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Ecology and Evolution
Mexico
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
68
Citations
17570
World Ranking
1521
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

Omar Masera is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research focuses primarily on topics related to energy and environmental sciences, spanning various subfields including pollution, automotive engineering, biomedical engineering, energy engineering and power technology, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several main topics:

  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Biodiesel Production and Applications
  • Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Omar Masera has published extensively in Environmental Science and Engineering, with 19 and 18 publications respectively in these main fields of study. Their research outputs have appeared in frequent publication venues, including:

  • Energies
  • Sustainability
  • Energy Policy
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Processes

Selected recent publications by Omar Masera include:

  • Everybody stacks: Lessons from household energy case studies to inform design principles for clean energy transitions, 2020, Energy Policy
  • Just and fair household energy transition in rural Latin American households: are we moving forward?, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Biodiesel Dry Purification Using Unconventional Bioadsorbents, 2021, Processes
  • Briquettes from Pinus spp. Residues: Energy Savings and Emissions Mitigation in the Rural Sector, 2022, Energies
  • Bioenergy Devices: Energy and Emissions Performance for the Residential and Industrial Sectors in Mexico, 2021, BioEnergy Research

Omar Masera frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, some of the most frequent being:

  • Víctor M. Ruiz-García
  • Víctor Berrueta
  • Belén Olaya-García
  • Alberto Beltrán
  • Montserrat Serrano-Medrano

Their research covers a wide interdisciplinary area addressing challenges at the intersection of energy systems, environmental sustainability, and technological innovation. This body of work contributes to understanding and improving clean energy transitions, energy efficiency in rural and industrial sectors, and the development of bioenergy technologies with environmental considerations in Latin America and beyond.

Best Publications

  • Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

    Pete Smith;Mercedes Bustamante;Helal Ahammad;Harry Clark

  • From Linear Fuel Switching to Multiple Cooking Strategies: A Critique and Alternative to the Energy Ladder Model

    Omar R Masera;Barbara D Saatkamp;Daniel M Kammen

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

    Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

  • How much land based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals

    Pete Smith;Helmut Haberl;Alexander Popp;Karl Heinz Erb

  • Evaluating the sustainability of complex socio-environmental systems. the MESMIS framework

    S. López Ridaura;O. Masera;M. Astier

  • The carbon footprint of traditional woodfuels

    Robert Bailis;Rudi Drigo;Adrian Ghilardi;Omar Masera

  • Adoption and sustained use of improved cookstoves

    Ilse Ruiz-Mercado;Omar Masera;Hilda Zamora;Kirk R. Smith

  • Modeling carbon sequestration in afforestation, agroforestry and forest management projects: the CO2FIX V.2 approach

    Omar R. Masera;J. F. Garza-Caligaris;Markku Kanninen;Timo Karjalainen

  • Community forest management in Mexico: carbon mitigation and biodiversity conservation through rural development

    Daniel Klooster;Omar Masera

  • Energy performance of wood-burning cookstoves in Michoacan, Mexico.

    Víctor M. Berrueta;Rufus D. Edwards;Omar R. Masera

  • La dinámica del cambio del uso del suelo en Michoacán: Una propuesta metodológica para el estudio de los procesos de deforestación

    Gerardo Bocco;Manuel Mendoza;Omar R. Masera

  • Improved biomass stove intervention in rural Mexico: impact on the respiratory health of women.

    Isabelle Romieu;Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez;Adriana Teresa Marrón-Mares;Astrid Schilmann

  • Patterns of Stove Use in the Context of Fuel-Device Stacking: Rationale and Implications

    Ilse Ruiz-Mercado;Omar Masera

  • Cleaner cooking solutions to achieve health, climate, and economic cobenefits.

    Susan Casper Anenberg;Susan Casper Anenberg;Kalpana Balakrishnan;James J. Jetter;Omar Masera

  • CARBON EMISSIONS FROM MEXICAN FORESTS: CURRENT SITUATION AND LONG-TERM SCENARIOS

    Omar R. Masera;María J. Ordóñez;Rodolfo Dirzo

  • In-field greenhouse gas emissions from cookstoves in rural Mexican households

    Michael Johnson;Rufus Edwards;Claudio Alatorre Frenk;Omar Masera

  • Captura de carbono ante el cambio climático

    José Antonio Benjamín Ordóñez;Omar Masera

  • Neotropical Forest Conservation, Agricultural Intensification, and Rural Out-Migration: The Mexican Experience

    Luis García-Barrios;Yankuic M. Galván-Miyoshi;Ingrid Abril Valdivieso-Pérez;Omar R. Masera

  • Arresting the Killer in the Kitchen: The Promises and Pitfalls of Commercializing Improved Cookstoves

    Rob Bailis;Amanda Cowan;Victor Berrueta;Omar Masera

  • From cookstoves to cooking systems: the integrated program on sustainable household energy use in Mexico

    Omar R. Masera;Rodolfo Díaz;Víctor Berrueta

  • Monitoring and evaluation of improved biomass cookstove programs for indoor air quality and stove performance: conclusions from the Household Energy and Health Project

    Kirk R. Smith;Karabi Dutta;Chaya Chengappa;P.P.S. Gusain

  • Performance testing for monitoring improved biomass stove interventions: experiences of the Household Energy and Health Project

    Rob Bailis;Victor Berrueta;Chaya Chengappa;Karabi Dutta

Frequent Co-Authors

Rufus Edwards
Rufus Edwards University of California, Irvine
Margaret Skutsch
Margaret Skutsch National Autonomous University of Mexico
Godefridus M. J. Mohren
Godefridus M. J. Mohren Wageningen University & Research
Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Markku Kanninen
Markku Kanninen University of Helsinki
Gert-Jan Nabuurs
Gert-Jan Nabuurs Wageningen University & Research
Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith University of California, Berkeley
N. H. Ravindranath
N. H. Ravindranath Indian Institute of Science
Jari Liski
Jari Liski Finnish Meteorological Institute
Isabelle Romieu
Isabelle Romieu Emory University

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