Jens Newig

14.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
124 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Jens Newig is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Jens Newig has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Jens Newig's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (56 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (15 papers). Jens Newig is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (56 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (15 papers). Jens Newig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Jens Newig's co-authors include Nicolas W. Jager, Oliver Fritsch, Edward Challies, Tomas M. Koontz, Julia Leventon, Daniel J. Lang, David J. Abson, Henrik von Wehrden, Claudia Pahl‐Wostl and Joern Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Jens Newig

116 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

What is Social Learning?

2010 1.1k citations Jens Newig et al. profile →
Leverage points for sustainability transformation

2016 1.0k citations Jens Newig, Nicolas W. Jager et al. profile →
Environmental governance: participatory, multi‐level – and effective?

2009 720 citations Jens Newig, Oliver Fritsch Environmental Policy and Governance profile →
A review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science

2013 575 citations Jens Newig et al. profile →
Importance of Actors and Agency in Sustainability Transitions: A Systematic Exploration of the Literature

2016 278 citations Jens Newig et al. profile →
The Environmental Performance of Participatory and Collaborative Governance: A Framework of Causal Mechanisms

2017 268 citations Jens Newig, Edward Challies et al. profile →
How does the context and design of participatory decision making processes affect their outcomes? Evidence from sustainable land management in global drylands

2016 242 citations Jens Newig et al. profile →
From Planning to Implementation: Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Approaches for Collaborative Watershed Management

2014 221 citations Jens Newig et al. profile →
Governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: How important are participation, policy coherence, reflexivity, adaptation and democratic institutions?

2019 220 citations Jens Newig et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	System capacities and implementation challenges in Germany's electric vehicle policy mix: an actor-centered review of the policy mix 2025 ·Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·(unknown), Paul Upham, Jens Newig	0
2	Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research 2025 ·Environmental Policy and Governance ·Michael Rose, Jens Newig, Sina Leipold	0
3	How to Assess Knowledge Cumulation in Environmental Governance Research? Conceptual and Empirical Explorations 2025 ·Environmental Policy and Governance ·Jens Newig, Michael Rose	3
4	Does participatory governance help address long-term environmental problems? Conceptualization and evidence from 23 democracies 2025 ·Policy Studies ·Michael Rose, Jens Newig, Nicolas W. Jager	0
5	Political embedding of climate assemblies. How effective strategies for policy impact depend on context 2025 ·Environmental Science & Policy ·(unknown), Jens Newig	4
6	How to identify published articles originating from paper presentations at academic conferences of the Earth System Governance Research Community: Screening and matching guideline 2024 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Jens Newig, Michael Rose	1
7	Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies 2023 ·Global Environmental Change ·Jens Newig, Nicolas W. Jager, Edward Challies, Elisa Kochskämper	74
8	To Assess Progress in the Social Sciences, We Should Study Knowledge Cumulation, not Disruptiveness 2023 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Jens Newig, Michael Rose, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Bolognesi, Oliver Fritsch, D.L.T. Hegger, (unknown), Nicolas W. Jager, Elke Kellner, (unknown), Åsa Persson, Hens Runhaar, (unknown)	7
9	Toward the sustainability state? Conceptualizing national sustainability institutions and their impact on policy‐making 2022 ·Environmental Policy and Governance ·(unknown), Michael Rose, Jens Newig, Steffen Bauer	14
10	Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the terrain towards an integrated research agenda 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), Edward Challies, Jens Newig, Andrea Lenschow, Almut Schilling‐Vacaflor	13
11	Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative 2020 ·Environmental Policy and Governance ·(unknown), Simon Laursen Bager, Patrick Meyfroidt, Jens Newig, Edward Challies	126
12	Participation in River Basin Planning Under the Water Framework Directive – Has it Benefitted Good Water Status? 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Elisa Kochskämper, Jens Newig	13
13	Learning in participatory environmental governance – its antecedents and effects. Findings from a case survey meta-analysis 2019 ·Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ·Jens Newig, Nicolas W. Jager, Elisa Kochskämper, Edward Challies	38
14	Disentangling Puzzles of Spatial Scales and Participation in Environmental Governance—The Case of Governance Re-scaling Through the European Water Framework Directive 2016 ·Environmental Management ·Jens Newig, Daniel Schulz, Nicolas W. Jager	55
15	Participatory Governance and Sustainability: Findings of a Meta-Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Environmental Decision Making 2012 ·The MIT Press eBooks ·Oliver Fritsch, Jens Newig	11
16	THE CASE SURVEY METHOD AND APPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE 2009 ·Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University) ·Jens Newig, Oliver Fritsch	22
17	Environmental governance: Participatory, multi-level - and effective? 2008 ·Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University) ·Jens Newig, Oliver Fritsch	1
18	Governance for sustainable development : coping with ambivalence, uncertainty and distributed power 2008 ·Routledge eBooks ·Jens Newig, Jan-Peter Voß, Jochen Monstadt	42
19	Under which conditions does public participation really advance sustainability goals? Findings of a Meta-Analysis of stakeholder involvement in environmental Decision-making 2007 ·Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University) ·Oliver Fritsch, Jens Newig	2
20	Steering for Sustainable Development: a Typology of Problems and Strategies with respect to Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Distributed Power 2007 ·Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ·Jan-Peter Voß, Jens Newig, Britta Kastens, Jochen Monstadt, Benjamin Nölting	128

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