James Patterson

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

James Patterson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James Patterson has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James Patterson's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (29 papers), Policy Transfer and Learning (8 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 papers). James Patterson is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (29 papers), Policy Transfer and Learning (8 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 papers). James Patterson collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Australia and Canada. James Patterson's co-authors include Raoul Beunen, Margot Hurlbert, Karsten Schulz, Karen Anderton, Mahendra Sethi, Sandra van der Hel, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Oscar Widerberg, Joost Vervoort and Carolina Adler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

James Patterson

43 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Patterson Netherlands	22	895	546	328	230	217	44	1.9k
Carel Dieperink Netherlands	25	1.0k 1.2×	672 1.2×	296 0.9×	204 0.9×	181 0.8×	70	2.1k
Edward Challies New Zealand	23	969 1.1×	505 0.9×	319 1.0×	310 1.3×	297 1.4×	52	2.1k
Nicolas W. Jager Germany	20	1.1k 1.2×	535 1.0×	486 1.5×	248 1.1×	284 1.3×	36	2.5k
Mikael Hildén Finland	29	1.1k 1.3×	564 1.0×	350 1.1×	459 2.0×	212 1.0×	109	2.4k
Peter Messerli Switzerland	29	1.4k 1.6×	466 0.9×	517 1.6×	348 1.5×	263 1.2×	80	3.0k
Margot Hurlbert Canada	19	724 0.8×	557 1.0×	286 0.9×	129 0.6×	142 0.7×	89	1.7k
Richard D. Margerum United States	18	748 0.8×	379 0.7×	349 1.1×	188 0.8×	259 1.2×	45	1.7k
Raoul Beunen Netherlands	29	1.0k 1.1×	592 1.1×	554 1.7×	238 1.0×	267 1.2×	106	2.5k
Giuseppe Feola Netherlands	27	711 0.8×	497 0.9×	421 1.3×	223 1.0×	83 0.4×	82	2.6k
Megan Farrelly Australia	23	1.1k 1.2×	408 0.7×	266 0.8×	143 0.6×	333 1.5×	63	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by James Patterson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Patterson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Patterson, James, et al.. (2025). Reactions to policy action: socio-political conditions of backlash to climate change policy. Policy Sciences. 58(2). 287–320.

Patterson, James, et al.. (2025). Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways. Energy Research & Social Science. 122. 104009–104009. 1 indexed citations

Patterson, James, Giuseppe Feola, & Rakhyun E. Kim. (2024). Negotiating discord in sustainability transformations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(21). e2310186121–e2310186121. 12 indexed citations

Patterson, James & Matthew Paterson. (2024). Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”. Review of Policy Research. 43(1). 6 indexed citations

Patterson, James, Carina Wyborn, Linda Westman, et al.. (2021). The political effects of emergency frames in sustainability. Nature Sustainability. 4(10). 841–850. 52 indexed citations

Patterson, James, Niko Soininen, Marcus Collier, & Christopher M. Raymond. (2021). Finding feasible action towards urban transformations. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 24 indexed citations

Patterson, James. (2020). Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 29 indexed citations

Patterson, James & Raoul Beunen. (2019). Institutional work in environmental governance. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 62(1). 1–11. 29 indexed citations

Patterson, James, et al.. (2019). Exogenous factors in collective policy learning: the case of municipal flood risk governance in the Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 21(3). 302–319. 9 indexed citations

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Wolfram, Marc, Jeroen van der Heijden, Sirkku Juhola, & James Patterson. (2018). Learning in urban climate governance: concepts, key issues and challenges. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 21(1). 1–15. 71 indexed citations

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Heijden, Jeroen van der, James Patterson, Sirkku Juhola, & Marc Wolfram. (2018). Special section: advancing the role of cities in climate governance – promise, limits, politics. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 62(3). 365–373. 45 indexed citations

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Loë, Rob C. de & James Patterson. (2017). Rethinking Water Governance: Moving Beyond Water-Centric Perspectives in a Connected and Changing World. Natural resources journal. 57(1). 75–99. 43 indexed citations

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Beunen, Raoul & James Patterson. (2016). Analysing institutional change in environmental governance: exploring the concept of ‘institutional work’. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 62(1). 12–29. 107 indexed citations

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Patterson, James. (2016). Exploring Local Responses to a Wicked Problem: Context, Collective Action, and Outcomes in Catchments in Subtropical Australia. Society & Natural Resources. 29(10). 1198–1213. 10 indexed citations

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Loë, Rob C. de & James Patterson. (2015). Water resilience for human prosperity. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 40(4). 424–425. 7 indexed citations

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Patterson, James, Carl Smith, & Jennifer Bellamy. (2014). Enabling and Enacting ‘Practical Action’ in Catchments: Responding to the ‘Wicked Problem’ of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Coastal Subtropical Australia. Environmental Management. 55(2). 479–495. 13 indexed citations

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Patterson, James, et al.. (2013). Tapping fresh currents: Fostering early-career researchers in transdisciplinary water governance research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 18 indexed citations

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Patterson, James, Carl Smith, & Jennifer Bellamy. (2013). Understanding enabling capacities for managing the ‘wicked problem’ of nonpoint source water pollution in catchments: A conceptual framework. Journal of Environmental Management. 128. 441–452. 117 indexed citations

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Mudd, Gavin M. & James Patterson. (2010). Continuing pollution from the Rum Jungle U–Cu project: A critical evaluation of environmental monitoring and rehabilitation. Environmental Pollution. 158(5). 1252–1260. 32 indexed citations

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Patterson, James. (1995). Benchmarking basics looking for a better way. 12 indexed citations

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