Brian C. Chaffin

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Brian C. Chaffin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian C. Chaffin has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Brian C. Chaffin's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (18 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (8 papers). Brian C. Chaffin is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (18 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (8 papers). Brian C. Chaffin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Netherlands. Brian C. Chaffin's co-authors include Barbara Cosens, Hannah Gosnell, Lance Gunderson, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, J. B. Ruhl, Robin Kundis Craig, Craig Anthony Arnold and Carina Wyborn and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Brian C. Chaffin

54 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions

2014 486 citations Brian C. Chaffin, Hannah Gosnell et al. Ecology and Society profile →
Co-Producing Sustainability: Reordering the Governance of Science, Policy, and Practice

2019 293 citations Carina Wyborn, Brian C. Chaffin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian C. Chaffin United States	25	1.4k	687	477	322	244	54	2.6k
Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás Spain	29	1.5k 1.1×	704 1.0×	531 1.1×	405 1.3×	422 1.7×	89	3.1k
Hannah Gosnell United States	28	1.3k 1.0×	662 1.0×	505 1.1×	692 2.1×	381 1.6×	62	3.1k
Barbara Cosens United States	21	997 0.7×	465 0.7×	384 0.8×	248 0.8×	151 0.6×	63	2.0k
Jan Sendzimir Austria	22	1.4k 1.0×	631 0.9×	456 1.0×	413 1.3×	186 0.8×	52	3.0k
Po Garden Thailand	12	1.2k 0.9×	619 0.9×	420 0.9×	254 0.8×	196 0.8×	15	2.3k
Sharon L. Harlan United States	31	1.7k 1.2×	859 1.3×	269 0.6×	248 0.8×	336 1.4×	60	5.3k
Frank Alcock United States	8	1.7k 1.3×	848 1.2×	656 1.4×	312 1.0×	266 1.1×	10	3.0k
Lowell Pritchard Sweden	3	1.2k 0.9×	490 0.7×	465 1.0×	304 0.9×	195 0.8×	4	2.1k
Héléna Posthumus United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.8×	448 0.7×	482 1.0×	435 1.4×	238 1.0×	35	2.9k
Urs Wiesmann Switzerland	23	1.2k 0.9×	791 1.2×	519 1.1×	243 0.8×	181 0.7×	70	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian C. Chaffin

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chaffin, Brian C., Theresa M. Floyd, Simanti Banerjee, et al.. (2025). Governance of a landscape: The role of formal and informal organizations. Journal of Environmental Management. 380. 124974–124974. 1 indexed citations

Metcalf, Alexander L., Theresa M. Floyd, Daniel R. Uden, et al.. (2024). Social networks and transformative behaviours in a grassland social‐ecological system. People and Nature. 6(5). 1877–1892. 3 indexed citations

Metcalf, Alexander L., et al.. (2024). U.S. beef producer perspectives on “sustainable beef” and implications for sustainability transitions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 4 indexed citations

Wyborn, Carina, et al.. (2023). Imagining reef futures after mass coral bleaching events. Environmental Science & Policy. 151. 103625–103625. 5 indexed citations

Chaffin, Brian C., et al.. (2022). Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands. Ecology and Society. 27(2). 2 indexed citations

Chaffin, Brian C., Simanti Banerjee, Theresa M. Floyd, et al.. (2022). Adaptive capacity beyond the household: a systematic review of empirical social-ecological research. Environmental Research Letters. 17(6). 63001–63001. 33 indexed citations

Barnes, Michele L., et al.. (2022). Big events, little change: Extreme climatic events have no region-wide effect on Great Barrier Reef governance. Journal of Environmental Management. 320. 115809–115809. 8 indexed citations

Crausbay, Shelley D., Helen R. Sofaer, Amanda E. Cravens, et al.. (2021). A Science Agenda to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation. BioScience. 72(1). 71–90. 46 indexed citations

Cosens, Barbara, J. B. Ruhl, Niko Soininen, et al.. (2021). Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating change in the globalized commons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 44 indexed citations

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Garmestani, Ahjond S., J. B. Ruhl, Brian C. Chaffin, et al.. (2019). Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(40). 19899–19904. 59 indexed citations

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Jones, Kristal, Jesse Abrams, R. Travis Belote, et al.. (2019). The American West as a social-ecological region: drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems. Environmental Research Letters. 14(11). 115008–115008. 19 indexed citations

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Ruhl, J. B., Hannah Gosnell, Brian C. Chaffin, & Craig Anthony Arnold. (2017). Transforming (perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law Through Adaptive Governance. Ecology and Society. 22. 4. 1 indexed citations

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Chaffin, Brian C. & Hannah Gosnell. (2017). Beyond mandatory fishways: federal hydropower relicensing as a window of opportunity for dam removal and adaptive governance of riverine landscapes in the United States.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(3). 819–839. 17 indexed citations

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DeCaro, Daniel A., Brian C. Chaffin, Edella Schlager, Ahjond S. Garmestani, & J. B. Ruhl. (2017). Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance. Ecology and Society. 22(1). 1–32. 85 indexed citations

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Chaffin, Brian C., Ahjond S. Garmestani, David G. Angeler, et al.. (2016). Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance. Journal of Environmental Management. 183(Pt 2). 399–407. 77 indexed citations

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Herrmann, Dustin L., Kirsten Schwarz, William D. Shuster, et al.. (2016). Ecology for the Shrinking City. BioScience. 66(11). 965–973. 64 indexed citations

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Chaffin, Brian C., Robin Kundis Craig, & Hannah Gosnell. (2015). Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation in the Klamath River Basin Socio-Ecological System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Chaffin, Brian C., Robin Kundis Craig, & Hannah Gosnell. (2015). Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation in the Klamath River Basin Social-Ecological System. 51(1). 157–193. 28 indexed citations

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Cosens, Barbara, Lance Gunderson, & Brian C. Chaffin. (2015). Introduction: The Adaptive Water Governance Project: Assessing Law, Resilience and Governance in Regional Socio-Ecological Water Systems Facing a Changing Climate. 51(1). 1–27. 12 indexed citations

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Chaffin, Brian C., Hannah Gosnell, & Barbara Cosens. (2014). A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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