Vasilis Kostakis

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Vasilis Kostakis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Computer Science Applications and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasilis Kostakis has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Computer Science Applications and 16 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Vasilis Kostakis's work include Open Source Software Innovations (18 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (13 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (10 papers). Vasilis Kostakis is often cited by papers focused on Open Source Software Innovations (18 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (13 papers) and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (10 papers). Vasilis Kostakis collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, United States and Greece. Vasilis Kostakis's co-authors include Michel Bauwens, Alex Pazaitis, Vasilis Niaros, Chris Giotitsas, Primavera De Filippi, Giorgos Kallis, Barbara Muraca, Steffen Lange, Susan Paulson and Matthias Schmelzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Ecological Economics and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

In The Last Decade

Vasilis Kostakis

54 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Research On Degrowth

2018 360 citations Giorgos Kallis, Vasilis Kostakis et al. profile →
Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed

2017 304 citations Alex Pazaitis, Vasilis Kostakis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vasilis Kostakis Estonia	21	657	380	334	290	250	58	2.2k
Kris M. Y. Law Hong Kong	26	298 0.5×	443 1.2×	189 0.6×	335 1.2×	263 1.1×	99	2.9k
Elaheh Yadegaridehkordi Malaysia	30	735 1.1×	532 1.4×	879 2.6×	581 2.0×	105 0.4×	76	3.4k
Christian Sandström Sweden	20	542 0.8×	128 0.3×	625 1.9×	449 1.5×	256 1.0×	45	1.7k
KyungBae Park South Korea	22	279 0.4×	137 0.4×	281 0.8×	641 2.2×	410 1.6×	47	1.9k
Michel Bauwens Estonia	16	450 0.7×	129 0.3×	234 0.7×	134 0.5×	159 0.6×	44	1.1k
Alejandro Valencia-Arías Colombia	22	409 0.6×	331 0.9×	142 0.4×	127 0.4×	267 1.1×	258	2.0k
Mauricio Marrone Australia	20	335 0.5×	293 0.8×	247 0.7×	359 1.2×	125 0.5×	61	2.3k
Raghu Raman India	28	273 0.4×	446 1.2×	118 0.4×	222 0.8×	162 0.6×	166	2.5k
Paolo Neirotti Italy	22	498 0.8×	209 0.6×	351 1.1×	701 2.4×	660 2.6×	61	3.3k
Xu Xin China	16	1.1k 1.7×	395 1.0×	570 1.7×	308 1.1×	54 0.2×	94	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Vasilis Kostakis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vasilis Kostakis

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kostakis, Vasilis. (2025). Are we practising what we preach? The degrowth academic trap.

Kostakis, Vasilis & Dimitris Dalakoglou. (2025). How to reconcile technology and justice in the circular economy: the innovation of open-source mid-tech solutions. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 21(1).

Pazaitis, Alex, et al.. (2025). Reframing Innovation for Post-growth: Lessons from Patent Discourses in 3D Printing. Science Technology and Society. 30(2). 279–307.

Kostakis, Vasilis, et al.. (2024). Another Scalability is Possible! From Non-Scalability to Cosmolocal Scalability. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 22(2). 620–629. 1 indexed citations

Kostakis, Vasilis, et al.. (2024). Envisioning energy futures through visual images: What would a commons-based energy system look like?. Energy Research & Social Science. 118. 103771–103771. 3 indexed citations

Kostakis, Vasilis, Alex Pazaitis, & Minas Liarokapis. (2023). Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance. Big Data & Society. 10(1). 7 indexed citations

Kostakis, Vasilis, Vasilis Niaros, & Chris Giotitsas. (2023). Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development. Sustainability Science. 18(5). 2309–2322. 13 indexed citations

Pazaitis, Alex, Vasilis Kostakis, & Wolfgang Drechsler. (2022). Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons. International Journal of the Commons. 16(1). 248–262. 4 indexed citations

Giotitsas, Chris, et al.. (2022). Tracing sustainable production from a degrowth and localisation perspective: A case of 3D printers. Journal of Cleaner Production. 376. 134291–134291. 9 indexed citations

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Pazaitis, Alex & Vasilis Kostakis. (2021). Are the most influential websites peer-produced or price-incentivized? Organizing value in the digital economy. Organization. 29(4). 757–769. 6 indexed citations

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Niaros, Vasilis, et al.. (2021). Towards Sustainable Construction Practices: How to Reinvigorate Vernacular Buildings in the Digital Era?. Buildings. 11(7). 297–297. 8 indexed citations

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Kostakis, Vasilis, et al.. (2021). Mapping the types of modularity in open-source hardware. Design Science. 7. 6 indexed citations

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Pazaitis, Alex, et al.. (2020). Should We Look for a Hero to Save Us from the Coronavirus? The Commons as an Alternative Trajectory for Social Change. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 613–621. 6 indexed citations

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Bauwens, Michel, Vasilis Kostakis, & Alex Pazaitis. (2019). Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 115 indexed citations

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Kostakis, Vasilis, et al.. (2016). Introduction: The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 14(1). 48–50. 3 indexed citations

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Giotitsas, Chris, Alex Pazaitis, & Vasilis Kostakis. (2015). A peer-to-peer approach to energy production. Technology in Society. 42. 28–38. 97 indexed citations

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Kostakis, Vasilis. (2013). At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm: Commons-Based Peer Production, Desktop Manufacturing and the Role of Civil Society in the Perezian Framework. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 11(1). 173–190. 16 indexed citations

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Kostakis, Vasilis, et al.. (2013). The Parody of the Commons. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 11(2). 412–424. 5 indexed citations

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Kostakis, Vasilis. (2011). Commons-Based Peer Production and the Neo-Weberian State: Synergies and Interdependencies. 12(2). 146–161. 13 indexed citations

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Kostakis, Vasilis. (2010). Peer governance and Wikipedia: Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s governance. First Monday. 23 indexed citations

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