Patrick Devine‐Wright

20.0k total citations · 12 hit papers
159 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Patrick Devine‐Wright is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Devine‐Wright has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 35 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Patrick Devine‐Wright's work include Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (86 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (46 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (33 papers). Patrick Devine‐Wright is often cited by papers focused on Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (86 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (46 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (33 papers). Patrick Devine‐Wright collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Portugal. Patrick Devine‐Wright's co-authors include Gordon Walker, Susana Batel, Kevin J. Gaston, Katherine N. Irvine, Richard A. Fuller, Philip H. Warren, Bob Evans, Sue Hunter, Hannah Devine‐Wright and Torvald Tangeland and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Devine‐Wright

157 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

Rethinking NIMBYism: The role of place attachment and pla... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2009 2007 2004 2007 2010 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Rethinking NIMBYism: The role of place attachment and place identity in explaining place‐protective action
    2009 1.1k citations Patrick Devine‐Wright profile →
  2. Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
    2007 1.1k citations Patrick Devine‐Wright et al. profile →
  3. Beyond NIMBYism: towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy
    2004 976 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright Wind Energy profile →
  4. Community renewable energy: What should it mean?
    2007 700 citations Gordon Walker, Patrick Devine‐Wright profile →
  5. Disruption to place attachment and the protection of restorative environments: A wind energy case study
    2010 683 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright et al. Journal of Environmental Psychology profile →
  6. Trust and community: Exploring the meanings, contexts and dynamics of community renewable energy
    2009 506 citations Gordon Walker, Patrick Devine‐Wright et al. profile →
  7. Psychological research and global climate change
    2015 409 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright, Lorraine Whitmarsh et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. Social acceptance of low carbon energy and associated infrastructures: A critical discussion
    2013 394 citations Susana Batel, Patrick Devine‐Wright et al. profile →
  9. Place attachment and public acceptance of renewable energy: A tidal energy case study
    2011 303 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright Journal of Environmental Psychology profile →
  10. Think global, act local? The relevance of place attachments and place identities in a climate changed world
    2012 298 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright profile →
  11. Psychological responses to the proximity of climate change
    2015 262 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  12. Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
    2019 171 citations Patrick Devine‐Wright et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Devine‐Wright United Kingdom 61 10.1k 4.9k 3.5k 2.3k 1.9k 159 14.4k
Gordon Walker United Kingdom 54 6.4k 0.6× 3.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 2.5k 1.1× 889 0.5× 160 12.1k
Elizabeth Shove United Kingdom 46 4.2k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 905 0.4× 440 0.2× 113 13.7k
Lorraine Whitmarsh United Kingdom 57 7.8k 0.8× 2.1k 0.4× 7.2k 2.0× 485 0.2× 859 0.5× 162 13.9k
Harriet Bulkeley United Kingdom 62 5.5k 0.5× 7.6k 1.6× 1.8k 0.5× 784 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 162 15.7k
Wouter Poortinga United Kingdom 56 7.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.3× 4.8k 1.4× 657 0.3× 946 0.5× 125 13.2k
Paul C. Stern United States 64 12.3k 1.2× 4.5k 0.9× 19.7k 5.6× 1.2k 0.5× 2.1k 1.1× 182 33.1k
Linda Steg Netherlands 86 12.6k 1.3× 2.3k 0.5× 21.7k 6.2× 2.0k 0.9× 2.4k 1.3× 287 36.2k
Niki Frantzeskaki Netherlands 58 2.4k 0.2× 7.2k 1.5× 1.8k 0.5× 519 0.2× 3.2k 1.7× 151 13.3k
Thomas Dietz United States 70 10.5k 1.0× 8.1k 1.7× 14.6k 4.2× 1.5k 0.7× 2.9k 1.5× 191 35.3k
Rob Raven Netherlands 54 3.3k 0.3× 5.2k 1.1× 1.2k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 357 0.2× 173 12.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick, Jo Hamilton, Sarah Mander, et al.. (2025). A Place-based, Just Transition framework can guide industrial decarbonisation with a social licence. Energy Research & Social Science. 121. 103967–103967. 9 indexed citations
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Moseley, Alice, et al.. (2025). Integrating citizens’ assemblies into local climate governance: Lessons from a UK case study. Environmental Science & Policy. 168. 104052–104052. 2 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick, et al.. (2025). How stakeholders legitimate ‘acceptable’ national energy transitions through spatial imaginaries and imagined publics: A Swedish case study. Energy Research & Social Science. 120. 103854–103854. 1 indexed citations
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Evensen, Darrick, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Patrick Devine‐Wright, et al.. (2023). Growing importance of climate change beliefs for attitudes towards gas. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 240–243. 9 indexed citations
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Ryder, Stacia, et al.. (2023). Do the ends justify the means? Problematizing social acceptance and instrumentally-driven community engagement in proposed energy projects. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 5(2). 189–204. 35 indexed citations
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Fitch-Roy, Oscar, et al.. (2022). “We could have been leaders”: The rise and fall of offshore wind energy on the political agenda in Ireland. Energy Research & Social Science. 92. 102762–102762. 7 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick, et al.. (2021). The challenges of engaging island communities: Lessons on renewable energy from a review of 17 case studies. Energy Research & Social Science. 81. 102257–102257. 38 indexed citations
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Manzo, Lynne C. & Patrick Devine‐Wright. (2020). Place Attachment : Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications. Routledge eBooks. 33 indexed citations
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Masso, Andrés Di, Daniel R. Williams, Christopher M. Raymond, et al.. (2019). Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 61. 125–133. 146 indexed citations
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Creamer, Emily, Gerald Taylor Aiken, Bregje van Veelen, Gordon Walker, & Patrick Devine‐Wright. (2019). Community renewable energy: What does it do? Walker and Devine-Wright (2008) ten years on. Energy Research & Social Science. 57. 101223–101223. 88 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick, et al.. (2016). Understanding Responses to a UK High-Voltage Powerline Proposal: The Role of Place And Project-Based Social Representations. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 25(1). 8 indexed citations
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Cotton, Matthew & Patrick Devine‐Wright. (2012). Putting pylons into place: a UK case study of public perspectives on the impacts of high voltage overhead transmission lines. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 56(8). 1225–1245. 84 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick. (2011). Renewable Energy and the Public : From NIMBY to Participation. 135 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick. (2011). Place attachment and public acceptance of renewable energy: A tidal energy case study. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 31(4). 336–343. 303 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walker, Gordon, Patrick Devine‐Wright, Julie Barnett, et al.. (2010). Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1–14. 39 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick & Hannah Devine‐Wright. (2007). Keeping the Lights On? A Qualitative Study of Public Beliefs about Blackouts in the UK. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 2 indexed citations
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Walker, Gordon, Sue Hunter, Patrick Devine‐Wright, Bob Evans, & H. Fay. (2007). Harnessing Community Energies: Explaining and Evaluating Community-Based Localism in Renewable Energy Policy in the UK. Global Environmental Politics. 7(2). 64–82. 277 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick & Hannah Devine‐Wright. (2006). Social representations of intermittency and the shaping of public support for wind energy in the UK. International Journal of Global Energy Issues. 25(3/4). 243–243. 40 indexed citations
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick. (2004). Beyond NIMBYism: towards an integrated framework for understanding public perceptions of wind energy. Wind Energy. 8(2). 125–139. 976 indexed citations breakdown →
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Devine‐Wright, Patrick. (2001). Identity, Memory and the Social Status of Groups in Northern Ireland: Relating Processes of Social Remembering with Beliefs about the Structure of Society. The Irish Journal of Psychology. 22(2). 1–21. 1 indexed citations

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