Andy Stirling

20.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
163 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

Andy Stirling is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Stirling has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 17 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Andy Stirling's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (32 papers), Risk Perception and Management (18 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (11 papers). Andy Stirling is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (32 papers), Risk Perception and Management (18 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (11 papers). Andy Stirling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Andy Stirling's co-authors include Adrian Smith, Frans Berkhout, Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach, Sue Mayer, Adrian Ely, Phil Johnstone, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Ismael Ràfols and Audley Genus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Andy Stirling

157 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

The governance of sustain... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2007 2007 2010 2010 400 800 1.2k
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 governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
    2005 1.4k citations Andy Stirling et al. Research Policy profile →
  2. “Opening Up” and “Closing Down”
    2007 1.0k citations Andy Stirling Science Technology & Human Values profile →
  3. A general framework for analysing diversity in science, technology and society
    2007 728 citations Andy Stirling profile →
  4. The Politics of Social-ecological Resilience and Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions
    2010 481 citations Andy Stirling et al. profile →
  5. Keep it complex
    2010 454 citations Andy Stirling profile →
  6. Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches
    2020 413 citations Andy Stirling et al. profile →
  7. How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management
    2012 392 citations Ismael Ràfols, Loet Leydesdorff et al. Research Policy profile →
  8. Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
    2012 384 citations Andy Stirling, Erik Millstone et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Andy Stirling 3.9k 3.5k 1.6k 1.2k 1.0k 163 11.3k
Frans Berkhout 4.1k 1.0× 2.5k 0.7× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 990 1.0× 131 9.3k
Rob Raven 5.2k 1.3× 3.3k 0.9× 2.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.8× 173 12.9k
Derk Loorbach 4.5k 1.2× 2.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 1.3k 1.3× 108 9.9k
Jochen Markard 3.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 2.2k 1.4× 596 0.5× 1.8k 1.7× 70 8.9k
Bernhard Truffer 4.4k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 3.2k 2.0× 983 0.8× 2.6k 2.5× 135 13.6k
M. Granger Morgan 2.7k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 2.6k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 937 0.9× 250 14.1k
Adrian Smith 5.2k 1.3× 4.7k 1.3× 2.3k 1.5× 1.2k 1.0× 2.3k 2.3× 194 15.1k
René Kemp 3.3k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 2.9k 1.8× 1.2k 1.0× 2.8k 2.8× 130 12.6k
Johan Schot 5.1k 1.3× 3.8k 1.1× 2.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.0× 2.5k 2.4× 97 14.7k
Niki Frantzeskaki 7.2k 1.8× 2.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 528 0.5× 151 13.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Andy Stirling

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andy Stirling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andy Stirling

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Arora, Saurabh, Bipashyee Ghosh, & Andy Stirling. (2025). Decolonising innovation in sustainability transitions for pluriversal justice and wellbeing. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 58. 101064–101064.
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Stirling, Andy. (2024). Responsibility and the hidden politics of directionality: opening up ‘innovation democracies’ for sustainability transformations. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 11(1). 20 indexed citations
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Saltelli, Andrea, Gerd Gigerenzer, Mike Hulme, et al.. (2024). Bring digital twins back to Earth. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 15(6). 8 indexed citations
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Senior, Rashaud, Lisa C. Pickett, Andy Stirling, et al.. (2023). Development of an interactive dashboard for gun violence pattern analysis and intervention design at the local level. JAMIA Open. 6(4). ooad105–ooad105. 1 indexed citations
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Sovacool, Benjamin K., et al.. (2022). Reply to: Nuclear power and renewable energy are both associated with national decarbonization. Nature Energy. 7(1). 30–31. 3 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy & Mark A. Burgman. (2021). Strengthening conservation science as a crisis discipline by addressing challenges of precaution, privilege, and individualism. Conservation Biology. 35(6). 1738–1746. 7 indexed citations
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Sovacool, Benjamin K., et al.. (2020). Differences in carbon emissions reduction between countries pursuing renewable electricity versus nuclear power. Nature Energy. 5(11). 928–935. 136 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 and the futility of control in the modern world. Figshare. 6 indexed citations
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Arora, Saurabh, M. Vijayabaskar, Divya Sharma, & Andy Stirling. (2019). Sustainable Development through Diversifying Pathways in India. OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies). 5 indexed citations
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Johnstone, Phil & Andy Stirling. (2019). Comparing nuclear trajectories in Germany and the United Kingdom: From regimes to democracies in sociotechnical transitions and discontinuities. Energy Research & Social Science. 59. 101245–101245. 41 indexed citations
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Moran, Michael, Trevor Cook, Richard W. Jones, et al.. (2012). Emerging biotechnologies: technology, choice and the public good, a guide to the report. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 61 indexed citations
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Ràfols, Ismael, Loet Leydesdorff, Alice O’Hare, Paul Nightingale, & Andy Stirling. (2011). How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies in business and management. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy. (2008). “Opening Up” and “Closing Down”. Science Technology & Human Values. 33(2). 52 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy, Tim Lobstein, & Erik Millstone. (2007). Methodology for obtaining stakeholder assessments of obesity policy options in the PorGrow project. Obesity Reviews. 8(s2). 17–27. 26 indexed citations
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Felt, Ulrike, et al.. (2007). Science and Governance: taking European Knowledge Society Seriously. Figshare. 88(12). 1454–6. 53 indexed citations
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Eames, Malcolm, et al.. (2004). Xenotransplantation and its alternatives for addressing the ‘kidney gap’: a case study report from the deliberative mapping project. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy, Gareth Reynold Davies, & John P. Burgess. (2004). Deliberative Mapping: Briefing Papers. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy. (2002). Contributions on issues of representation in citizen juriesand similar participatory approaches. Figshare. 75(10). 473–8. 3 indexed citations
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Stirling, Andy. (1999). On Science and Precaution in the Management of Technological Risk: Volume II -case studies. Figshare. 16(1). 140–144. 6 indexed citations

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