R Cunningham

858 total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 549 citations indexed

About

R Cunningham is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, R Cunningham has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 549 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in R Cunningham's work include Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 papers). R Cunningham is often cited by papers focused on Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (4 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 papers). R Cunningham collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Sweden. R Cunningham's co-authors include Christopher Cvitanovic, Sarah Mander, Clair Gough, Marc A. Zimmerman, Suzanne Selig, Debra Furr-Holden, Mark Howden, Vicki Johnson‐Lawrence, Emily Lewis and Kent Key and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Environmental Management and International journal of greenhouse gas control.

In The Last Decade

R Cunningham

28 papers receiving 531 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

The Continuum of Community Engagement in Research: A Roadmap for Understanding and Assessing Progress

2019 164 citations Kent Key, Debra Furr-Holden et al. Progress in community health partnerships profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R Cunningham Australia	10	155	127	107	51	49	32	549
Heather Bell United States	16	110 0.7×	97 0.8×	86 0.8×	19 0.4×	46 0.9×	40	839
Tony Craig United Kingdom	19	141 0.9×	30 0.2×	132 1.2×	166 3.3×	24 0.5×	46	1.1k
Mike Walsh United Kingdom	11	130 0.8×	171 1.3×	114 1.1×	64 1.3×	12 0.2×	25	593
David J. Carter Australia	17	53 0.3×	82 0.6×	215 2.0×	8 0.2×	35 0.7×	77	821
James W. Jones United States	15	68 0.4×	123 1.0×	389 3.6×	46 0.9×	171 3.5×	59	1.1k
Paula J. Edwards United States	16	97 0.6×	86 0.7×	73 0.7×	42 0.8×	10 0.2×	47	838
Anne Knol Netherlands	13	183 1.2×	48 0.4×	178 1.7×	130 2.5×	3 0.1×	21	1.2k
Inge F. Goldstein United States	27	68 0.4×	81 0.6×	37 0.3×	8 0.2×	28 0.6×	76	1.9k
Kate R. Weinberger United States	21	109 0.7×	207 1.6×	332 3.1×	179 3.5×	36 0.7×	50	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by R Cunningham

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of R Cunningham's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by R Cunningham with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites R Cunningham more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by R Cunningham

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by R Cunningham. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by R Cunningham. The network helps show where R Cunningham may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of R Cunningham

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of R Cunningham. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of R Cunningham based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with R Cunningham. R Cunningham is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Jacobs, Brent, et al.. (2025). The role of intersectionality in shaping adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers in the Talensi district of Ghana. Climate and Development. 17(8). 759–774. 4 indexed citations

Jacobs, Brent, et al.. (2025). The role of institutions in enhancing climate change adaptation by smallholder farmers in the Talensi district of Ghana. Environmental Development. 57. 101341–101341.

Jacobs, Brent, et al.. (2025). Smallholder farmers’ climate change adaptation in Ghana: A systematic literature review and future directions. Journal of Environmental Management. 384. 125598–125598. 2 indexed citations

Jacobs, Brent, et al.. (2024). The agricultural decision process in a small tank cascade system in Sri Lanka: diagnosing options for adaptive governance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1).

Mercer, Carolyn, et al.. (2024). Rapid Onsite Evaluation: A Prospective Observational Study of Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspirates to Expedite Diagnosis. British Journal of Biomedical Science. 81. 12938–12938.

Jacobs, Brent, et al.. (2024). Benefits of farmer managed natural regeneration to food security in semi-arid Ghana. Agriculture and Human Values. 41(3). 1177–1193. 8 indexed citations

Zalejska‐Jonsson, Agnieszka, Sara Wilkinson, Richard Wahlund, & R Cunningham. (2023). Green spaces in housing development – buyers’ preferences. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 1176(1). 12035–12035. 2 indexed citations

Cunningham, R, et al.. (2023). Exploring social networks in a small tank cascade system in Northcentral Sri Lanka: First steps to establishing adaptive governance. Environmental Development. 46. 100847–100847. 9 indexed citations

Cunningham, R, Brent Jacobs, & Thomas G. Measham. (2021). Uncovering Engagement Networks for Adaptation in Three Regional Communities: Empirical Examples from New South Wales, Australia. Climate. 9(2). 21–21. 5 indexed citations

10.

Goggin, C. Louise & R Cunningham. (2021). Social Connection and Knowledge Brokerage in a State Government Research Network in Australia. Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management. 19(1). pp54–75. 2 indexed citations

11.

Jacobs, Brent, et al.. (2020). Management of small irrigation tank cascade systems (STCS) in Sri Lanka: past, present and future. Climate and Development. 13(4). 337–347. 16 indexed citations

12.

Key, Kent, Debra Furr-Holden, Emily Lewis, et al.. (2019). The Continuum of Community Engagement in Research: A Roadmap for Understanding and Assessing Progress. Progress in community health partnerships. 13(4). 427–434. 164 indexed citations breakdown →

13.

Gough, Clair, R Cunningham, & Sarah Mander. (2017). Understanding key elements in establishing a social license for CCS: An empirical approach. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 68. 16–25. 55 indexed citations

14.

Gough, Clair, R Cunningham, & Sarah Mander. (2017). Societal Responses to CO2 Storage in the UK: Media, Stakeholder and Public Perspectives. Energy Procedia. 114. 7310–7316. 14 indexed citations

15.

Cunningham, R, et al.. (2017). Social network analysis: a primer on engaging communities on climate adaptation in New South Wales, Australia. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 1 indexed citations

16.

Cvitanovic, Christopher, et al.. (2017). Using Social Network Analysis to Monitor and Assess the Effectiveness of Knowledge Brokers at Connecting Scientists and Decision‐Makers: An Australian case study. Environmental Policy and Governance. 27(3). 256–269. 85 indexed citations

17.

Cunningham, R. (1998). Perspectives. Solution gap looms for financing baby boomers' future long-term care needs.. PubMed. 52(12). suppl 1–4. 1 indexed citations

18.

Cunningham, R. (1996). Perspectives. Consumers gaining leverage in quality assessment arena.. PubMed. 50(25). suppl 1–4. 2 indexed citations

19.

Cunningham, R. (1992). Curriculum Orientations of Home Economics Teachers.. 1 indexed citations

20.

Cunningham, R. (1978). Participant observation: a research technique in public health nursing.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 69(2). 101–6. 3 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact