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April 11, 2024
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Mapping summer energy poverty: The lived experience of older adults in Madrid, Spain

Publicated to:Energy Research & Social Science. 110 103449- - 2024-04-01 110(), DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103449

Authors: Torrego-Gómez, D; Gayoso-Heredia, M; Núñez-Peiró, M; Sánchez-Guevara, C

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Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Arquitectura, Ave Juan Herrera 4 - Author

Abstract

Summer energy poverty has been identified as an overlooked issue within energy poverty research. Although there is a growing interest in qualitatively characterizing urban-scale phenomena by paticipative means and public engagement, there is not yet sufficient experiences focused on characterizing community relationships and strategies to cope with excessive heat. During summertime, cities located in southern Europe experience an increase in social activities in public spaces that may respond to a need to find climate shelters and avoid indoor extremes temperatures for those vulnerable households that suffer from summer energy poverty. This paper offers and assesses a participative experiment as a multimodal methodology for the study of the phenomenon. The activities were developed during the summer of 2022 in Madrid. Two workshops focused on collective mapping and neighborhood-led walking tours were conducted, in order to create a participatory cartography that reflects the personal or collective strategies, initiatives and geographies embodied by older adults and driven by summer energy poverty. Conclusions summarize common narratives of older people coping with heat during summertime and offer new resources for policymakers and practitioners. The findings reveal shared resoures for sheltering against excessive heat and, on the contrary, inevitable hot-spots that pose a potential risk to the health of the participant neighbors.

Keywords

AdaptationChallengesCooling strategiesDaily mortalityFuel povertyHeatImpactLived experienceMitigationMundaneOlder adultsParticipatory action researchQualitative methodologies

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Energy Research & Social Science due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 19/182, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Environmental Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-05:

  • Google Scholar: 1
  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 6

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 37.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 63 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.35.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Torrego-Gómez, D) and Last Author (SANCHEZ-GUEVARA SANCHEZ, M. DEL CARMEN).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Torrego-Gómez, D.