Ben Purvis

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ben Purvis is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Purvis has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Strategy and Management, 4 papers in Environmental Engineering and 3 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ben Purvis's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (5 papers), Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (3 papers) and Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (3 papers). Ben Purvis is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (5 papers), Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (3 papers) and Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (3 papers). Ben Purvis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Greece. Ben Purvis's co-authors include Yong Mao, Darren Robinson, Mario Pansera, Dilay Çelebi, Andrea Genovese, Ashley Lewis, Jonathan A. D. Wattis, Andrea Jiménez and Marco Veronese Passarella and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics and Sustainability Science.

In The Last Decade

Ben Purvis

11 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins

2018 1.7k citations Ben Purvis, Yong Mao et al. Sustainability Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Purvis United Kingdom	7	374	358	276	266	246	11	1.9k
Yong Mao United Kingdom	17	343 0.9×	360 1.0×	267 1.0×	287 1.1×	315 1.3×	50	2.5k
Cheryl Desha Australia	22	518 1.4×	254 0.7×	322 1.2×	215 0.8×	264 1.1×	146	2.0k
Desta Mebratu Kenya	7	243 0.6×	332 0.9×	178 0.6×	346 1.3×	175 0.7×	10	1.3k
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis Portugal	24	228 0.6×	385 1.1×	202 0.7×	263 1.0×	156 0.6×	165	2.2k
Svatava Janoušková Czechia	13	372 1.0×	730 2.0×	253 0.9×	298 1.1×	369 1.5×	29	2.3k
José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra Brazil	23	195 0.5×	324 0.9×	152 0.6×	192 0.7×	160 0.7×	56	1.7k
Mansour Khalid	2	277 0.7×	361 1.0×	216 0.8×	243 0.9×	208 0.8×	4	1.5k
Alfred Posch Austria	24	221 0.6×	260 0.7×	110 0.4×	322 1.2×	172 0.7×	59	1.6k
Marlyne Sahakian Switzerland	21	353 0.9×	302 0.8×	396 1.4×	371 1.4×	142 0.6×	69	1.8k
Shirin Malekpour Australia	24	175 0.5×	282 0.8×	141 0.5×	279 1.0×	110 0.4×	47	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Purvis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Purvis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Purvis

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Genovese, Andrea, et al.. (2025). Macroeconomic models for assessing the transition towards a circular economy: A systematic review. Ecological Economics. 236. 108669–108669. 1 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, et al.. (2025). Grassroots initiatives for a bottom-up transition to a circular economy: exploring community repair. Local Environment. 30(10). 1240–1256. 1 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, et al.. (2024). Consensus and contestation: Reflections on the development of an indicator framework for a just transition to a circular economy. Ecological Economics. 230. 108476–108476. 1 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, et al.. (2023). Critical reflections of postgraduate researchers on a collaborative interdisciplinary research project. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 10–10. 11 indexed citations

5.

Purvis, Ben, Dilay Çelebi, & Mario Pansera. (2023). A framework for a responsible circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production. 400. 136679–136679. 42 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben & Andrea Genovese. (2023). Better or different? A reflection on the suitability of indicator methods for a just transition to a circular economy. Ecological Economics. 212. 107938–107938. 10 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, Yong Mao, & Darren Robinson. (2021). A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability. Sustainability Science. 17(1). 151–169. 11 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, Yong Mao, & Darren Robinson. (2019). Entropy and its Application to Urban Systems. Entropy. 21(1). 56–56. 39 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, Yong Mao, & Darren Robinson. (2018). Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins. Sustainability Science. 14(3). 681–695. 1734 indexed citations breakdown →

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Purvis, Ben, Yong Mao, & Darren Robinson. (2017). Thermodynamic Entropy as an Indicator for Urban Sustainability?. Procedia Engineering. 198. 802–812. 7 indexed citations

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Purvis, Ben, et al.. (2015). Scaling behavior near jamming in random sequential adsorption. Physical Review E. 91(2). 22118–22118. 4 indexed citations

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