Ted Benton

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ted Benton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ted Benton has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Ted Benton's work include Political Economy and Marxism (11 papers), Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers) and Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (6 papers). Ted Benton is often cited by papers focused on Political Economy and Marxism (11 papers), Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers) and Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (6 papers). Ted Benton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Ted Benton's co-authors include Albert Bergesen, Ian Craib, Mark T. Mitchell, Jesús Romero Moñivas, Michael Redclift, John Bellamy Foster, Richard B. Norgaard, Raymond Murphy, David Lee and Jules Pretty and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Biochemical Pharmacology and British Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Ted Benton

65 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason

2003 511 citations Ted Benton Radical philosophy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ted Benton United Kingdom	18	784	350	236	189	181	71	1.9k
Catherine Porter United Kingdom	21	917 1.2×	296 0.8×	121 0.5×	253 1.3×	108 0.6×	77	2.9k
Deborah Bird Rose Australia	23	749 1.0×	988 2.8×	250 1.1×	184 1.0×	235 1.3×	77	2.8k
Rob Krueger United States	16	857 1.1×	293 0.8×	216 0.9×	251 1.3×	347 1.9×	24	2.3k
Val Plumwood Australia	19	989 1.3×	696 2.0×	597 2.5×	169 0.9×	356 2.0×	42	2.7k
Greta Gaard United States	16	424 0.5×	348 1.0×	203 0.9×	69 0.4×	171 0.9×	47	1.2k
Rob Nixon United States	13	1.5k 1.9×	716 2.0×	174 0.7×	521 2.8×	153 0.8×	37	3.2k
María Puig de la Bellacasa United Kingdom	10	852 1.1×	563 1.6×	98 0.4×	196 1.0×	70 0.4×	19	2.4k
Carolyn Merchant United States	17	1.3k 1.7×	455 1.3×	450 1.9×	205 1.1×	590 3.3×	52	3.2k
Kathryn Yusoff United Kingdom	23	931 1.2×	1.0k 2.9×	175 0.7×	297 1.6×	175 1.0×	44	2.4k
Timothy Morton United States	15	670 0.9×	721 2.1×	229 1.0×	124 0.7×	132 0.7×	58	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ted Benton

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Benton, Ted & Jamie Morgan. (2025). From a realist epistemology to ecosocialism: an interview with Ted Benton, Part 2. Journal of Critical Realism. 25(1). 87–141.

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Benton, Ted & Jamie Morgan. (2025). From a realist epistemology to ecosocialism: an interview with Ted Benton, part 1. Journal of Critical Realism. 24(1). 76–107. 2 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (2014). Costas Panayotakis. Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy. Environmental Ethics. 36(1). 127–128. 1 indexed citations

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Cornell, Drucilla, Julian H. Franklin, Eduardo Mendieta, et al.. (2012). Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics. Biochemical Pharmacology. 64(5-6). 993–8. 6 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted & Ian Craib. (2010). Philosophy of Social Science: The Philosophical Foundations of Social Thought (Second edition). Open Access at Essex (University of Essex). 3 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted & Michael Redclift. (2010). Social Theory and the Global Environment. 18 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (2003). Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason. Radical philosophy. 118. 511 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benton, Ted. (2003). Marxism and the Moral Status of Animals. Society and Animals. 11(1). 73–79. 6 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (2001). Marx, Malthus and the Greens: A Reply to Paul Burkett. Historical Materialism. 8(1). 309–332. 6 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1996). The greening of Marxism. Science & Society. 62(4). 87 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted, et al.. (1996). The Politics of Animal Rights - Where is the Left?. New left review. 1(215). 43–58.

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Bergesen, Albert & Ted Benton. (1994). Natural Relations: Ecology, Animal Rights and Social Justice.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 23(5). 664–664. 169 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1993). The reproductive ecology of Euscorpius flavicaudis in England. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 33(2). 455–460. 1 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1992). Ecology, Socialism and the Mastery of Nature: A Reply to Reiner Grundmann. New left review. 1(194). 55–74. 4 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1992). Animals and us: relations or ciphers ?. History of the Human Sciences. 5(2). 123–130. 4 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1992). Prolegomena to a debate. Capitalism Nature Socialism. 3(2). 79–82. 1 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1989). Marxism and Natural Limits: An Ecological Critique and Reconstruction. New left review. 1(178). 51–86. 34 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted, et al.. (1987). Understanding Social Science: A philosophical Introduction to the Social Sciences.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 16(1). 95–95. 14 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1984). The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism. 62 indexed citations

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Benton, Ted. (1981). Realism and Social Science. Radical philosophy. 27. 7 indexed citations

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