Rebecca Colvin

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Colvin is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Colvin has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Colvin's work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (15 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (14 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (13 papers). Rebecca Colvin is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (15 papers), Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (14 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (13 papers). Rebecca Colvin collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Rebecca Colvin's co-authors include Justine Lacey, Bradd Witt, Christopher Cvitanovic, Mark Howden, Will Grant, Robin L. Thompson, Karen Emmorey, Prue Addison, Frank Jotzo and Carina Wyborn and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Energy Policy and Nature Energy.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Colvin

33 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface: the practitioners’ perspectives

2018 218 citations Angela Bednarek, Carina Wyborn et al. Sustainability Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Colvin Australia	19	663	583	416	174	138	35	1.6k
Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry New Zealand	20	644 1.0×	551 0.9×	224 0.5×	95 0.5×	188 1.4×	47	1.6k
Anne Leitch Australia	16	654 1.0×	1.0k 1.8×	413 1.0×	343 2.0×	158 1.1×	31	2.4k
Joseph Árvai United States	29	1.5k 2.2×	603 1.0×	754 1.8×	205 1.2×	300 2.2×	78	2.8k
Tharsi Taillieu Belgium	15	648 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	343 0.8×	138 0.8×	137 1.0×	46	2.7k
Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril Malaysia	22	583 0.9×	183 0.3×	218 0.5×	156 0.9×	147 1.1×	146	2.1k
Ann Dale Canada	23	780 1.2×	503 0.9×	380 0.9×	95 0.5×	232 1.7×	69	2.3k
Marc J. Stern United States	28	1.1k 1.6×	939 1.6×	1.1k 2.7×	358 2.1×	510 3.7×	116	3.2k
Klaus Eisenack Germany	21	594 0.9×	958 1.6×	314 0.8×	133 0.8×	290 2.1×	63	2.0k
Marketta Kyttä Finland	37	1.4k 2.1×	1.3k 2.3×	423 1.0×	149 0.9×	219 1.6×	93	5.0k
Susan Baker United Kingdom	30	424 0.6×	555 1.0×	360 0.9×	369 2.1×	150 1.1×	95	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Colvin

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All Works

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Gulliver, Robyn, Xiongzhi Wang, Winnifred R. Louis, Kelly S. Fielding, & Rebecca Colvin. (2025). Media ownership and coverage patterns of established, disruptive, and unconventional climate advocacy groups. Climatic Change. 178(2).

Colvin, Rebecca, Robyn Gulliver, Xiongzhi Wang, et al.. (2025). Theorising unconventional climate advocates and their relationship to the environmental movement. npj Climate Action. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

Cotton, Rebecca, Rebecca Colvin, Julia Loginova, & Bradd Witt. (2025). Renewable energy and regional Australia: The limits to “best practices” for engagement. Energy Research & Social Science. 130. 104426–104426.

Colvin, Rebecca, Frank Jotzo, & Kelly S. Fielding. (2024). Is Australia's urban-regional schism on climate reality or rhetoric?. Journal of Rural Studies. 112. 103446–103446. 2 indexed citations

Karcher, Denis B., et al.. (2024). Key attributes for effective knowledge brokering at the interface of environmental science and management. Sustainability Science. 20(1). 117–133. 3 indexed citations

Karcher, Denis B., Christopher Cvitanovic, Rebecca Colvin, & Ingrid van Putten. (2023). Enabling successful science‐policy knowledge exchange between marine biodiversity research and management: An Australian case study. Environmental Policy and Governance. 34(3). 291–306. 9 indexed citations

Colvin, Rebecca. (2023). Contextualizing coal communities for Australia’s new Net Zero Authority. Nature Energy. 8(8). 776–778. 5 indexed citations

Schenuit, Felix, Rebecca Colvin, Mathias Fridahl, et al.. (2021). Carbon Dioxide Removal Policy in the Making: Assessing Developments in 9 OECD Cases. Frontiers in Climate. 3. 108 indexed citations

Colvin, Rebecca & Frank Jotzo. (2021). Australian voters’ attitudes to climate action and their social-political determinants. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0248268–e0248268. 43 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., et al.. (2020). Opinions of 12 to 13-year-olds in Austria and Australia on the concern, cause and imminence of climate change. AMBIO. 50(3). 644–660. 19 indexed citations

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Colvin, Rebecca, Bradd Witt, Justine Lacey, & Rod McCrea. (2020). The role of conflict framing and social identity in public opinion about land use change: An experimental test in the Australian context. Environmental Policy and Governance. 30(2). 84–98. 11 indexed citations

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Grant, Will, et al.. (2020). Framing climate change for effective communication: a systematic map. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 123002–123002. 92 indexed citations

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Colvin, Rebecca, Helen Ross, & Claudia Baldwin. (2020). Social dimensions of energy system change in a disrupted world. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 27(2). 117–122. 2 indexed citations

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Moon, Katie, Deborah Blackman, Vanessa M. Adams, et al.. (2019). Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology, and methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(3). 294–302. 100 indexed citations

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Colvin, Rebecca, Luke Kemp, Christian Downie, et al.. (2019). Learning from the Climate Change Debate to Avoid Polarisation on Negative Emissions. Environmental Communication. 14(1). 23–35. 46 indexed citations

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Bednarek, Angela, Carina Wyborn, Christopher Cvitanovic, et al.. (2018). Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface: the practitioners’ perspectives. Sustainability Science. 13(4). 1175–1183. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Colvin, Rebecca, Bradd Witt, & Justine Lacey. (2018). Using a Community Vote for Wind Energy Development Decision-Making in King Island, Tasmania. Case Studies in the Environment. 2(1). 1–7. 1 indexed citations

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Althor, Glenn, Simon P. Mahood, Bradd Witt, Rebecca Colvin, & James Watson. (2018). Large-scale environmental degradation results in inequitable impacts to already impoverished communities: A case study from the floating villages of Cambodia. AMBIO. 47(7). 747–759. 15 indexed citations

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Colvin, Rebecca, Bradd Witt, & Justine Lacey. (2015). The social identity approach to understanding socio-political conflict in environmental and natural resources management. Global Environmental Change. 34. 237–246. 92 indexed citations

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Emmorey, Karen, Robin L. Thompson, & Rebecca Colvin. (2008). Eye Gaze During Comprehension of American Sign Language by Native and Beginning Signers. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 14(2). 237–243. 95 indexed citations

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