Barry Ness

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Barry Ness is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Education and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Barry Ness has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Education and 4 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Barry Ness's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 papers), Sustainability in Higher Education (5 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (4 papers). Barry Ness is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 papers), Sustainability in Higher Education (5 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (4 papers). Barry Ness collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Barry Ness's co-authors include Lennart Olsson, Stefan Anderberg, Arnim Wiek, Francesca Farioli, Petra Schweizer-Ries, Fridolin S. Brand, Annica Kronsell, Matthias Baier, Anne Jerneck and Johannes Persson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecological Economics and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Barry Ness

30 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Categorising tools for sustainability assessment

2006 992 citations Barry Ness, Stefan Anderberg et al. Ecological Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barry Ness Sweden	16	637	627	403	372	337	32	2.4k
Svatava Janoušková Czechia	13	336 0.5×	730 1.2×	369 0.9×	222 0.6×	255 0.8×	29	2.3k
Thomas M. Parris United States	15	492 0.8×	880 1.4×	306 0.8×	227 0.6×	227 0.7×	60	2.6k
Stefan Anderberg Sweden	22	578 0.9×	549 0.9×	512 1.3×	114 0.3×	518 1.5×	59	2.9k
Tomáš Hák Czechia	18	365 0.6×	791 1.3×	413 1.0×	145 0.4×	504 1.5×	33	2.6k
Jean Hugé Belgium	26	711 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	474 1.2×	808 2.2×	109 0.3×	96	3.4k
Mark Swilling South Africa	29	1.5k 2.4×	629 1.0×	277 0.7×	387 1.0×	430 1.3×	90	4.4k
Christopher Luederitz Canada	17	972 1.5×	320 0.5×	145 0.4×	206 0.6×	229 0.7×	22	2.0k
Sigrid Stagl Austria	31	810 1.3×	574 0.9×	170 0.4×	108 0.3×	243 0.7×	46	3.3k
Prajal Pradhan Germany	30	950 1.5×	730 1.2×	211 0.5×	114 0.3×	713 2.1×	90	4.4k
Kes McCormick Sweden	24	864 1.4×	369 0.6×	295 0.7×	305 0.8×	318 0.9×	87	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Barry Ness

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barry Ness

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barry Ness

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

All Works

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Burch, Sarah, Arnim Wiek, Stefan Schaltegger, et al.. (2022). Building urban resilience through sustainability-oriented small- and medium-sized enterprises. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 12–12. 4 indexed citations

Ness, Barry & Darin Wahl. (2022). Getting personal with collaborative sustainability experimentation: Reflections and recommendations from a transdisciplinary partnership with the Swedish craft beer sector. AMBIO. 51(12). 2544–2556. 5 indexed citations

Fontana, Michele Dalla, Darin Wahl, Astrid Offermans, et al.. (2021). The Five Ws of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Reflexive Approach to Enable the Production of Actionable Knowledge. Frontiers in Water. 3. 11 indexed citations

Wierzbicka, Aneta, Eja Pedersen, Roger Persson, et al.. (2018). Healthy Indoor Environments: The Need for a Holistic Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(9). 1874–1874. 48 indexed citations

Ness, Barry. (2018). Beyond the Pale (Ale): An Exploration of the Sustainability Priorities and Innovative Measures in the Craft Beer Sector. Sustainability. 10(11). 4108–4108. 31 indexed citations

Knaggård, Åsa, et al.. (2018). Finding an academic space: reflexivity among sustainability researchers. Ecology and Society. 23(4). 43 indexed citations

Ness, Barry, et al.. (2018). Exercise on Transdisciplinarity: Lessons from a Field-Based Course on Rural Sustainability in an Aging Society. Sustainability. 10(4). 1155–1155. 4 indexed citations

Isgren, Ellinor & Barry Ness. (2017). Agroecology to Promote Just Sustainability Transitions: Analysis of a Civil Society Network in the Rwenzori Region, Western Uganda. Sustainability. 9(8). 1357–1357. 43 indexed citations

Brink, Ebba, Christine Wamsler, Thomas Beery, et al.. (2017). On the road to ‘research municipalities’: analysing transdisciplinarity in municipal ecosystem services and adaptation planning. Sustainability Science. 13(3). 765–784. 37 indexed citations

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Krause, Torsten & Barry Ness. (2017). Energizing agroforestry: Ilex guayusa as an additional commodity to diversify Amazonian agroforestry systems. International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystems Services & Management. 13(1). 191–203. 9 indexed citations

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Keeler, Lauren Withycombe, Arnim Wiek, Daniel J. Lang, et al.. (2016). Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science. Sustainability Science. 11(5). 749–762. 32 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry, et al.. (2015). Sustainable diffusion of sustainable technologies? An entrepreneur-led initiative to promote improved cookstoves in rural western Kenya. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 11(1). 53–63.

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Yengoh, Genesis T., et al.. (2015). Factors of vulnerability: How large-scale land acquisitions take advantage of local and national weaknesses in Sierra Leone. Land Use Policy. 50. 328–340. 24 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry. (2013). Sustainability Science: Progress Made and Directions Forward. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 6 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry, et al.. (2010). Peri-urban development, livelihood change and household income: A case study of peri-urban Nyahururu, Kenya. Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development. 2(5). 73–83. 64 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry, Stefan Anderberg, & Lennart Olsson. (2010). Structuring problems in sustainability science: The multi-level DPSIR framework. Geoforum. 41(3). 479–488. 145 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry. (2009). Sustainability of the Swedish Sugar Sector: Assessment Tool Development and Case Study Appraisal. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry & Sara Brogaard. (2008). GIS proximity analysis and environmental assessment of sugar beet transport in Scania, Sweden. Area. 40(4). 459–471. 1 indexed citations

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Ness, Barry, et al.. (2006). Categorising tools for sustainability assessment. Ecological Economics. 60(3). 498–508. 992 indexed citations breakdown →

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Samuelsson, Bo E., Christian Azar, John Holmberg, et al.. (2004). From Here to Sustainability – Is the Lisbon/Göteborg agenda delivering?. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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