David O’Byrne

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 631 citations indexed

About

David O’Byrne is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, David O’Byrne has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 631 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in David O’Byrne's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (3 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (2 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (2 papers). David O’Byrne is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (3 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (2 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (2 papers). David O’Byrne collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Italy. David O’Byrne's co-authors include Anne Jerneck, Lennart Olsson, Johannes Persson, Henrik Thorén, Weston Dripps, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Ellinor Isgren, Altaaf Mechiche-Alami, Anna Tengberg and Astier M. Almedom and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Science Advances and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

David O’Byrne

15 papers receiving 597 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience

2015 439 citations Lennart Olsson, Anne Jerneck et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David O’Byrne Sweden	9	222	195	126	97	67	16	631
Henrik Thorén Sweden	13	341 1.5×	349 1.8×	132 1.0×	54 0.6×	123 1.8×	25	935
James Arnott United States	14	350 1.6×	398 2.0×	141 1.1×	27 0.3×	65 1.0×	26	942
Roman Hoffmann Austria	13	735 3.3×	214 1.1×	132 1.0×	34 0.4×	107 1.6×	38	1.2k
Raven Cretney New Zealand	11	496 2.2×	185 0.9×	63 0.5×	20 0.2×	92 1.4×	33	790
Tara Quinn United Kingdom	14	548 2.5×	455 2.3×	185 1.5×	32 0.3×	86 1.3×	20	1.1k
Jörg Balsiger Switzerland	15	226 1.0×	252 1.3×	181 1.4×	93 1.0×	103 1.5×	40	792
Claire Kelly United Kingdom	14	148 0.7×	229 1.2×	159 1.3×	27 0.3×	57 0.9×	42	686
V.C. Tassone Netherlands	11	110 0.5×	183 0.9×	119 0.9×	156 1.6×	56 0.8×	31	545
Markus Keck Germany	11	289 1.3×	209 1.1×	49 0.4×	16 0.2×	113 1.7×	27	798
Johan Enqvist Sweden	13	430 1.9×	483 2.5×	205 1.6×	36 0.4×	70 1.0×	24	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by David O’Byrne

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Fields of papers citing papers by David O’Byrne

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David O’Byrne

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David O’Byrne. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David O’Byrne 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 O’Byrne. David O’Byrne is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

Manoli, Argyro Elisavet, et al.. (2024). Sprinting to success?: F1 fans’ excitement towards change in sport competition formats. Leisure Studies. 44(2). 353–363.

Wang, Yafei, et al.. (2024). Implications of policy changes for coastal landscape patterns and sustainability in Eastern China. Landscape Ecology. 39(1). 9 indexed citations

Manoli, Argyro Elisavet, et al.. (2024). Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games. Leisure Studies. 44(3). 483–494. 4 indexed citations

Hermans, Kathleen, Daniel Müller, David O’Byrne, Lennart Olsson, & Lindsay C. Stringer. (2023). Land degradation and migration. Nature Sustainability. 6(12). 1503–1505. 7 indexed citations

O’Byrne, David. (2022). An Approach to Justifying Normative Arguments in Sustainability Science, with Insights from the Philosophy of Science and Social Theory. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(2). 19–28. 2 indexed citations

O’Byrne, David. (2022). Restoring human freedoms: from utilitarianism to a capability approach to wetland restoration in Louisiana’s coastal master plan. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 12(2). 298–310. 1 indexed citations

Mechiche-Alami, Altaaf, David O’Byrne, Anna Tengberg, & Lennart Olsson. (2022). Evaluating the scaling potential of sustainable land management projects in the Sahelian Great Green Wall countries. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84016–84016. 13 indexed citations

O’Byrne, David, Altaaf Mechiche-Alami, Anna Tengberg, & Lennart Olsson. (2022). The Social Impacts of Sustainable Land Management in Great Green Wall Countries: An Evaluative Framework Based on the Capability Approach. Land. 11(3). 352–352. 9 indexed citations

Boda, Chad, et al.. (2021). A collective alternative to the Inward Turn in environmental sustainability research. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 12(2). 291–297. 13 indexed citations

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O’Byrne, David. (2020). A contribution to building unified movements for the environment: aligning interests, forming alliances. Human Geography. 13(2). 127–138. 8 indexed citations

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Isgren, Ellinor, Anne Jerneck, & David O’Byrne. (2017). Pluralism in Search of Sustainability: Ethics, Knowledge and Methdology in Sustainability Science. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 2–6. 15 indexed citations

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O’Byrne, David, Ellinor Isgren, & Chad Boda. (2017). A reply to Balmford et al. (2017). Biological Conservation. 218. 293–294. 2 indexed citations

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Olsson, Lennart, Anne Jerneck, Henrik Thorén, Johannes Persson, & David O’Byrne. (2015). Why resilience is unappealing to social science: Theoretical and empirical investigations of the scientific use of resilience. Science Advances. 1(4). e1400217–e1400217. 439 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Byrne, David, et al.. (2015). The Best Laid Plans. The Journal of Environment & Development. 24(4). 395–417. 10 indexed citations

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Almedom, Astier M., David O’Byrne, & Anne Jerneck. (2015). Principles of epistemological accountability with methodological implications for measuring, assessing, and profiling human resilience. Ecology and Society. 20(3). 9 indexed citations

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O’Byrne, David, Weston Dripps, & Kimberly A. Nicholas. (2014). Teaching and learning sustainability: An assessment of the curriculum content and structure of sustainability degree programs in higher education. Sustainability Science. 10(1). 43–59. 90 indexed citations

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