David Demeritt

5.9k total citations
82 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

David Demeritt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, David Demeritt has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 17 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in David Demeritt's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (9 papers). David Demeritt is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (15 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (9 papers). David Demeritt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and Canada. David Demeritt's co-authors include Sébastien Nobert, James J. Porter, Hannah Cloke, Florian Pappenberger, Samuel Tang, Dale S. Rothman, John Robinson, Stewart Cohen, Henry Rothstein and Suraje Dessai and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Global Environmental Change and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

David Demeritt

74 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Demeritt United Kingdom 32 1.6k 1.4k 496 400 364 82 3.6k
Ben Orlove United States 39 1.4k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 319 0.6× 687 1.7× 131 0.4× 124 5.1k
Martin F. Price United Kingdom 31 2.5k 1.5× 1.4k 1.0× 191 0.4× 1.1k 2.7× 210 0.6× 166 6.2k
Carole L. Crumley United States 21 1.1k 0.7× 744 0.5× 419 0.8× 386 1.0× 80 0.2× 39 3.6k
Eduardo S. Brondízio United States 39 3.9k 2.4× 1.1k 0.8× 214 0.4× 1.1k 2.7× 209 0.6× 95 7.3k
Sander van der Leeuw United States 24 1.6k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 127 0.3× 643 1.6× 122 0.3× 65 4.1k
Tim Forsyth United Kingdom 30 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 215 0.4× 465 1.2× 132 0.4× 80 3.4k
Ilan Kelman United Kingdom 41 2.6k 1.6× 4.9k 3.5× 214 0.4× 604 1.5× 233 0.6× 261 7.7k
Diana Liverman United States 40 3.4k 2.1× 2.2k 1.6× 203 0.4× 1.1k 2.9× 263 0.7× 93 8.2k
Art Dewulf Netherlands 38 3.1k 1.9× 1.8k 1.3× 107 0.2× 881 2.2× 602 1.7× 156 6.4k
Simon Batterbury Australia 24 1.5k 0.9× 724 0.5× 102 0.2× 891 2.2× 176 0.5× 89 4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Demeritt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Demeritt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Demeritt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Demeritt based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Demeritt. David Demeritt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Demeritt, David, et al.. (2023). Regulating through disclosure: the case of food hygiene barometer ratings in China. Journal of Risk Research. 26(4). 393–414.
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Demeritt, David, et al.. (2020). Steering by their own lights: Why regulators across Europe use different indicators to measure healthcare quality. Health Policy. 124(5). 501–510. 22 indexed citations
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Rothstein, Henry, David Demeritt, Regine Paul, et al.. (2017). Varieties of risk regulation in Europe: coordination, complementarity and occupational safety in capitalist welfare states. Socio-Economic Review. 17(4). 993–1020. 20 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David, et al.. (2016). Accounting for failure: risk-based regulation and the problems of ensuring healthcare quality in the NHS. Health Risk & Society. 18(3-4). 205–224. 40 indexed citations
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Benson, David, et al.. (2016). Environment and sustainable development scholarship: A celebration. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 48(9). 1679–1680. 1 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David, et al.. (2015). Why risk-based regulation of healthcare quality in the NHS cannot succeed. HowSAFE Working Paper No.5.. Research Portal (King's College London). 1 indexed citations
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Freeborough, Katy, et al.. (2014). A method to add richness to the National Landslide Database of Great Britain. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6602. 1 indexed citations
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Stephens, Elisabeth, Tamsin Edwards, & David Demeritt. (2012). Communicating probabilistic information from climate model ensembles—lessons from numerical weather prediction. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 3(5). 409–426. 69 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David, et al.. (2012). Flooding and the framing of risk in British broadsheets, 1985–2010. Public Understanding of Science. 23(4). 454–471. 44 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David, Sébastien Nobert, Hannah Cloke, & Florian Pappenberger. (2012). The European Flood Alert System and the communication, perception, and use of ensemble predictions for operational flood risk management. Hydrological Processes. 27(1). 147–157. 89 indexed citations
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Pappenberger, Florian, Hannah Cloke, Anders Persson, & David Demeritt. (2011). HESS Opinions "On forecast (in)consistency in a hydro-meteorological chain: curse or blessing?". Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(7). 2391–2400. 21 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David, Andrew Dobson, Tania Murray Li, et al.. (2011). Pathways to Sustainability: Perspectives and Provocations. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 43(5). 1226–1237. 12 indexed citations
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Dyer, Sarah & David Demeritt. (2008). Un-ethical review? Why it is wrong to apply the medical model of research governance to human geography. Progress in Human Geography. 33(1). 46–64. 60 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David, Hannah Cloke, Florian Pappenberger, et al.. (2007). Ensemble predictions and perceptions of risk, uncertainty, and error in flood forecasting. Environmental Hazards. 7(2). 115–127. 141 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David. (2002). What is the ‘social construction of nature’? A typology and sympathetic critique. Progress in Human Geography. 26(6). 767–790. 281 indexed citations
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Demeritt, David. (2001). Science and the Understanding of Science: A Reply to Schneider. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 91(2). 345–348. 18 indexed citations
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Lees, Loretta & David Demeritt. (1998). ENVISIONING THE LIVABLE CITY: THE INTERPLAY OF “SIN CITY” AND “SIM CITY” IN VANCOUVER'S PLANNING DISCOURSE. Urban Geography. 19(4). 332–359. 31 indexed citations
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