Ross Westoby

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 828 citations indexed

About

Ross Westoby is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross Westoby has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 828 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Demography and 8 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Ross Westoby's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (29 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (16 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (16 papers). Ross Westoby is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (29 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (16 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (16 papers). Ross Westoby collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Vanuatu and United Kingdom. Ross Westoby's co-authors include Karen E. McNamara, Rachel Clissold, Alvin Chandra, Roselyn Kumar, Patrick D. Nunn, Francis Areki, Eugene Joseph, Annah Piggott‐McKellar, Olivia Warrick and Susanne Becken and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Climate Change and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Ross Westoby

44 papers receiving 784 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.

An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands

2020 137 citations Karen E. McNamara, Rachel Clissold et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ross Westoby Australia	16	557	204	161	152	115	48	828
Colette Mortreux Australia	14	971 1.7×	430 2.1×	152 0.9×	216 1.4×	203 1.8×	25	1.3k
Robin Bronen United States	10	652 1.2×	222 1.1×	170 1.1×	103 0.7×	71 0.6×	15	1.0k
François Gemenne Belgium	19	1.3k 2.4×	461 2.3×	196 1.2×	215 1.4×	136 1.2×	69	1.9k
Helen Adams United Kingdom	18	725 1.3×	273 1.3×	90 0.6×	119 0.8×	97 0.8×	33	1.1k
Rachel Clissold Australia	12	371 0.7×	120 0.6×	121 0.8×	124 0.8×	59 0.5×	32	501
Brent McCusker United States	14	571 1.0×	327 1.6×	177 1.1×	61 0.4×	117 1.0×	24	1.2k
Maxine Burkett United States	10	491 0.9×	254 1.2×	98 0.6×	121 0.8×	83 0.7×	34	800
Isabel Rivera‐Collazo United States	11	350 0.6×	191 0.9×	139 0.9×	31 0.2×	87 0.8×	20	866
Étienne Piguet Switzerland	16	1.2k 2.1×	248 1.2×	76 0.5×	238 1.6×	53 0.5×	67	1.6k
Natasha Kuruppu Australia	12	404 0.7×	191 0.9×	183 1.1×	117 0.8×	105 0.9×	17	671

Countries citing papers authored by Ross Westoby

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ross Westoby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ross Westoby

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ross Westoby. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ross Westoby 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 Ross Westoby. Ross Westoby is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Becken, Susanne, et al.. (2025). From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm. AMBIO. 54(12). 1985–2004.

Westoby, Ross, Susanne Becken, & Christopher M. Fleming. (2025). Critical ‘Outsider’ Reflections on Research‐Initiated Pacific Partner Engagement. Asia Pacific Viewpoint.

McNamara, Karen E., et al.. (2024). Values must be at the heart of responding to loss and damage. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 1 indexed citations

McNamara, Karen E., et al.. (2023). Valuing a values-based approach for assessing loss and damage. Climate and Development. 16(8). 722–729. 11 indexed citations

Rahman, M. Feisal, Danielle Falzon, Stacy‐ann Robinson, et al.. (2023). Locally led adaptation: Promise, pitfalls, and possibilities. AMBIO. 52(10). 1543–1557. 54 indexed citations

Chandra, Alvin, et al.. (2023). Climate-Induced Non-Economic Loss and Damage: Understanding Policy Responses, Challenges, and Future Directions in Pacific Small Island Developing States. Climate. 11(3). 74–74. 4 indexed citations

Clissold, Rachel, et al.. (2023). How Pacifika Arts Reveal Interconnected Losses for People and Place in a Changing Climate. Land. 12(4). 925–925. 1 indexed citations

Westoby, Ross, Sarah Gardiner, Bill Carter, & Noel Scott. (2021). Sustainable livelihoods from tourism in the “10 New Balis” in Indonesia. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 26(6). 702–716. 20 indexed citations

Westoby, Ross, M. Feisal Rahman, Karen E. McNamara, et al.. (2020). Sharing Adaptation Failure to Improve Adaptation Outcomes. One Earth. 3(4). 388–391. 17 indexed citations

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Jackson, Guy, et al.. (2020). ‘We didn’t want to leave our island’: stories of involuntary resettlement from Gaadhoo Island, Maldives. Territory Politics Governance. 10(2). 159–179. 6 indexed citations

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Westoby, Ross, et al.. (2020). Perspectives on the human dimensions of coral restoration. Regional Environmental Change. 20(4). 34 indexed citations

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Westoby, Ross, Karen E. McNamara, Roselyn Kumar, & Patrick D. Nunn. (2019). From community-based to locally led adaptation: Evidence from Vanuatu. AMBIO. 49(9). 1466–1473. 72 indexed citations

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Westoby, Ross, et al.. (2018). Housing first works: Reflections of two housed rough sleepers eight years on. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 31(3). 40–41.

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McNamara, Karen E., Ross Westoby, & S Smithers. (2017). Identification of limits and barriers to climate change adaptation: case study of two islands in Torres Strait, Australia. Geographical Research. 55(4). 438–455. 26 indexed citations

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Westoby, Ross & Kathleen A. Walsh. (2014). The role of collective impact in the drive to end homelessness in Brisbane: The “500 Lives 500 Homes Campaign. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 27(7). 16–17. 3 indexed citations

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McNamara, Karen E. & Ross Westoby. (2014). Ironies of globalisation: observations from Fiji and Kiribati. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 34(2). 53–62. 1 indexed citations

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Westoby, Ross. (2013). Influencing official and unofficial justice and reconciliation discourse in Cambodia: the role of local non-state actors and institutions. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2 indexed citations

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McNamara, Karen E., S Smithers, Ross Westoby, & Kevin E. Parnell. (2011). Limits to adaptation: limits to climate change adaptation for two low-lying communities in the Torres Strait. Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association. 56(2). 133–138. 4 indexed citations

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McNamara, Karen E. & Ross Westoby. (2011). Solastalgia and the Gendered Nature of Climate Change: An Example from Erub Island, Torres Strait. EcoHealth. 8(2). 233–236. 68 indexed citations

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McNamara, Karen E., Ross Westoby, & Kevin E. Parnell. (2010). Elders' and Aunties' experiences of climate on Erub Island, Torres Strait. Final project report to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2 indexed citations

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