Scott Thacker

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Scott Thacker is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Thacker has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Scott Thacker's work include Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (15 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (7 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 papers). Scott Thacker is often cited by papers focused on Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (15 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (7 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 papers). Scott Thacker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and New Zealand. Scott Thacker's co-authors include Jim W. Hall, Daniel Adshead, Raghav Pant, Lena I. Fuldauer, Nicholas O’Regan, Hendrik Meller, Marianne Fay, Julie Rozenberg, Stéphane Hallegatte and Graham Watkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Cleaner Production and Nature Energy.

In The Last Decade

Scott Thacker

27 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Infrastructure for sustainable development

2019 497 citations Scott Thacker, Daniel Adshead et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Thacker United Kingdom	16	365	326	306	196	150	28	1.4k
Magnus Moglia Australia	28	490 1.3×	407 1.2×	204 0.7×	134 0.7×	524 3.5×	95	2.0k
Jochen Monstadt Netherlands	18	458 1.3×	104 0.3×	370 1.2×	123 0.6×	91 0.6×	66	1.4k
Neil S. Grigg United States	24	551 1.5×	442 1.4×	253 0.8×	83 0.4×	303 2.0×	205	2.2k
Samuel A. Markolf United States	14	289 0.8×	241 0.7×	190 0.6×	87 0.4×	139 0.9×	21	800
Reza Maknoon Iran	22	207 0.6×	106 0.3×	223 0.7×	68 0.3×	116 0.8×	61	1.4k
Cheryl Desha Australia	22	203 0.6×	110 0.3×	215 0.7×	140 0.7×	149 1.0×	146	2.0k
Igor Nikolić Netherlands	20	290 0.8×	61 0.2×	173 0.6×	185 0.9×	246 1.6×	75	1.4k
Andrea Walton Australia	20	240 0.7×	161 0.5×	223 0.7×	73 0.4×	256 1.7×	57	1.2k
Varun Rai United States	25	246 0.7×	122 0.4×	593 1.9×	584 3.0×	213 1.4×	88	2.7k
Daniel Jato‐Espino Spain	23	482 1.3×	325 1.0×	113 0.4×	118 0.6×	493 3.3×	62	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Thacker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Thacker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Thacker

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nerini, Francesco Fuso, Daniel Adshead, Scott Thacker, Raghav Pant, & Jim W. Hall. (2025). Breaking the cycle of underinvestment in climate-resilient energy infrastructure. Nature Energy. 10(11). 1291–1292.

Fuldauer, Lena I., et al.. (2022). Targeting climate adaptation to safeguard and advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3579–3579. 66 indexed citations

Fuldauer, Lena I., Daniel Adshead, Scott Thacker, Sarah Gall, & Jim W. Hall. (2022). Evaluating the benefits of national adaptation to reduce climate risks and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Environmental Change. 76. 102575–102575. 15 indexed citations

Adshead, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Infrastructure Strategies for Achieving the Global Development Agendas in Small Islands. Earth s Future. 9(2). 9 indexed citations

Thacker, Scott, et al.. (2021). Actions to align energy projects with the Sustainable Development Goals. Discover Sustainability. 2(1). 7 indexed citations

Zorn, Conrad, et al.. (2021). Quantifying system-level dependencies between connected electricity and transport infrastructure networks incorporating expert judgement. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems. 38(3). 176–196. 4 indexed citations

Fuldauer, Lena I., Scott Thacker, & Jim W. Hall. (2021). Informing national adaptation for sustainable development through spatial systems modelling. Global Environmental Change. 71. 102396–102396. 7 indexed citations

Thacker, Scott, Daniel Adshead, Marianne Fay, et al.. (2019). Infrastructure for sustainable development. Nature Sustainability. 2(4). 324–331. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

Oughton, Edward J., et al.. (2019). Stochastic Counterfactual Risk Analysis for the Vulnerability Assessment of Cyber‐Physical Attacks on Electricity Distribution Infrastructure Networks. Risk Analysis. 39(9). 2012–2031. 38 indexed citations

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Ives, Matthew C., Adrian Hickford, Daniel Adshead, et al.. (2019). A systems-based assessment of Palestine's current and future infrastructure requirements. Journal of Environmental Management. 234. 200–213. 15 indexed citations

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Koks, Elco, Raghav Pant, Scott Thacker, & Jim W. Hall. (2019). Understanding Business Disruption and Economic Losses Due to Electricity Failures and Flooding. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 10(4). 421–438. 50 indexed citations

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Fuldauer, Lena I., Matthew C. Ives, Daniel Adshead, Scott Thacker, & Jim W. Hall. (2019). Participatory planning of the future of waste management in small island developing states to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals. Journal of Cleaner Production. 223. 147–162. 97 indexed citations

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Adshead, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Evidence-based infrastructure: Curacao.: National infrastructure systems modelling to support sustainable and resilient infrastructure development. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

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Nesheli, Mahmood Mahmoodi, et al.. (2017). Environmental impacts of public transport systems using real-time control method. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 51. 216–226. 28 indexed citations

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Thacker, Scott, Stuart Barr, Raghav Pant, Jim W. Hall, & David Alderson. (2017). Geographic Hotspots of Critical National Infrastructure. Risk Analysis. 37(12). 2490–2505. 30 indexed citations

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Thacker, Scott, Raghav Pant, & Jim W. Hall. (2017). System-of-systems formulation and disruption analysis for multi-scale critical national infrastructures. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 167. 30–41. 87 indexed citations

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Thacker, Scott, Scott Kelly, Raghav Pant, & Jim W. Hall. (2017). Evaluating the Benefits of Adaptation of Critical Infrastructures to Hydrometeorological Risks. Risk Analysis. 38(1). 134–150. 31 indexed citations

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Pant, Raghav, Scott Thacker, Jim W. Hall, Stuart Barr, & David Alderson. (2014). Analyzing Interdependent National Infrastructure Provisions Under Extreme Climate Risk. 2 indexed citations

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Barr, Stuart, et al.. (2014). A National Scale Infrastructure Database and Modelling Environment for the UK. 5 indexed citations

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Thacker, Scott & Mark D. Griffiths. (2012). An Exploratory Study of Trolling in Online Video Gaming. International Journal of Cyber Behavior Psychology and Learning. 2(4). 17–33. 89 indexed citations

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