Gregory Trencher

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Gregory Trencher is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory Trencher has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Gregory Trencher's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (13 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 papers) and Sustainability in Higher Education (10 papers). Gregory Trencher is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (13 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (13 papers) and Sustainability in Higher Education (10 papers). Gregory Trencher collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Gregory Trencher's co-authors include Masaru Yarime, Jusen Asuka, Kes McCormick, Steven Kraines, Christopher N.H. Doll, Jeroen van der Heijden, Andrew Karvonen, Ali Kharrazi, Mert Duygan and Adrian Rinscheid and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gregory Trencher

52 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Beyond the third mission: Exploring the emerging university function of co-creation for sustainability

2013 350 citations Gregory Trencher, Masaru Yarime et al. Science and Public Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory Trencher Japan	26	728	475	438	429	388	54	2.6k
Masaru Yarime Japan	26	652 0.9×	424 0.9×	423 1.0×	428 1.0×	315 0.8×	94	3.1k
Osvaldo Luíz Gonçalves Quelhas Brazil	28	712 1.0×	285 0.6×	559 1.3×	112 0.3×	246 0.6×	203	4.2k
Jaco Quist Netherlands	27	151 0.2×	432 0.9×	426 1.0×	641 1.5×	476 1.2×	53	3.4k
Luciana Brandli Brazil	30	1.8k 2.4×	199 0.4×	1.3k 3.1×	281 0.7×	291 0.8×	100	3.8k
Julia M. Wittmayer Netherlands	28	172 0.2×	996 2.1×	430 1.0×	1.5k 3.5×	1.2k 3.1×	83	3.9k
Rosley Anholon Brazil	28	855 1.2×	224 0.5×	569 1.3×	60 0.1×	280 0.7×	208	3.1k
Radosław Wolniak Poland	39	100 0.1×	666 1.4×	551 1.3×	109 0.3×	234 0.6×	304	4.3k
Andrew Karvonen United Kingdom	25	123 0.2×	557 1.2×	215 0.5×	549 1.3×	397 1.0×	61	2.3k
Wadim Striełkowski Czechia	37	134 0.2×	194 0.4×	353 0.8×	165 0.4×	640 1.6×	268	4.3k
Göran Broman Sweden	24	176 0.2×	187 0.4×	491 1.1×	137 0.3×	201 0.5×	76	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregory Trencher

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Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2025). Pursuing electric mobility in India: Regional disparities and strategic gaps in sub-national electric vehicle policies. Energy Research & Social Science. 125. 104113–104113.

Trencher, Gregory, Masaru Yarime, & Jeongsoo Yu. (2024). Using emerging technologies to tackle mobility challenges caused by population ageing: Experiences from Japan. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 208. 123729–123729. 2 indexed citations

Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2024). Demand for low-quality offsets by major companies undermines climate integrity of the voluntary carbon market. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6863–6863. 27 indexed citations

Johnson, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Between the lines: linking carbon management to carbon accounting actions in the pursuit of corporate decarbonization. Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications). 38(4). 1121–1148. 1 indexed citations

Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2024). Barriers to the adoption of electric cars and electric motorcycles in Vietnam. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 131. 104204–104204. 9 indexed citations

Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2024). How might the spread of online meal-delivery services impact achievement of the SDGs?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2023). The evolution of “phase-out” as a bridging concept for sustainability: From pollution to climate change. One Earth. 6(7). 854–871. 11 indexed citations

Satoh, Keiichi, et al.. (2023). Net‐zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino‐like diffusion?. Review of Policy Research. 40(6). 853–893. 7 indexed citations

Trencher, Gregory, Mathieu Blondeel, & Jusen Asuka. (2023). Do all roads lead to Paris?. Climatic Change. 176(7). 12 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2023). Forecasting coal power plant retirement ages and lock-in with random forest regression. Patterns. 4(7). 100776–100776. 8 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2022). The rise of phase-out as a critical decarbonisation approach: a systematic review. Environmental Research Letters. 17(12). 123002–123002. 34 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2022). The clean energy claims of BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell: A mismatch between discourse, actions and investments. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0263596–e0263596. 123 indexed citations

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Yamanaka, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2021). Arrival briefings as an effective interpretation strategy in tourist destinations: The case of Daisetsuzan National Park, Japan. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. 33. 100363–100363. 7 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory. (2020). Strategies to accelerate the production and diffusion of fuel cell electric vehicles: Experiences from California. Energy Reports. 6. 2503–2519. 73 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory, et al.. (2020). Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan. Energy Research & Social Science. 69. 101770–101770. 122 indexed citations

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Broto, Vanesa Castán, et al.. (2018). Transformative capacity and local action for urban sustainability. AMBIO. 48(5). 449–462. 103 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory & Jeroen van der Heijden. (2018). Contradictory but also complementary: National and local imaginaries in Japan and Fukushima around transitions to hydrogen and renewables. Energy Research & Social Science. 49. 209–218. 56 indexed citations

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Filho, Walter Leal, Luciana Brandli, Constantina Skanavis, et al.. (2017). Sustainable development policies as indicators and pre-conditions for sustainability efforts at universities. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 19(1). 85–113. 102 indexed citations

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Beynaghi, Ali, Gregory Trencher, Fathollah Moztarzadeh, et al.. (2015). Future sustainability scenarios for universities: moving beyond the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Journal of Cleaner Production. 112. 3464–3478. 158 indexed citations

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Trencher, Gregory, Masaru Yarime, Kes McCormick, Christopher N.H. Doll, & Steven Kraines. (2013). Beyond the third mission: Exploring the emerging university function of co-creation for sustainability. Science and Public Policy. 41(2). 151–179. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

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