Salil Benegal

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 662 citations indexed

About

Salil Benegal is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Salil Benegal has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 662 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 3 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Salil Benegal's work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (11 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 papers). Salil Benegal is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (11 papers), Environmental Education and Sustainability (9 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (3 papers). Salil Benegal collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal. Salil Benegal's co-authors include Lyle Scruggs, Okşan Bayülgen, Mirya R. Holman, Matt Motta, Flávio Azevedo and Sandra Whaley Bishnoi and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Environmental Change, Climatic Change and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Salil Benegal

12 papers receiving 617 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.

Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession?

2012 335 citations Lyle Scruggs, Salil Benegal Global Environmental Change profile →

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Martin Hultman Sweden

Joakim Kulin Sweden

Liam F. Beiser‐McGrath Switzerland

Viktoria Cologna Switzerland

Deborah Lynn Guber United States

Joost de Moor Belgium

Kuhika Gupta United States

Shane Gunster Canada

Kerry G. Herron United States

Dorothee Arlt Germany

Martin Hultman Sweden

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25 ×0.3

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Benegal, Salil & Lyle Scruggs. (2024). Blame over blackouts: Correcting partisan misinformation regarding renewable energy in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 113. 103543–103543. 6 indexed citations

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Motta, Matt & Salil Benegal. (2023). How pandemic-related changes in global attitudes toward the scientific community shape “post-pandemic” environmental opinion. Public Understanding of Science. 32(7). 907–925. 3 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil & Matt Motta. (2022). Overconfident, resentful, and misinformed: How racial animus motivates confidence in false beliefs. Social Science Quarterly. 104(5). 947–970. 4 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil, Flávio Azevedo, & Mirya R. Holman. (2022). Race, ethnicity, and support for climate policy. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). 114060–114060. 10 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil & Mirya R. Holman. (2021). Racial prejudice, education, and views of climate change. Social Science Quarterly. 102(4). 1907–1919. 11 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil & Mirya R. Holman. (2021). Understanding the importance of sexism in shaping climate denial and policy opposition. Climatic Change. 167(3-4). 12 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil. (2018). The spillover of race and racial attitudes into public opinion about climate change. Environmental Politics. 27(4). 733–756. 52 indexed citations

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Bayülgen, Okşan & Salil Benegal. (2018). Green Priorities: How economic frames affect perceptions of renewable energy in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science. 47. 28–36. 55 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil & Lyle Scruggs. (2018). Correcting misinformation about climate change: the impact of partisanship in an experimental setting. Climatic Change. 148(1-2). 61–80. 145 indexed citations

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Benegal, Salil. (2017). The impact of unemployment and economic risk perceptions on attitudes towards anthropogenic climate change. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 8(3). 300–311. 15 indexed citations

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Scruggs, Lyle & Salil Benegal. (2012). Declining public concern about climate change: Can we blame the great recession?. Global Environmental Change. 22(2). 505–515. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benegal, Salil, et al.. (2009). Using the Enzymatic Growth of Nanoparticles To Create a Biosensor. An Undergraduate Quantitative Analysis Experiment. Journal of Chemical Education. 86(6). 712–712. 14 indexed citations

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