David Tyfield

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

David Tyfield is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, David Tyfield has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in David Tyfield's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (15 papers), China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 papers). David Tyfield is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (15 papers), China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 papers). David Tyfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. David Tyfield's co-authors include Kean Birch, Nils Markusson, Duncan McLaren, Rebecca Willis, Bronislaw Szerszynski, Mimí Sheller, Youlin Huang, Lixian Qian, Didier Soopramanien and Stefanie Kunkel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal of Experimental Botany.

In The Last Decade

David Tyfield

68 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Pandemic (Im)mobilities

2021 101 citations Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam et al. Mobilities profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Tyfield United Kingdom	22	540	385	371	197	161	75	1.7k
Håvard Haarstad Norway	22	476 0.9×	436 1.1×	168 0.5×	120 0.6×	232 1.4×	79	1.6k
Inge Røpke Denmark	23	548 1.0×	431 1.1×	502 1.4×	435 2.2×	66 0.4×	74	2.6k
Milena Büchs United Kingdom	25	483 0.9×	247 0.6×	388 1.0×	354 1.8×	268 1.7×	58	1.8k
Noel Longhurst United Kingdom	17	601 1.1×	546 1.4×	181 0.5×	98 0.5×	69 0.4×	27	1.6k
Timo von Wirth Netherlands	24	618 1.1×	650 1.7×	129 0.3×	52 0.3×	81 0.5×	37	2.1k
Paul Burger Switzerland	16	306 0.6×	331 0.9×	96 0.3×	81 0.4×	64 0.4×	52	1.4k
Annica Kronsell Sweden	23	843 1.6×	710 1.8×	159 0.4×	73 0.4×	321 2.0×	70	2.5k
Saba Siddiki United States	23	519 1.0×	341 0.9×	182 0.5×	269 1.4×	536 3.3×	68	2.0k
Markku Lehtonen United Kingdom	20	448 0.8×	231 0.6×	247 0.7×	141 0.7×	93 0.6×	53	1.5k
Sverker C. Jagers Sweden	30	1.0k 1.9×	467 1.2×	899 2.4×	362 1.8×	204 1.3×	92	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by David Tyfield

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Tyfield

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tyfield

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tyfield, David, et al.. (2025). How can food system actors influence food system resilience? A literature review via an actor-based lens. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 22001–22001.

Kesselring, Sven, et al.. (2025). Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025). 11(1). 1–2.

Tyfield, David & Ping Huang. (2025). Just transition as transition in justice: Really learning from, about and with China. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 58. 101060–101060. 1 indexed citations

Tyfield, David, et al.. (2024). Unlocking the evaluation of university‐business collaborations on sustainable regional development: A comprehensive review and framework for place‐based policy initiatives. Sustainable Development. 32(4). 3924–3936. 2 indexed citations

Komljenovič, Janja, Kean Birch, Sam Sellar, et al.. (2024). Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 46(2). 276–292. 8 indexed citations

Qian, Lixian, Youlin Huang, David Tyfield, & Didier Soopramanien. (2023). Dynamic consumer preferences for electric vehicles in China: A longitudinal approach. Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice. 176. 103797–103797. 21 indexed citations

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2023). The politics of freeports – a place-based analysis of regional economic regeneration in the United Kingdom. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 38(6). 562–581. 4 indexed citations

McLaren, Duncan, Rebecca Willis, Bronislaw Szerszynski, David Tyfield, & Nils Markusson. (2021). Attractions of delay: Using deliberative engagement to investigate the political and strategic impacts of greenhouse gas removal technologies. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 6(1). 578–599. 34 indexed citations

Adey, Peter, Kevin Hannam, Mimí Sheller, & David Tyfield. (2021). Pandemic (Im)mobilities. Mobilities. 16(1). 1–19. 101 indexed citations breakdown →

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Curran, Dean & David Tyfield. (2019). Low-Carbon Transition as Vehicle of New Inequalities? Risk-Class, the Chinese Middle-Class and the Moral Economy of Misrecognition. Theory Culture & Society. 37(2). 131–156. 15 indexed citations

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Zuev, Dennis, David Tyfield, & John Urry. (2018). Where is the politics? E-bike mobility in urban China and civilizational government. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 30. 19–32. 45 indexed citations

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Markusson, Nils, Duncan McLaren, & David Tyfield. (2018). Towards a cultural political economy of mitigation deterrence by negative emissions technologies (NETs). Global Sustainability. 1. 104 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Jesse A. & David Tyfield. (2017). Green Keynesianism: Bringing the Entrepreneurial State Back in(to Question)?. Science as Culture. 27(1). 74–97. 23 indexed citations

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Büscher, Monika, Mimí Sheller, & David Tyfield. (2016). Mobility intersections: social research, social futures. Mobilities. 11(4). 485–497. 39 indexed citations

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Tyfield, David. (2014). ‘King Coal is Dead! Long Live the King!’: The Paradoxes of Coal's Resurgence in the Emergence of Global Low-Carbon Societies. Theory Culture & Society. 31(5). 59–81. 18 indexed citations

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Tyfield, David & John Urry. (2012). Greening China’s ‘Cars’:Could the Last be First?. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 5 indexed citations

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Tyfield, David. (2012). A Cultural Political Economy of Research and Innovation in an Age of Crisis. Minerva. 50(2). 149–167. 45 indexed citations

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Tyfield, David. (2011). Food systems transition and disruptive low carbon innovation: implications for a food security research agenda. Journal of Experimental Botany. 62(11). 3701–3706. 12 indexed citations

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Tyfield, David & John Urry. (2009). Cosmopolitan China? Lessons from international collaboration in low‐carbon innovation. British Journal of Sociology. 60(4). 793–812. 18 indexed citations

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Tyfield, David. (2008). Enabling TRIPs: The pharma–biotech–university patent coalition. Review of International Political Economy. 15(4). 535–566. 14 indexed citations

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