Mahendra Sethi

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 736 citations indexed

About

Mahendra Sethi is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Mahendra Sethi has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 736 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Environmental Engineering and 3 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Mahendra Sethi's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers). Mahendra Sethi is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers). Mahendra Sethi collaborates with scholars based in India, Germany and Japan. Mahendra Sethi's co-authors include James Patterson, Margot Hurlbert, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Oscar Widerberg, Sandra van der Hel, Karsten Schulz, Karen Anderton, Joost Vervoort, Carolina Adler and Felix Creutzig and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Mahendra Sethi

16 papers receiving 700 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.

Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability

2016 509 citations James Patterson, Karsten Schulz 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						Papers	Cites
Mahendra Sethi India	9	353	179	120	92	63	17	736
Karen Anderton United Kingdom	7	304 0.9×	182 1.0×	125 1.0×	83 0.9×	54 0.9×	15	743
Leonie Janssen-Jansen Netherlands	17	263 0.7×	161 0.9×	193 1.6×	160 1.7×	56 0.9×	56	793
Luuk Boelens Belgium	13	287 0.8×	203 1.1×	79 0.7×	80 0.9×	120 1.9×	52	953
Marc Wolfram South Korea	11	448 1.3×	202 1.1×	96 0.8×	86 0.9×	101 1.6×	15	804
Delik Hudalah Indonesia	17	249 0.7×	230 1.3×	104 0.9×	221 2.4×	49 0.8×	53	1.0k
Katharina Hölscher Netherlands	15	620 1.8×	343 1.9×	161 1.3×	134 1.5×	81 1.3×	30	1.1k
Irmi Seidl Switzerland	17	387 1.1×	187 1.0×	146 1.2×	229 2.5×	28 0.4×	49	1.0k
Andréanne Doyon Canada	10	331 0.9×	210 1.2×	83 0.7×	77 0.8×	122 1.9×	37	823
Li Yu China	16	257 0.7×	141 0.8×	60 0.5×	154 1.7×	91 1.4×	65	854
Tischa A. Muñoz‐Erickson United States	18	479 1.4×	265 1.5×	126 1.1×	73 0.8×	42 0.7×	36	872

Countries citing papers authored by Mahendra Sethi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mahendra Sethi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mahendra Sethi

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

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

Avtar, Ram, Sohail Ahmad, Saleh Alsulamy, et al.. (2025). Impact of urban density on human well-being and sustainable development in Delhi, India. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 33717–33717. 1 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra & Felix Creutzig. (2023). Leaders or laggards in climate action? Assessing GHG trends and mitigation targets of global megacities. PLOS Climate. 2(1). e0000113–e0000113. 5 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra & Shilpi Mittal. (2022). Developing a smart tool for integrated climate action planning (ICLAP 2050) in Asia-Pacific Cities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 2 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra, Li-Jing Liu, Aki Suwa, et al.. (2022). Integrated Climate Action Planning (ICLAP) in Asia-Pacific Cities: Analytical Modelling for Collaborative Decision Making. Atmosphere. 13(2). 247–247. 3 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra, et al.. (2021). How to tackle complexity in urban climate resilience? Negotiating climate science, adaptation and multi-level governance in India. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0253904–e0253904. 27 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra & Felix Creutzig. (2021). COVID-19 recovery and the global urban poor. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 15 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra & Shilpi Mittal. (2020). Improvised rental housing to make cities COVID safe in India. Cities. 106. 102922–102922. 13 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra, William F. Lamb, Jan C. Minx, & Felix Creutzig. (2020). Climate change mitigation in cities: a systematic scoping of case studies. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 93008–93008. 53 indexed citations

Sethi, Mahendra, et al.. (2018). The Divided City: Ideological and Policy Contestations in Contemporary Urban India.

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Sethi, Mahendra. (2017). Climate Change and Urban Settlements: A Spatial Perspective of Carbon Footprint and Beyond. 2 indexed citations

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Sethi, Mahendra, et al.. (2017). The Divided City. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Sethi, Mahendra. (2017). Climate Change and Urban Settlements. 6 indexed citations

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Patterson, James, Karsten Schulz, Joost Vervoort, et al.. (2016). Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 24. 1–16. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sethi, Mahendra & José A. Puppim de Oliveira. (2015). From global ‘North–South’ to local ‘Urban–Rural’: A shifting paradigm in climate governance?. Urban Climate. 14. 529–543. 22 indexed citations

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Patterson, James, Karsten Schulz, Joost Vervoort, et al.. (2015). ‘Transformations towards sustainability’ Emerging approaches, critical reflections, and a research agenda. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 33(33). 17 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Sohail, Ram Avtar, Mahendra Sethi, & Akhilesh Surjan. (2015). Delhi's land cover change in post transit era. Cities. 50. 111–118. 44 indexed citations

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Sethi, Mahendra. (2014). Location of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from thermal power plants in India along the urban-rural continuum. Journal of Cleaner Production. 103. 586–600. 15 indexed citations

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