Robert Winthrop

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Robert Winthrop is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Winthrop has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Robert Winthrop's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (2 papers). Robert Winthrop is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (2 papers). Robert Winthrop collaborates with scholars based in United States. Robert Winthrop's co-authors include Kenneth J. Bagstad, Darius J. Semmens, Sissel Waage, Michael Méndez, J. Timmons Roberts, Benjamin P. Warner, Dean Hardy, Heather Lazrus, Kimberley Anh Thomas and Isabel Rivera‐Collazo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Climate Change, Ecological Economics and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Robert Winthrop

14 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A comparative assessment of decision-support tools for ecosystem services quantification and valuation

2013 538 citations Kenneth J. Bagstad, Darius J. Semmens et al. Ecosystem Services profile →
Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

2018 517 citations Kimberley Anh Thomas, Dean Hardy et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Winthrop United States	7	847	410	242	228	195	15	1.4k
Trevor Birkenholtz United States	16	537 0.6×	338 0.8×	147 0.6×	169 0.7×	178 0.9×	30	1.6k
Kathleen Hermans Germany	16	766 0.9×	324 0.8×	158 0.7×	130 0.6×	123 0.6×	26	1.3k
Abigail M. York United States	23	937 1.1×	263 0.6×	161 0.7×	238 1.0×	358 1.8×	66	1.6k
William R. Travis United States	19	1.1k 1.3×	569 1.4×	284 1.2×	173 0.8×	105 0.5×	43	2.0k
S.E. Werners Netherlands	23	806 1.0×	394 1.0×	198 0.8×	128 0.6×	83 0.4×	72	1.7k
Marta Berbés‐Blázquez Canada	15	686 0.8×	302 0.7×	189 0.8×	170 0.7×	173 0.9×	26	1.2k
Lowell Pritchard Sweden	3	1.2k 1.4×	490 1.2×	465 1.9×	195 0.9×	61 0.3×	4	2.1k
Barbara Cosens United States	21	997 1.2×	465 1.1×	384 1.6×	151 0.7×	90 0.5×	63	2.0k
Sylvia Tunstall United Kingdom	26	1.6k 1.9×	984 2.4×	216 0.9×	210 0.9×	197 1.0×	43	2.4k
Gerhard Petschel‐Held Germany	18	823 1.0×	134 0.3×	250 1.0×	324 1.4×	72 0.4×	24	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Winthrop

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Winthrop

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15 of 15 papers shown

1.

Winthrop, Robert. (2025). A crisis in the US federal government. Human Organization. 84(3). 257–260. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kimberley Anh, Dean Hardy, Heather Lazrus, et al.. (2018). Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 10(2). e565–e565. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Winthrop, Robert. (2014). The strange case of cultural services: Limits of the ecosystem services paradigm. Ecological Economics. 108. 208–214. 92 indexed citations

4.

Weaver, Chris, Siân Mooney, Katharine L. Jacobs, et al.. (2014). From global change science to action with social sciences. Nature Climate Change. 4(8). 656–659. 89 indexed citations

5.

Suranovic, Steven & Robert Winthrop. (2014). Trade Liberalization and Culture. Global economy journal. 14(1). 57–78. 2 indexed citations

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Bagstad, Kenneth J., Darius J. Semmens, & Robert Winthrop. (2013). Comparing approaches to spatially explicit ecosystem service modeling: A case study from the San Pedro River, Arizona. Ecosystem Services. 5. 40–50. 116 indexed citations

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Bagstad, Kenneth J., Darius J. Semmens, Sissel Waage, & Robert Winthrop. (2013). A comparative assessment of decision-support tools for ecosystem services quantification and valuation. Ecosystem Services. 5. 27–39. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Winthrop, Robert. (2009). A Review of: “Daniel, Terry C., Matthew S. Carroll, Cassandra Moseley, and Carol Raish, eds.People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science.”. Society & Natural Resources. 22(4). 395–397. 1 indexed citations

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Winthrop, Robert. (2002). Exploring Cultural Rights. Cultural Dynamics. 14(2). 115–120. 2 indexed citations

10.

Winthrop, Robert. (2002). Defining a Right to Culture, and Some Alternatives. Cultural Dynamics. 14(2). 161–183. 6 indexed citations

11.

Winthrop, Robert. (1999). The Real World the Dilemmas of Tradition. Practicing Anthropology. 21(3). 34–35. 1 indexed citations

12.

Winthrop, Robert. (1997). The Real World. Practicing Anthropology. 19(1). 30–31.

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Winthrop, Robert. (1997). The Real World: Participation and Other Fictions of Development. Practicing Anthropology. 19(4). 35–36. 2 indexed citations

14.

Winthrop, Robert. (1994). Conflicting Perceptions: Tribal and Regulatory Views of Nature, Risk, and Change. Practicing Anthropology. 16(3). 25–28. 6 indexed citations

15.

Winthrop, Robert. (1991). Dictionary of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 59 indexed citations

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