Andreas Malm

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Andreas Malm is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Malm has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Andreas Malm's work include Global Energy and Sustainability Research (6 papers), Climate Change and Geoengineering (4 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (4 papers). Andreas Malm is often cited by papers focused on Global Energy and Sustainability Research (6 papers), Climate Change and Geoengineering (4 papers) and Political Economy and Marxism (4 papers). Andreas Malm collaborates with scholars based in Sweden and Netherlands. Andreas Malm's co-authors include Alf Hornborg and Wim Carton and has published in prestigious journals such as Antipode, Organization & Environment and Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Malm

23 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Fossil capital the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming

2016 648 citations Andreas Malm Lund University Publications (Lund University) profile →
The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative

2014 622 citations Andreas Malm, Alf Hornborg The Anthropocene Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Malm Sweden	12	695	379	369	291	224	24	1.7k
Clive Hamilton Australia	26	965 1.4×	562 1.5×	200 0.5×	140 0.5×	267 1.2×	105	2.8k
Simon Dalby Canada	31	1.7k 2.4×	485 1.3×	424 1.1×	120 0.4×	818 3.7×	104	2.8k
Jacques Grinevald Switzerland	9	401 0.6×	434 1.1×	173 0.5×	126 0.4×	59 0.3×	21	1.6k
Kathryn Yusoff United Kingdom	23	931 1.3×	348 0.9×	1.0k 2.8×	416 1.4×	297 1.3×	44	2.4k
Bill McKibben United States	12	562 0.8×	203 0.5×	140 0.4×	123 0.4×	75 0.3×	42	1.4k
Christophe Bonneuil France	19	375 0.5×	182 0.5×	117 0.3×	84 0.3×	75 0.3×	61	1.2k
Ramachandra Guha India	17	1.1k 1.6×	741 2.0×	256 0.7×	119 0.4×	594 2.7×	65	2.6k
Donald Worster United States	25	1.1k 1.5×	831 2.2×	427 1.2×	207 0.7×	558 2.5×	82	3.8k
Rob Nixon United States	13	1.5k 2.2×	165 0.4×	716 1.9×	820 2.8×	521 2.3×	37	3.2k
Nigel Clark United Kingdom	21	508 0.7×	168 0.4×	539 1.5×	150 0.5×	204 0.9×	67	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Andreas Malm

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andreas Malm

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Malm

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Malm, Andreas. (2023). The Future is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part Two. Historical Materialism. 31(1). 3–61. 3 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2022). The Future Is the Termination Shock: On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part One. Historical Materialism. 30(4). 3–53. 5 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas & Wim Carton. (2021). Seize the Means of Carbon Removal: The Political Economy of Direct Air Capture. Historical Materialism. 29(1). 3–48. 28 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2021). White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 88 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2018). Long Waves of Fossil Development : Periodizing Energy and Capital. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 8 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2018). Against Hybridism: Why We Need to Distinguish between Nature and Society, Now More than Ever. Historical Materialism. 27(2). 156–187. 18 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2018). Marx on Steam: From the Optimism of Progress to the Pessimism of Power. Rethinking Marxism. 30(2). 166–185. 4 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2017). Revolution in a Warming World: Lessons from the Russian to the Syrian Revolutions. Socialist register. 53(53). 5 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2016). Fossil capital the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 648 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malm, Andreas. (2016). Revolution in a Warming World: Lessons From the Syrian and Russian Revolutions. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 53. 120–142. 1 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2016). ‘This is the Hell that I have Heard of’: Some Dialectical Images in Fossil Fuel Fiction. Forum for Modern Language Studies. 53(2). 121–141. 8 indexed citations

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Hornborg, Alf & Andreas Malm. (2016). Yes, it is all about fetishism: A response to Daniel Cunha. The Anthropocene Review. 3(3). 205–207. 4 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas, et al.. (2015). “green fix” as crisis management. or, in which world is malmö the world's greenest city?. Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 97(4). 275–290. 52 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas & Alf Hornborg. (2014). The geology of mankind? A critique of the Anthropocene narrative. The Anthropocene Review. 1(1). 62–69. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malm, Andreas. (2013). Fleeing the Flowing Commons: Robert Thom, Water Reservoir Schemes, and the Shift to Steam Power in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Environmental History. 19(1). 55–77. 3 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2013). The Origins of Fossil Capital: From Water to Steam in the British Cotton Industry. Historical Materialism. 21(1). 15–68. 79 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2012). Sea Wall Politics: Uneven and Combined Protection of the Nile Delta Coastline in the Face of Sea Level Rise. Critical Sociology. 39(6). 803–832. 19 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas, et al.. (2012). Ways In and Out of Vulnerability to Climate Change: Abandoning the Mubarak Project in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt. Antipode. 45(2). 474–492. 19 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas. (2012). China as Chimney of the World. Organization & Environment. 25(2). 146–177. 33 indexed citations

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Malm, Andreas, et al.. (2012). Doubly dispossessed by accumulation: Egyptian fishing communities between enclosed lakes and a rising sea. Review of African Political Economy. 39(133). 10 indexed citations

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