Frauke Urban

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Frauke Urban is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Frauke Urban has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Frauke Urban's work include Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (20 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (15 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (14 papers). Frauke Urban is often cited by papers focused on Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (20 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (15 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (14 papers). Frauke Urban collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and China. Frauke Urban's co-authors include Johan Nordensvärd, Giuseppina Siciliano, Henri C. Moll, René Benders, Anissa Nurdiawati, May Tan‐Mullins, Yacob Mulugetta, Yuan Zhou, Emrah Karakaya and Giles Mohan and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Frauke Urban

69 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Deliberating on low carbon development 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 25 50 75
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. Deliberating on low carbon development
    2010 90 citations Frauke Urban et al. Energy 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
Frauke Urban United Kingdom 31 679 570 497 443 345 74 2.3k
Andreas Goldthau Germany 28 694 1.0× 568 1.0× 766 1.5× 788 1.8× 415 1.2× 67 2.8k
Philip Andrews‐Speed Singapore 30 362 0.5× 636 1.1× 418 0.8× 433 1.0× 233 0.7× 85 2.5k
Thijs Van de Graaf Belgium 29 469 0.7× 677 1.2× 488 1.0× 696 1.6× 331 1.0× 67 2.4k
Aleh Cherp Austria 24 504 0.7× 651 1.1× 577 1.2× 1.0k 2.3× 154 0.4× 42 2.8k
Michaël Aklin United States 21 434 0.6× 803 1.4× 581 1.2× 460 1.0× 156 0.5× 59 1.9k
Jim Watson United Kingdom 27 472 0.7× 854 1.5× 390 0.8× 581 1.3× 99 0.3× 88 2.3k
John Byrne United States 24 360 0.5× 340 0.6× 477 1.0× 431 1.0× 100 0.3× 102 1.9k
Hans Bressers Netherlands 29 426 0.6× 535 0.9× 280 0.6× 218 0.5× 312 0.9× 112 2.4k
Bruno Turnheim United Kingdom 19 851 1.3× 628 1.1× 357 0.7× 468 1.1× 230 0.7× 25 2.7k
Nick Eyre United Kingdom 27 709 1.0× 566 1.0× 598 1.2× 1.0k 2.3× 147 0.4× 65 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Frauke Urban

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frauke Urban

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frauke Urban

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

All Works

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Karakaya, Emrah, et al.. (2023). Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 50. 100790–100790. 8 indexed citations
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Nordensvärd, Johan, et al.. (2022). The River Runs Through It: Naturalising Social Policy and Welfare. Sustainability. 14(16). 10415–10415. 1 indexed citations
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Björklund, Anna, et al.. (2021). Analysing the opportunities and challenges for mitigating the climate impact of aviation: A narrative review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 156. 111972–111972. 57 indexed citations
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Karakaya, Emrah, et al.. (2021). Enabling the transition to a fossil-free steel sector: The conditions for technology transfer for hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe. Energy Research & Social Science. 84. 102384–102384. 78 indexed citations
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Siciliano, Giuseppina, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Juan Liu, & Frauke Urban. (2019). Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 37. 20–27. 17 indexed citations
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Kirchherr, Julian & Frauke Urban. (2018). Technology transfer and cooperation for low carbon energy technology: Analysing 30 years of scholarship and proposing a research agenda. Energy Policy. 119. 600–609. 59 indexed citations
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Mohan, Giles, et al.. (2017). Hope, Politics and Risk: The Case of Chinese Dam in Nigeria. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 7(2). 1–1. 5 indexed citations
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Siciliano, Giuseppina, et al.. (2016). The Political Ecology of Chinese Large Dams in Cambodia: Implications, Challenges and Lessons Learnt from the Kamchay Dam. Water. 8(9). 405–405. 19 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke, et al.. (2015). Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The Bui Dam in Ghana and the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 2 indexed citations
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Nordensvärd, Johan, et al.. (2015). Social Innovation and Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams: The Nexus of National Social Policy and Corporate Social Responsibility. Sustainable Development. 23(4). 245–256. 40 indexed citations
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Nordensvärd, Johan & Frauke Urban. (2015). The stuttering energy transition in Germany: Wind energy policy and feed-in tariff lock-in. Energy Policy. 82. 156–165. 62 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yuan, Xin Li, Rasmus Lema, & Frauke Urban. (2015). Comparing the knowledge bases of wind turbine firms in Asia and Europe: Patent trajectories, networks, and globalisation. Science and Public Policy. 43(4). 476–491. 53 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke. (2014). Large Dams in Asia: Contested Environments Between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance. Mountain Research and Development. 34(3). 307–307. 10 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke. (2010). The MDGs and Beyond: Can Low Carbon Development be Pro-poor?. IDS Bulletin. 41(1). 92–99. 10 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke. (2009). Sustainable energy for developing countries. 108 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke & Yu Wang. (2009). Energy, climate change and low carbon development in China. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 1 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke, René Benders, & Henri C. Moll. (2009). Energy for rural India. Applied Energy. 86. S47–S57. 41 indexed citations
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Urban, Frauke, Henri C. Moll, & René Benders. (2006). Modelling Transitions to Renewable Energy in Developing Countries. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 3 indexed citations

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