–276 publications: 25 scientists 277–281 publications: 29 scientists 282–286 publications: 29 scientists 287–291 publications: 26 scientists 292–296 publications: 31 scientists 297–301 publications: 31 scientists 302–306 publications: 24 scientists 307–311 publications: 28 scientists 312–316 publications: 24 scientists 317–321 publications: 13 scientists 322–326 publications: 14 scientists 327–331 publications: 25 scientists 332–336 publications: 18 scientists 337–341 publications: 16 scientists 342–346 publications: 18 scientists 347–351 publications: 15 scientists 352–356 publications: 17 scientists 357–361 publications: 19 scientists 362–366 publications: 16 scientists 367–371 publications: 17 scientists 372–376 publications: 7 scientists 377–381 publications: 18 scientists 382–386 publications: 13 scientists 387–391 publications: 19 scientists 392–396 publications: 9 scientists 397–401 publications: 10 scientists 402–406 publications: 13 scientists 407–411 publications: 13 scientists 412–416 publications: 5 scientists 417–421 publications: 10 scientists 422–426 publications: 6 scientists 427–431 publications: 12 scientists 432–436 publications: 9 scientists 437–441 publications: 9 scientists 442–446 publications: 10 scientists 447–451 publications: 12 scientists 452–456 publications: 8 scientists 457–461 publications: 4 scientists 462–466 publications: 7 scientists 467–471 publications: 4 scientists 472–476 publications: 5 scientists 477–481 publications: 6 scientists 482–486 publications: 7 scientists 487–491 publications: 8 scientists 492–496 publications: 5 scientists 497–501 publications: 4 scientists 502–506 publications: 4 scientists 507–511 publications: 5 scientists 512–516 publications: 7 scientists 517–520 publications: 7 scientists 521+ publications: 99 scientists
42–46 publications 521+

This scientist: 151 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

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Number of Economics and Finance scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,760 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
42–46 1
47–51 12
52–56 7
57–61 23
62–66 32
67–71 36
72–76 56
77–81 57
82–86 70
87–91 86
92–96 72
97–101 106
102–106 97
107–111 96
112–116 101
117–121 103
122–126 102
127–131 108
132–136 107
137–141 111
142–146 94
147–151 96 151
152–156 100
157–161 74
162–166 68
167–171 91
172–176 76
177–181 75
182–186 61
187–191 66
192–196 68
197–201 71
202–206 60
207–211 56
212–216 44
217–221 51
222–226 65
227–231 48
232–236 59
237–241 37
242–246 37
247–251 41
252–256 43
257–261 33
262–266 34
267–271 39
272–276 25
277–281 29
282–286 29
287–291 26
292–296 31
297–301 31
302–306 24
307–311 28
312–316 24
317–321 13
322–326 14
327–331 25
332–336 18
337–341 16
342–346 18
347–351 15
352–356 17
357–361 19
362–366 16
367–371 17
372–376 7
377–381 18
382–386 13
387–391 19
392–396 9
397–401 10
402–406 13
407–411 13
412–416 5
417–421 10
422–426 6
427–431 12
432–436 9
437–441 9
442–446 10
447–451 12
452–456 8
457–461 4
462–466 7
467–471 4
472–476 5
477–481 6
482–486 7
487–491 8
492–496 5
497–501 4
502–506 4
507–511 5
512–516 7
517–520 7
521+ 99
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Joan Martinez-Alier D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan Martinez-Alier sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 72 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 101+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 178. Most scientists, 178, have 33 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 55 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

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Number of Economics and Finance scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,760 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 126
31 147
32 157
33 178
34 171
35 141
36 132
37 129
38 130
39 120
40 117
41 113
42 114
43 97
44 115
45 86
46 78
47 83
48 62
49 74
50 50
51 66
52 69
53 55
54 67
55 61 55
56 62
57 45
58 34
59 47
60 46
61 36
62 37
63 56
64 50
65 32
66 28
67 30
68 24
69 25
70 22
71 21
72 26
73 24
74 23
75 12
76 14
77 15
78 15
79 17
80 17
81 11
82 10
83 16
84 11
85 5
86 9
87 13
88 9
89 7
90 6
91 4
92 8
93 10
94 11
95 6
96 4
97 4
98 6
99 6
100 8
101+ 100
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Sustainability
  • Capitalism

Joan Martinez-Alier mainly investigates Natural resource economics, Ecological economics, Environmentalism, Sustainability and Degrowth. Her research integrates issues of Natural resource, Environmental resource management, Environmental sociology and Livelihood in her study of Natural resource economics. Joan Martinez-Alier combines subjects such as Argument, Commensurability, Operationalization and Rationality with her study of Ecological economics.

Joan Martinez-Alier works mostly in the field of Environmentalism, limiting it down to topics relating to Land grabbing and, in certain cases, Environmental justice, Economic growth, Environmental racism, Political economy and Climate justice. She has included themes like Economic system, Economy and World population in her Sustainability study. The study incorporates disciplines such as Environmental ethics and Social movement in addition to Degrowth.

Her most cited work include:

  • The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (738 citations)
  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Recent Instances for Debate (605 citations)
  • Weak Comparability of Values as a Foundation for Ecological Economics (538 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Joan Martinez-Alier mostly deals with Ecological economics, Environmental justice, Environmental ethics, Political ecology and Natural resource economics. The Environmental justice study which covers Livelihood that intersects with Ecosystem services. Her Environmental ethics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Sustainability, Degrowth, Social movement, Environmentalism and Social science.

Her studies deal with areas such as Economy and Sustainable development as well as Sustainability. Her Degrowth research focuses on Economic growth and how it relates to Politics. As a part of the same scientific family, Joan Martinez-Alier mostly works in the field of Natural resource economics, focusing on Natural resource and, on occasion, Development economics.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Ecological economics (23.88%)
  • Environmental justice (23.13%)
  • Environmental ethics (19.40%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Environmental justice (23.13%)
  • Environmental ethics (19.40%)
  • Ecological distribution (5.22%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Joan Martinez-Alier mainly focuses on Environmental justice, Environmental ethics, Ecological distribution, Development economics and Political ecology. In Environmental justice, she works on issues like Sustainability, which are connected to Conceptual framework. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Social movement and Degrowth.

The Ecological distribution study combines topics in areas such as Latin Americans, Social metabolism and Environmental planning. In her research on the topic of Development economics, Diversification, Livelihood, Criminalization, Environmentalism and Grassroots is strongly related with Indigenous. Her study focuses on the intersection of Political ecology and fields such as Peasant with connections in the field of Politics, Hegemony, Economy and Environmental racism.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Energy and climate change (215 citations)
  • Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. (68 citations)
  • The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas): ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability (49 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Sustainability
  • Capitalism

Joan Martinez-Alier focuses on Environmental justice, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Environmental ethics and Landscape ecology. Her Environmental justice research includes themes of Indigenous and Diversification. Her Sustainability study combines topics in areas such as Livelihood, Criminalization, Development economics, Environmentalism and Grassroots.

Her Environmental ethics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Economic Justice, Social movement and Degrowth. Her Social movement research includes elements of Resource, Overdevelopment, Overconsumption, Prosperity and Environmental politics. Her work carried out in the field of Degrowth brings together such families of science as Mainstream, Stakeholder and Injustice.

Best Publications

  • The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation

    Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South

    Ramachandra Guha;Joan Martínez Alier

  • Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue

    François Schneider;Giorgos Kallis;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Weak Comparability of Values as a Foundation for Ecological Economics

    Joan Martinez-Alier;Giuseppe Munda;John O'Neill

  • De la economía ecológica al ecologismo popular

    Joan Martínez Alier

  • Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm

    Joan Martínez-Alier;Unai Pascual;Franck-Dominique Vivien;Edwin Zaccai

  • What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement

    Federico Demaria;Francois Schneider;Filka Sekulova;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • The economics of degrowth

    Giorgos Kallis;Christian Kerschner;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Recent Instances for Debate

    Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos;Joan Martínez-Alier

  • Payments for environmental services in watersheds: Insights from a comparative study of three cases in Central America

    Nicolas Kosoy;Miguel Martinez-Tuna;Roldan Muradian;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Mapping the frontiers and front lines of global environmental justice: the EJAtlas

    Leah Temper;Daniela del Bene;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • A socio‐metabolic transition towards sustainability? Challenges for another Great Transformation

    Helmut Haberl;Marina Fischer-Kowalski;Fridolin Krausmann;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Trade and the environment: from a ‘Southern’ perspective

    Roldan Muradian;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Is there a global environmental justice movement

    Joan Martinez-Alier;Leah Temper;Daniela Del Bene;Arnim Scheidel

  • Embodied pollution in trade: estimating the ‘environmental load displacement’ of industrialised countries

    Roldan Muradian;Martin O'Connor;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview

    Arnim Scheidel;Daniela Del Bene;Juan Liu;Juan Liu;Grettel Navas

  • The environmentalism of the poor

    Joan Martinez-Alier

  • Decreixement sostenible : una alternativa per al desenvolupament sostenible?

    Joan Martínez Alier

  • Social Metabolism, Ecological Distribution Conflicts, and Valuation Languages

    Joan Martinez-Alier;Giorgos Kallis;Sandra Veuthey;Mariana Walter

  • Rethinking environmental history: World-system history and global environmental change

    Alf Hornborg;John R. McNeill;Joan Martinez-Alier

  • The Environmentalism of the Poor revisited: : Territory and place in disconnected glocal struggles

    Isabelle Anguelovski;Joan Martínez Alier

  • Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements

    Joan Martínez-Alier

  • Environmentalism of the Poor

    Joan Martinez-Alier

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis Autonomous University of Barcelona
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond University of Johannesburg
Joachim H. Spangenberg
Joachim H. Spangenberg Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Simone Gingrich
Simone Gingrich BOKU University
Richard B. Norgaard
Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley
Peter Lund
Peter Lund Aalto University

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