Mathias Thaler

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 560 citations indexed

About

Mathias Thaler is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathias Thaler has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 560 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 11 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Mathias Thaler's work include War, Ethics, and Justification (7 papers), Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers). Mathias Thaler is often cited by papers focused on War, Ethics, and Justification (7 papers), Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers). Mathias Thaler collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and Australia. Mathias Thaler's co-authors include David Schlosberg, Christine J. Winter, Blanche Verlie, Makere Stewart‐Harawira, Petra Tschakert, Danielle Celermajer, Lauren Rickards, Mihaela Mihai, M Odièvre and Jean‐Pierre Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PEDIATRICS and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

Mathias Thaler

32 papers receiving 518 citations

Hit Papers

Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a researc... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150
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  1. Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics
    2020 189 citations Danielle Celermajer, David Schlosberg et al. Environmental Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mathias Thaler United Kingdom 12 252 108 107 84 56 37 560
John Marks United Kingdom 12 188 0.7× 71 0.7× 24 0.2× 126 1.5× 14 0.3× 44 695
Robert H. Keller United States 16 98 0.4× 59 0.5× 35 0.3× 47 0.6× 6 0.1× 41 613
Elizabeth Hoover United States 14 222 0.9× 64 0.6× 29 0.3× 26 0.3× 10 0.2× 37 924
Mónica L. Smith United States 17 86 0.3× 140 1.3× 88 0.8× 21 0.3× 126 2.3× 51 995
Charles F. Wilkinson United States 14 169 0.7× 13 0.1× 107 1.0× 96 1.1× 49 0.9× 70 733
Mario T. García United States 12 416 1.7× 38 0.4× 54 0.5× 13 0.2× 26 0.5× 73 708
Martin Mulligan Australia 15 310 1.2× 25 0.2× 35 0.3× 89 1.1× 3 0.1× 55 569
Robert Cribb Australia 15 484 1.9× 18 0.2× 247 2.3× 25 0.3× 11 0.2× 72 739
James R. Shortridge United States 14 183 0.7× 101 0.9× 30 0.3× 21 0.3× 29 0.5× 46 616
Martijn Koster Netherlands 13 249 1.0× 18 0.2× 144 1.3× 19 0.2× 21 0.4× 30 590

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathias Thaler

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All Works

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Thaler, Mathias. (2023). Eco-Miserabilism and Radical Hope: On the Utopian Vision of Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism. American Political Science Review. 118(1). 318–331. 18 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2023). Utopia, Breakdown, Repair: Failure and Success in Social Dreaming. New Political Science. 45(3). 431–447. 2 indexed citations
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Celermajer, Danielle, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, et al.. (2022). Vers une justice multi-espèces : cadre théorique, enjeux et programme de recherche pour les théories et politiques environnementales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. Vol. 12, n°3. 3 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2022). No Other Planet. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2021). What If: multispecies justice as the expression of utopian desire. Environmental Politics. 31(2). 258–276. 12 indexed citations
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Tschakert, Petra, David Schlosberg, Danielle Celermajer, et al.. (2020). Multispecies justice: Climate‐just futures with, for and beyond humans. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 12(2). 92 indexed citations
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Celermajer, Danielle, David Schlosberg, Lauren Rickards, et al.. (2020). Multispecies justice: theories, challenges, and a research agenda for environmental politics. Environmental Politics. 30(1-2). 119–140. 189 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thaler, Mathias. (2019). Staged: Show trials, political theater, and the aesthetics of judgment. Contemporary Political Theory. 19(S2). 134–137. 3 indexed citations
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Mihai, Mihaela & Mathias Thaler. (2019). Political violence and the imagination: an introduction. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 22(5). 497–503. 2 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2018). Naming Violence. Columbia University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Mihai, Mihaela, Lois McNay, Oliver Marchart, et al.. (2017). Democracy, critique and the ontological turn. Contemporary Political Theory. 16(4). 501–531. 8 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2016). Unhinged Frames: Assessing Thought Experiments in Normative Political Theory. British Journal of Political Science. 48(4). 1119–1141. 1 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2014). Political imagination and the crime of crimes: Coming to terms with ‘genocide’ and ‘genocide blindness’. Contemporary Political Theory. 13(4). 358–379. 3 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2011). Comment on Wilfried Hinsch. Ideal Justice and Rational Dissent: A Critique of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice. Analyse & Kritik. 33(2). 387–394. 1 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2010). The illusion of purity: Chantal Mouffe’s realist critique of cosmopolitanism. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 36(7). 785–800. 7 indexed citations
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Thaler, Mathias. (2009). Political Judgment beyond Paralysis and Heroism Deliberation, Decision, and the Crisis in Darfur. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Thaler, Mathias. (2009). From Public Reason to Reasonable Accommodation. 23(2). 249–270. 1 indexed citations
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Heyman, Melvin B., et al.. (1988). Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography in the diagnosis of biliary malformations in infants. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 34(6). 449–453. 26 indexed citations
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Odièvre, M, et al.. (1976). Alpha1-Antitrypsin Deficiency and Liver Disease in Children: Phenotypes, Manifestations, and Prognosis. PEDIATRICS. 57(4). 493–493. 52 indexed citations

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