Alex Lenferna

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 595 citations indexed

About

Alex Lenferna is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Lenferna has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 595 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Alex Lenferna's work include Climate Change and Geoengineering (3 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (2 papers). Alex Lenferna is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Geoengineering (3 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (2 papers). Alex Lenferna collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Austria. Alex Lenferna's co-authors include Avit Kumar Bhowmik, M. S. McCaffrey, Jonathan F. Donges, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Nerea Morán Alonso, Ilona M. Otto, Johan Rockström, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Franziska Allerberger and Wolfgang Lucht and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Energy Research & Social Science and Earth s Future.

In The Last Decade

Alex Lenferna

9 papers receiving 577 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

2020 481 citations Ilona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Lenferna South Africa	5	211	199	144	108	103	10	595
Nerea Morán Alonso Spain	7	194 0.9×	196 1.0×	153 1.1×	80 0.7×	59 0.6×	24	592
Franziska Allerberger Austria	2	185 0.9×	160 0.8×	142 1.0×	77 0.7×	59 0.6×	3	487
Ted Nordhaus United States	8	288 1.4×	177 0.9×	145 1.0×	101 0.9×	83 0.8×	14	794
Sonja Klinsky United States	14	322 1.5×	330 1.7×	144 1.0×	243 2.3×	78 0.8×	35	767
Sebastian Levi Germany	7	303 1.4×	188 0.9×	107 0.7×	173 1.6×	99 1.0×	11	586
Michael Shellenberger Australia	7	259 1.2×	164 0.8×	144 1.0×	60 0.6×	51 0.5×	10	610
Fatma Denton Denmark	6	320 1.5×	234 1.2×	104 0.7×	111 1.0×	68 0.7×	8	762
Marco Grasso Italy	17	324 1.5×	333 1.7×	121 0.8×	278 2.6×	108 1.0×	53	819
Patrícia E. Perkins Canada	11	217 1.0×	160 0.8×	90 0.6×	71 0.7×	42 0.4×	25	537
W. Tuinstra Netherlands	13	232 1.1×	411 2.1×	150 1.0×	135 1.3×	34 0.3×	24	814

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Lenferna

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Lenferna

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Lenferna

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Lenferna. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Lenferna based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Lenferna. Alex Lenferna is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Lenferna, Alex. (2023). Oil and gas corporations as anti-racist decolonial liberators? A case study of propaganda from the struggle against Shell in South Africa. Journal of Political Ecology. 31(1). 2 indexed citations

2.

Lenferna, Alex. (2023). South Africa’s unjust climate reparations: a critique of the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Review of African Political Economy. 50(177-178). 11 indexed citations

3.

Lenferna, Alex. (2023). COP28: South Africa pioneered plans to transition to renewable energy – what went wrong. 1 indexed citations

4.

Otto, Ilona M., Jonathan F. Donges, Roger Cremades, et al.. (2020). Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(5). 2354–2365. 481 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Lenferna, Alex. (2018). Divest–Invest: A Moral Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment. Oxford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

6.

Lenferna, Alex. (2018). If You’re ‘Still In’ the Paris Climate Agreement, Then Show Us the Money. Ethics Policy & Environment. 21(1). 52–55. 2 indexed citations

7.

Lenferna, Alex, et al.. (2017). Relevant climate response tests for stratospheric aerosol injection: A combined ethical and scientific analysis. Earth s Future. 5(6). 577–591. 12 indexed citations

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Lenferna, Alex. (2017). Can we equitably manage the end of the fossil fuel era?. Energy Research & Social Science. 35. 217–223. 79 indexed citations

9.

Lenferna, Alex. (2012). The Universal Declaration’s Problematic Rights Justification. South African Journal of Philosophy. 31(2). 314–327. 3 indexed citations

10.

Lenferna, Alex. (2010). Singer Revisited: Cosmopolitanism, Global Poverty and Our Ethical Requirements. South African Journal of Philosophy. 29(2). 85–94.

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