Matthew Cotton

21.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Matthew Cotton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Cotton has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Matthew Cotton's work include Risk Perception and Management (16 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (14 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Matthew Cotton is often cited by papers focused on Risk Perception and Management (16 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (14 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Matthew Cotton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Iran and United States. Matthew Cotton's co-authors include Patrick Devine‐Wright, James Van Alstine, Imogen Rattle, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh, Omid M. Ghoochani, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh, Moslem Savari, Mansour Ghanian, Kathryn J. Brasier and Fatemeh Taheri and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Cotton

74 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention

2023 98 citations Moslem Savari, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Cotton United Kingdom	21	705	530	235	153	141	75	1.4k
Margot Hurlbert Canada	19	557 0.8×	724 1.4×	286 1.2×	90 0.6×	108 0.8×	89	1.7k
Christos Zografos Spain	24	715 1.0×	571 1.1×	323 1.4×	116 0.8×	157 1.1×	47	1.8k
Stanislav Martinát Czechia	26	923 1.3×	387 0.7×	169 0.7×	280 1.8×	255 1.8×	103	1.9k
Stanislav Shmelev United States	21	475 0.7×	550 1.0×	333 1.4×	70 0.5×	260 1.8×	78	1.9k
Mary Lawhon United States	19	556 0.8×	348 0.7×	100 0.4×	167 1.1×	121 0.9×	60	1.9k
Frances Fahy Ireland	20	316 0.4×	210 0.4×	312 1.3×	96 0.6×	101 0.7×	56	1.1k
Elizabeth Bomberg United Kingdom	18	489 0.7×	404 0.8×	115 0.5×	114 0.7×	59 0.4×	41	1.5k
Arnim Scheidel Spain	20	999 1.4×	574 1.1×	222 0.9×	258 1.7×	461 3.3×	37	2.2k
Shirin Malekpour Australia	24	279 0.4×	429 0.8×	282 1.2×	69 0.5×	110 0.8×	47	1.6k
Vilja Varho Finland	15	388 0.6×	240 0.5×	202 0.9×	100 0.7×	79 0.6×	35	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Cotton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Cotton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Cotton

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All Works

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Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Hydrogen innovation and just transitions: Exploring sociotechnical configurations of energy futures in a post-industrial community. Energy Research & Social Science. 127. 104181–104181. 3 indexed citations

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Just transitions and sociotechnical innovation in the social housing sector: An assemblage analysis of residents’ perspectives. Technology in Society. 77. 102513–102513. 8 indexed citations

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2024). A technology to solve the water-energy-food crisis? Mapping sociotechnical configurations of agrivoltaics using Q-methodology. Energy Research & Social Science. 119. 103872–103872. 4 indexed citations

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Trust, Justice, and Expertise in Nuclear Waste Management: A Q-Method Analysis of Environmental Discourses in the United Kingdom. Ethics Policy & Environment. 28(3). 358–384. 1 indexed citations

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Intergenerational Democracy, Environmental Justice and the Case of Nuclear Waste. 1 indexed citations

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Comparison of sustainability in livestock supply chain. Environment Development and Sustainability. 26(8). 21461–21485. 3 indexed citations

Savari, Moslem, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari Damaneh, & Matthew Cotton. (2023). Integrating the norm activation model and theory of planned behaviour to investigate farmer pro-environmental behavioural intention. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 5584–5584. 98 indexed citations breakdown →

Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2022). Climate change and non-migration — exploring the role of place relations in rural and coastal Bangladesh. Population and Environment. 44(1-2). 99–122. 20 indexed citations

Ghorbani, Mehdi, Hamed Eskandari Damaneh, Matthew Cotton, Omid M. Ghoochani, & Moslem Borji. (2021). Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran. Climate and Development. 13(9). 766–779. 35 indexed citations

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Kirshner, Joshua, et al.. (2021). Electricity access in Mozambique: A critical policy analysis of investment, service reliability and social sustainability. Energy Research & Social Science. 78. 102123–102123. 37 indexed citations

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Cotton, Matthew. (2021). Virtual Reality, Empathy and Ethics. 10 indexed citations

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Lehtonen, Markku, et al.. (2021). Trust and Mistrust in Radioactive Waste Management: Historical Experience from High- and Low-Trust Contexts. 1 indexed citations

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Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Electricity access and social sustainability in Mozambique. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 1 indexed citations

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Damaneh, Hamed Eskandari, et al.. (2020). Evaluating rural participation in wetland management: A contingent valuation analysis of the set-aside policy in Iran. The Science of The Total Environment. 747. 141127–141127. 35 indexed citations

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Cotton, Matthew, et al.. (2019). The political economy of electricity access: Lessons from Mozambique. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 5 indexed citations

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Morris, Jeffrey, Sally Brown, Matthew Cotton, & H. Scott Matthews. (2017). Life-Cycle Assessment Harmonization and Soil Science Ranking Results on Food-Waste Management Methods. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(10). 5360–5367. 21 indexed citations

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Agoti, Charles N., Patrick K. Munywoki, My V. T. Phan, et al.. (2017). A26 Transmission patterns and evolution of RSV in a community outbreak identified by genomic analysis. Virus Evolution. 3(suppl_1). 3 indexed citations

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Cotton, Matthew. (2014). Environmental Justice Challenges in United Kingdom Infrastructure Planning: Lessons from a Welsh Incinerator Project. Environmental Justice. 7(2). 39–44. 7 indexed citations

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Cotton, Matthew. (2014). Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 22 indexed citations

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Cotton, Matthew & Patrick Devine‐Wright. (2012). Putting pylons into place: a UK case study of public perspectives on the impacts of high voltage overhead transmission lines. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 56(8). 1225–1245. 84 indexed citations

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