Jan Selby

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jan Selby is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Selby has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jan Selby's work include Transboundary Water Resource Management (19 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (10 papers) and Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (5 papers). Jan Selby is often cited by papers focused on Transboundary Water Resource Management (19 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (10 papers) and Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (5 papers). Jan Selby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Türkiye. Jan Selby's co-authors include Clemens Hoffmann, Mike Hulme, Christiane Fröhlich, Omar S. Dahi, Sarah Royston, Elizabeth Shove, Zia Wadud, Emily Cox, Vally Koubi and Cullen S. Hendrix and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Energy and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Jan Selby

34 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited
    2017 238 citations Jan Selby, Omar S. Dahi et al. Political Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Selby United Kingdom 21 915 258 183 141 123 39 1.3k
Geoffrey D. Dabelko United States 13 721 0.8× 184 0.7× 323 1.8× 137 1.0× 85 0.7× 27 1.1k
Ken Conca United States 22 889 1.0× 393 1.5× 423 2.3× 210 1.5× 45 0.4× 52 1.6k
Bernadette P. Resurrección Thailand 19 550 0.6× 131 0.5× 276 1.5× 121 0.9× 37 0.3× 45 1.1k
Martin V. Melosi United States 19 320 0.3× 247 1.0× 140 0.8× 310 2.2× 47 0.4× 75 1.2k
Nícola Ulibarrí United States 20 329 0.4× 188 0.7× 368 2.0× 164 1.2× 36 0.3× 51 1.0k
Idowu Ajibade United States 19 611 0.7× 105 0.4× 427 2.3× 137 1.0× 51 0.4× 44 1.2k
Julia Leininger Germany 11 300 0.3× 160 0.6× 255 1.4× 99 0.7× 27 0.2× 38 973
Stephen Gasteyer United States 16 276 0.3× 60 0.2× 126 0.7× 60 0.4× 99 0.8× 40 817
Elisabeth Gilmore United States 19 659 0.7× 91 0.4× 196 1.1× 80 0.6× 57 0.5× 49 1.3k
Katrina Smith Korfmacher United States 16 238 0.3× 73 0.3× 298 1.6× 153 1.1× 81 0.7× 48 884

Countries citing papers authored by Jan Selby

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Selby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Selby

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

All Works

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Selby, Jan, et al.. (2024). Climate change and migration: A review and new framework for analysis. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 15(4). 9 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan, Mike Hulme, & Wolfgang Crämer. (2024). There is no human climate niche. One Earth. 7(7). 1155–1157. 4 indexed citations
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Hendrix, Cullen S., Vally Koubi, Jan Selby, Ayesha Siddiqi, & Nina von Uexkull. (2023). Climate change and conflict. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(3). 144–148. 27 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2022). International/inter-carbonic relations. International Relations. 36(3). 329–357. 2 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin. Geopolitics. 28(3). 1285–1322. 32 indexed citations
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Cox, Emily, Sarah Royston, & Jan Selby. (2019). From exports to exercise: How non-energy policies affect energy systems. Energy Research & Social Science. 55. 179–188. 22 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2018). Climate change and the Syrian civil war, Part II: The Jazira’s agrarian crisis. Geoforum. 101. 260–274. 49 indexed citations
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Wadud, Zia, Sarah Royston, & Jan Selby. (2018). Modelling energy demand from higher education institutions: A case study of the UK. Applied Energy. 233-234. 816–826. 40 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan, Omar S. Dahi, Christiane Fröhlich, & Mike Hulme. (2017). Climate change and the Syrian civil war revisited: A rejoinder. Political Geography. 60. 253–255. 25 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan, et al.. (2015). Misrepresenting the Jordan River Basin. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan & Clemens Hoffmann. (2014). Beyond scarcity: Rethinking water, climate change and conflict in the Sudans. Global Environmental Change. 29. 360–370. 86 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2013). Cooperation, domination and colonisation: the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 70 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2012). Dependence, Independence and Interdependence in the Palestinian Water Sector. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2005). Oil and Water: The Contrasting Anatomies of Resource Conflicts. Government and Opposition. 40(2). 200–224. 22 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2005). Post-Zionist Perspectives on Contemporary Israel. New Political Economy. 10(1). 107–120. 1 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2003). Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East. I.B.Tauris eBooks. 40 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (2003). Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Figshare. 41 indexed citations
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Selby, Jan. (1994). Revolutionary America: The Historiography. OAH Magazine of History. 8(4). 5–8.

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