Thomas Hale

13.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
62 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Hale is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Hale has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thomas Hale's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (19 papers), International Development and Aid (14 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers). Thomas Hale is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (19 papers), International Development and Aid (14 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers). Thomas Hale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Thomas Hale's co-authors include Anna Petherick, Rafael Goldszmidt, Toby Phillips, Beatriz Kira, Noam Angrist, Emily Cameron-Blake, Charles Roger, Liliana B. Andonova, David Held and Thom Wetzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Hale

60 papers receiving 6.5k 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 global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker)

2021 2.7k citations Thomas Hale, Noam Angrist et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →
The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

2021 530 citations Samuel Fankhauser, Myles Allen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker

2020 499 citations Thomas Hale et al. profile →
A worldwide assessment of changes in adherence to COVID-19 protective behaviours and hypothesized pandemic fatigue

2021 263 citations Anna Petherick, Rafael Goldszmidt et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Hale United Kingdom	28	2.5k	1.5k	1.4k	1.3k	800	62	6.8k
Mario Coccia Italy	54	3.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	744 0.6×	341 0.4×	349	9.2k
Solomon Hsiang United States	29	3.3k 1.3×	2.2k 1.4×	702 0.5×	2.9k 2.2×	257 0.3×	65	10.1k
Jaffar Abbas China	53	2.9k 1.2×	351 0.2×	334 0.2×	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	110	8.1k
Rajib Shaw Japan	52	783 0.3×	2.8k 1.8×	401 0.3×	4.6k 3.4×	515 0.6×	377	9.3k
Noam Angrist United States	15	1.1k 0.5×	238 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	646 0.5×	665 0.8×	35	3.5k
Rafael Goldszmidt Brazil	12	1.1k 0.4×	231 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	619 0.5×	782 1.0×	35	3.5k
Wändi Bruine de Bruin United States	51	1.7k 0.7×	542 0.4×	253 0.2×	2.7k 2.1×	997 1.2×	201	9.4k
Alberto Abadie United States	31	8.5k 3.5×	652 0.4×	328 0.2×	4.5k 3.4×	428 0.5×	45	18.4k
Edward Miguel United States	51	4.7k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	183 0.1×	7.7k 5.8×	330 0.4×	155	17.9k
Emily Cameron-Blake Canada	6	932 0.4×	219 0.1×	984 0.7×	470 0.4×	566 0.7×	8	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Hale

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Hale

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Hale

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Hale. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Hale 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 Thomas Hale. Thomas Hale 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

Allen, Myles, Ben Caldecott, Nick Eyre, et al.. (2025). The revised oxford principles for net zero aligned carbon offsetting. Environmental Research Letters. 20(9). 91005–91005.

Green, Jessica, et al.. (2024). The net zero wave: identifying patterns in the uptake and robustness of national and corporate net zero targets 2015–2023. Climate Policy. 25(4). 642–655. 3 indexed citations

Hale, Thomas, Thom Wetzer, Myles Allen, et al.. (2024). Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero. Nature Climate Change. 14(4). 306–308. 5 indexed citations

Cameron-Blake, Emily, et al.. (2023). A panel dataset of COVID-19 vaccination policies in 185 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(8). 1402–1413. 29 indexed citations

Cheng, Cindy, Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, et al.. (2022). Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science. Scientific Data. 9(1). 520–520. 7 indexed citations

Chan, Sander, et al.. (2022). Assessing the effectiveness of orchestrated climate action from five years of summits. Nature Climate Change. 12(7). 628–633. 32 indexed citations

Allan, Jen Iris, Charles Roger, Thomas Hale, et al.. (2021). Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design. Political Studies. 71(3). 914–934. 24 indexed citations

Kubinec, Robert, Joan Barceló, Rafael Goldszmidt, et al.. (2021). Cross-National Measures of the Intensity of COVID-19 Public Health Policies. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

Hale, Thomas, Noam Angrist, Andrew J. Hale, et al.. (2021). Government responses and COVID-19 deaths: Global evidence across multiple pandemic waves. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0253116–e0253116. 108 indexed citations

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Hale, Thomas, Noam Angrist, Rafael Goldszmidt, et al.. (2021). A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker). Nature Human Behaviour. 5(4). 529–538. 2737 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hale, Thomas & Anna Petherick. (2020). Pandemic Governance Requires Understanding Socioeconomic Variation in Government and Citizen Responses to COVID-19. SSRN Electronic Journal. 45 indexed citations

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Green, Jessica & Thomas Hale. (2017). Reversing the Marginalization of Global Environmental Politics in International Relations: An Opportunity for the Discipline. PS Political Science & Politics. 50(2). 473–479. 33 indexed citations

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Hale, Thomas & Mathias Koenig‐Archibugi. (2016). Are Europeans ready for a more democratic European Union? New evidence on preference heterogeneity, polarisation and crosscuttingness. European Journal of Political Research. 55(2). 225–245. 12 indexed citations

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Asselt, Harro van, et al.. (2016). Maximizing the Potential of the Paris Agreement: Effective Review of Action and Support in a Bottom-Up Regime. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Chan, Sander, Harro van Asselt, Thomas Hale, et al.. (2015). Reinvigorating International Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Hale, Thomas & Johannes Urpelainen. (2014). When and how can unilateral policies promote the international diffusion of environmental policies and clean technology?. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 27(2). 177–205. 12 indexed citations

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Hale, Thomas. (2014). The rule of law in the global economy: Explaining intergovernmental backing for private commercial tribunals. European Journal of International Relations. 21(3). 483–512. 3 indexed citations

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Hale, Thomas & Charles Roger. (2013). Orchestration and transnational climate governance. The Review of International Organizations. 9(1). 59–82. 208 indexed citations

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Hale, Thomas, David Held, & Kevin Young. (2013). Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 100 indexed citations

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Davison, Jean, et al.. (1999). ASR volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter. African Studies Review. 42(3). f1–f14. 1 indexed citations

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