James Acheson

6.6k citations
91 papers · 4.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 26

James Acheson

82 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two years later8211981202619962011250500750

Peers

James Acheson
Comparison fields: 5 of 142
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.9k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 907
  • Safety Research 342
  • Ecology 1.0k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 300
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside James Acheson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20202
2 201726
3 20159
4 20143
5 20101
6 20092
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Institutional Failure in Resource Management
20081
8 20085
9 20081
10 200612
11 2006295
12 200436
13 200116
14 200015
15 199754
16
Anthropology and Institutional Economics
199458
17 199310
18 198621
19 198415
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The Fishing Ports of Maine and New Hampshire: 1978, Report to the National Science Foundation, Volume I
19803

About James Acheson

James Acheson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Safety Research, Literature and Literary Theory and Demography, having authored 91 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and fisheries research (19 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (10 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (9 papers), Samuel Beckett and Modernism (8 papers), Theatre and Performance Studies (6 papers) and Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.9k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (907 citations), Safety Research (342 citations), Ecology (1.0k citations) and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (300 citations). James Acheson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Canada. Frequent co-authors include David Feeny, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie J. McCay, Colin Duncan, James A. Wilson, Roy Gardner, Peter Kleban, Robert S. Steneck, Jack Knight and Timothy M. Waring. Their work appears in journals such as Human Ecology, Human Organization, American Anthropologist, North American Journal of Fisheries Management and International Journal of the Commons.

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