Blake Alcott

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Blake Alcott is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Economics and Econometrics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Blake Alcott has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 5 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 3 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Blake Alcott's work include Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (6 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (4 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers). Blake Alcott is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (6 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (4 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers). Blake Alcott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland. Blake Alcott's co-authors include John M. Polimeni, Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi and Diana Bauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics and Journal of Economic Issues.

In The Last Decade

Blake Alcott

16 papers receiving 949 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.

Jevons' paradox

2005 542 citations Blake Alcott Ecological Economics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Blake Alcott United Kingdom	9	430	324	251	192	125	16	1.0k
Lorenz Keyßer Switzerland	6	306 0.7×	314 1.0×	242 1.0×	227 1.2×	216 1.7×	7	1.1k
Tim Foxon United Kingdom	14	364 0.8×	438 1.4×	218 0.9×	73 0.4×	161 1.3×	28	991
Jarmo Vehmas Finland	17	261 0.6×	436 1.3×	342 1.4×	109 0.6×	84 0.7×	37	887
Jyrki Luukkanen Finland	21	371 0.9×	597 1.8×	495 2.0×	191 1.0×	108 0.9×	68	1.3k
Horace Herring United Kingdom	12	645 1.5×	338 1.0×	338 1.3×	165 0.9×	75 0.6×	32	1.3k
Barbara Plank Austria	12	284 0.7×	435 1.3×	443 1.8×	185 1.0×	169 1.4×	16	1.2k
Andrea M. Bassi United States	16	208 0.5×	247 0.8×	161 0.6×	124 0.6×	106 0.8×	54	916
Eva Alfredsson Sweden	12	195 0.5×	267 0.8×	165 0.7×	177 0.9×	102 0.8×	15	863
Moinul Islam Japan	14	267 0.6×	638 2.0×	217 0.9×	178 0.9×	128 1.0×	36	989
Holger Dalkmann United Kingdom	7	261 0.6×	195 0.6×	193 0.8×	317 1.7×	89 0.7×	21	953

Countries citing papers authored by Blake Alcott

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Fields of papers citing papers by Blake Alcott

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blake Alcott

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Alcott, Blake. (2022). Comment on Ulrich Brand et al., “From planetary to societal boundaries”. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 18(1). 443–450. 1 indexed citations

2.

Alcott, Blake. (2018). Palestine’s Legitimate Citizenry. Global Jurist. 18(3). 1 indexed citations

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Polimeni, John M., Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro, & Blake Alcott. (2015). The Myth of Resource Efficiency. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 11 indexed citations

4.

Alcott, Blake. (2014). Research Caps, Not Rebound. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 23(4). 304–305. 2 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2012). Historical Overview of the Jevons Paradox in the Literature. 20–91. 17 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2012). Population matters in ecological economics. Ecological Economics. 80. 109–120. 23 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake, Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi, & John M. Polimeni. (2012). The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements. 17 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2011). Should degrowth embrace the Job Guarantee?. Journal of Cleaner Production. 38. 56–60. 33 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2011). Mill’s scissors: structural change and the natural-resource inputs to labour. Journal of Cleaner Production. 21(1). 83–92. 8 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2010). Reply to Schneider et al., JCLEPRO 18 (6), 511–518. Journal of Cleaner Production. 18(14). 1478–1479. 2 indexed citations

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Bauer, Diana, et al.. (2009). John Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro & Blake Alcott, The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 5(1). 48–54. 5 indexed citations

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Polimeni, John M., Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro, & Blake Alcott. (2009). The Myth of Resource Efficiency: The Jevons Paradox. 72 indexed citations

13.

Alcott, Blake. (2009). Impact caps: why population, affluence and technology strategies should be abandoned. Journal of Cleaner Production. 18(6). 552–560. 102 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2007). The sufficiency strategy: Would rich-world frugality lower environmental impact?. Ecological Economics. 64(4). 770–786. 188 indexed citations

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Alcott, Blake. (2005). Jevons' paradox. Ecological Economics. 54(1). 9–21. 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alcott, Blake. (2004). John Rae and Thorstein Veblen. Journal of Economic Issues. 38(3). 765–786. 7 indexed citations

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