David Ockwell

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

David Ockwell is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Pollution and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David Ockwell has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 15 papers in Pollution and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David Ockwell's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (15 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (13 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 papers). David Ockwell is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (15 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (13 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 papers). David Ockwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Kenya and Denmark. David Ockwell's co-authors include Rob Byrne, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Jim Watson, Saffron O’Neill, J. Ivan Scrase, Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Gordon MacKerron, Farhana Yamin, Alexandra Mallett and Adrian Ely and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, Journal of Environmental Management and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

David Ockwell

51 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement

2019 330 citations Andrea J. Nightingale, Siri Eriksen et al. Climate and Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Ockwell United Kingdom	24	787	577	560	532	383	53	2.3k
Gert Spaargaren Netherlands	33	1.2k 1.5×	561 1.0×	733 1.3×	250 0.5×	861 2.2×	92	4.1k
Hans Bressers Netherlands	29	426 0.5×	535 0.9×	529 0.9×	280 0.5×	318 0.8×	112	2.4k
Bruno Turnheim United Kingdom	19	851 1.1×	628 1.1×	1.2k 2.2×	357 0.7×	196 0.5×	25	2.7k
Mari Martiskainen United Kingdom	32	1.4k 1.8×	448 0.8×	1.1k 1.9×	933 1.8×	402 1.0×	61	3.6k
Dirk Messner Germany	19	612 0.8×	669 1.2×	575 1.0×	127 0.2×	382 1.0×	94	2.8k
Jan-Peter Voß Germany	16	729 0.9×	441 0.8×	1.2k 2.1×	148 0.3×	239 0.6×	26	2.7k
Julia M. Wittmayer Netherlands	28	1.2k 1.5×	293 0.5×	1.5k 2.7×	257 0.5×	430 1.1×	83	3.9k
Peter Dauvergne Canada	31	751 1.0×	358 0.6×	662 1.2×	485 0.9×	281 0.7×	84	3.0k
Nico Heerink Netherlands	36	388 0.5×	1.0k 1.7×	741 1.3×	338 0.6×	477 1.2×	116	3.9k
Sigrid Stagl Austria	31	601 0.8×	591 1.0×	810 1.4×	137 0.3×	574 1.5×	46	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by David Ockwell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Ockwell

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

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Ockwell, David, et al.. (2025). Reconsidering the gender-energy nexus: A novel framework for understanding how and why electricity access influences gender relations. Energy Research & Social Science. 126. 104109–104109.

Ockwell, David, et al.. (2021). Transforming Access to Clean Energy Technologies in the Global South: Learning from Lighting Africa in Kenya. Energies. 14(14). 4362–4362. 12 indexed citations

Ockwell, David, Joanes Atela, Kennedy Mbeva, et al.. (2019). Can Pay-As-You-Go, Digitally Enabled Business Models Support Sustainability Transformations in Developing Countries? Outstanding Questions and a Theoretical Basis for Future Research. Sustainability. 11(7). 2105–2105. 31 indexed citations

Nightingale, Andrea J., Siri Eriksen, Marcus Taylor, et al.. (2019). Climate solutions beyond technical fixes: : addressing the great derangement. Climate and Development. 2 indexed citations

Nightingale, Andrea J., Siri Eriksen, Marcus Taylor, et al.. (2019). Beyond Technical Fixes: climate solutions and the great derangement. Climate and Development. 12(4). 343–352. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

Ockwell, David, Rob Byrne, Ulrich Elmer Hansen, James Haselip, & Ivan Nygaard. (2018). The uptake and diffusion of solar power in Africa: Socio-cultural and political insights on a rapidly emerging socio-technical transition. Energy Research & Social Science. 44. 122–129. 57 indexed citations

Sovacool, Benjamin K., May Tan‐Mullins, David Ockwell, & Peter Newell. (2017). Political economy, poverty, and polycentrism in the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for Climate Change Adaptation. Third World Quarterly. 38(6). 1249–1271. 33 indexed citations

Ockwell, David, et al.. (2017). Rethinking the sustainability and institutional governance of electricity access and mini-grids: Electricity as a common pool resource. Energy Research & Social Science. 39. 152–161. 64 indexed citations

Ockwell, David, et al.. (2015). Institutional Innovation in the Management of Pro-Poor Energy Access in East Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

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Byrne, Robert A., et al.. (2014). Financing sustainable energy for all: pay-as-you-go vs. traditional solar finance approaches in Kenya. Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex). 22. 2290–5. 14 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David, Ambuj Sagar, & Heleen de Coninck. (2014). Collaborative research and development (R&D) for climate technology transfer and uptake in developing countries: towards a needs driven approach. Climatic Change. 131(3). 401–415. 47 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David & Robert A. Byrne. (2014). Low carbon energy and development in low-income countries: policy lessons from a study of the off-grid photovoltaics sector in Kenya. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Byrne, Robert A. & David Ockwell. (2013). Low carbon development, poverty reduction and innovation system building. Figshare. 3 indexed citations

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Byrne, Robert A., Koen Schoots, Jim Watson, et al.. (2012). Innovation systems in developing countries. Figshare. 10 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David. (2012). Low-carbon Technology Transfer. 60 indexed citations

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Watson, Jim, Robert A. Byrne, David Ockwell, et al.. (2011). UK-China collaborative study on low carbon technology transfer: final report. Figshare. 5 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David, Lorraine Whitmarsh, & Saffron O’Neill. (2009). Reorienting Climate Change Communication for Effective Mitigation. Science Communication. 30(3). 305–327. 282 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David. (2008). Energy and economic growth: Grounding our understanding in physical reality. Energy Policy. 36(12). 4600–4604. 82 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David & Yvonne Rydin. (2006). Conflicting discourses of knowledge: Understanding the policy adoption of pro-burning knowledge claims in Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Environmental Politics. 15(3). 379–398. 34 indexed citations

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Ockwell, David & Jon C. Lovett. (2005). Fire assisted pastoralism vs. sustainable forestry—the implications of missing markets for carbon in determining optimal land use in the wet–dry tropics of Australia. Journal of Environmental Management. 75(1). 1–9. 11 indexed citations

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