Ola Tjörnbo

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 898 citations indexed

About

Ola Tjörnbo is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ola Tjörnbo has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 898 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 3 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 2 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Ola Tjörnbo's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (2 papers). Ola Tjörnbo is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (2 papers). Ola Tjörnbo collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Sweden and United States. Ola Tjörnbo's co-authors include Per Olsson, Frances Westley, Beatrice Crona, Carl Folke, Örjan Bodin, Lisen Schultz, Michele‐Lee Moore, Corrine Nöel Knapp, Elin Enfors and Jacopo A. Baggio and has published in prestigious journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Ecology and Society and Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

In The Last Decade

Ola Tjörnbo

7 papers receiving 861 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.

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

2013 492 citations Frances Westley, Ola Tjörnbo et al. Ecology and Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ola Tjörnbo Canada	6	414	237	179	125	102	7	898
David P. M. Lam Germany	14	382 0.9×	213 0.9×	183 1.0×	122 1.0×	72 0.7×	20	846
Sandra van der Hel Netherlands	9	538 1.3×	321 1.4×	205 1.1×	78 0.6×	80 0.8×	11	1.0k
Adele Laing United Kingdom	3	517 1.2×	274 1.2×	224 1.3×	77 0.6×	121 1.2×	5	1.1k
Lakshmi Charli-Joseph Mexico	8	317 0.8×	182 0.8×	162 0.9×	77 0.6×	64 0.6×	11	728
Romina Rodela Sweden	20	591 1.4×	296 1.2×	273 1.5×	58 0.5×	103 1.0×	53	1.2k
Katharina Hölscher Netherlands	15	620 1.5×	343 1.4×	161 0.9×	175 1.4×	109 1.1×	30	1.1k
Sébastien Boillat Switzerland	16	516 1.2×	268 1.1×	170 0.9×	64 0.5×	48 0.5×	31	1.1k
Elena Louder United States	11	397 1.0×	258 1.1×	143 0.8×	81 0.6×	68 0.7×	12	875
Blane Harvey Canada	14	519 1.3×	448 1.9×	135 0.8×	50 0.4×	82 0.8×	51	1.2k
Irmi Seidl Switzerland	17	387 0.9×	187 0.8×	146 0.8×	106 0.8×	29 0.3×	49	1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ola Tjörnbo

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Tjörnbo, Ola & Katharine McGowan. (2021). A complex-systems perspective on the role of universities in social innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 174. 121247–121247. 12 indexed citations

2.

Westley, Frances, et al.. (2016). How game changers catalyzed, disrupted, and incentivized social innovation: three historical cases of nature conservation, assimilation, and women’s rights. Ecology and Society. 21(4). 19 indexed citations

3.

Moore, Michele‐Lee, Ola Tjörnbo, Elin Enfors, et al.. (2014). Research, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Social-Ecological Resilience through the Lens of the Social Sciences: Contributions, Critical Reflections, and Constructive Debate Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations. 1 indexed citations

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Moore, Michele‐Lee, Ola Tjörnbo, Elin Enfors, et al.. (2014). Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations. Ecology and Society. 19(4). 292 indexed citations

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Westley, Frances, Ola Tjörnbo, Lisen Schultz, et al.. (2013). A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems. Ecology and Society. 18(3). 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tjörnbo, Ola & Frances Westley. (2012). Game Changers: The Big Green Challenge and the Role of Challenge Grants in Social Innovation. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. 3(2). 166–183. 28 indexed citations

7.

Moore, Michele‐Lee & Ola Tjörnbo. (2012). From coastal timber supply area to Great Bear Rainforest: exploring power in a social–ecological governance innovation.. Ecology and Society. 17(4). 54 indexed citations

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