Ballinas, M., Morales, B., & López-Ramírez, P. 2026. Spatial–Temporal Analysis of PM2.5 Contamination, Thermal Pollution, and Population Social Backwardness in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City. Geographies, 6(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies6010012. Índice de impacto 1.7, Q2, Geography.
Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Arndt, S.,Asibey, M. O., Augustinus, B. A., Bach, A., Ballinas, M.,Barradas, V. L., et al. 2025. Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers. Plants, People, Planet, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.701256. Índice impacto 3.6, Q1, Biodiversity Conservation-Ecology-Plant sciences.
Ballinas, M.; Vilchis-Martínez, S.R.S.; Lira-Oliver, A.; Oliva Salinas, J.G.; Barradas, V.L. Constructing the Urban Landscape Through Heat Turbulence Fluxes as a Passive Form to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands. Land 2025, 14, 2013. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102013. Índice de impacto: 0.78; Q2, Environmental studies.
Bonifacio-Bautista, M.; Ballinas, M.; Barradas, V.L. A New and Easy Method to Determine the Energy Stored in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Mexico City. Urban Sci. 2024, 8, 244. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci8040244. Índice de impacto: 2.9; Q1, Urban studies.
Sánchez-Falfan, A.; Esperón-Rodríguez, M.; Cervantes-Pérez, J.; Ballinas, M.; Barradas, V.L. How Important Are Fog and the Cloud Forest as a Water Supply in Eastern Mexico? Water 2023, 15, 1286. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071286. Índice de impacto: 3.0; Q2, Environmental sciences - Water resources.
Ballinas, M.; Morales-Santiago, S.I.; Barradas, V.L.; Lira, A.; Oliva-Salinas, G. Is PET an Adequate Index to Determine Human Thermal Comfort in Mexico City? Sustainability 2022, 14, 12539. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912539. Índice de impacto: 3.3; Q2, Environmental sciences - Environmental studies.
Barradas, V.L.; Miranda, J.A.; Esperón-Rodríguez, M.; Ballinas, M. (Re)Designing Urban Parks to Maximize Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Natural Means. Forests 2022, 13, 1143. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13071143. Índice de impacto: 2.4; Q1, Forestry.
Bonifacio, M., Barradas, VL., Jazcilevich, A., Ballinas, M. 2022. "Estimation of anthropogenic heat release in Mexico City". Urban Climate 2022, 43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101158. Índice de impacto: 6.0, Q1, Environmental sciences – Meteorology & Atmospheric sciences.
García-Sánchez, IE., Barradas, VL., Ponce de Leon, C., Esperón-Rodríguez, M., Rosas, I., Ballinas, M. 2019. "Effect of heavy metals and environmental variables on the assimilation of CO2 and stomatal conductance of Ligustrum lucidum, an urban tree from Mexico City". Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.05.002. Índice de impacto: 6.0; Q1, Environmental studies - Forestry.
Ballinas, M. & Barradas, V. L. 2016. "Transpiration and stomatal conductance as potential mechanism to mitigate the heat load in Mexico City". Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 20: 152-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2016.08.004. Índice de impacto: 6.0; Q1, Environmental studies - Forestry.
Ballinas, M. & Barradas, V. L. 2016. "The Urban Tree as a Tool to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island in Mexico City: A Simple Phenomenological Model". Journal of Environmental Quality. 45: 157-166. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2015.01.0056. Índice de impacto: 2.3; Q3, Environmental sciences.
Ballinas, M., Esperón-Rodríguez, M. & Barradas, V.L. 2015. "Estimating evapotranspiration in the central mountain region of Veracruz, Mexico". BOSQUE. 36(3): 445-445. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-92002015000300011. Índice de impacto: 0.4; Q4, Forestry.
Producción de divulgación científica
Ballinas M. Adaptar la vegetación urbana de la Ciudad de México a las necesidades actuales. Una reflexión. Oikos= (3)24, pp-26. https://publicaciones.ecologia.unam.mx/oikos4/images/portadas-pdfs/N24.pdf