Simon West

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Simon West is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon West has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Simon West's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (10 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (3 papers). Simon West is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (10 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (3 papers). Simon West collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Australia and United Kingdom. Simon West's co-authors include L. Jamila Haider, Sanna Stålhammar, Stephen Woroniecki, Maria Tengö, Uno Svedin, Johan Enqvist, Vanessa A Masterson, Hendrik Wagenaar, Lorrae van Kerkhoff and Lisen Schultz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, BioScience and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Simon West

28 papers receiving 1.1k 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 relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations

2020 292 citations Simon West, L. Jamila Haider et al. Ecosystems and People profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon West Sweden	15	546	264	251	170	140	33	1.2k
Sanna Stålhammar Sweden	15	650 1.2×	239 0.9×	275 1.1×	133 0.8×	302 2.2×	25	1.2k
Simon Swaffield New Zealand	20	604 1.1×	370 1.4×	172 0.7×	137 0.8×	255 1.8×	77	1.4k
Corrine Nöel Knapp United States	19	591 1.1×	366 1.4×	292 1.2×	136 0.8×	190 1.4×	35	1.4k
Katie Moon Australia	21	676 1.2×	287 1.1×	390 1.6×	135 0.8×	68 0.5×	42	1.7k
Vanessa A Masterson Sweden	12	590 1.1×	430 1.6×	213 0.8×	85 0.5×	328 2.3×	20	1.3k
Johan Enqvist Sweden	13	483 0.9×	430 1.6×	205 0.8×	80 0.5×	246 1.8×	24	1.2k
Paivi Abernethy Canada	7	609 1.1×	308 1.2×	409 1.6×	102 0.6×	273 1.9×	11	1.5k
Dale J. Blahna United States	22	725 1.3×	377 1.4×	307 1.2×	86 0.5×	256 1.8×	61	1.5k
Andra‐Ioana Horcea‐Milcu Germany	20	1.3k 2.3×	361 1.4×	407 1.6×	208 1.2×	419 3.0×	39	2.0k
Jonathan Taggart Canada	9	704 1.3×	283 1.1×	334 1.3×	184 1.1×	272 1.9×	11	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon West

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon West

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon West

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

All Works

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Moore, Michele‐Lee, et al.. (2025). Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach. Global Sustainability. 8. 6 indexed citations

West, Simon, L. Jamila Haider, Tilman Hertz, María Mancilla García, & Michele‐Lee Moore. (2024). Relational approaches to sustainability transformations: walking together in a world of many worlds. Ecosystems and People. 20(1). 23 indexed citations

Haider, L. Jamila, et al.. (2023). Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: embracing the elephant in the room. Sustainability Science. 19(2). 595–614. 8 indexed citations

Caniglia, Guido, Rebecca Freeth, Christopher Luederitz, et al.. (2023). Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability science. Nature Sustainability. 6(5). 493–501. 35 indexed citations

West, Simon, et al.. (2023). Balpara: A Practical Approach to Working With Ontological Difference in Indigenous Land & Sea Management. Society & Natural Resources. 37(5). 695–715. 15 indexed citations

Daw, Tim M., Mikael Karlsson, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, et al.. (2022). Deliberative Minipublics’ Potential for Sustainability Science and Transformations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

West, Simon & Caroline Schill. (2022). Negotiating the ethical-political dimensions of research methods: a key competency in mixed methods, inter- and transdisciplinary, and co-production research. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9(1). 23 indexed citations

West, Simon, L. Jamila Haider, Sanna Stålhammar, & Stephen Woroniecki. (2020). A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations. Ecosystems and People. 16(1). 304–325. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

West, Simon, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, & Hendrik Wagenaar. (2019). Beyond “linking knowledge and action”: towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions. Policy Studies. 40(5). 534–555. 107 indexed citations

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Schultz, Lisen, et al.. (2019). Gobernanza adaptativa en construcción: Personas, prácticas y políticas en una reserva de biosfera de la UNESCO. Revista de geografía Norte Grande. 117–138. 7 indexed citations

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Schultz, Lisen, et al.. (2018). Learning to live with social-ecological complexity: An interpretive analysis of learning in 11 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. Global Environmental Change. 50. 75–87. 30 indexed citations

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Enqvist, Johan, Simon West, Vanessa A Masterson, et al.. (2018). Stewardship as a boundary object for sustainability research: Linking care, knowledge and agency. Landscape and Urban Planning. 179. 17–37. 140 indexed citations

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Lidström, Susanna & Simon West. (2017). Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” Species. 1 indexed citations

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West, Simon, Lisen Schultz, & Sarah Bekessy. (2016). Rethinking Social Barriers to Effective Adaptive Management. Environmental Management. 58(3). 399–416. 9 indexed citations

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West, Simon, Rose Cairns, & Lisen Schultz. (2016). What constitutes a successful biodiversity corridor? A Q-study in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Biological Conservation. 198. 183–192. 21 indexed citations

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Lidström, Susanna, et al.. (2016). Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society. Environmental Humanities. 7(1). 1–40. 44 indexed citations

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Cooke, Benjamin, Simon West, & Wiebren J. Boonstra. (2016). Dwelling in the biosphere: exploring an embodied human–environment connection in resilience thinking. Sustainability Science. 11(5). 831–843. 70 indexed citations

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West, Simon & Lisen Schultz. (2015). Learning for resilience in the European Court of Human Rights: adjudication as an adaptive governance practice. Ecology and Society. 20(1). 37 indexed citations

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West, Simon. (2008). keep the word translation out of it. A poem of Andrea Zanzotto in English. 3. 229–256.

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West, Simon. (2005). EZRA POUND'S CAVALCANTI: Fidelity and the Masculine Spirit. Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies. 39(2). 421–440. 1 indexed citations

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