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Andrew K. Jorgenson

Andrew K. Jorgenson

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
58
Citations
10336
World Ranking
1680
National Ranking
801

Andrew K. Jorgenson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew K. Jorgenson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 145 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Andrew K. Jorgenson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew K. Jorgenson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Andrew K. Jorgenson is affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on Economics, Econometrics and Finance with 27 publications, and Environmental Science with 15 publications. Within these major fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception

Among their recent academic papers are:

  • Power, proximity, and physiology: does income inequality and racial composition amplify the impacts of air pollution on life expectancy in the United States? (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Guns versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions (2023), published in American Sociological Review
  • Inequality amplifies the negative association between life expectancy and air pollution: A cross-national longitudinal study (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Other papers linked to their frequent research network include:

  • Four agendas for research and policy on emissions mitigation and well-being (2020), published in Global Sustainability
  • Sociology for sustainability science (2021), published in Discover Sustainability

Andrew K. Jorgenson's frequent co-authors include:

  • Ryan P. Thombs
  • Don Grant
  • Wesley Longhofer
  • Brett Clark
  • Jennifer E. Givens

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Energy Research & Social Science, where they have contributed three articles, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior with two publications. They have also published in the American Sociological Review, Global Sustainability, and Environmental Research Letters.

In addition to articles, Andrew K. Jorgenson has authored books including Super Polluters (2020), published by Columbia University Press, which has received scholarly citations relevant to their fields of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Are the Economy and the Environment Decoupling? A Comparative International Study, 1960–20051

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint

    Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Unequal Ecological Exchange and Environmental Degradation: A Theoretical Proposition and Cross‐National Study of Deforestation, 1990–2000*

    Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997–2012

    Andrew Jorgenson;Juliet Schor;Xiaorui Huang

  • Economic development and the carbon intensity of human well-being

    Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • The Economy, Military, and Ecologically Unequal Exchange Relationships in Comparative Perspective: A Panel Study of the Ecological Footprints of Nations, 1975—2000

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • Societies consuming nature: A panel study of the ecological footprints of nations, 1960–2003 ☆

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark

  • Global Warming and the Neglected Greenhouse Gas: A Cross-National Study of the Social Causes of Methane Emissions Intensity, 1995

    Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Ecologically unequal exchange: A theory of global environmental injustice

    Jennifer E. Givens;Xiaorui Huang;Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • The political-economic causes of change in the ecological footprints of nations, 1991-2001: A quantitative investigation

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Thomas J. Burns

  • The Effects of Affluence, Economic Development, and Environmental Degradation on Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis

    Jennifer E. Givens;Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Wealth Inequality and Carbon Emissions in High-income Countries:

    Kyle W. Knight;Juliet B. Schor;Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Militarization and the Environment: A Panel Study of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Ecological Footprints of Nations, 1970-2000

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Brett Clark;Jeffrey Kentor

  • Globalization and the environment

    Andrew Jorgenson;Edward Lee Kick

  • Social science perspectives on drivers of and responses to global climate change.

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Shirley Fiske;Klaus Hubacek;Jia Li

  • The sociology of ecologically unequal exchange and carbon dioxide emissions, 1960–2005

    Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Energy consumption, human well-being and economic development in central and eastern European nations: A cautionary tale of sustainability

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Alina Alekseyko;Vincentas Giedraitis

  • Does Foreign Investment Harm the Air We Breathe and the Water We Drink? A Cross-National Study of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Organic Water Pollution in Less-Developed Countries, 1975 to 2000

    Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Foreign Investment Dependence and the Environment: An Ecostructural Approach

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Christopher Dick;Matthew C. Mahutga

  • The Human (Anthropogenic) Driving Forces of Global Climate Change

    Eugene A. Rosa;Thomas K. Rudel;Richard York;Andrew K. Jorgenson

  • Ecologically Unequal Exchange and the Resource Consumption/Environmental Degradation Paradox: A Panel Study of Less-Developed Countries, 1970-2000

    Andrew K. Jorgenson;Kelly Austin;Christopher Dick

Frequent Co-Authors

Brett Clark
Brett Clark University of Utah
Juliet B. Schor
Juliet B. Schor Boston College
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Christopher Chase-Dunn University of California, Riverside
Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz Michigan State University
Terrence D. Hill
Terrence D. Hill The University of Texas at San Antonio
Richard York
Richard York University of Oregon
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York
Torben C. Rick
Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History
Amy M. Burdette
Amy M. Burdette Florida State University

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