Fergus Green

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Fergus Green is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Fergus Green has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Fergus Green's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (14 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (9 papers) and Climate Change and Geoengineering (8 papers). Fergus Green is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (14 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (9 papers) and Climate Change and Geoengineering (8 papers). Fergus Green collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Fergus Green's co-authors include Nicholas Stern, Ajay Gambhir, Richard Denniss, Noel Healy, Dabo Guan, Zhifu Mi, Jing Meng, Jiaqi Lu, Ye Qi and Tong Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Geophysical Research Letters and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Fergus Green

27 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 40 80 120
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.

  1. Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and smooth low-carbon transitions: who, what and how?
    2019 145 citations Fergus Green, Ajay Gambhir Climate Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fergus Green United Kingdom 14 694 400 399 330 223 29 1.3k
Mark Roelfsema Netherlands 21 892 1.3× 555 1.4× 507 1.3× 366 1.1× 160 0.7× 35 1.5k
Jichuan Sheng China 21 877 1.3× 378 0.9× 178 0.4× 330 1.0× 151 0.7× 63 1.6k
Dimitri Zenghelis United Kingdom 11 716 1.0× 185 0.5× 316 0.8× 615 1.9× 170 0.8× 41 1.7k
Dirk Rübbelke Germany 24 911 1.3× 236 0.6× 425 1.1× 274 0.8× 206 0.9× 113 1.9k
Trevor Houser United States 11 563 0.8× 188 0.5× 323 0.8× 337 1.0× 161 0.7× 22 1.4k
Peter Erickson United States 16 533 0.8× 295 0.7× 468 1.2× 293 0.9× 118 0.5× 61 1.2k
Oliver Geden Germany 26 847 1.2× 369 0.9× 423 1.1× 796 2.4× 433 1.9× 76 2.0k
Johannes Emmerling Italy 22 873 1.3× 384 1.0× 578 1.4× 442 1.3× 177 0.8× 68 1.9k
Jonathan Köhler Germany 20 569 0.8× 248 0.6× 377 0.9× 493 1.5× 316 1.4× 32 1.6k
Barbara Plank Austria 12 435 0.6× 443 1.1× 284 0.7× 169 0.5× 157 0.7× 16 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Fergus Green

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fergus Green

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fergus Green. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fergus Green. The network helps show where Fergus Green may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fergus Green

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fergus Green. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fergus Green 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 Fergus Green. Fergus Green 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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Green, Fergus. (2024). Green New Deals in comparative perspective. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 15(4). 2 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus, et al.. (2024). No new fossil fuel projects: The norm we need. Science. 384(6699). 954–957. 14 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus, et al.. (2023). How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a “Just Transition Agreement” on Spanish Election Results. American Political Science Review. 118(3). 1344–1359. 28 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus & Ingrid Robeyns. (2022). On the Merits and Limits of Nationalising the Fossil Fuel Industry. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 91. 53–80. 2 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus, et al.. (2022). Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks. Global Environmental Politics. 22(4). 48–69. 13 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus & Noel Healy. (2022). How inequality fuels climate change: The climate case for a Green New Deal. One Earth. 5(6). 635–649. 70 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus. (2022). Fossil Free Zones: a proposal. Climate Policy. 22(9-10). 1356–1362. 5 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus. (2021). Ecological limits: Science, justice, policy, and the good life. Philosophy Compass. 16(6). e12740–e12740. 7 indexed citations
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Mi, Zhifu, Jiali Zheng, Fergus Green, et al.. (2021). Decoupling without outsourcing? How China’s consumption-based CO2 emissions have plateaued. iScience. 24(10). 103130–103130. 48 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus, et al.. (2021). Separated by a common language: How Breitbart and The New York Times produce different meanings from common words. Politics. 44(3). 319–336. 1 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus, et al.. (2020). Engaged Climate Ethics*. Journal of Political Philosophy. 29(4). 539–563. 20 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus & Ajay Gambhir. (2019). Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and smooth low-carbon transitions: who, what and how?. Climate Policy. 20(8). 902–921. 145 indexed citations breakdown →
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Green, Fergus. (2018). The logic of fossil fuel bans. Nature Climate Change. 8(6). 449–451. 46 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus & Richard Denniss. (2018). Cutting with both arms of the scissors: the economic and political case for restrictive supply-side climate policies. Climatic Change. 150(1-2). 73–87. 135 indexed citations
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Mi, Zhifu, Jing Meng, Fergus Green, D’Maris Coffman, & Dabo Guan. (2018). China's “Exported Carbon” Peak: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(9). 4309–4318. 136 indexed citations
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Qi, Ye, Nicholas Stern, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Lu, & Fergus Green. (2016). China's post-coal growth. Nature Geoscience. 9(8). 564–566. 148 indexed citations
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Stern, Nicholas, et al.. (2014). Innovation, risk and government: perspectives and principles from the social sciences. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations
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Green, Fergus. (2008). Fragmentation in Two Dimensions: The ICJ's Flawed Approach to Non-state Actors and International Legal Personality. UCL Discovery (University College London). 9(1). 47. 6 indexed citations

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