Flor Avelino

10.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
52 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Flor Avelino is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Flor Avelino has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Flor Avelino's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (18 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (12 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (11 papers). Flor Avelino is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (18 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (12 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (11 papers). Flor Avelino collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Belgium. Flor Avelino's co-authors include Julia M. Wittmayer, Derk Loorbach, Niki Frantzeskaki, Joris I. Rotmans, Bonno Pel, René Kemp, John Grin, Alex Haxeltine, Adina Dumitru and Shivant Jhagroe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Flor Avelino

50 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change

2017 756 citations Derk Loorbach, Niki Frantzeskaki et al. profile →
Shifting Power Relations in Sustainability Transitions: A Multi-actor Perspective

2015 496 citations Flor Avelino, Julia M. Wittmayer Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning profile →
Transformative social innovation and (dis)empowerment

2017 370 citations Flor Avelino, Julia M. Wittmayer et al. profile →
Power in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Framework to Study Power in Relation to Structural Change

2009 366 citations Flor Avelino, Joris I. Rotmans European Journal of Social Theory profile →
Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions

2020 181 citations Bonno Pel, Alex Haxeltine et al. profile →
Theories of power and social change. Power contestations and their implications for research on social change and innovation

2021 147 citations Flor Avelino profile →

Peers

Flor Avelino

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Julia M. Wittmayer Netherlands

John Grin Netherlands

Paula Kivimaa Finland

Florian Kern United Kingdom

Harald Rohracher Sweden

Simona O. Negro Netherlands

Gill Seyfang United Kingdom

David Gibbs United Kingdom

Anna Bergek Sweden

Mark Swilling South Africa

Julia M. Wittmayer Netherlands

Flor Avelino

1.5k ×0.8

GPC

1.2k ×0.9

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996 ×1.0

MTI

430 ×0.8

MMPL

320 ×0.8

Citations per year, relative to Flor Avelino Flor Avelino (= 1×) peers Julia M. Wittmayer

Countries citing papers authored by Flor Avelino

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Flor Avelino

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Flor Avelino

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nederhand, José, et al.. (2024). Editorial to the special issue on urban vitalism. Cities. 148. 104911–104911. 1 indexed citations

Avelino, Flor, et al.. (2024). Mapping the diversity & transformative potential of approaches to sustainable just cities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

Pel, Bonno, Julia M. Wittmayer, Flor Avelino, & Thomas Bauler. (2023). Paradoxes of Transformative Social Innovation: From Critical Awareness towards Strategies of Inquiry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 35–35. 9 indexed citations

Avelino, Flor, Julia M. Wittmayer, Vaishali Joshi, et al.. (2023). Making sense of power through transdisciplinary sustainability research: insights from a Transformative Power Lab. Sustainability Science. 18(3). 1311–1327. 11 indexed citations

Pel, Bonno, et al.. (2023). How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 49. 100775–100775. 11 indexed citations

Wittmayer, Julia M., Inês Campos, Flor Avelino, et al.. (2021). Thinking, doing, organising: Prefiguring just and sustainable energy systems via collective prosumer ecosystems in Europe. Energy Research & Social Science. 86. 102425–102425. 35 indexed citations

Loorbach, Derk, Julia M. Wittmayer, Flor Avelino, Timo von Wirth, & Niki Frantzeskaki. (2020). Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 35. 251–260. 188 indexed citations

Wittmayer, Julia M., Julia Backhaus, Flor Avelino, et al.. (2019). Narratives of change: How social innovation initiatives construct societal transformation. Futures. 112. 102433–102433. 132 indexed citations

Eynaud, Philippe, et al.. (2019). Theory of social enterprise and pluralism: Social Movements, Solidarity Economy, and Global South. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 9 indexed citations

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Pel, Bonno, et al.. (2017). Building a middle-range theory of Transformative Social Innovation; theoretical pitfalls and methodological responses. European Public & Social Innovation Review. 2(1). 47 indexed citations

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Pel, Bonno, Adina Dumitru, René Kemp, et al.. (2017). Synthesis report: meta-analysis of Critical Turning Points in TSI: Deliverable D5.4. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 3 indexed citations

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Loorbach, Derk, Flor Avelino, Alex Haxeltine, et al.. (2016). The economic crisis as a game changer? Exploring the role of social construction in sustainability transitions. Ecology and Society. 21(4). 38 indexed citations

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Haxeltine, Alex, Flor Avelino, Bonno Pel, et al.. (2016). A framework for Transformative Social Innovation: TRANSIT working paper 5. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 12 indexed citations

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Avelino, Flor, Noel Longhurst, Julia M. Wittmayer, et al.. (2015). Transition towards 'New Economies'? A Transformative Social Innovation Perspective. VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet). 7 indexed citations

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Avelino, Flor & Julia M. Wittmayer. (2015). Shifting Power Relations in Sustainability Transitions: A Multi-actor Perspective. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 18(5). 628–649. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Avelino, Flor, Adina Dumitru, Noel Longhurst, et al.. (2015). Transitions towards new economies? A transformative social innovation perspective: TRANSIT working paper 3. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 6 indexed citations

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Wittmayer, Julia M., Julia Backhaus, Flor Avelino, et al.. (2015). Narratives of change:: how social innovation initiatives engage with their transformative ambitions. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 11 indexed citations

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McGowan, Katharine, Frances Westley, Evan Fraser, et al.. (2014). The research journey: travels across the idiomatic and axiomatic toward a better understanding of complexity. Ecology and Society. 19(3). 19 indexed citations

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Avelino, Flor, et al.. (2012). Transition management as new policy making for sustainable mobility. Research Publications (Maastricht University).

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Avelino, Flor & Joris I. Rotmans. (2009). Power in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Framework to Study Power in Relation to Structural Change. European Journal of Social Theory. 12(4). 543–569. 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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