Mark Lynas

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 489 citations indexed

About

Mark Lynas is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Lynas has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 489 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Health and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Mark Lynas's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (2 papers). Mark Lynas is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (2 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (2 papers). Mark Lynas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Mark Lynas's co-authors include Benjamin Z. Houlton, Ted Nordhaus, Erle C. Ellis, Christine M. Foreman, Ruth DeFries, David W. Keith, Mark Sagoff, Roger A. Pielke, Barry W. Brook and Michael E. Lewis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Climate Change and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Mark Lynas

12 papers receiving 439 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.

Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature

2021 174 citations Mark Lynas, Benjamin Z. Houlton et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Lynas United States	8	192	98	80	52	50	12	489
Céline Granjou France	14	302 1.6×	208 2.1×	71 0.9×	26 0.5×	73 1.5×	76	699
Michael Shellenberger Australia	7	259 1.3×	164 1.7×	144 1.8×	97 1.9×	52 1.0×	10	610
Laura Westra Canada	13	187 1.0×	126 1.3×	70 0.9×	77 1.5×	21 0.4×	61	503
Mercedes Pardo Buendía Spain	8	207 1.1×	172 1.8×	88 1.1×	37 0.7×	71 1.4×	29	554
Andrea M. Feldpausch‐Parker United States	14	240 1.3×	264 2.7×	88 1.1×	33 0.6×	16 0.3×	28	572
Steven E. Silvern United States	5	151 0.8×	86 0.9×	98 1.2×	50 1.0×	94 1.9×	8	444
Karin Gustafsson Sweden	15	185 1.0×	272 2.8×	156 1.9×	39 0.8×	15 0.3×	37	797
Adrianne Kroepsch United States	14	421 2.2×	235 2.4×	47 0.6×	8 0.2×	28 0.6×	21	710
Robin Grove‐White United Kingdom	12	283 1.5×	117 1.2×	71 0.9×	19 0.4×	21 0.4×	41	554
Jean‐Baptiste Fressoz France	9	161 0.8×	54 0.6×	48 0.6×	37 0.7×	68 1.4×	39	428

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Lynas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Lynas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mark Lynas. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mark Lynas. The network helps show where Mark Lynas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Lynas

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Roberts, Callum M., Sylvia A. Earle, A P M Forrest, et al.. (2025). Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Nature. 642(8066). 34–37. 2 indexed citations

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Ellis, Erle C., Mark Lynas, & Ted Nordhaus. (2023). Ecomodernism: A clarifying perspective. The Anthropocene Review. 11(3). 684–685. 2 indexed citations

3.

Lynas, Mark, et al.. (2023). Gene editing achieves consistently higher favorability in social and traditional media than GMOs. GM crops & food. 14(1). 1–8. 6 indexed citations

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Lurie, Peter, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in English-language news media: retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 12(6). e058956–e058956. 11 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark, et al.. (2022). The state of the ‘GMO’ debate - toward an increasingly favorable and less polarized media conversation on ag-biotech?. GM crops & food. 13(1). 38–49. 22 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark, et al.. (2022). Misinformation in the media: global coverage of GMOs 2019-2021. GM crops & food. 16(1). 18–27. 23 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark, et al.. (2021). Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Environmental Research Letters. 16(11). 114005–114005. 174 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brook, Barry W., Ruth DeFries, Erle C. Ellis, et al.. (2015). An Ecomodernist Manifesto. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 162 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark. (2012). The God species : how the planet can survive the age of humans. 33 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark. (2011). Conflicted roles over renewables. Nature Climate Change. 1(5). 228–229. 5 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark. (2011). The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 42 indexed citations

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Lynas, Mark. (2004). High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations

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