Rachael Shwom

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Rachael Shwom is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachael Shwom has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 23 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Rachael Shwom's work include Environmental Education and Sustainability (23 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (16 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (11 papers). Rachael Shwom is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Education and Sustainability (23 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (16 papers) and Environmental Sustainability in Business (11 papers). Rachael Shwom collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Rachael Shwom's co-authors include Thomas Dietz, Amy Fitzgerald, Amy Dan, Aaron M. McCright, Cameron T. Whitley, Jonn Axsen, Sandra T. Marquart‐Pyatt, Summer Allen, Steven R. Brechin and Lara B. Aknin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Climate Change and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Rachael Shwom

40 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

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2005 713 citations Thomas Dietz, Amy Fitzgerald et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachael Shwom United States	22	1.5k	1.4k	548	459	373	41	2.9k
Stuart Capstick United Kingdom	31	1.8k 1.2×	2.4k 1.7×	750 1.4×	310 0.7×	297 0.8×	57	3.9k
Amanda R. Carrico United States	23	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	334 0.6×	717 1.6×	291 0.8×	61	3.0k
Adam Corner United Kingdom	32	1.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	976 1.8×	298 0.6×	274 0.7×	67	3.8k
Chenyang Xiao United States	20	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	253 0.5×	654 1.4×	311 0.8×	37	2.6k
Goda Perlaviciute Netherlands	26	2.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.2×	397 0.7×	1.1k 2.5×	261 0.7×	65	3.6k
Kaitlin T. Raimi United States	21	962 0.6×	915 0.6×	270 0.5×	498 1.1×	249 0.7×	37	2.0k
Ezra M. Markowitz United States	29	1.9k 1.3×	2.5k 1.7×	643 1.2×	472 1.0×	306 0.8×	79	4.3k
Gisela Böhm Norway	29	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	279 0.5×	433 0.9×	196 0.5×	70	3.1k
Michael P. Vandenbergh United States	24	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	313 0.6×	770 1.7×	656 1.8×	95	3.3k
Sophie Nicholson-Cole United Kingdom	10	1.6k 1.0×	2.2k 1.5×	763 1.4×	199 0.4×	157 0.4×	15	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachael Shwom

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kopp, Robert E., Elisabeth Gilmore, & Rachael Shwom. (2025). Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 81(2). 121–125.

Agusdinata, Datu Buyung, Rachael Shwom, David Watkins, et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of conservation messages to reduce households' GHG emissions: A serious-gaming experiment. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119948–119948. 5 indexed citations

Shwom, Rachael, et al.. (2023). Saving from home! How income, efficiency, and curtailment behaviors shape energy consumption dynamics in US households?. Energy. 271. 126988–126988. 29 indexed citations

Ahamed, Sonya, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, et al.. (2023). ‘Being able to work has kept our life fairly constant:’ reconciling social practice models to assess the impact of (infra)structural inequities on household wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 15012–15012. 1 indexed citations

Ahamed, Sonya, et al.. (2023). Green roles at home: exploring the impact of household social dynamic processes on consumption at the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 13(2). 298–311. 3 indexed citations

Cuite, Cara L., et al.. (2023). Analyzing spillovers from food, energy and water conservation behaviors using insights from systems perspective. Behavioural Public Policy. 7(3). 773–807. 7 indexed citations

Taufique, Khan Md. Raziuddin, Kristian Steensen Nielsen, Thomas Dietz, et al.. (2022). Revisiting the promise of carbon labelling. Nature Climate Change. 12(2). 132–140. 67 indexed citations

Schelly, Chelsea, et al.. (2021). Environmental Decision-Making Shaped by the Home: Situating Consumption in the Household. Digital Commons - Michigan Tech (Michigan Technological University). 26(1). 141–157. 4 indexed citations

Rasmussen, D. J., Robert E. Kopp, Rachael Shwom, & Michael Oppenheimer. (2020). The Political Complexity of Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: Lessons for Climate Adaptation Public Works in the U.S.. Earth s Future. 9(2). 16 indexed citations

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Shwom, Rachael, et al.. (2019). Becoming FEW Conscious: A Conceptual Typology of Household Behavior Change Interventions Targeting the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus. Sustainability. 11(18). 5034–5034. 18 indexed citations

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Abrahamse, Wokje & Rachael Shwom. (2018). Domestic energy consumption and climate change mitigation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 9(4). 33 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Michael T., Lara B. Aknin, Jonn Axsen, & Rachael Shwom. (2017). Unpacking the Relationships Between Pro-environmental Behavior, Life Satisfaction, and Perceived Ecological Threat. Ecological Economics. 143. 130–140. 183 indexed citations

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Fitzgerald, Amy, et al.. (2016). Development of the Partner’s Treatment of Animals Scale. Anthrozoös. 29(4). 611–625. 12 indexed citations

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Kopp, Robert E., Rachael Shwom, Gernot Wagner, & Jiacan Yuan. (2016). Tipping elements and climate–economic shocks: Pathways toward integrated assessment. Earth s Future. 4(8). 346–372. 96 indexed citations

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McCright, Aaron M., Sandra T. Marquart‐Pyatt, Rachael Shwom, Steven R. Brechin, & Summer Allen. (2016). Ideology, capitalism, and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 21. 180–189. 237 indexed citations

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Shwom, Rachael, et al.. (2015). Public Participation and Norm Formation for Risky Technology: Adaptive Governance of Solar-Radiation Management. Climate Law. 5(2-4). 210–251. 6 indexed citations

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Cusack, Daniela, et al.. (2014). An interdisciplinary assessment of climate engineering strategies. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(5). 280–287. 22 indexed citations

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Shwom, Rachael, et al.. (2012). Changing household consumption to address climate change: social scientific insights and challenges. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 3(5). 379–395. 73 indexed citations

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Gray, Steven, Rachael Shwom, & Rebecca Jordan. (2011). Understanding Factors That Influence Stakeholder Trust of Natural Resource Science and Institutions. Environmental Management. 49(3). 663–674. 53 indexed citations

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Shwom, Rachael, Amy Dan, & Thomas Dietz. (2008). The effects of information and state of residence on climate change policy preferences. Climatic Change. 90(4). 343–358. 65 indexed citations

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