2026 Maria L. Loureiro: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	42	4643	4293	37	37	153	10188

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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4643

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Overview

Maria L. Loureiro is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Their primary research contributions lie within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, and Communication as subfields.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics, including:

Wine Industry and Tourism
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Climate Change Communication and Perception
Energy and Environment Impacts
Social Media and Politics
Fire effects on ecosystems
Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Maria L. Loureiro has authored multiple papers, some of the recent notable publications are:

Sensing climate change and energy issues: Sentiment and emotion analysis with social media in the U.K. and Spain, 2020, published in Energy Policy
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the climate change debate on Twitter?, 2021, published in Environmental Science & Policy
Hot in Twitter: Assessing the emotional impacts of wildfires with sentiment analysis, 2022, published in Ecological Economics

Other recent works co-authored or related to their research domain include:

Guidance to Enhance the Validity and Credibility of Environmental Benefit Transfers, 2021, published in Environmental and Resource Economics
Assessing preferences for wildfire prevention policies in Spain, 2020, published in Forest Policy and Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maria L. Loureiro include:

María Alló
Djamel Rahmani
Xosé Antón Rodríguez González
Rossana Tornel-Vázquez
Eva Iglesias

The primary journals and publication venues where the scientist frequently publishes are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Environment and Development Economics
Boletín Venezolano de Infectología
Energy Policy
Environmental and Resource Economics

Best Publications

A choice experiment model for beef: What US consumer responses tell us about relative preferences for food safety, country-of-origin labeling and traceability

Maria L. Loureiro;Wendy J. Umberger

970
Citations
Do fair trade and eco-labels in coffee wake up the consumer conscience?

Maria L. Loureiro;Justus Lotade

946
Citations
Discovering Niche Markets: A Comparison of Consumer Willingness to Pay for Local (Colorado Grown), Organic, and GMO-Free Products

Maria L. Loureiro;Susan E. Hine

756
Citations
Will Consumers Pay a Premium for Eco-labeled Apples?

Maria L. Loureiro;Jill J. Mccluskey;Ron C. Mittelhammer

567
Citations
Assessing Consumer Preferences for Organic, Eco-labeled, and Regular Apples

Maria L. Loureiro;Jill J. McCluskey;Ronald C. Mittelhammer

548
Citations
Estimating Consumer Willingness to Pay for Country-of-Origin Labeling

Maria L. Loureiro;Wendy J. Umberger

476
Citations
Assessing consumer response to protected geographical identification labeling.

Maria Luz Loureiro;Jill J. McCluskey

467
Citations
CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR FOOD LABELING: A DISCUSSION OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES

Jill J. McCluskey;Maria L. Loureiro

337
Citations
Rethinking new wines: implications of local and environmentally friendly labels

Maria L. Loureiro

260
Citations
Altruistic, egoistic and biospheric values in willingness to pay (WTP) for wildlife

Elena Ojea;Maria L. Loureiro

237
Citations
A meta-analysis of contingent valuation forest studies

Melina Barrio;Maria L. Loureiro

211
Citations
Obesity, weight loss, and physician's advice

Maria L. Loureiro;Rodolfo M. Nayga

203
Citations
Assessing Consumer Preferences for Country-of-Origin Labeling

Maria L. Loureiro;Wendy J. Umberger

177
Citations
Consumers' valuation of nutritional information: A choice experiment study

Azucena Gracia;Maria L. Loureiro;Rodolfo M. Nayga

162
Citations
Do consumers value nutritional labels

Maria L. Loureiro;Azucena Gracia;Rodolfo M. Nayga

145
Citations
Consumer attitudes to genetically modified food in Norway

Kristine M. Grimsrud;Jill J. McCluskey;Maria L. Loureiro;Thomas I. Wahl

145
Citations
The role of social norms on preferences towards climate change policies: A meta-analysis

Maria Alló;Maria L. Loureiro

136
Citations
Smoking habits: like father, like son, like mother, like daughter?

Maria L. Loureiro;Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano;Daniela Vuri;Daniela Vuri;Daniela Vuri

133
Citations
Economic Valuation of Environmental Damages due to the Prestige Oil Spill in Spain

Maria L. Loureiro;John B. Loomis;Maria Xosé Vázquez

131
Citations
Enhanced GM foods: Are consumers ready to pay for the potential benefits of biotechnology?

Maria L. Loureiro;Marcia Bugbee

131
Citations
Preferences and willingness to pay for GM labeling policies

Maria L. Loureiro;Susan Hine

124
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paulo A. L. D. Nunes Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex

External Links

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