Ankit Kumar

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 804 citations indexed

About

Ankit Kumar is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Pollution and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ankit Kumar has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 804 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 8 papers in Pollution and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ankit Kumar's work include Water Governance and Infrastructure (9 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (8 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers). Ankit Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Water Governance and Infrastructure (9 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (8 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers). Ankit Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Ankit Kumar's co-authors include John R. Reynolds, E. W. Meijer, Dean M. Welsh, Marie Claire Brisbois, Christina E. Hoicka, Jens Lowitzsch, Luis Ramirez Camargo, Gerald Taylor Aiken, Harriet Bulkeley and Johanna Höffken and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Ankit Kumar

20 papers receiving 768 citations

Hit Papers

Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy a... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities
    2021 179 citations Christina E. Hoicka, Jens Lowitzsch et al. Energy Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ankit Kumar United Kingdom 11 313 272 227 167 120 23 804
Sebastien Lizin Belgium 19 286 0.9× 109 0.4× 108 0.5× 71 0.4× 98 0.8× 41 917
Maria Angela Butturi Italy 18 367 1.2× 53 0.2× 39 0.2× 49 0.3× 34 0.3× 61 943
Ariel Bergmann United Kingdom 10 200 0.6× 46 0.2× 131 0.6× 337 2.0× 116 1.0× 25 873
Chiara Candelise United Kingdom 17 565 1.8× 12 0.0× 320 1.4× 210 1.3× 154 1.3× 32 1.2k
Dongning Yang China 9 143 0.5× 121 0.4× 112 0.5× 41 0.2× 16 0.1× 20 583
Kunming Li China 15 209 0.7× 111 0.4× 58 0.3× 12 0.1× 31 0.3× 46 1.0k
Jiahui Yang China 16 141 0.5× 93 0.3× 25 0.1× 56 0.3× 17 0.1× 48 876
Shruti Sharma India 8 235 0.8× 73 0.3× 34 0.1× 14 0.1× 18 0.1× 22 518
Lukas Hardt United Kingdom 7 163 0.5× 21 0.1× 36 0.2× 34 0.2× 29 0.2× 7 643
Karen Ehrhardt‐Martinez United States 8 151 0.5× 16 0.1× 47 0.2× 77 0.5× 229 1.9× 14 882

Countries citing papers authored by Ankit Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ankit Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ankit Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ankit Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ankit Kumar 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 Ankit Kumar. Ankit Kumar 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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Kumar, Ankit, et al.. (2025). Crisis of imagination/(re)imaginations for a (climate) crisis. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(4).
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Ptak, Thomas, Ryan Stock, Siddharth Sareen, & Ankit Kumar. (2025). Repositioning energy geographies in a time of crisis: Arguments from a subdiscipline on the margins of geography. Dialogues in Human Geography. 4 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2024). Jugaad Infrastructure: Minor infrastructure and the messy aesthetics of everyday life. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(2).
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Ray, Monika, et al.. (2024). Flaxseed: The marvel of nature for humanity. International Journal of Advanced Biochemistry Research. 8(6). 450–458.
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Kumar, Ankit. (2023). Ruptures of the Anthropocene: A crisis of justice. Dialogues in Human Geography. 13(2). 202–206. 6 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2022). Energy geographies in/of the Anthropocene: Where now?. Geography Compass. 16(10). 12 indexed citations
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Hoicka, Christina E., Jens Lowitzsch, Marie Claire Brisbois, Ankit Kumar, & Luis Ramirez Camargo. (2021). Implementing a just renewable energy transition: Policy advice for transposing the new European rules for renewable energy communities. Energy Policy. 156. 112435–112435. 179 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kumar, Ankit, Johanna Höffken, & Auke Pols. (2021). Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South. TU/e Research Portal. 30 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit, et al.. (2021). Improvement of solar still productivity by using PCM and other enhancement technique- A review. International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology. 13(1). 98–104. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2021). Will to ‘enlighten’: The politics of forging and fracturing alignments in energy projects in India. Energy Research & Social Science. 82. 102287–102287. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit & Gerald Taylor Aiken. (2020). A Postcolonial Critique of Community Energy: Searching for Community as Solidarity in India and Scotland. Antipode. 53(1). 200–221. 38 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2019). Between metis and techne: politics, possibilities and limits of improvisation. Social & Cultural Geography. 22(6). 783–806. 19 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit & Robert Shaw. (2019). Transforming rural light and dark under planetary urbanisation: Comparing ordinary countrysides in India and the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45(1). 155–167. 13 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2018). The Routledge research companion to energy geographies. Local Environment. 23(5). 599–600. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2018). Beyond technical smartness: Rethinking the development and implementation of sociotechnical smart grids in India. Energy Research & Social Science. 49. 158–168. 39 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit, Raihana Ferdous, Andrés Luque‐Ayala, et al.. (2018). Solar energy for all? Understanding the successes and shortfalls through a critical comparative assessment of Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Energy Research & Social Science. 48. 166–176. 67 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2017). Justice and politics in energy access for education, livelihoods and health: How socio-cultural processes mediate the winners and losers. Energy Research & Social Science. 40. 3–13. 60 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ankit. (2015). Cultures of lights. Geoforum. 65. 59–68. 23 indexed citations
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Welsh, Dean M., Ankit Kumar, E. W. Meijer, & John R. Reynolds. (1999). Enhanced Contrast Ratios and Rapid Switching in Electrochromics Based on Poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene) Derivatives. Advanced Materials. 11(16). 1379–1382. 286 indexed citations

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