Ilan Kelman

25.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
261 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Ilan Kelman is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilan Kelman has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 50 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Ilan Kelman's work include Disaster Management and Resilience (101 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (79 papers) and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (49 papers). Ilan Kelman is often cited by papers focused on Disaster Management and Resilience (101 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (79 papers) and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (49 papers). Ilan Kelman collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and United States. Ilan Kelman's co-authors include Jessica Mercer, J. C. Gaillard, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Juergen Weichselgartner, Robin Spence, Sandie Suchet‐Pearson, Benjamin Wisner, James Lewis, Kate Lloyd and Cheney Shreve and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ilan Kelman

248 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

2012 388 citations Ilan Kelman et al. profile →
Framework for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction

2009 350 citations Jessica Mercer, Ilan Kelman et al. profile →
Geographies of resilience

2014 345 citations Ilan Kelman et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ilan Kelman	4.9k	2.6k	902	841	658	261	7.7k
Mark Pelling	6.2k 1.3×	4.8k 1.8×	406 0.5×	714 0.8×	501 0.8×	166	11.1k
Terry Cannon	5.2k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	233 0.3×	675 0.8×	674 1.0×	44	7.8k
Rajib Shaw	4.6k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	216 0.2×	580 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	377	9.3k
Piers Blaikie	4.8k 1.0×	3.8k 1.4×	268 0.3×	593 0.7×	566 0.9×	62	9.0k
John Handmer	3.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.5×	196 0.2×	699 0.8×	439 0.7×	161	6.8k
Bryan Boruff	3.4k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	144 0.2×	831 1.0×	338 0.5×	108	8.0k
Benjamin Wisner	3.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	136 0.2×	485 0.6×	521 0.8×	7	5.0k
Douglas Paton	7.2k 1.5×	2.9k 1.1×	132 0.1×	598 0.7×	2.4k 3.7×	256	10.7k
Joern Birkmann	3.7k 0.8×	4.4k 1.7×	135 0.1×	1.1k 1.3×	240 0.4×	141	8.9k
Ben Wisner	2.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	126 0.1×	337 0.4×	502 0.8×	104	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ilan Kelman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ilan Kelman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilan Kelman

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

Haque, Farhana, Fiona Lampe, Shakoor Hajat, et al.. (2024). Heat Index: An Alternative Indicator for Measuring the Impacts of Meteorological Factors on Diarrhoea in the Climate Change Era: A Time Series Study in Dhaka, Bangladesh. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(11). 1481–1481. 2 indexed citations

Liggett, Daniela, Andrea Herbert, Renuka Badhe, et al.. (2023). Researchers on ice? How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Antarctic researchers. Antarctic Science. 35(2). 141–160. 3 indexed citations

Shannon, Geordan, et al.. (2023). Think global, act local: using a translocal approach to understand community-based organisations’ responses to planetary health crises during COVID-19. The Lancet Planetary Health. 7(10). e850–e858.

Issa, Rita, et al.. (2023). Human migration on a heating planet: A scoping review. PLOS Climate. 2(5). e0000214–e0000214. 13 indexed citations

Foley, Aideen, Jack Corbett, Ilan Kelman, et al.. (2023). Understanding “Islandness”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(8). 1800–1817. 29 indexed citations

Scobie, Michelle, Unni Gopinathan, Ilan Kelman, & Sonja Myhre. (2023). The agency of community groups in health and climate change adaptation governance and policy in SIDS: The case of in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago. Environmental Science & Policy. 147. 116–125. 3 indexed citations

Kelman, Ilan, et al.. (2022). Connecting Disasters and Climate Change to the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. 17(3). 324–340. 13 indexed citations

Shannon, Geordan, et al.. (2022). Regenerative economics for planetary health: A scoping review. 2(3). 81–105. 7 indexed citations

Walshe, Rory, George Adamson, & Ilan Kelman. (2020). Helices of disaster memory: How forgetting and remembering influence tropical cyclone response in Mauritius. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 50. 101901–101901. 16 indexed citations

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McMichael, Celia, Shouro Dasgupta, Sonja Ayeb‐Karlsson, & Ilan Kelman. (2020). A review of estimating population exposure to sea-level rise and the relevance for migration. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 123005–123005. 102 indexed citations

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O’Neill, James C., Tamsin Edwards, Lauren Gregoire, et al.. (2020). Modelling the Antarctic Ice Sheet in the warm Mid-Pliocene. 1 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan. (2018). Islandness within climate change narratives of small island developing states (SIDS). Island Studies Journal. 13(1). 149–166. 74 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan, James Lewis, JC Gaillard, & Jessica Mercer. (2015). Island contributions to disaster research. Global Environment. 8(1). 16–37. 4 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan. (2015). Disaster Risk Governance for Pacific Island Communities. Japan focus. 13(50). 6 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan, et al.. (2012). Local Business Perceptions of Weather Impacts on Tourism in Svalbard, Norway. 7 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan, et al.. (2011). Post-tsunami housing resident satisfaction in Aceh. International Development Planning Review. 33(2). 187–211. 14 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan, et al.. (2011). Improving the disaster-related component of secondary school geography education in England. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. 20(4). 327–343. 29 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan & Rachel Dodds. (2009). Developing a Code of Ethics for Disaster Tourism. International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters. 27(3). 272–296. 18 indexed citations

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Mercer, Jessica, Dale Dominey‐Howes, Ilan Kelman, & Kate Lloyd. (2007). The potential for combining indigenous and western knowledge in reducing vulnerability to environmental hazards in small island developing states. Environmental Hazards. 7(4). 245–256. 177 indexed citations

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Kelman, Ilan, et al.. (2007). Relocalising disaster risk reduction in Boulder, Colorado. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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