Bruno Turnheim

6.7k citations

25 papers · 2.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

General Energy top 1%
Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 14
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 14
Management of Technology and Innovation 4
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development 4

Co-authors: Frank W. Geels Benjamin K. Sovacool Frans Berkhout Mari Martiskainen Björn Nykvist Andrew Hook Andrea Brock Detlef P. van Vuuren
Journals: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (5 papers)Research Policy (3 papers)Energy Research & Social Science (3 papers)Global Environmental Change (2 papers)Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom France Denmark

In The Last Decade

Bruno Turnheim

24 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda 2018 · 235 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Energy Research & Social Science
2015 Global Environmental Change
2013 Research Policy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Socio-technical lock-in as alignment process: tracing the joint development of pesticide dependency and vegetable production in Senegal (1900–2024) Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions ·Blanche D. E. Gaillard, Bruno Turnheim, Ángel García Pujalte, Allison Marie Loconto	2025	0
2	The historical dismantling of tramways as a case of destabilisation and phase-out of established system Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Bruno Turnheim	2023	8
3	Technologies in Decline HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·ТОШМУХАМЕДОВА Насиба Муроджон кизи, Peter Stegmaier, Bruno Turnheim, Harro van Lente	2022	13
4	From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions ·Adrian Rinscheid, Daniel Rosenbloom, Jochen Markard, Bruno Turnheim	2021	53
5	Making sustainability transitions research policy-relevant: Challenges at the science-policy interface Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions ·Bruno Turnheim, Monitha Gollapudi, Frank W. Geels	2020	61
6	Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions ·Bruno Turnheim, Benjamin K. Sovacool	2020	48
7	Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways World Development ·Benjamin K. Sovacool, Bruno Turnheim, Andrew Hook, Andrea Brock, Mari Martiskainen	2020	136
8	Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research Energy Research & Social Science ·Benjamin K. Sovacool, David J. Hess, Sulfikar Amir, Frank W. Geels, Richard F. Hirsh, Leandro Rodríguez Medina, Clark A. Miller, Carla Alvial Palavicino, Roopali Phadke, Marianne Ryghaug, Johan Schot, Antti Silvast, Jennie C. Stephens, Andy Stirling, Bruno Turnheim, Erik van der Vleuten, Harro van Lente, Steven Yearley	2020	218
9	Incumbent actors, guided search paths, and landmark projects in infra-system transitions: Re-thinking Strategic Niche Management with a case study of French tramway diffusion (1971–2016) Research Policy ·Bruno Turnheim, Frank W. Geels	2019	84
10	The decarbonisation divide: Contextualizing landscapes of low-carbon exploitation and toxicity in Africa Global Environmental Change ·Benjamin K. Sovacool, Andrew Hook, Mari Martiskainen, Andrea Brock, Bruno Turnheim	2019	193
11	Opening up the feasibility of sustainability transitions pathways (STPs): Representations, potentials, and conditions Research Policy ·Bruno Turnheim, Björn Nykvist	2018	55
12	The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda Energy Research & Social Science ·Cameron Roberts, Frank W. Geels, Matthew Lockwood, Peter Newell, Hubert Schmitz, Bruno Turnheim, Andrew Jordan Hit paper breakdown →	2018	235
13	Low carbon transitions pathways in mobility: Applying the MLP in a combined case study and simulation bridging analysis of passenger transport in the Netherlands Technological Forecasting and Social Change ·Jonathan Köhler, Bruno Turnheim, Mike Hodson	2018	76
14	Beyond Experiments: Innovation in Climate Governance SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository ·Bruno Turnheim, Paula Kivimaa, Frans Berkhout	2018	4
15	Innovating Climate Governance Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Bruno Turnheim, Paula Kivimaa, Frans Berkhout	2018	57
16	Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges Global Environmental Change ·Bruno Turnheim, Frans Berkhout, Frank W. Geels, Andries F. Hof, Andrew McMeekin, Björn Nykvist, Detlef P. van Vuuren Hit paper breakdown →	2015	373
17	The destabilisation of existing regimes: Confronting a multi-dimensional framework with a case study of the British coal industry (1913–1967) Research Policy ·Bruno Turnheim, Frank W. Geels Hit paper breakdown →	2013	267
18	Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions: Lessons from the history of the British coal industry (1913–1997) Energy Policy ·Bruno Turnheim, Frank W. Geels	2012	360
19	Complex Governance to Cope with Global Environmental Risk: An Assessment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Science and Engineering Ethics ·Bruno Turnheim, 李瑞莺	2009	6
20	Innovation and diffusion of environmental technology: Industrial NOx abatement in Sweden under refunded emission payments Ecological Economics ·Thomas Sterner, Bruno Turnheim	2009	54

About Bruno Turnheim

Bruno Turnheim is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management of Technology and Innovation, Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics and Management Science and Operations Research, having authored 25 papers that have together received 2.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (14 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers), Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (4 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (3 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Energy (85 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.2k citations), Business and International Management (83 citations), Management of Technology and Innovation (255 citations) and Pollution (357 citations). Bruno Turnheim has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Frank W. Geels, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Frans Berkhout, Mari Martiskainen, Björn Nykvist, Andrew Hook, Andrea Brock, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Andries F. Hof and Andrew McMeekin. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Research Policy, Energy Research & Social Science, Global Environmental Change and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

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