Kevin Lo

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Kevin Lo is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Lo has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 31 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Kevin Lo's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (16 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers) and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (16 papers). Kevin Lo is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (16 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers) and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (16 papers). Kevin Lo collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Australia. Kevin Lo's co-authors include Mark Wang, Pingyu Zhang, Juntao Tan, Meng Guo, Xinxin Wang, Li He, Vanesa Castán Broto, Daphne Ngar‐yin Mah, Dong Cao and Jing Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Lo

119 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Just transition: A conceptual review

2021 379 citations Kevin Lo et al. Energy Research & Social Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Lo Hong Kong	32	1.0k	919	861	545	499	124	3.5k
Paula Kivimaa Finland	35	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.8k 2.1×	389 0.7×	384 0.8×	87	4.8k
José A. Puppim de Oliveira Brazil	35	581 0.6×	506 0.6×	806 0.9×	476 0.9×	189 0.4×	141	3.6k
Bruno Turnheim United Kingdom	19	628 0.6×	851 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	306 0.6×	230 0.5×	25	2.7k
Heike Schroeder United Kingdom	35	1.3k 1.2×	943 1.0×	2.2k 2.5×	783 1.4×	313 0.6×	60	4.3k
Karoline S. Rogge Germany	27	2.0k 1.9×	832 0.9×	1.3k 1.5×	689 1.3×	419 0.8×	57	4.1k
James Meadowcroft Canada	27	720 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.9×	290 0.5×	420 0.8×	47	3.4k
Andy Gouldson United Kingdom	35	1.0k 1.0×	608 0.7×	804 0.9×	574 1.1×	155 0.3×	103	3.7k
Florian Kern United Kingdom	32	1.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.7×	2.5k 2.9×	621 1.1×	635 1.3×	61	5.7k
Marianne Fay United States	24	1.3k 1.3×	577 0.6×	391 0.5×	254 0.5×	299 0.6×	54	3.1k
Mark Swilling South Africa	29	408 0.4×	937 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	430 0.8×	308 0.6×	90	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Lo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Lo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Lo

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sarkar, Md Abdur Rouf, et al.. (2026). A Governance Quality Lens on the Influence of Chinese Outward Investment on Human Development in Belt and Road Initiative Countries. Chinese Geographical Science. 36(1). 64–81.

Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2025). Just climate experimentation: Distributive, procedural, and recognition justice in two low-carbon pilots in China. Political Geography. 121. 103384–103384.

Islam, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul, et al.. (2025). Current state of medical waste management in an emerging city of Bangladesh. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 100223–100223.

Guo, Meiyu, et al.. (2025). Shaping sustainability: Circular economy development through digital technology innovation. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. 10(5). 100784–100784. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, K.J. & Kevin Lo. (2025). Assemblage thinking and just transition: Theoretical building blocks of just transition assemblage. The Extractive Industries and Society. 24. 101699–101699. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Meiyu, et al.. (2024). Assessing energy efficiency of natural gas in China’s transition towards carbon neutrality. Energy Ecology and Environment. 9(6). 614–630. 1 indexed citations

Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Geopolitical strategies and transnational environmental governance: A comparative study of international NGOs in Cambodia. Geoforum. 154. 104063–104063. 3 indexed citations

Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2024). The political ecology of wildfire: Media and the politics of blame in the Evros wildfires in Greece. Trees Forests and People. 18. 100682–100682. 1 indexed citations

Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem stability assessment under hydroclimatic anomalies in the arid region of Northwest China. Ecological Indicators. 169. 112831–112831. 1 indexed citations

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Iaquinto, Benjamin Lucca, et al.. (2024). The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. The AAG Review of Books. 13(1). 35–43. 2 indexed citations

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Lo, Kevin. (2024). The politics of just transition: Authoritarian environmentalism and implementation flexibility in forest conservation. Political Geography. 109. 103066–103066. 6 indexed citations

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Lo, Kevin & Daphne Ngar‐yin Mah. (2023). State capitalism, fragmented authoritarianism, and the politics of energy policymaking: Policy networks and electricity market liberalization in Guangdong, China. Energy Research & Social Science. 107. 103348–103348. 6 indexed citations

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Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Long-term improvements in water conservation functions at Qilian Mountain National Park, northwest China. Journal of Mountain Science. 20(10). 2885–2897. 11 indexed citations

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Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneity and non-linearity of ecosystem responses to climate change in the Qilian Mountains National Park, China. Journal of Arid Land. 15(5). 508–522. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Jing, et al.. (2023). Withdrawal Intention of Farmers from Vacant Rural Homesteads and Its Influencing Mechanism in Northeast China: A Case Study of Jilin Province. Chinese Geographical Science. 33(4). 634–648. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunlan, et al.. (2023). Elderly people’s preferences for healthcare facilities in Shanghai: gender features and influencing factor analysis. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 356–356. 9 indexed citations

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Appleby, Sarah, Romeel Davé, Daniele Sorini, Christopher C. Lovell, & Kevin Lo. (2023). Mapping circumgalactic medium observations to theory using machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(1). 1167–1181. 2 indexed citations

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Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2022). Workplace attachment and the eco-restructuring of people-workplace relationships in China's extractive forestry. The Extractive Industries and Society. 10. 101072–101072. 5 indexed citations

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Lo, Kevin, et al.. (2021). An inverted-U relationship between house prices and migrant integration. Cities. 118. 103375–103375. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Mark & Kevin Lo. (2015). Displacement and Resettlement with Chinese Characteristics: An Editorial Introduction. 35. 1–9. 8 indexed citations

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