Jerneja Penca

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 734 citations indexed

About

Jerneja Penca is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jerneja Penca has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 734 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 6 papers in Law and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jerneja Penca's work include Environmental Conservation and Management (6 papers), Environmental law and policy (6 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (5 papers). Jerneja Penca is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Conservation and Management (6 papers), Environmental law and policy (6 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (5 papers). Jerneja Penca collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Slovenia and Spain. Jerneja Penca's co-authors include Alicia Said, Cristina Pita, Simone Libralato, José J. Pascual-Fernández, Troels Jacob Hegland, Mihnea Tănăsescu, Andrea Barbanti, Amel Hamza‐Chaffai, Jean‐Baptiste Jouffray and Nezha Mejjad and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Energy Policy and Biodiversity and Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Jerneja Penca

21 papers receiving 679 citations

Hit Papers

International Maritime Organization 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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. International Maritime Organization
    2009 530 citations Jerneja Penca The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jerneja Penca Italy 7 183 152 107 88 87 21 734
Weipan Zhang China 9 208 1.1× 91 0.6× 51 0.5× 40 0.5× 27 0.3× 18 770
Luis M. Abadie Spain 20 80 0.4× 274 1.8× 204 1.9× 45 0.5× 63 0.7× 55 1.3k
Rolf Skjong Norway 16 476 2.6× 223 1.5× 154 1.4× 31 0.4× 80 0.9× 44 982
Mrinmoy Majumder India 17 149 0.8× 126 0.8× 95 0.9× 46 0.5× 33 0.4× 98 923
Gordon Dalton Ireland 21 467 2.6× 152 1.0× 112 1.0× 291 3.3× 53 0.6× 28 1.7k
Mariano Angelo Zanini Italy 30 70 0.4× 72 0.5× 107 1.0× 52 0.6× 50 0.6× 88 2.3k
Frances Wood United Kingdom 12 58 0.3× 282 1.9× 133 1.2× 33 0.4× 15 0.2× 25 680
Xiaofang Wu China 19 127 0.7× 948 6.2× 179 1.7× 54 0.6× 146 1.7× 66 1.6k
Vaibhav Chaturvedi United States 21 195 1.1× 396 2.6× 217 2.0× 93 1.1× 103 1.2× 44 1.5k
Christian Solli Norway 14 53 0.3× 369 2.4× 101 0.9× 83 0.9× 29 0.3× 20 802

Countries citing papers authored by Jerneja Penca

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jerneja Penca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jerneja Penca

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Penca, Jerneja, Irmak Ertör, Marta Ballesteros, et al.. (2025). Rethinking the Blue Economy: Integrating social science for sustainability and justice. PubMed. 4(1). 40–40. 3 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja & Mihnea Tănăsescu. (2024). The transformative potential of the EU’s Nature Restoration Law. Sustainability Science. 20(2). 643–647. 3 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja, Andrea Barbanti, Christopher Cvitanovic, et al.. (2024). Building competences for researchers working towards ocean sustainability. Marine Policy. 163. 106132–106132. 6 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2024). Biodiversity Offset Mechanisms and Compensation for Loss from Exceptional to Popular: Rediscovering Environmental Law. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy. 27(3). 137–160. 1 indexed citations
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Cvitanovic, Christopher, Jessica Blythe, Ingrid van Putten, et al.. (2024). Building Successful International Summer Schools to Enhance the Capacity of Marine Early Career Researchers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 2 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2023). Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding. Biodiversity and Conservation. 32(11). 3615–3639. 4 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja, et al.. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic and the EU: From a sustainable energy transition to a green transition?. Energy Policy. 175. 113453–113453. 22 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja, et al.. (2021). Sustainable small-scale fisheries markets in the Mediterranean: weaknesses and opportunities. MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies. 20(2). 141–155. 27 indexed citations
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Said, Alicia, et al.. (2020). Small-scale fisheries access to fishing opportunities in the European Union: Is the Common Fisheries Policy the right step to SDG14b?. Marine Policy. 118. 104009–104009. 25 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2020). Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption of Seafood Through Enhanced Mandatory Food Labeling. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 21 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2019). Transnational Localism: Empowerment through Standard Setting in Small-Scale Fisheries. Transnational Environmental Law. 8(1). 143–165. 6 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2018). European Plastics Strategy: What promise for global marine litter?. Marine Policy. 97. 197–201. 55 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2018). The rhetoric of “science diplomacy": Innovation for the EU's scientific cooperation? EL-CSID Working Paper Issue 2018/16 • April 2018. Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh). 4 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2016). Transnational legal transplants and legitimacy: the example of ‘clean’ and ‘green’ development mechanisms. Legal Studies. 36(4). 706–724. 1 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2014). Biodiversity Offsetting in Transnational Governance. Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law. 24(1). 93–102. 1 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2013). Marketing the Market: The Ideology of Market Mechanisms for Biodiversity Conservation. Transnational Environmental Law. 2(2). 235–257. 15 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja, et al.. (2012). The Dominance of Climate Change in Environmental Law: Taking stock for Rio+20. 1 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2012). Green economy and environmental law : a mismatch and why bother?. Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute). 1 indexed citations
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Penca, Jerneja. (2009). International Maritime Organization. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law. 24(4). 713–725. 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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