Malcolm Fairbrother

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Malcolm Fairbrother is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Malcolm Fairbrother has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Malcolm Fairbrother's work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 papers). Malcolm Fairbrother is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 papers), Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 papers). Malcolm Fairbrother collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Malcolm Fairbrother's co-authors include Kelvyn Jones, Andrew Bell, Alexander Schmidt‐Catran, Ingemar Johansson Sevä, Joakim Kulin, Isaac William Martin, Nichole Fairbrother, Trevor Hart, Hans‐Jürgen Andreß and Krister Bykvist and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Scientific Reports and American Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Malcolm Fairbrother

43 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Fixed and random effects models: making an informed choice

2018 728 citations Andrew Bell, Malcolm Fairbrother et al. Quality & Quantity profile →
Two Multilevel Modeling Techniques for Analyzing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Datasets

2013 293 citations Malcolm Fairbrother Political Science Research and Methods profile →
The Random Effects in Multilevel Models: Getting Them Wrong and Getting Them Right

2015 283 citations Alexander Schmidt‐Catran, Malcolm Fairbrother European Sociological Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Malcolm Fairbrother Sweden	20	1.2k	511	491	376	288	45	2.5k
Allyson L. Holbrook United States	18	1.7k 1.4×	430 0.8×	301 0.6×	364 1.0×	193 0.7×	33	2.7k
Paul Kingston United Kingdom	20	1.7k 1.4×	301 0.6×	199 0.4×	190 0.5×	336 1.2×	63	3.2k
Iain Hay Australia	24	1.5k 1.2×	288 0.6×	190 0.4×	178 0.5×	315 1.1×	87	3.2k
Bruce Tranter Australia	25	1.1k 0.9×	217 0.4×	151 0.3×	423 1.1×	260 0.9×	113	2.0k
Mark Western Australia	25	1.3k 1.0×	269 0.5×	148 0.3×	108 0.3×	359 1.2×	135	2.2k
Christiaan Grootaert United States	20	2.1k 1.7×	412 0.8×	1.1k 2.3×	157 0.4×	498 1.7×	51	4.1k
Dora L. Costa United States	28	1.4k 1.1×	256 0.5×	1.2k 2.5×	313 0.8×	654 2.3×	72	3.4k
Des Gasper Netherlands	25	1.2k 1.0×	461 0.9×	280 0.6×	193 0.5×	219 0.8×	127	2.4k
Raya Muttarak Austria	31	1.8k 1.5×	139 0.3×	468 1.0×	424 1.1×	296 1.0×	99	3.6k
Risa Palm United States	23	1.5k 1.2×	164 0.3×	436 0.9×	287 0.8×	126 0.4×	75	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Malcolm Fairbrother

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Fields of papers citing papers by Malcolm Fairbrother

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malcolm Fairbrother

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jylhä, Kirsti M., Martin Kolk, & Malcolm Fairbrother. (2025). Attitudes towards childbearing, population, and the environment: prevalence, correlates, and connections with fertility outcomes in Sweden. Population and Environment. 47(3). 1 indexed citations

Fairbrother, Malcolm, et al.. (2024). When trusting the state is not enough: broader institutional trust and public support for energy transition policies. Environmental Sociology. 11(1). 40–51. 1 indexed citations

Fairbrother, Malcolm, et al.. (2024). The effect of trusting contexts in social dilemmas with collective and individual solutions. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 26048–26048. 3 indexed citations

Bartley, Tim & Malcolm Fairbrother. (2024). Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy. Regulation & Governance. 19(2). 329–348. 1 indexed citations

Fairbrother, Malcolm, et al.. (2024). Trust, social movements, and the state. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 14(2). 157–187. 2 indexed citations

Rhodes, Ekaterina, et al.. (2023). Institutions for effective climate policymaking: Lessons from the case of the United Kingdom. Energy Policy. 175. 113484–113484. 8 indexed citations

Fairbrother, Malcolm & Ekaterina Rhodes. (2023). Climate policy in British Columbia: An unexpected journey. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 2 indexed citations

Fairbrother, Malcolm, Jan Mewes, Rima Wilkes, Cary Wu, & Giuseppe N. Giordano. (2022). Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 8. 8 indexed citations

Mewes, Jan, Malcolm Fairbrother, Giuseppe N. Giordano, Cary Wu, & Rima Wilkes. (2021). Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States. Social Science Research. 95. 102537–102537. 28 indexed citations

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Fairbrother, Malcolm. (2017). When Will People Pay to Pollute? Environmental Taxes, Political Trust and Experimental Evidence from Britain. British Journal of Political Science. 49(2). 661–682. 63 indexed citations

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Fairbrother, Malcolm. (2017). Environmental attitudes and the politics of distrust. Sociology Compass. 11(5). 52 indexed citations

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Bell, Andrew, Kelvyn Jones, & Malcolm Fairbrother. (2017). Understanding and misunderstanding group mean centering: a commentary on Kelley et al.’s dangerous practice. Quality & Quantity. 52(5). 2031–2036. 69 indexed citations

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Fairbrother, Malcolm. (2016). Externalities: why environmental sociology should bring them in. Environmental Sociology. 2(4). 375–384. 19 indexed citations

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Schmidt‐Catran, Alexander & Malcolm Fairbrother. (2015). The Random Effects in Multilevel Models: Getting Them Wrong and Getting Them Right. European Sociological Review. 32(1). 23–38. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fairbrother, Malcolm. (2014). The Political Economy of Religiosity: Development and Inequality Reconsidered. XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014). 4 indexed citations

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Shabajee, Paul, Chris Preist, Malcolm Fairbrother, & John-David C Dewsbury. (2014). ICT for Sustainability 2014 (ICT4S 2014). 21 indexed citations

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Shabajee, Paul, Chris Preist, Malcolm Fairbrother, & John-David C Dewsbury. (2014). ICT 4 Climate Change Adaptation: Systemic and Generative Perspectives & Tools. 1 indexed citations

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Fairbrother, Malcolm. (2013). Two Multilevel Modeling Techniques for Analyzing Comparative Longitudinal Survey Datasets. Political Science Research and Methods. 2(1). 119–140. 293 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fairbrother, Malcolm & Isaac William Martin. (2012). Does inequality erode social trust? Results from multilevel models of US states and counties. Social Science Research. 42(2). 347–360. 101 indexed citations

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Fairbrother, Malcolm. (2003). The Freedom of the State? Recent NDP Governments and a Reply to the Globalization Sceptics*. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. 40(3). 311–329. 6 indexed citations

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