Miles Richardson

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
98 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Miles Richardson is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Social Psychology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Miles Richardson has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 27 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Miles Richardson's work include Urban Green Space and Health (57 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (27 papers) and Animal and Plant Science Education (24 papers). Miles Richardson is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (57 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (27 papers) and Animal and Plant Science Education (24 papers). Miles Richardson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Miles Richardson's co-authors include David Sheffield, Kirsten McEwan, Ryan Lumber, Mathew P. White, Anne Hunt, Gary Jones, Sabine Pahl, Leanne Martin, Iain Hamlin and Alex Hunt and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Miles Richardson

94 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours

2020 535 citations Mathew P. White, Miles Richardson et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology profile →
The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis

2019 436 citations Miles Richardson, David Sheffield et al. profile →
Beyond knowing nature: Contact, emotion, compassion, meaning, and beauty are pathways to nature connection

2017 351 citations Ryan Lumber, Miles Richardson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miles Richardson United Kingdom	37	2.7k	1.6k	1.2k	1.1k	556	98	5.1k
Elizabeth K. Nisbet Canada	12	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	835 0.7×	334 0.6×	16	3.6k
Peter H. Kahn United States	40	2.0k 0.7×	2.7k 1.7×	976 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	532 1.0×	117	6.2k
Lincoln R. Larson United States	38	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 1.9×	160	5.7k
Cynthia McPherson Frantz United States	14	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	255 0.5×	26	4.0k
Giuseppe Carrus Italy	36	2.2k 0.8×	767 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	110	5.0k
Henk Staats Netherlands	26	2.1k 0.8×	878 0.5×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	678 1.2×	47	4.8k
F. Stephan Mayer United States	11	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	246 0.4×	14	3.5k
Birgitta Gatersleben United Kingdom	34	2.0k 0.7×	822 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	496 0.9×	97	5.8k
John M. Zelenski Canada	29	3.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	472 0.8×	62	6.7k
Myron F. Floyd United States	46	2.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.5×	583 0.5×	2.6k 2.3×	771 1.4×	116	7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Miles Richardson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Miles Richardson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miles Richardson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Passmore, Holli‐Anne, et al.. (2025). Enhancing personal and planetary wellbeing: A comparative study of the "3 Good Things" and "3 Good Things in Nature" interventions. International Journal of Wellbeing. 15(4). 1–28. 2 indexed citations

Lengieza, Michael L., et al.. (2025). Feature networks: The environmental features that are central to nature- connectedness experiences. Landscape and Urban Planning. 259. 105362–105362.

Sheffield, David, et al.. (2025). Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress. People and Nature.

Sheffield, David, et al.. (2025). How are nature exposures and nature connectedness related to well‐being and environmentalism in the population of England?. People and Nature. 7(6). 1351–1365. 1 indexed citations

Richardson, Miles, et al.. (2025). Introducing Heritage Connectedness: Connections to People, Nature and Place Across Time are Associated with Wellbeing and Environmentalism. The Historic Environment Policy & Practice. 16(1). 38–58.

Richardson, Miles, Michael L. Lengieza, Mathew P. White, et al.. (2025). Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries. AMBIO. 55(1). 80–100. 1 indexed citations

Lengieza, Michael L., et al.. (2024). Situation networks: The emotions and activities that are central to nature-connectedness experiences. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 101. 102491–102491. 4 indexed citations

Hamlin, Iain, et al.. (2023). The Joy of birds: the effect of rating for joy or counting garden bird species on wellbeing, anxiety, and nature connection. Urban Ecosystems. 26(3). 755–765. 30 indexed citations

Richardson, Miles. (2023). GC Insights: Nature stripes for raising engagement with biodiversity loss. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 11–14.

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Lengieza, Michael L., et al.. (2023). The Human–Nature Relationship as a Tangible Target for Pro-Environmental Behaviour—Guidance from Interpersonal Relationships. Sustainability. 15(16). 12175–12175. 18 indexed citations

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Price, Eluned C., et al.. (2022). Factors associated with nature connectedness in school-aged children. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100037–100037. 26 indexed citations

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Sheffield, David, et al.. (2022). The Impact of a “Three Good Things in Nature” Writing Task on Nature Connectedness, Pro-nature Conservation Behavior, Life Satisfaction, and Mindfulness in Children. Ecopsychology. 15(1). 26–36. 5 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles, et al.. (2022). Nature Connectedness, Nonattachment, and Engagement with Nature's Beauty Predict Pro-Nature Conservation Behavior. Ecopsychology. 14(2). 83–91. 18 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles & Iain Hamlin. (2021). Nature engagement for human and nature’s well-being during the Corona pandemic. Journal of Public Mental Health. 20(2). 83–93. 36 indexed citations

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Gordon, William Van, et al.. (2021). A Novel Mindful Nature Connectedness Intervention Improves Paranoia but Not Anxiety in a Nonclinical Population. Ecopsychology. 13(4). 248–256. 4 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles, et al.. (2019). Analyzing Objective and Subjective Data in Social Sciences: Implications for Smart Cities. IEEE Access. 7. 19890–19906. 9 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles, Zaheer Hussain, & Mark D. Griffiths. (2018). Problematic smartphone use, nature connectedness, and anxiety. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 7(1). 109–116. 99 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles & David Sheffield. (2015). Reflective Self-Attention: A More Stable Predictor of Connection to Nature Than Mindful Attention. Ecopsychology. 7(3). 166–175. 39 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles. (1999). Place, Narrative, and the Writing Self: The Poetics of Being in The Garden of Eden. 35(2). 3 indexed citations

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Richardson, Miles & Malcolm C. Webb. (1986). The burden of being civilized : an anthropological perspective on the discontents of civilization. University of Georgia Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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