Alexander Dunlap

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Alexander Dunlap is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Building and Construction and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Dunlap has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 19 papers in Building and Construction and 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Alexander Dunlap's work include Mining and Resource Management (19 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (16 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (16 papers). Alexander Dunlap is often cited by papers focused on Mining and Resource Management (19 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (16 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (16 papers). Alexander Dunlap collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United Kingdom and United States. Alexander Dunlap's co-authors include Andrea Brock, James Fairhead, Judith Verweijen, Carlos Tornel, Jostein Jakobsen, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Sian Sullivan, Dimitris Dalakoglou and John A. Hall and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Policy and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Dunlap

57 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

  1. The green economy as counterinsurgency, or the ontological power affirming permanent ecological catastrophe
    2022 49 citations Alexander Dunlap profile →
  2. The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction 
    2024 41 citations Alexander Dunlap, Judith Verweijen et al. Journal of Political Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Dunlap Norway 23 828 486 433 351 343 62 1.7k
Mariana Walter Spain 17 794 1.0× 619 1.3× 326 0.8× 161 0.5× 110 0.3× 37 1.7k
Daniela Del Bene Spain 12 722 0.9× 381 0.8× 271 0.6× 165 0.5× 147 0.4× 19 1.4k
Matthew T. Huber United States 17 510 0.6× 302 0.6× 300 0.7× 113 0.3× 208 0.6× 52 1.3k
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt Australia 23 869 1.0× 731 1.5× 389 0.9× 172 0.5× 108 0.3× 128 1.8k
Tom Perreault United States 14 686 0.8× 452 0.9× 664 1.5× 256 0.7× 66 0.2× 25 1.7k
Murat Arsel Netherlands 18 354 0.4× 378 0.8× 315 0.7× 163 0.5× 54 0.2× 38 1.1k
Mary Lawhon United States 19 556 0.7× 121 0.2× 726 1.7× 84 0.2× 167 0.5× 60 1.9k
Sofía Ávila Spain 8 438 0.5× 212 0.4× 153 0.4× 111 0.3× 207 0.6× 11 870
Julien‐François Gerber Netherlands 19 409 0.5× 156 0.3× 176 0.4× 339 1.0× 59 0.2× 41 1.2k
Oleg Golubchikov United Kingdom 22 562 0.7× 216 0.4× 228 0.5× 87 0.2× 282 0.8× 47 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Dunlap

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Dunlap

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Dunlap

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Dunlap. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Dunlap 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 Alexander Dunlap. Alexander Dunlap is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Dunlap, Alexander. (2025). Attacking the roots: On the limited development of (green) colonialism. Political Geography. 125. 103438–103438.
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Dunlap, Alexander & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2025). "It's kind of just another factory:" A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio. Journal of Political Ecology. 32(1). 3 indexed citations
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Tornel, Carlos & Alexander Dunlap. (2025). Towards a pluriverse of transitions: An editorial introduction to anti-colonial and insurrectional energy transformations. Human Geography. 18(2). 129–145. 5 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Rioting as legitimate abolitionist practice: Counterinsurgency versus radical place-making in the George Floyd rebellion. Dialogues in Human Geography. 6 indexed citations
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Sovacool, Benjamin K., et al.. (2025). Sex for solar? Examining patterns of public and private sector corruption within the booming California solar energy market. Energy Strategy Reviews. 59. 101727–101727. 1 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander, et al.. (2024). “Our town is dying:“ Exploring utility-scale and rooftop solar energy injustices in Southeastern California. Geoforum. 156. 104120–104120. 7 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander & Carlos Tornel. (2024). Was postdevelopment too much? Autonomous struggle, academic coloniality & the radical roots of the pluriverse. Globalizations. 22(2). 221–244. 6 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander, Judith Verweijen, & Carlos Tornel. (2024). The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction . Journal of Political Ecology. 31(1). 41 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dunlap, Alexander, et al.. (2024). ‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 52(3). 539–573. 9 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander & Carlos Tornel. (2023). An insurrection in energy research: a dialogue between Carlos Tornel and Alexander Dunlap on energy justice, capitalist warfare & decolonization. Globalizations. 21(1). 162–182. 5 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander. (2022). The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 50(4). 1661–1664. 6 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander, et al.. (2021). ‘Murderous energy’ in Oaxaca, Mexico: wind factories, territorial struggle and social warfare. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 49(2). 455–480. 71 indexed citations
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Hall, John A., et al.. (2016). Subreption, radical institutionalism, and economic evolution. Panoeconomicus. 63(4). 475–492. 3 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander. (2014). Permanent War: Grids, Boomerangs, and Counterinsurgency. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 22(2). 53–77. 13 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Alexander. (2014). The Expanding Techniques of Progress: Agricultural Biotechnology and UN-REDD+. Review of Social Economy. 73(1). 89–112. 3 indexed citations

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