Gerald Leach

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Gerald Leach is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Leach has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 6 papers in Pollution and 3 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Gerald Leach's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (6 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (3 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 papers). Gerald Leach is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (6 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (3 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 papers). Gerald Leach collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Sweden. Gerald Leach's co-authors include Robin Mearns, Peter Chapman, Malcolm Slesser, Cynthia B. Lloyd, G. Obermair, Lutz Hoffmann, Sivan Kartha, Tim Jackson, Paul Raskin and Melissa Leach and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, Population and Development Review and AMBIO.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Leach

32 papers receiving 847 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The energy transition

1992 458 citations Gerald Leach Energy Policy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald Leach United Kingdom	13	608	435	240	181	139	33	1.0k
Richard H. Hosier United States	13	668 1.1×	337 0.8×	204 0.8×	202 1.1×	68 0.5×	39	859
Stephen Karekezi United Kingdom	13	899 1.5×	317 0.7×	159 0.7×	431 2.4×	70 0.5×	31	1.2k
Abebe D. Beyene Ethiopia	15	524 0.9×	300 0.7×	487 2.0×	143 0.8×	100 0.7×	47	1.3k
Paul Komor United States	9	571 0.9×	161 0.4×	97 0.4×	220 1.2×	204 1.5×	20	1.2k
Francis X. Johnson Sweden	17	406 0.7×	185 0.4×	115 0.5×	101 0.6×	143 1.0×	63	1.0k
Anthony D’Agostino United States	15	366 0.6×	214 0.5×	115 0.5×	103 0.6×	56 0.4×	35	872
Charles Jumbe Malawi	20	616 1.0×	483 1.1×	658 2.7×	96 0.5×	89 0.6×	45	1.6k
Bianca van der Kroon Netherlands	5	520 0.9×	259 0.6×	183 0.8×	158 0.9×	53 0.4×	5	687
Vidas Lekavičius Lithuania	16	311 0.5×	325 0.7×	241 1.0×	120 0.7×	105 0.8×	38	824
Dawit Diriba Guta Ethiopia	15	569 0.9×	177 0.4×	139 0.6×	223 1.2×	61 0.4×	50	916

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald Leach

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Leach

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Leach

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald Leach. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald Leach 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 Gerald Leach. Gerald Leach 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

1.

Leach, Gerald & Melissa Leach. (2004). Carbonising Forest Landscapes? Linking Climate Change Mitigation and Rural Livelihoods. IDS Bulletin. 35(3). 76–83. 12 indexed citations

2.

Haq, Gary, M. J. Chadwick, John Forrester, et al.. (2001). Determining the costs to industry of environmental regulation. European Environment. 11(3). 125–139. 17 indexed citations

3.

Leach, Gerald. (1992). The energy transition. Energy Policy. 20(2). 116–123. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lloyd, Cynthia B., Gerald Leach, & Robin Mearns. (1990). Beyond the Woodfuel Crisis: People, Land and Trees in Africa.. Population and Development Review. 16(1). 177–177. 39 indexed citations

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Leach, Gerald & Zuzanna Nowak. (1990). Cutting carbon dioxide emissions from Poland and the United Kingdom. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 6 indexed citations

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Leach, Gerald, et al.. (1990). Agroforestry and the way out for Africa.. 38–52. 2 indexed citations

7.

Leach, Gerald, et al.. (1988). Food and energy in Asia: some macro-issues.. 148–188. 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Iain, et al.. (1988). Energy Pricing, Regulation, Subsidies and Distortion. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2 indexed citations

9.

Leach, Gerald. (1987). Energy and the Urban Poor. IDS Bulletin. 18(1). 31–38. 7 indexed citations

10.

Leach, Gerald, et al.. (1986). Energy and growth: A comparison of 13 industrial and developing countries. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 27 indexed citations

11.

Leach, Gerald, et al.. (1986). Energy and growth. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 5 indexed citations

12.

Leach, Gerald. (1985). Practical Examination Science and Physically Handicapped Pupils.. School science review. 66(236). 1 indexed citations

13.

Leach, Gerald. (1984). Energy 2000–2020: World prospects and regional stresses. Energy Policy. 12(4). 466–467. 4 indexed citations

14.

Leach, Gerald. (1982). Making Science More Accessible. British Journal of Special Education. 9(1). 13–15.

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Leach, Gerald. (1982). Energy and the developing nations. Energy Policy. 10(4). 370–371. 4 indexed citations

16.

Leach, Gerald. (1976). Energy futures - Wide open to change and choice. AMBIO. 5(3). 108–116. 1 indexed citations

17.

Leach, Gerald. (1975). Net energy analysis — is it any use?. Energy Policy. 3(4). 332–344. 39 indexed citations

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Leach, Gerald. (1975). Energy and food production. Food Policy. 1(1). 62–73. 76 indexed citations

19.

Chapman, Peter, Gerald Leach, & Malcolm Slesser. (1974). 2. The energy cost of fuels. Energy Policy. 2(3). 231–243. 58 indexed citations

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Leach, Gerald. (1973). The impact of the motor car on oil reserves. Energy Policy. 1(3). 195–207. 5 indexed citations

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