Christian Pohl

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Christian Pohl is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Pohl has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Information Systems and Management, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Christian Pohl's work include Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (27 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (23 papers) and Innovation, Technology, and Society (18 papers). Christian Pohl is often cited by papers focused on Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (27 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (23 papers) and Innovation, Technology, and Society (18 papers). Christian Pohl collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Christian Pohl's co-authors include Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Urs Wiesmann, Stephan Rist, Sabine Hoffmann, David J. Bradley, Michael Stauffacher, Janet G. Hering, Julie Thompson Klein, Pius Krütli and Lorrae van Kerkhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Research Policy and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Christian Pohl

63 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change

2013 392 citations Christian Pohl et al. Environmental Science & Policy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Pohl Switzerland	25	1.8k	1.1k	1.1k	637	542	64	4.0k
Matthias Bergmann Germany	17	1.7k 0.9×	923 0.8×	804 0.7×	747 1.2×	548 1.0×	54	3.6k
Michael Stauffacher Switzerland	31	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	673 0.6×	509 0.8×	631 1.2×	109	4.9k
Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn Switzerland	18	1.3k 0.7×	719 0.7×	675 0.6×	429 0.7×	411 0.8×	43	2.9k
Mark Swilling South Africa	29	1.5k 0.9×	937 0.9×	377 0.3×	405 0.6×	387 0.7×	90	4.4k
David H. Guston United States	25	2.8k 1.6×	2.2k 2.0×	415 0.4×	636 1.0×	238 0.4×	77	7.0k
Daniel Sarewitz United States	27	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	293 0.3×	296 0.5×	204 0.4×	78	4.5k
Peter Moll United States	6	1.2k 0.7×	540 0.5×	373 0.3×	357 0.6×	339 0.6×	10	2.3k
John Robinson Canada	40	2.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	247 0.2×	468 0.7×	651 1.2×	126	7.1k
Lorrae van Kerkhoff Australia	24	1.9k 1.0×	887 0.8×	209 0.2×	260 0.4×	215 0.4×	51	3.4k
Frances Westley Canada	33	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	139 0.1×	962 1.5×	280 0.5×	72	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Pohl

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Pohl

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pohl, Christian, et al.. (2025). Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights. Global Environmental Change. 91. 102963–102963. 5 indexed citations

Guimarães, Maria Helena, et al.. (2024). Assessment of transdisciplinarity by its participants: the case of Tertúlias do Montado, Alentejo, Portugal. Sustainability Science. 19(3). 1021–1038. 2 indexed citations

Pohl, Christian, Georg Dierkes, Sarmite Kernchen, et al.. (2024). Multi-method analysis of microplastic distribution by flood frequency and local topography in Rhine floodplains. The Science of The Total Environment. 927. 171927–171927. 8 indexed citations

Reinhardt, Lydia, Annika Behrendt, Isabelle Becher, et al.. (2023). Dual truncation of tau by caspase-2 accelerates its CHIP-mediated degradation. Neurobiology of Disease. 182. 106126–106126. 4 indexed citations

Pohl, Christian, Julie Thompson Klein, Sabine Hoffmann, Cynthia Mitchell, & Dena Fam. (2021). Conceptualising transdisciplinary integration as a multidimensional interactive process. Environmental Science & Policy. 118. 18–26. 142 indexed citations

Baptista, Bianca Vienni, et al.. (2020). Final Report on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research and Factors of Success and Failure. Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin). 5 indexed citations

Spaapen, Jack, et al.. (2020). Report on Survey among interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and post-survey interviews with policy stakeholders. Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin). 2. 4 indexed citations

Baptista, Bianca Vienni, et al.. (2020). Improving pathways to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: first lessons from the SHAPE-ID project – Policy Brief. Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin). 5 indexed citations

Baptista, Bianca Vienni, et al.. (2019). Preliminary Report of Literature Review on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research. Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin). 3 indexed citations

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Aragrande, Maurizio, John Berezowski, Massimo Canali, et al.. (2019). EVOLvINC: EValuating knOwLedge INtegration Capacity in multistakeholder governance. Ecology and Society. 24(2). 23 indexed citations

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Krütli, Pius, Christian Pohl, & Michael Stauffacher. (2018). Sustainability Learning Labs in Small Island Developing States: A Case Study of the Seychelles. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 27(1). 46–51. 17 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Sabine, Christian Pohl, & Janet G. Hering. (2017). Methods and procedures of transdisciplinary knowledge integration: empirical insights from four thematic synthesis processes. Ecology and Society. 22(1). 79 indexed citations

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Pohl, Christian, et al.. (2016). How researchers frame scientific contributions to sustainable development: a typology based on grounded theory. Sustainability Science. 11(5). 789–800. 35 indexed citations

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Pohl, Christian, Peter Bebi, Harald Bugmann, et al.. (2015). How to successfully publish interdisciplinary research: learning from an Ecology and Society Special Feature. Ecology and Society. 20(2). 9 indexed citations

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Bergmann, Matthias, et al.. (2013). Methods for Transdisciplinary Research: A Primer for Practice. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 113(4). 437–8. 153 indexed citations

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Vogel, Amanda L., Kara L. Hall, Stephen M. Fiore, et al.. (2013). The Team Science Toolkit. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 45(6). 787–789. 52 indexed citations

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Bergmann, Matthias, Thomas Jähn, Tobias Knobloch, et al.. (2010). Methoden transdisziplinärer Forschung. Campus Verlag eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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Pohl, Christian & Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn. (2008). Gestaltung transdisziplinärer Forschung. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 31(1). 5–22. 2 indexed citations

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Pohl, Christian & Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn. (2007). Principles for designing transdisciplinary research : proposed by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. 117 indexed citations

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Guggenheim, Michael, et al.. (2004). Imaginierte Laien : die Macht der Vorstellung in wissenschaftlichen Expertisen. Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften digital collection (Zurich University of Applied Sciences). 6 indexed citations

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