Florian Kern

10.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
61 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Florian Kern is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Kern has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Florian Kern's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (40 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (23 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers). Florian Kern is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (40 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (23 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers). Florian Kern collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Florian Kern's co-authors include Karoline S. Rogge, Paula Kivimaa, Adrian Smith, Michael Howlett, Rob Raven, Bram Verhees, Duncan Edmondson, Frank W. Geels, Sandra Wassermann and Mario Neukirch and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Florian Kern

59 papers receiving 5.4k citations

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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.

Creative destruction or mere niche support? Innovation policy mixes for sustainability transitions

2015 763 citations Florian Kern et al. Research Policy profile →
The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014)

2016 591 citations Frank W. Geels, Florian Kern et al. Research Policy profile →
The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions

2018 318 citations Duncan Edmondson, Florian Kern et al. Research Policy profile →
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: New approaches and insights through bridging innovation and policy studies

2019 259 citations Florian Kern, Karoline S. Rogge et al. Research Policy profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Kern

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Changes in Nature Conservation-Relevant Public Participation Processes Through Digitalization: The Case of Germany 2025 ·Land ·Stefan Heiland, Markus Günther, (unknown), Florian Kern, Josephin Wagner	0
2	System transitions research and sustainable development: Challenges, progress, and prospects 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Frank W. Geels, Florian Kern, William C. Clark	16
3	Hydrogen as a panacea for decarbonising everything? Exploring contested hydrogen pathways in Germany 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Florian Kern, (unknown), (unknown)	14
4	Sustainability transitions in consumption-production systems 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Frank W. Geels, Florian Kern, William C. Clark	27
5	Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse 2020 ·Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions ·Florian Kern, Helen Sharp, (unknown)	45
6	Digitalisierung als Treiber einer sozial-ökologischen Transformation? 2020 ·Ökologisches Wirtschaften - Fachzeitschrift ·Florian Kern, Tilman Santarius	0
7	Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: New approaches and insights through bridging innovation and policy studies breakdown → 2019 ·Research Policy ·Florian Kern, Karoline S. Rogge, Michael Howlett	259
8	The acceleration of transitions to urban sustainability: a case study of Brighton and Hove 2018 ·European Planning Studies ·Rachael Durrant, Jake Barnes, Florian Kern, Gordon MacKerron	23
9	The Acceleration of Urban Sustainability Transitions: A Comparison of Brighton, Budapest, Dresden, Genk, and Stockholm 2018 ·Sustainability ·Franziska Ehnert, Niki Frantzeskaki, Jake Barnes, Sara Borgström, Leen Gorissen, Florian Kern, (unknown), Markus Egermann	91
10	The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions breakdown → 2018 ·Research Policy ·Duncan Edmondson, Florian Kern, Karoline S. Rogge	318
11	The need for comprehensive and well targeted instrument mixes to stimulate energy transitions: The case of energy efficiency policy 2017 ·Energy Research & Social Science ·Jan Rosenow, Florian Kern, Karoline S. Rogge	134
12	Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions 2017 ·Energy Research & Social Science ·Karoline S. Rogge, Florian Kern, Michael Howlett	224
13	The pace of governed energy transitions: Agency, international dynamics and the global Paris agreement accelerating decarbonisation processes? 2016 ·Energy Research & Social Science ·Florian Kern, Karoline S. Rogge	175
14	States, Markets, and Institutions: Integrating International Political Economy and Global Energy Politics 2016 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern, Michael T. Klare	3
15	The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014) breakdown → 2016 ·Research Policy ·Frank W. Geels, Florian Kern, Gerhard Fuchs, Nele Hinderer, Gregor Kungl, Josephine Mylan, Mario Neukirch, Sandra Wassermann	591
16	The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy 2016 ·Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks ·Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Arunabha Ghosh, Florian Kern, Michael T. Klare	67
17	The role of policy in shielding, nurturing and enabling offshore wind in The Netherlands (1973–2013) 2015 ·Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·Bram Verhees, Rob Raven, Florian Kern, Adrian Smith	35
18	From laggard to leader: Explaining offshore wind developments in the UK 2014 ·Energy Policy ·Florian Kern, Adrian Smith, (unknown), Rob Raven, Bram Verhees	84
19	A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology 2012 ·Technological Forecasting and Social Change ·Nils Markusson, Florian Kern, Jim Watson, Stathis Arapostathis, Hannah Chalmers, Navraj Singh Ghaleigh, Philip Heptonstall, Peter J. G. Pearson, (unknown), Stewart Russell	83
20	Policy Paradigms as part of the landscape: How do policy paradigms influence attempts to govern transitions? Paper to be presented at the 14 th IRSPM Conference, Berne, Switzerland, 7-9 th April 2010, Panel Track "30 - Transition Governance" 2010 ·Florian Kern, Catherine Mitchell	1

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