Ilan Chabay

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ilan Chabay is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilan Chabay has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ilan Chabay's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (7 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 papers). Ilan Chabay is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (7 papers) and Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 papers). Ilan Chabay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sweden. Ilan Chabay's co-authors include G. Holzwarth, J. David Tàbara, Bruce S. Hudson, Gary K. Klauminzer, Jill Jäger, Frans Berkhout, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Ilona M. Otto, Christian Pohl and Sarah Cornell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ilan Chabay

44 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change

2013 392 citations J. David Tàbara, Ilan Chabay et al. Environmental Science & Policy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ilan Chabay United States	19	414	338	291	240	166	45	1.4k
William R. Moomaw United States	28	861 2.1×	372 1.1×	165 0.6×	314 1.3×	322 1.9×	100	3.9k
Christian Thierfelder Zimbabwe	46	398 1.0×	507 1.5×	66 0.2×	112 0.5×	292 1.8×	164	6.9k
Michel Étienne France	36	775 1.9×	97 0.3×	87 0.3×	296 1.2×	194 1.2×	139	4.1k
Matthias Wanner Germany	26	142 0.3×	164 0.5×	56 0.2×	161 0.7×	52 0.3×	89	1.9k
Robin Haunschild Germany	26	183 0.4×	396 1.2×	54 0.2×	247 1.0×	33 0.2×	116	2.2k
David J. Yates United States	33	294 0.7×	237 0.7×	180 0.6×	97 0.4×	15 0.1×	136	3.3k
Zhen Xie China	25	243 0.6×	795 2.4×	317 1.1×	34 0.1×	53 0.3×	95	2.2k
Zi Kang Tang Hong Kong	25	176 0.4×	536 1.6×	54 0.2×	295 1.2×	68 0.4×	92	3.0k
John Dwyer United States	31	181 0.4×	385 1.1×	256 0.9×	70 0.3×	17 0.1×	115	3.0k
Hiroshi Komiyama Japan	38	425 1.0×	528 1.6×	125 0.4×	154 0.6×	208 1.3×	263	5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilan Chabay

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Helgeson, Jennifer, et al.. (2025). Yes, in my backyard (YIMBY) and yours, too: women entrepreneurs’ leadership for a sustainable future of a small Japanese town. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 30(4).

Paterson, Shona & Ilan Chabay. (2024). Navigating the currents of coastal narratives in search of sustainable futures. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(5). 4 indexed citations

Bean, Hamilton, et al.. (2024). Serious gaming for Natech Risk Awareness: Introducing EGNARIA. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 115. 105080–105080. 1 indexed citations

Gravino, Pietro, et al.. (2021). Finding successful strategies in a complex urban sustainability game. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 15765–15765. 3 indexed citations

Chabay, Ilan, et al.. (2021). Transforming scholarship to co-create sustainable futures. Global Sustainability. 4. 2 indexed citations

Chabay, Ilan. (2019). Vision, identity, and collective behavior change on pathways to sustainable futures. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review. 17(1). 151–165. 20 indexed citations

Chabay, Ilan. (2018). Taking Time, Sharing Spaces: Adaptive Risk Governance Processes in Rural Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 9(4). 464–471. 2 indexed citations

Chabay, Ilan, Martin J. Frick, & Jennifer Helgeson. (2016). Land restoration : reclaiming landscapes for a sustainable future. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 20 indexed citations

Stöhr, Christian, Cecilia Lundholm, Beatrice Crona, & Ilan Chabay. (2014). Stakeholder participation and sustainable fisheries: an integrative framework for assessing adaptive comanagement processes. Ecology and Society. 19(3). 37 indexed citations

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Schmale, Julia, Drew Shindell, Erika von Schneidemesser, Ilan Chabay, & M. G. Lawrence. (2014). Air pollution: Clean up our skies. Nature. 515(7527). 335–337. 88 indexed citations

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Schmale, Julia, et al.. (2013). Co-designing Usable Knowledge with Stakeholders and Fostering Ownership - A Pathway through the communication problem?. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Tàbara, J. David & Ilan Chabay. (2012). Coupling Human Information and Knowledge Systems with social–ecological systems change: Reframing research, education, and policy for sustainability. Environmental Science & Policy. 28. 71–81. 77 indexed citations

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Stöhr, Christian & Ilan Chabay. (2010). Science and participation in governance of the Baltic Sea fisheries. Environmental Policy and Governance. 20(5). 350–363. 21 indexed citations

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Chabay, Ilan. (1982). Optical waveguides. Photon plumbing for the chemistry lab: fiber optics, waveguides, and evanescent waves as tools for chemical analysis. Analytical Chemistry. 54(9). 1071A–1080A. 28 indexed citations

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Dornhaus, Ralf, Robert E. Benner, Richard K. Chang, & Ilan Chabay. (1980). Surface plasmon contribution to SERS. Surface Science. 101(1-3). 367–373. 81 indexed citations

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Chabay, Ilan & David S. Bright. (1978). Measurement of the size distribution of liquid and solid aerosols by doppler shift spectroscopy. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 63(2). 304–309. 5 indexed citations

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Gollub, J. P., Ilan Chabay, & W. H. Flygare. (1973). Optical Heterodyne Measurement of Cloud Droplet Size Distributions. Applied Optics. 12(12). 2838–2838. 6 indexed citations

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Holzwarth, G., Ilan Chabay, & N. A. W. Holzwarth. (1973). Infrared circular dichroism and linear dichroism of liquid crystals. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 58(11). 4816–4819. 18 indexed citations

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Holzwarth, G. & Ilan Chabay. (1972). Optical Activity of Vibrational Transitions: A Coupled Oscillator Model. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 57(4). 1632–1635. 167 indexed citations

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Chabay, Ilan, Edward C. Hsu, & G. Holzwarth. (1972). Infrared circular dichroism measurement between 2000 and 5000 cm−1: Pr3+-tartrate complexes. Chemical Physics Letters. 15(2). 211–214. 30 indexed citations

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