Katharina Hölscher

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Katharina Hölscher is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Katharina Hölscher has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Katharina Hölscher's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (5 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers). Katharina Hölscher is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (5 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers). Katharina Hölscher collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ireland. Katharina Hölscher's co-authors include Niki Frantzeskaki, Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Timon McPhearson, Flor Avelino, Simona Pedde, Kasper Kok, Mendel Giezen, Matthew Bach and Jill Jäger and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Environmental Management and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Katharina Hölscher

24 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Transition versus transformation: What’s the difference? 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. Transition versus transformation: What’s the difference?
    2017 298 citations Katharina Hölscher, Julia M. Wittmayer et al. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katharina Hölscher Netherlands 15 620 343 175 161 134 30 1.1k
Marc Wolfram South Korea 11 448 0.7× 202 0.6× 184 1.1× 96 0.6× 86 0.6× 15 804
Ulli Vilsmaier Germany 11 541 0.9× 300 0.9× 129 0.7× 306 1.9× 75 0.6× 31 1.4k
Tischa A. Muñoz‐Erickson United States 18 479 0.8× 265 0.8× 66 0.4× 126 0.8× 73 0.5× 36 872
Aliyu Salisu Barau Nigeria 16 791 1.3× 336 1.0× 82 0.5× 249 1.5× 174 1.3× 36 1.7k
Fabienne Gralla Germany 8 665 1.1× 211 0.6× 133 0.8× 161 1.0× 100 0.7× 12 1.2k
Kevin Collins United Kingdom 19 763 1.2× 352 1.0× 131 0.7× 167 1.0× 58 0.4× 47 1.5k
Richard J. Hewitt Spain 16 662 1.1× 443 1.3× 82 0.5× 248 1.5× 184 1.4× 55 1.4k
Sandra van der Hel Netherlands 9 538 0.9× 321 0.9× 78 0.4× 205 1.3× 80 0.6× 11 1.0k
Linda Westman United Kingdom 17 341 0.6× 289 0.8× 100 0.6× 91 0.6× 127 0.9× 33 872
Oscar Widerberg Netherlands 19 891 1.4× 458 1.3× 79 0.5× 273 1.7× 452 3.4× 47 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Katharina Hölscher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katharina Hölscher

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2025). Repairing urban water governance through informality: comparing governance capacities for reparation in Indian cities. Water Policy. 27(4). 521–539. 1 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2025). Mainstreaming citizen science in policy: Adaptations needed in policy and how to achieve them in five European countries. Environmental Science & Policy. 171. 104148–104148.
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2025). Nurturing transformative spaces to challenge technocratic hegemony: Leveraging informality in Indian cities. Action Research. 23(3). 340–359. 1 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2025). Crisis as catalyst? Exploring cities’ climate emergency declarations for transformative urban governance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1).
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Wittmayer, Julia M., Kristina Bogner, Katharina Hölscher, et al.. (2024). Neither right nor wrong? Ethics of collaboration in transformative research for sustainable futures. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1). 6 indexed citations
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Pedde, Simona, et al.. (2024). Leveraging climate resilience capacities by (un)learning from transdisciplinary research projects. Climate Risk Management. 47. 100675–100675.
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2023). Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities. Environmental Science & Policy. 152. 103652–103652. 26 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2022). Co-production: a Connecting Nature Guidebook. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2022). Reflexive Monitoring: a Connecting Nature Guidebook. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Vandergert, Paula, Katharina Hölscher, & Siobhán McQuaid. (2022). Governance: a Connecting Nature Guidebook. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Hölscher, Katharina, et al.. (2022). Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 46. 100682–100682. 8 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina & Niki Frantzeskaki. (2021). Perspectives on urban transformation research: transformations in, of, and by cities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 100 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina & Niki Frantzeskaki. (2020). Transformative Climate Governance. 24 indexed citations
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Frantzeskaki, Niki, Katharina Hölscher, Ian Holman, et al.. (2019). Transition pathways to sustainability in greater than 2 °C climate futures of Europe. Regional Environmental Change. 19(3). 777–789. 30 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina. (2019). Transforming urban climate governance : Capacities for transformative climate governance. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 12 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, & Derk Loorbach. (2019). Capacities for urban transformations governance and the case of New York City. Cities. 94. 186–199. 53 indexed citations
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Pedde, Simona, Kasper Kok, Katharina Hölscher, et al.. (2019). Advancing the use of scenarios to understand society’s capacity to achieve the 1.5 degree target. Global Environmental Change. 56. 75–85. 29 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, & Derk Loorbach. (2018). Tales of transforming cities: Transformative climate governance capacities in New York City, U.S. and Rotterdam, Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Management. 231. 843–857. 103 indexed citations
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Hölscher, Katharina, Julia M. Wittmayer, Flor Avelino, & Mendel Giezen. (2017). Opening up the transition arena: An analysis of (dis)empowerment of civil society actors in transition management in cities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 145. 176–185. 69 indexed citations
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Wittmayer, Julia M., Katharina Hölscher, Niki Frantzeskaki, et al.. (2014). Studying sustainability transitions in welfare states : a research agenda for Japan and the Netherlands. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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