Helen Ross

8.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
179 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Helen Ross is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Ross has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Helen Ross's work include Mining and Resource Management (19 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (17 papers) and Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (15 papers). Helen Ross is often cited by papers focused on Mining and Resource Management (19 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (17 papers) and Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (15 papers). Helen Ross collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Helen Ross's co-authors include Fikret Berkes, Natalie A. Jones, Pascal Perez, Timothy Lynam, Anne Leitch, Kirsten Maclean, Michael Cuthill, Claudia Baldwin, Anna Phelan and Christine King and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Cleaner Production and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Helen Ross

169 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Community Resilience: Toward an Integrated Approach

2012 1.1k citations Helen Ross et al. Society & Natural Resources profile →
Mental Models: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Theory and Methods

2011 632 citations Helen Ross et al. Ecology and Society profile →
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital

2022 173 citations Helen Ross et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helen Ross Australia	34	1.9k	1.5k	774	756	513	179	5.5k
Pim Martens Netherlands	48	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	916 1.2×	675 1.3×	188	11.0k
Frances Westley Canada	33	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	634 0.8×	319 0.4×	384 0.7×	72	6.1k
David H. Guston United States	25	2.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.9×	989 1.3×	310 0.4×	386 0.8×	77	7.0k
Christina Prell United States	27	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.8×	1.0k 1.3×	304 0.4×	864 1.7×	49	6.5k
Martin F. Price United Kingdom	31	1.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	342 0.5×	964 1.9×	166	6.2k
Ryan Plummer Canada	37	2.0k 1.1×	3.3k 2.3×	1.5k 2.0×	450 0.6×	1.0k 2.0×	135	6.8k
Maria Tengö Sweden	29	1.1k 0.6×	2.7k 1.8×	911 1.2×	457 0.6×	931 1.8×	55	5.0k
Art Dewulf Netherlands	38	1.8k 0.9×	3.1k 2.1×	881 1.1×	243 0.3×	404 0.8×	156	6.4k
Stephen Dovers Australia	33	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	955 1.2×	172 0.2×	373 0.7×	122	4.2k
Nick Abel Australia	23	1.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.9×	1.2k 1.5×	306 0.4×	991 1.9×	36	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Helen Ross

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Fields of papers citing papers by Helen Ross

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helen Ross

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ross, Helen, et al.. (2025). Environmental management research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: insights from publications in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management (2004–2024). Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 33(1). 100–130.

Ross, Helen, et al.. (2025). Public attitudes towards plastics in Australia are surprisingly constant in a changing world. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 219. 108329–108329.

Lima, Mairon G. Bastos, et al.. (2024). ‘Greenlash’ and reactionary stakeholders in environmental governance: An analysis of soy farmers against zero deforestation in Brazil. Forest Policy and Economics. 166. 103267–103267. 3 indexed citations

Robinson, Cathy, et al.. (2023). Indigenous stewardship for habitat protection. One Earth. 6(2). 68–72. 8 indexed citations

Johnson, Derek, et al.. (2023). Social wellbeing, values, and identity among Caiçara small-scale fishers in southeastern Brazil. MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies. 22(3). 36–36. 4 indexed citations

Dean, Angela J., Fiona J. Newton, Robyn Gulliver, Kelly S. Fielding, & Helen Ross. (2022). Accelerating the adoption of water sensitive innovations: community perceptions of practices and technologies to mitigate urban stormwater pollution. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 66(4). 759–778. 6 indexed citations

Ross, Helen, et al.. (2022). Nature relatedness, connections to food and wellbeing in Australian adolescents. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 84. 101888–101888. 7 indexed citations

Velden, Julia van, Boyson Moyo, Helen Ross, & Duan Biggs. (2020). Understanding the bushmeat hunting crisis in African savannas using fuzzy cognitive mapping and stakeholder knowledge. Ecology and Society. 25(3). 7 indexed citations

Baldwin, Claudia, Graham R. Marshall, Helen Ross, et al.. (2019). Hybrid Neoliberalism: Implications for Sustainable Development. Society & Natural Resources. 32(5). 566–587. 23 indexed citations

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Lynch, A. Jasmyn J., Helen Ross, & Bill Carter. (2018). Indigenous guidance in Australian environmental management. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 25(3). 253–257. 6 indexed citations

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Baldwin, Claudia, Cristy Clark, Helen Ross, & Bill Carter. (2017). Has Australia dropped the ball on water reform?. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 24(4). 335–338. 1 indexed citations

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Jacobson, Chris, Helen Ross, Claudia Baldwin, & Bill Carter. (2017). Time to manage all of our heritage – proactively. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 24(3). 223–227. 1 indexed citations

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Curtis, Allan, Helen Ross, Graham R. Marshall, et al.. (2014). The great experiment with devolved NRM governance: lessons from community engagement in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 21(2). 175–199. 114 indexed citations

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Ross, Helen & Bill Carter. (2011). Natural disasters and community resilience. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 18(1). 1–5. 9 indexed citations

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Ross, Helen, Bill Carter, & A. Jasmyn J. Lynch. (2010). The Misnomer of 'Environmental Management'. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 17(3). 132–133. 1 indexed citations

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Nursey‐Bray, Melissa, Helene Marsh, & Helen Ross. (2010). Exploring Discourses in Environmental Decision Making: An Indigenous Hunting Case Study. Society & Natural Resources. 23(4). 366–382. 16 indexed citations

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Chan, Terence, et al.. (2007). Development of an interdisciplinary Bayesian network tool for catchment management in the Solomon Islands. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2 indexed citations

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Higginbottom, Karen, et al.. (1999). Sustaining Eden: Indigenous Community Wildlife Management in Australia. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 36 indexed citations

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Lane, Marcus B., Helen Ross, & Allan Dale. (1997). Social Impact Research: Integrating the Technical, Political, and Planning Paradigms. Human Organization. 56(3). 302–310. 33 indexed citations

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Ross, Helen. (1990). Progress and prospects in aboriginal social impact assessment. Australian aboriginal studies. 11. 8 indexed citations

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