Saffron O’Neill

9.1k citations

52 papers · 6.2k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.05%
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
Applied Psychology top 1%
- Behavioral Health and Interventions

Papers in

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 19
- Environmental Education and Sustainability 19
Communication 11
- Media Studies and Communication 5

Co-authors: Lorraine Whitmarsh Sophie Nicholson-Cole Jon Barnett Hywel T. P. Williams Irene Lorenzoni Mike Hulme Gill Seyfang Maxwell Boykoff
Journals: Nature Climate Change (5 papers)Global Environmental Change (5 papers)Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (3 papers)Environmental Research Letters (2 papers)Science Communication (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia United States

In The Last Decade

Saffron O’Neill

48 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Online misinformation about climate change 2020 · 241 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
2010 Journal of Environmental Psychology
2010 Global Environmental Change
2009 Science Communication
2009 Global Environmental Change

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Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Using semantic similarity to measure the echo of strategic communications EPJ Data Science ·Siawash Zahedi, M. A Tanatar, Travis Coan, Saffron O’Neill, Hywel T. P. Williams	2025	0
2	Transformative journalisms and the seductive power of imagery in digital climate niche journalism Journalism ·Sarah Tell, Saffron O’Neill	2025	0
3	Overcoming (vegan) burnout: Mass gatherings can provide respite and rekindle shared identity and social action efforts in moralized minority groups Political Psychology ·Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser, Saffron O’Neill, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Tim Kurz, Leda Blackwood	2024	6
4	‘Talk amongst yourselves’: designing and evaluating a novel remotely-moderated focus group methodology for exploring group talk Qualitative Research in Psychology ·Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser, VS Mahajan, Leda Blackwood, Saffron O’Neill, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Tim Kurz	2023	5
5	Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems Nature Climate Change ·Tiffany H. Morrison, W. Neil Adger, Arun Agrawal, Katrina Brown, Matthew J. Hornsey, Terry P. Hughes, Meha Jain, Maria Carmen Lemos, Rudaki Orinbaevich Allanbaev, Saffron O’Neill, Derek Van Berkel	2022	63
6	Discussion of Climate Change on Reddit: Polarized Discourse or Deliberative Debate? Environmental Communication ·Svein Aga, Hywel T. P. Williams, Saffron O’Neill, Travis Coan	2022	33
7	Online misinformation about climate change Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change ·Svein Aga, Hywel T. P. Williams, Saffron O’Neill Hit paper breakdown →	2020	241
8	Could Vegans and Lycra Cyclists be Bad for the Planet? Theorizing the Role of Moralized Minority Practice Identities in Processes of Societal‐Level Change Journal of Social Issues ·Tim Kurz, Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser, Anna Rabinovich, Saffron O’Neill	2019	45
9	Examining bushfire policy in action: Preparedness and behaviour in the 2009 Black Saturday fires Environmental Science & Policy ·John Handmer, Saffron O’Neill	2016	23
10	Investigating mediated climate change communication: a best-practice guide Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) ·Mike S. Schäfer, Peter Berglez, Hartmut Weßler, Elisabeth Eide, Brigitte Nerlich, Saffron O’Neill	2016	11
11	Reducing the risk of maladaptation in response to sea-level rise and urban water scarcity Jon Barnett, Saffron O’Neill, G. Bouma, Sarah Rogers	2013	4
12	COMMENTARY: Islands, resettlement and adaptation Nature Climate Change ·Jon Barnett, Saffron O’Neill	2012	1
13	Engaging the Public with Climate Change: Communication and Behaviour Change UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron O’Neill, Irene Lorenzoni	2010	31
14	Public engagement with carbon and climate change: To what extent is the public ‘carbon capable’? Global Environmental Change ·Lorraine Whitmarsh, Gill Seyfang, Saffron O’Neill Hit paper breakdown →	2010	337
15	Disciplines, Geography, and Gender in the Framing of Climate Change Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ·Saffron O’Neill, Mike Hulme, John Turnpenny, James A. Screen	2010	44
16	Promoting Positive Engagement With Climate Change Through Visual and Iconic Representations Saffron O’Neill, Sophie Nicholson-Cole	2009	25
17	An iconic approach for representing climate change Global Environmental Change ·Saffron O’Neill, Mike Hulme	2009	132
18	Reorienting Climate Change Communication for Effective Mitigation Science Communication ·David Ockwell, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron O’Neill	2009	282
19	Using expert knowledge to assess uncertainties in future polar bear populations under climate change Journal of Applied Ecology ·Saffron O’Neill, Timothy J. Osborn, Mike Hulme, Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew R. Watkinson	2008	64
20	Social Structures and Structural Ethics The Review of Politics ·Fa-bao Shao, Saffron O’Neill	1989	1

About Saffron O’Neill

Saffron O’Neill is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 52 papers that have together received 6.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (27 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (19 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 papers), Media Influence and Health (6 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (6 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (2.8k citations), Applied Psychology (577 citations), Communication (712 citations), Sociology and Political Science (4.1k citations) and Marketing (806 citations). Saffron O’Neill has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Lorraine Whitmarsh, Sophie Nicholson-Cole, Jon Barnett, Hywel T. P. Williams, Irene Lorenzoni, Mike Hulme, Gill Seyfang, Maxwell Boykoff, Nicholas Smith and David Ockwell. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Environmental Research Letters and Science Communication.

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