Niklas Harring

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Niklas Harring is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Niklas Harring has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Niklas Harring's work include Environmental Education and Sustainability (21 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (18 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 papers). Niklas Harring is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Education and Sustainability (21 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (18 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 papers). Niklas Harring collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Australia and United States. Niklas Harring's co-authors include Sverker C. Jagers, Andréas Nilsson, Simon Matti, Magnus Bergquist, Åsa Löfgren, Jacob Sohlberg, David Langlet, Martin Sjöstedt, Johan Martinsson and Francisco Alpízar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Climate Change and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Niklas Harring

46 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws

2022 221 citations Magnus Bergquist, Andréas Nilsson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niklas Harring Sweden	21	683	645	407	226	218	49	1.4k
Simon Matti Sweden	22	471 0.7×	497 0.8×	270 0.7×	157 0.7×	289 1.3×	50	1.3k
Adam Mayer United States	21	975 1.4×	383 0.6×	204 0.5×	69 0.3×	437 2.0×	82	1.6k
Petr Mariel Spain	20	273 0.4×	371 0.6×	963 2.4×	220 1.0×	319 1.5×	71	1.6k
Leigh Raymond United States	19	507 0.7×	283 0.4×	358 0.9×	56 0.2×	364 1.7×	48	1.2k
Håkon Sælen Norway	16	311 0.5×	345 0.5×	640 1.6×	213 0.9×	190 0.9×	31	1.3k
Chenyang Xiao United States	20	1.6k 2.3×	1.6k 2.6×	311 0.8×	654 2.9×	253 1.2×	37	2.6k
Anita Engels Germany	13	612 0.9×	228 0.4×	226 0.6×	73 0.3×	277 1.3×	37	1.1k
Stephan Kroll United States	20	493 0.7×	194 0.3×	786 1.9×	156 0.7×	148 0.7×	47	1.7k
Milena Büchs United Kingdom	25	483 0.7×	372 0.6×	388 1.0×	95 0.4×	247 1.1×	58	1.8k
Bradford F. Mills United States	21	387 0.6×	299 0.5×	449 1.1×	173 0.8×	72 0.3×	77	1.8k

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Bergquist, Magnus, et al.. (2025). Anticipating the Storm: Expectations (not experience) of extreme weather predict public support for climate policies. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 104. 102593–102593. 1 indexed citations

Harring, Niklas, et al.. (2024). Conservation for nature and wildlife’s sake: the effects of (non-)anthropocentric ethical justifications on policy acceptability. Journal of Public Policy. 45(1). 97–119.

Harring, Niklas, et al.. (2024). Public acceptability of policy instruments for reducing fossil fuel consumption in East Africa. Climate Policy. 24(6). 812–827. 8 indexed citations

Harring, Niklas, et al.. (2023). Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 244–249. 29 indexed citations

Coleman, Eric A., Niklas Harring, & Sverker C. Jagers. (2023). Policy attributes shape climate policy support. Policy Studies Journal. 51(2). 419–437. 19 indexed citations

Harring, Niklas, et al.. (2023). Public acceptance of fossil fuel subsidy removal can be reinforced with revenue recycling. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 214–215.

Harring, Niklas, et al.. (2023). Voters Do not Punish Their Government for Climate Policies – Evidence from Swedish Temporal Regression Discontinuities. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Bergquist, Magnus, Andréas Nilsson, Niklas Harring, & Sverker C. Jagers. (2022). Meta-analyses of fifteen determinants of public opinion about climate change taxes and laws. Nature Climate Change. 12(3). 235–240. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

Ejelöv, Emma, Niklas Harring, André Hansla, Sverker C. Jagers, & Andréas Nilsson. (2022). Push, Pull, or Inform - an Empirical Taxonomy of Environmental Policy Support in Sweden. Journal of Public Policy. 42(3). 529–552. 16 indexed citations

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Lima, Mairon G. Bastos, Niklas Harring, Sverker C. Jagers, et al.. (2021). Large-scale collective action to avoid an Amazon tipping point - key actors and interventions. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. 3. 100048–100048. 15 indexed citations

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Langlet, David, et al.. (2021). A risk framework for optimising policies for deep decarbonisation technologies. Energy Research & Social Science. 82. 102297–102297. 8 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas, Sverker C. Jagers, & Åsa Löfgren. (2020). COVID-19: Large-scale collective action, government intervention, and the importance of trust. World Development. 138. 105236–105236. 73 indexed citations

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Jagers, Sverker C., Niklas Harring, Åsa Löfgren, et al.. (2019). On the preconditions for large-scale collective action. AMBIO. 49(7). 1282–1296. 76 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas & Sverker C. Jagers. (2017). Why do people accept environmental policies? The prospects of higher education and changes in norms, beliefs and policy preferences. Environmental Education Research. 24(6). 791–806. 40 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas & Jacob Sohlberg. (2016). The varying effects of left–right ideology on support for the environment: Evidence from a Swedish survey experiment. Environmental Politics. 26(2). 278–300. 41 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas. (2015). Reward or Punish? Understanding Preferences toward Economic or Regulatory Instruments in a Cross-National Perspective. 3(1). 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas. (2015). Reward or Punish? Understanding Preferences toward Economic or Regulatory Instruments in a Cross-National Perspective. Political Studies. 64(3). 573–592. 48 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas. (2014). The Multiple Dilemmas of Environmental Protection: The Effects of Generalized and Political Trust on the Acceptance of Environmental Policy Instruments. Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (Gothenburg University). 3 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas. (2013). Corruption, inequalities and the perceived effectiveness of economic pro-environmental policy instruments: A European cross-national study. Environmental Science & Policy. 39. 119–128. 60 indexed citations

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Harring, Niklas, Sverker C. Jagers, & Johan Martinsson. (2011). Explaining Ups and Downs in the Public’s Environmental Concern in Sweden. Organization & Environment. 24(4). 388–403. 27 indexed citations

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