Michael Cox

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Cox is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Cox has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Michael Cox's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (9 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 papers). Michael Cox is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (22 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (9 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 papers). Michael Cox collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Michael Cox's co-authors include Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás, Элинор Остром, Gwen Arnold, David Sloan Wilson, Graham Epstein, Natalie C. Ban, Michael Schoon, Paul McCord, Tom Evans and Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Michael Cox

111 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Review of Design Princi... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750
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.

  1. A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management
    2010 851 citations Michael Cox, Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás et al. Ecology and Society profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Cox 1.6k 920 704 703 484 120 4.0k
Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás 1.5k 0.9× 704 0.8× 531 0.8× 405 0.6× 307 0.6× 89 3.1k
Edella Schlager 1.7k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 568 0.8× 305 0.4× 882 1.8× 65 4.0k
Krister Andersson 2.0k 1.2× 856 0.9× 404 0.6× 307 0.4× 549 1.1× 105 3.6k
Christina Prell 2.7k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 1.0k 1.5× 864 1.2× 301 0.6× 49 6.5k
Stephen Dovers 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.5× 955 1.4× 373 0.5× 286 0.6× 122 4.2k
David H. Guston 2.8k 1.7× 2.2k 2.4× 989 1.4× 386 0.5× 571 1.2× 77 7.0k
C.J.A.M. Termeer 2.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.4× 560 0.8× 395 0.6× 392 0.8× 146 4.5k
James Acheson 1.9k 1.1× 998 1.1× 907 1.3× 1.0k 1.5× 238 0.5× 91 4.1k
David W. Cash 3.0k 1.8× 1.5k 1.6× 1.1k 1.6× 566 0.8× 269 0.6× 18 5.3k
Clark C. Gibson 3.4k 2.1× 1.8k 2.0× 956 1.4× 819 1.2× 826 1.7× 60 5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Cox

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Cox

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Cox. 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 Michael Cox. The network helps show where Michael Cox may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Cox

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cox, Michael. (2024). The last politician: inside Joe Biden's White House and the struggle for America's future. International Affairs. 100(2). 885–886. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuxiao, et al.. (2023). Refining Obstacle Perception Safety Zones via Maneuver-Based Decomposition. 1 indexed citations
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Clavin, Patricia, Patricia Clavin, Michael Cox, et al.. (2023). Keynes's <i>Economic Consequences of the Peace</i> after 100 Years. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Garrick, Dustin, Soumya Balasubramanya, Melissa Beresford, et al.. (2023). A systems perspective on water markets: barriers, bright spots, and building blocks for the next generation. Environmental Research Letters. 18(3). 31001–31001. 13 indexed citations
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Unnikrishnan, Hita, et al.. (2023). Unpacking dynamics of diverse nested resource systems through a diagnostic approach. Sustainability Science. 18(1). 153–180. 5 indexed citations
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Cox, Michael. (2023). Ukraine: Russia’s War and the Future of the Global Order. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations
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Cox, Michael, et al.. (2022). Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance. Ecology and Society. 27(4). 7 indexed citations
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Cox, Michael. (2022). Agonies of Empire. Policy Press eBooks.
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Erbaugh, James T., Christopher W. Callahan, Rebecca Finger Higgens, et al.. (2021). Sociotechnical stability and equilibrium. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 49. 33–41. 5 indexed citations
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Alexander, Steven M., Kristal Jones, Nathan Bennett, et al.. (2019). Qualitative data sharing and synthesis for sustainability science. Nature Sustainability. 3(2). 81–88. 50 indexed citations
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Davies, Tammy E., Graham Epstein, Cassandra M. Brooks, et al.. (2018). Assessing trade-offs in large marine protected areas. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195760–e0195760. 29 indexed citations
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Wilson, Margaret W., et al.. (2015). Studying common-pool resources over time: A longitudinal case study of the Buen Hombre fishery in the Dominican Republic. AMBIO. 45(2). 215–229. 10 indexed citations
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Frey, Ulrich & Michael Cox. (2015). Building a diagnostic ontology of social-ecological systems. International Journal of the Commons. 9(2). 595–595. 2 indexed citations
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Cox, Michael, et al.. (2015). The challenges of local governance: Gear-based fragmentation in the Dominican fishery of Buen Hombre. Marine Policy. 63. 109–117. 11 indexed citations
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Ibuki, Naokazu, Morteza Hosseini Ghaffari, Hadas Reuveni, et al.. (2014). The Tyrphostin NT157 Suppresses Insulin Receptor Substrates and Augments Therapeutic Response of Prostate Cancer. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 13(12). 2827–2839. 32 indexed citations
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Cox, Michael. (2012). Indispensable nation?: the United States in East Asia. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 104(Pt A). 360–366.
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Cox, Michael. (2003). Europe and the new American challenge after September 11: crisis - what crisis?. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations
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Booth, Ken, Timothy Dunne, & Michael Cox. (2001). How might we live? Global Ethics in the New Century. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Cox, Michael, et al.. (2000). A Farewell to Arms?: From 'Long War' to Long Peace in Northern Ireland. Manchester University Press eBooks. 46 indexed citations
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Dunne, Timothy, Michael Cox, & Ken Booth. (1998). The eighty years' crisis: International relations 1919-1999. 31(1). 26–9. 24 indexed citations

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