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Research and publications

Titles and bibliographic records are retained in their original language. Citation counts were consulted on 11 September 2026; duplicate records are not added together.

Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Statistics

Modelling the presence of disease under spatial misalignment using Bayesian latent Gaussian models — Barber, Conesa, Lladosa and López-Quílez; Geospatial Health. 2016.

Spatial & environmental statistics 17 citations

Multivariate Bioclimatic Indices Modelling: A Coregionalised Approach — Barber, Conesa, López-Quílez and Morales; Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics. 2019.

Spatial & environmental statistics 4 citations

Incorporating Biotic Information in Species Distribution Models: A Coregionalized Approach — Barber et al.; Mathematics. 2021.

Spatial & environmental statistics 15 citations

Bayesian feedback in the framework of ecological sciences — Figueira et al.; Ecological Informatics. 2024.

Spatial & environmental statistics 9 citations

Machine learning applied to global scale species distribution models — Fuster-Alonso et al.; Scientific Reports. 2025.

Artificial Intelligence Spatial & environmental statistics 14* citations

Marine heatwaves in the western Mediterranean: Considerations for coastal aquaculture adaptation — Atalah, Ibañez, Aixalà, Barber and Sánchez-Jerez; Aquaculture. 2024.

Spatial & environmental statistics 36 citations

Efficiency and Productivity Analysis

Estimating production functions through additive models based on regression splines — España, Aparicio, Barber and Esteve; European Journal of Operational Research, 312(2), 684–699. 2024.

Artificial Intelligence Efficiency & productivity 33 citations

An adaptation of Random Forest to estimate convex non-parametric production technologies: an empirical illustration of efficiency measurement in education — España, Aparicio and Barber; International Transactions in Operational Research, 32(5), 2523–2546. 2025.

Artificial Intelligence Efficiency & productivity 14 citations

eat: An R Package for fitting Efficiency Analysis Trees — Esteve, España, Aparicio and Barber; The R Journal, 14(3), 249–281. 2022.

Artificial Intelligence Efficiency & productivity 9 citations

Estimating production technologies using multi-output adaptive constrained enveloping splines — España, Aparicio and Barber; Computers & Operations Research, article 107242. 2025.

Artificial Intelligence Efficiency & productivity 5 citations

Selected Highly Cited and Interdisciplinary Work

BIMCV COVID-19+: a large annotated dataset of RX and CT images from COVID-19 patients — de la Iglesia Vayá et al.; arXiv:2006.01174. 2020.

Artificial Intelligence Preprint · Dataset resource 304 citations

Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: Large-Scale, Online, Self-Reported Population Survey — Oliver, Barber, Kirsten Roomp and Kristof Roomp; Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(9), e21319. 2020.

155* citations

Assessment of chemical, physico-chemical, techno-functional and antioxidant properties of fig (Ficus carica L.) powder co-products — Viuda-Martos, Barber, Pérez-Álvarez and Fernández-López; Industrial Crops and Products, 69, 472–479. 2015.

134 citations

Esophageal cancer risk by type of alcohol drinking and smoking: a case-control study in Spain — Vioque et al.; BMC Cancer, 8, 221. 2008.

123 citations

Effect of home-based prehabilitation in an enhanced recovery after surgery program for patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic — López-Rodríguez-Arias et al.; Supportive Care in Cancer, 29, 7785–7791. 2021.

103 citations

Bayesian Networks for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Diseases: A Scoping Review — Polotskaya et al.; Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, 6(2), 1243–1262. 2024.

Artificial Intelligence 75 citations

Further Artificial Intelligence Publications

Concordance Between Clinical Practice Recommendations Generated by Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Vía RICA 2026 Enhanced Recovery Guideline: A Proof-of-Concept Study Using a Closed Evidence Corpus

Moral, A.; Arroyo, A.; Aparicio, J.; Barber, X. 2026. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, 8(9), 256.

Artificial Intelligence

A calculator for musculoskeletal injuries prediction in surgeons: a machine learning approach

Sánchez-Guillén, L., et al. 2024. Surgical Endoscopy, 38, 6577–6585.

Artificial Intelligence

Araujo, L.; Martinez-Romo, J.; Bisbal, O.; Sanchez-de-Madariaga, R.; The Cohort of the National AIDS Network (CoRIS). 2022. Scientific Reports, 12, 18208. CoRIS collaboration.

Artificial Intelligence

UMLS-ChestNet: A deep convolutional neural network for radiological findings, differential diagnoses and localizations of COVID-19 in chest x-rays

González, G., et al. 2020. arXiv:2006.05274 · Preprint.

Artificial Intelligence

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