Toon Meelen

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 687 citations indexed

About

Toon Meelen is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Marketing and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Toon Meelen has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 687 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Automotive Engineering, 4 papers in Marketing and 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Toon Meelen's work include Transportation and Mobility Innovations (6 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (4 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 papers). Toon Meelen is often cited by papers focused on Transportation and Mobility Innovations (6 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (4 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 papers). Toon Meelen collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Toon Meelen's co-authors include Lars Böcker, Tim Schwanen, Jacco Farla, Bernhard Truffer, Koen Frenken, Tim Schwanen, Debbie Hopkins, Johannes Kester, Karla Münzel and Jan Faber and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Cleaner Production and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Toon Meelen

12 papers receiving 654 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Sharing for people, planet or profit? Analysing motivations for intended sharing economy participation

2016 468 citations Lars Böcker, Toon Meelen Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toon Meelen Netherlands	8	477	375	272	62	58	13	687
Jing Lan China	6	351 0.7×	212 0.6×	232 0.9×	28 0.5×	32 0.6×	7	710
Karin Bradley Sweden	13	193 0.4×	223 0.6×	90 0.3×	59 1.0×	14 0.2×	28	564
Taneli Vaskelainen Netherlands	8	161 0.3×	99 0.3×	107 0.4×	21 0.3×	24 0.4×	16	306
Helen Roby United Kingdom	8	211 0.4×	125 0.3×	49 0.2×	25 0.4×	65 1.1×	27	528
Nina Hampl Austria	10	82 0.2×	146 0.4×	142 0.5×	57 0.9×	204 3.5×	26	560
Peter Wells United Kingdom	8	78 0.2×	95 0.3×	109 0.4×	63 1.0×	136 2.3×	8	467
Martina Toni Italy	10	280 0.6×	215 0.6×	140 0.5×	6 0.1×	11 0.2×	17	579
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren Sweden	11	118 0.2×	81 0.2×	172 0.6×	86 1.4×	12 0.2×	27	500
Nihan Akyelken United Kingdom	10	106 0.2×	115 0.3×	194 0.7×	21 0.3×	24 0.4×	17	618
Nigel Berkeley United Kingdom	15	79 0.2×	108 0.3×	186 0.7×	19 0.3×	280 4.8×	37	734

Countries citing papers authored by Toon Meelen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Toon Meelen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toon Meelen

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Meelen, Toon, et al.. (2025). Government-owned enterprises and sustainability: Review and research agenda. Energy Research & Social Science. 122. 103994–103994. 3 indexed citations

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Sareen, Siddharth, et al.. (2025). Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment. PLOS Climate. 4(4). e0000604–e0000604.

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Meelen, Toon, et al.. (2024). Public residential charging of electric vehicles: An exploration of UK user preferences. 1. 100004–100004. 4 indexed citations

4.

Meelen, Toon, et al.. (2024). Electric vehicle adoption intentions among UK residents parking in shared and public spaces. Transportation. 53(2). 937–960. 5 indexed citations

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Meelen, Toon & Karla Münzel. (2023). The uphill struggles of carsharing in the Netherlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(47). e2206197120–e2206197120. 9 indexed citations

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Meelen, Toon & Tim Schwanen. (2023). Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science. 106. 103303–103303. 6 indexed citations

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Meelen, Toon, et al.. (2020). Vehicle-to-Grid in the UK fleet market: An analysis of upscaling potential in a changing environment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 290. 125203–125203. 28 indexed citations

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Meelen, Toon, et al.. (2019). Weak spots for car-sharing in The Netherlands? The geography of socio-technical regimes and the adoption of niche innovations. Energy Research & Social Science. 52. 132–143. 41 indexed citations

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Meelen, Toon, Bernhard Truffer, & Tim Schwanen. (2019). Virtual user communities contributing to upscaling innovations in transitions: The case of electric vehicles. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 31. 96–109. 42 indexed citations

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Hopkins, Debbie, Johannes Kester, Toon Meelen, & Tim Schwanen. (2019). Not more but different: A comment on the transitions research agenda. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 34. 4–6. 36 indexed citations

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Meelen, Toon, Andrea Herrmann, & Jan Faber. (2017). Disentangling patterns of economic, technological and innovative specialization of Western economies: An assessment of the Varieties-of-Capitalism theory on comparative institutional advantages. Research Policy. 46(3). 667–677. 12 indexed citations

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Böcker, Lars & Toon Meelen. (2016). Sharing for people, planet or profit? Analysing motivations for intended sharing economy participation. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 23. 28–39. 468 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meelen, Toon & Jacco Farla. (2013). Towards an integrated framework for analysing sustainable innovation policy. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 25(8). 957–970. 33 indexed citations

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