Alan Irwin

9.3k citations
79 papers · 4.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

    • Climate Change Communication and Perception
    • Risk Perception and Management
    • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
    • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
    • Social Media and Politics

Papers in

Alan Irwin

74 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Politics of Talk 2006 · 477 citations
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Peers

Alan Irwin
Comparison fields: 5 of 178
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.2k
  • Communication 276
  • Global and Planetary Change 763
  • Management of Technology and Innovation 244
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 414
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Alan Irwin, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Misunderstanding Science?
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1996929
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The Politics of Talk
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2006477
3 2001422
4
Science, Social Theory and Public Knowledge
2003326
5
2001288
6 2006219
7 1997170
8 1999137
9 1994136
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Sociology and the Environment
2001113
11 2012110
12 2002104
13 201496
14 199776
15 200971
16 199862
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Public Perception of Risks Associated with Major Accident Hazards
199837
18 199234
19 199433
20 199929

About Alan Irwin

Alan Irwin is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Business and International Management, having authored 79 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Infrared Target Detection Methodologies (12 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (12 papers), Innovation and Knowledge Management (7 papers), Risk Perception and Management (7 papers), Calibration and Measurement Techniques (6 papers), University-Industry-Government Innovation Models (5 papers), Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies (5 papers) and Management and Organizational Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Sociology and Political Science (2.2k citations), Communication (276 citations), Global and Planetary Change (763 citations), Management of Technology and Innovation (244 citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (414 citations). Alan Irwin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Mike Michael, Rob Hagendijk, Brian Wynne, Brian Wynne, Peter Simmons, Gordon Walker, Martín W. Bauer, Maja Horst, Andrew McMeekin and Kevin Jones. Their work appears in journals such as Social Studies of Science, Public Understanding of Science, Futures, Research Policy and Minerva.

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