Carina Wyborn

11.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
73 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Carina Wyborn is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Carina Wyborn has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 17 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Carina Wyborn's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (39 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers). Carina Wyborn is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (39 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers). Carina Wyborn collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Carina Wyborn's co-authors include Clark A. Miller, Elena Louder, Nicole Klenk, Esther Turnhout, Tamara Metze, R. Patrick Bixler, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Melanie Ryan, Nathan Bennett and Diogo Veríssimo and has published in prestigious journals such as Conservation Biology, BioScience and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Carina Wyborn

72 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

2016 797 citations Nathan Bennett, Carina Wyborn et al. Biological Conservation profile →
The politics of co-production: participation, power, and transformation

2019 578 citations Carina Wyborn, Nicole Klenk et al. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability profile →
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation

2016 339 citations Nathan Bennett, Carina Wyborn et al. Conservation Biology profile →
Co-Producing Sustainability: Reordering the Governance of Science, Policy, and Practice

2019 293 citations Carina Wyborn, Jasper Montana et al. profile →
Co-production in global sustainability: Histories and theories

2018 280 citations Carina Wyborn et al. Environmental Science & Policy profile →
Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface: the practitioners’ perspectives

2018 218 citations Angela Bednarek, Carina Wyborn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carina Wyborn Australia	36	2.8k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	527	73	5.3k
Maria Tengö Sweden	29	2.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	911 0.8×	931 0.9×	220 0.4×	55	5.0k
Ioan Fazey United Kingdom	37	3.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	875 0.8×	405 0.8×	66	6.3k
Duan Biggs Australia	32	1.7k 0.6×	880 0.7×	726 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	259 0.5×	87	4.4k
Esther Turnhout Netherlands	38	3.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	989 0.9×	635 0.6×	267 0.5×	108	5.2k
Eduardo S. Brondízio United States	39	3.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	246 0.5×	95	7.3k
Chris Sandbrook United Kingdom	34	1.7k 0.6×	694 0.6×	760 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	348 0.7×	70	3.7k
Anna C. Evely United Kingdom	10	1.7k 0.6×	724 0.6×	818 0.7×	969 0.9×	284 0.5×	11	3.6k
Martin F. Price United Kingdom	31	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	964 0.9×	178 0.3×	166	6.2k
Bhaskar Vira United Kingdom	25	2.6k 0.9×	660 0.5×	920 0.8×	948 0.9×	297 0.6×	70	4.4k
Juliette Young United Kingdom	35	2.8k 1.0×	644 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	2.3k 2.2×	880 1.7×	105	5.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carina Wyborn

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Wyborn, Carina, et al.. (2025). Insights from experience and avenues for change: a conceptual framework for learning and applying futures thinking in the water sector. Australasian Journal of Water Resources. 29(2). 85–99.

Wyborn, Carina, et al.. (2024). How the Resist-Accept-Direct framework is being used by communities for socio-economic climate adaptation: a case study in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin. Regional Environmental Change. 24(3). 3 indexed citations

Wyborn, Carina, et al.. (2023). Foresight in natural resource management: A case study in Australia. Futures. 154. 103259–103259. 5 indexed citations

Colloff, Matthew J., et al.. (2022). Unfortunate diversions: a policy discourse analysis on the adjustment of the volume of water returned to the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources. 27(1). 132–148. 9 indexed citations

Múnera‐Roldán, Claudia, Matthew J. Colloff, Bruno Locatelli, & Carina Wyborn. (2022). Engaging with the future: framings of adaptation to climate change in conservation. Ecosystems and People. 18(1). 174–188. 9 indexed citations

Wyborn, Carina, Elena Louder, Mike Harfoot, & Samantha L. L. Hill. (2021). Engaging with the science and politics of biodiversity futures: a literature review. Environmental Conservation. 48(1). 8–15. 13 indexed citations

Patterson, James, Carina Wyborn, Linda Westman, et al.. (2021). The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability. Nature Sustainability. 4(10). 841–850. 52 indexed citations

Colloff, Matthew J., Russell Gorddard, Nick Abel, et al.. (2021). Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach. Environmental Science & Policy. 124. 163–174. 78 indexed citations

Louder, Elena, Carina Wyborn, Christopher Cvitanovic, & Angela Bednarek. (2020). A synthesis of the frameworks available to guide evaluations of research impact at the interface of environmental science, policy and practice. Environmental Science & Policy. 116. 258–265. 50 indexed citations

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Mach, Katharine J., Maria Carmen Lemos, Alison M. Meadow, et al.. (2020). Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 42. 30–37. 179 indexed citations

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Wyborn, Carina, Federico Davila, Laura Pereira, et al.. (2020). Imagining transformative biodiversity futures. Nature Sustainability. 3(9). 670–672. 64 indexed citations

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Gallagher, Louise, Birgit Kopainsky, Andrea M. Bassi, et al.. (2020). Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus. Ecology and Society. 25(4). 24 indexed citations

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Moon, Katie, Deborah Blackman, Vanessa M. Adams, et al.. (2019). Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology, and methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(3). 294–302. 100 indexed citations

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Clément, Sarah, Angela M. Guerrero, & Carina Wyborn. (2019). Understanding Effectiveness in its Broader Context: Assessing Case Study Methodologies for Evaluating Collaborative Conservation Governance. Society & Natural Resources. 33(4). 462–483. 20 indexed citations

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Ryan, Melanie, et al.. (2018). Global patterns in conservation capacity development. Biological Conservation. 221. 261–269. 36 indexed citations

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Wyborn, Carina, et al.. (2018). Wrestling with the complexity of evaluation for organizations at the boundary of science, policy, and practice. Conservation Biology. 32(5). 998–1006. 19 indexed citations

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Guerrero, Angela M., Nathan Bennett, Kerrie A. Wilson, et al.. (2018). Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society. 23(3). 77 indexed citations

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Bednarek, Angela, et al.. (2016). Practice at the Boundaries: Summary of a workshop of practitioners working at the interfaces science, policy and society for environmental outcomes. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 8 indexed citations

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Wyborn, Carina. (2014). Co-productive governance: A relational framework for adaptive governance. Global Environmental Change. 30. 56–67. 135 indexed citations

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Wyborn, Carina & Stephen Dovers. (2013). Prescribing adaptiveness in agencies of the state. Global Environmental Change. 24. 5–7. 20 indexed citations

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