Kelsey Leonard

495 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 274 citations indexed

About

Kelsey Leonard is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelsey Leonard has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 274 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Health and 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Kelsey Leonard's work include Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 papers), Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (3 papers). Kelsey Leonard is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 papers), Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (3 papers). Kelsey Leonard collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and New Zealand. Kelsey Leonard's co-authors include Jeremy Firestone, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Cara Daggett, Christine Labuski, Julie Michelle Klinger, Lindsay Naylor, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Myles Lennon, Daniel McCool and Barbara Cosens and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, PLoS Biology and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Kelsey Leonard

18 papers receiving 253 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives

2023 123 citations Benjamin K. Sovacool, Shannon Elizabeth Bell et al. Energy Research & Social Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelsey Leonard Canada	8	116	59	58	46	41	19	274
Valoree S. Gagnon United States	10	71 0.6×	94 1.6×	93 1.6×	33 0.7×	14 0.3×	22	319
Sanna Markkanen United Kingdom	6	101 0.9×	45 0.8×	30 0.5×	42 0.9×	16 0.4×	9	310
Andrew Curley United States	12	159 1.4×	34 0.6×	33 0.6×	42 0.9×	135 3.3×	20	394
Heather Lukacs United States	8	80 0.7×	36 0.6×	21 0.4×	31 0.7×	82 2.0×	13	361
Ksenija Hanaček Spain	8	99 0.9×	108 1.8×	16 0.3×	38 0.8×	40 1.0×	11	306
Margaret Angula Namibia	8	176 1.5×	101 1.7×	44 0.8×	48 1.0×	11 0.3×	13	373
Ana Maria Bedran-Martins Brazil	9	91 0.8×	127 2.2×	23 0.4×	47 1.0×	9 0.2×	11	300
Leanne Giordono United States	9	200 1.7×	110 1.9×	21 0.4×	46 1.0×	31 0.8×	24	315
F. Landis MacKellar Austria	8	96 0.8×	61 1.0×	29 0.5×	42 0.9×	17 0.4×	22	382
David Leonard Downie United States	8	79 0.7×	55 0.9×	15 0.3×	48 1.0×	20 0.5×	24	281

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kelsey Leonard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelsey Leonard

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19 of 19 papers shown

St‐Hilaire, André, et al.. (2025). Centring Water in Impact Assessment: Reconsidering Environmental and Cultural Flows in Development Decision-Making in Canada. Environmental Management. 75(8). 2010–2030.

Floerl, Oliver, Kelsey Leonard, Paula Casanovas, et al.. (2025). Policy, management, and the ‘Level of Fouling’ scale to transform marine invasion risk reduction from recreational boats. Journal of Environmental Management. 394. 127493–127493. 1 indexed citations

Smythe, Tiffany, et al.. (2025). Watered down justice: Experiences of the offshore wind transition in Northeast coastal communities in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 120. 103919–103919. 7 indexed citations

Leonard, Kelsey, Stephen B. Shaw, Abraham Francis, et al.. (2024). New York State Climate Impacts Assessment Chapter 10: Water Resources. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1542(1). 561–619. 6 indexed citations

Leonard, Kelsey. (2024). Decolonizing botanical gardens. Qualitative Research Journal. 24(5). 536–554. 3 indexed citations

Leonard, Kelsey, et al.. (2024). A systematic scoping review of the collaborative governance of environmental and cultural flows. Environmental Reviews. 33. 1–28. 2 indexed citations

Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda, Dana Lepofsky, Alex C. McAlvay, et al.. (2023). Reply to Oswald et al.: scale in studies of pre-colonial forests. Ecosystems and People. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Sovacool, Benjamin K., Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Cara Daggett, et al.. (2023). Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. Energy Research & Social Science. 97. 102996–102996. 123 indexed citations breakdown →

Leonard, Kelsey. (2022). Siwá Feminism: Shinnecock Ocean Relationality. Amerasia Journal. 48(3). 217–238. 2 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey, et al.. (2022). Living in relationship with the Ocean to transform governance in the UN Ocean Decade. PLoS Biology. 20(10). e3001828–e3001828. 25 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey, et al.. (2022). Two-eyed seeing: Embracing the power of Indigenous knowledge for a healthy and sustainable Ocean. PLoS Biology. 20(10). e3001876–e3001876. 4 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey, et al.. (2022). Indigenous Feminism and This Bridge Called My Back: Storytelling with Chrystos, Max Wolf Valerio, and Jo Carrillo. Feminist Studies. 48(1). 81–107. 1 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey. (2021). WAMPUM Adaptation framework: eastern coastal Tribal Nations and sea level rise impacts on water security. Climate and Development. 13(9). 842–851. 19 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey. (2021). Sustaining Tribal Fisheries: U.S. Economic Relief Policies during COVID-19. Sustainability. 13(22). 12366–12366. 3 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey. (2021). Turtle Island (North America) Indigenous Higher Education Institutions and Environmental Sustainability Education. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education. 13(Summer). 90–133. 1 indexed citations

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Leonard, Kelsey. (2020). Medicine lines and COVID-19: Indigenous geographies of imagined bordering. Dialogues in Human Geography. 10(2). 164–168. 20 indexed citations

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Dion, Michelle, et al.. (2020). Research Methodology and Community Participation: A Decade of Indigenous Social Science Research in Canada. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. 57(1). 122–146. 8 indexed citations

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Dion, Michelle, et al.. (2018). Institutional logics and indigenous research sovereignty in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Studies in Higher Education. 45(2). 403–415. 14 indexed citations

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Cosens, Barbara, et al.. (2017). Indigenous Water Justice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 33 indexed citations

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