Nihit Goyal

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Nihit Goyal is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Global and Planetary Change and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Nihit Goyal has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Nihit Goyal's work include Policy Transfer and Learning (13 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers). Nihit Goyal is often cited by papers focused on Policy Transfer and Learning (13 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (11 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (9 papers). Nihit Goyal collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, Netherlands and Canada. Nihit Goyal's co-authors include Michael Howlett, Giliberto Capano, Darryl S. L. Jarvis, M. Ramesh, David Canning, Namrata Chindarkar, Angel Hsu, Araz Taeihagh, Mahesh Karra and Martin Wainstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Nihit Goyal

33 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses

2020 368 citations Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett et al. Policy and Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nihit Goyal Singapore	17	263	254	248	180	131	35	1.1k
Zhilin Liu China	20	202 0.8×	203 0.8×	395 1.6×	130 0.7×	53 0.4×	41	1.1k
Barry B. Hughes United States	17	165 0.6×	562 2.2×	308 1.2×	128 0.7×	90 0.7×	92	1.3k
Giovanni Millo Italy	12	100 0.4×	742 2.9×	211 0.9×	163 0.9×	33 0.3×	24	1.5k
Somik V. Lall United States	28	355 1.3×	1.5k 5.7×	465 1.9×	173 1.0×	35 0.3×	109	2.6k
Sheela Patel India	17	164 0.6×	278 1.1×	341 1.4×	184 1.0×	28 0.2×	33	1.4k
Paul Novosad United States	15	175 0.7×	376 1.5×	289 1.2×	201 1.1×	33 0.3×	34	1.1k
Simon Luechinger Switzerland	23	294 1.1×	906 3.6×	1.2k 4.8×	127 0.7×	65 0.5×	49	2.8k
John Harrison United Kingdom	25	795 3.0×	502 2.0×	368 1.5×	129 0.7×	18 0.1×	66	1.8k
Elliott D. Sclar United States	16	113 0.4×	269 1.1×	140 0.6×	56 0.3×	43 0.3×	37	971
Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna United States	9	128 0.5×	636 2.5×	275 1.1×	53 0.3×	27 0.2×	19	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nihit Goyal

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Goyal, Nihit, Valérie Pattyn, & Mehmet Akif Demircioğlu. (2025). From Niches to the Mainstream: A Computational Review and Research Agenda for Policy Innovation. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice. 27(2). 210–229.

Goyal, Nihit, et al.. (2025). (Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation. Policy Sciences. 58(3). 449–468.

Goyal, Nihit, et al.. (2024). A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy. Policy Sciences. 57(4). 875–900. 3 indexed citations

Lieu, Jenny, et al.. (2024). When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions. Global Environmental Change. 89. 102936–102936. 3 indexed citations

Goyal, Nihit, et al.. (2024). Ambient air pollution and consumer spending: Evidence from Spain. PLoS ONE. 19(1). e0292245–e0292245. 1 indexed citations

Chindarkar, Namrata & Nihit Goyal. (2023). Did it increase energy consumption? A difference-in-differences evaluation of a rural electrification policy in Gujarat, India using night-time lights data. Energy Policy. 183. 113814–113814. 4 indexed citations

Goyal, Nihit & Michael Howlett. (2023). Brown-out of policy ideas? A bibliometric review and computational text analysis of research on energy access. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 2. 5 indexed citations

Goyal, Nihit, et al.. (2022). Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework. Science and Engineering Ethics. 28(6). 58–58. 2 indexed citations

Hsu, Angel, et al.. (2022). Predicting European cities’ climate mitigation performance using machine learning. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7487–7487. 27 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit, et al.. (2021). Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching. Review of Policy Research. 38(6). 640–660. 18 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit, Michael Howlett, & Araz Taeihagh. (2021). Why and how does the regulation of emerging technologies occur? Explaining the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation using the multiple streams framework. Regulation & Governance. 15(4). 1020–1034. 44 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit & Michael Howlett. (2021). “Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to COVID-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice. 23(2). 250–261. 43 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit. (2021). Explaining Policy Success Using the Multiple Streams Framework: Political Success Despite Programmatic Failure of the Solar Energy Policy in Gujarat, India. Politics & Policy. 49(5). 1021–1060. 15 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit. (2021). Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India. Policy Studies Journal. 50(3). 641–669. 30 indexed citations

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Hsu, Angel, et al.. (2020). Next-Generation Digital Ecosystem for Climate Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: A Review of Digital Data Collection Technologies. Frontiers in Big Data. 3. 29–29. 26 indexed citations

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Capano, Giliberto, Michael Howlett, Darryl S. L. Jarvis, M. Ramesh, & Nihit Goyal. (2020). Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses. Policy and Society. 39(3). 285–308. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goyal, Nihit, Michael Howlett, & Namrata Chindarkar. (2019). Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India. Public Administration and Development. 40(1). 49–64. 36 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit & Michael Howlett. (2019). Who learns what in sustainability transitions?. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 34. 311–321. 40 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit & Michael Howlett. (2018). Technology and Instrument Constituencies as Agents of Innovation: Sustainability Transitions and the Governance of Urban Transport. Energies. 11(5). 1198–1198. 19 indexed citations

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Goyal, Nihit. (2016). Climate Change and the Bay of Bengal: Evolving Geographies of Fear and Hope. 9(1). 6 indexed citations

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