Lucy Baker

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Lucy Baker is a scholar working on Pollution, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucy Baker has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Pollution, 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Lucy Baker's work include Energy and Environment Impacts (21 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (6 papers). Lucy Baker is often cited by papers focused on Energy and Environment Impacts (21 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (6 papers). Lucy Baker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and South Africa. Lucy Baker's co-authors include Benjamin K. Sovacool, Cynthia J. Moss, Karen McComb, Soila Sayialel, Jon Phillips, Andrew Hook, Mari Martiskainen, Peter Newell, Holle Linnea Wlokas and Matthew J. Burke and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Lucy Baker

42 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

New frontiers and conceptual frameworks for energy justice

2017 500 citations Benjamin K. Sovacool, Lucy Baker et al. Energy Policy profile →
Decarbonization and its discontents: a critical energy justice perspective on four low-carbon transitions

2019 276 citations Benjamin K. Sovacool, Mari Martiskainen et al. profile →

Peers

Lucy Baker

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Michael Thompson United States

Vanessa Hull United States

Timothy Moss Germany

Diogo Veríssimo United Kingdom

Mohammed Alamgir Australia

Eileen Crist United States

Olof Johansson Sweden

Ken Green Australia

Tarla Rai Peterson United States

Tuuli Toivonen Finland

Michael Thompson United States

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899 ×1.0

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822 ×1.3

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689 ×1.3

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148 ×0.3

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Countries citing papers authored by Lucy Baker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lucy Baker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucy Baker

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Baker, Lucy, et al.. (2025). Business models and access to finance for mini grid development in sub-Saharan Africa. Energy Sustainable Development. 85. 101666–101666. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy, et al.. (2024). Strengthening commercial viability through greater inclusiveness in rural mini-grid deployment: Insights from Nigeria and Kenya. Energy Sustainable Development. 83. 101584–101584. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy, et al.. (2023). Exploring the connections between mini-grid market regulation and energy access expansion: The case of Nigeria. Energy Policy. 184. 113891–113891. 8 indexed citations

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Essex, Stephen, et al.. (2023). The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions. Urban Research & Practice. 17(4). 515–542. 4 indexed citations

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Romani, Cristina, Andrew Olson, Lucy Baker, et al.. (2022). Meta-analyses of cognitive functions in early-treated adults with phenylketonuria. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 143. 104925–104925. 21 indexed citations

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Hall, Sarah, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Harvey Neo, et al.. (2020). Editorial – Revisiting Open Access Publishing. Geoforum. 112. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Civitello, David J., et al.. (2020). Resource fluctuations inhibit the reproduction and virulence of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni in its snail intermediate host. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1919). 20192446–20192446. 8 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy, Andrew Hook, & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2020). Power struggles: Governing renewable electricity in a time of technological disruption. Geoforum. 118. 93–105. 23 indexed citations

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Sovacool, Benjamin K., Mari Martiskainen, Andrew Hook, & Lucy Baker. (2019). Beyond cost and carbon: The multidimensional co-benefits of low carbon transitions in Europe. Ecological Economics. 169. 106529–106529. 59 indexed citations

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Sovacool, Benjamin K., Lucy Baker, Mari Martiskainen, & Andrew Hook. (2019). Processes of elite power and low-carbon pathways: Experimentation, financialisation, and dispossession. Global Environmental Change. 59. 101985–101985. 52 indexed citations

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Broto, Vanesa Castán & Lucy Baker. (2017). Spatial adventures in energy studies: An introduction to the special issue. Energy Research & Social Science. 36. 1–10. 85 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy & Benjamin K. Sovacool. (2017). The political economy of technological capabilities and global production networks in South Africa's wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries. Political Geography. 60. 1–12. 92 indexed citations

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Power, Marcus, Peter Newell, Lucy Baker, et al.. (2016). The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa: The role of the Rising Powers. Energy Research & Social Science. 17. 10–19. 154 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy. (2015). The evolving role of finance in South Africa’s renewable energy sector. Geoforum. 64. 146–156. 106 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy, Peter Newell, & Jon Phillips. (2014). The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Case of South Africa. New Political Economy. 19(6). 791–818. 268 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy. (2011). Sustainable Energy Solutions for South Africa Ensuring Public Participation and Improved Accountability in Policy Processes. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy. (2011). Governing electricity in South Africa: wind, coal and power struggles. Figshare. 12 indexed citations

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McComb, Karen, Lucy Baker, & Cynthia J. Moss. (2005). African elephants show high levels of interest in the skulls and ivory of their own species. Biology Letters. 2(1). 26–28. 64 indexed citations

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Baker, Lucy. (2004). Covering all bases: early thoughts for population bases for the 2011 Census.. PubMed. 6–10. 1 indexed citations

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McComb, Karen, David Reby, Lucy Baker, Cynthia J. Moss, & Soila Sayialel. (2003). Long-distance communication of acoustic cues to social identity in African elephants. Animal Behaviour. 65(2). 317–329. 221 indexed citations

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