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Benjamin K. Sovacool

Benjamin K. Sovacool

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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2026
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Engineering and Technology
UK
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
140
Citations
67407
World Ranking
8
National Ranking
2

Benjamin K. Sovacool 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 Benjamin K. Sovacool sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 778 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Benjamin K. Sovacool 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 Benjamin K. Sovacool sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 140 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Benjamin K. Sovacool is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Social Sciences, and Engineering, with significant focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sovacool include:

  • "Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future," 2020, Science
  • "Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation," 2021, Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions," 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Frequent co-authors with whom Sovacool has collaborated include:

  • Chad M. Baum
  • Steve Griffiths
  • Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio
  • Sean Low
  • Morgan Bazilian

Sovacool has published extensively in several academic venues, particularly:

  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy Policy

The scientist has also authored books, including Global Energy Politics, published by Ghent University in 2020.

Benjamin K. Sovacool has been recognized by their peers with awards such as:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2020)
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

    Jonathan Köhler;Frank W. Geels;Florian Kern;Jochen Markard

  • What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Electricity market design for the prosumer era

    Yael Parag;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Energy justice: conceptual insights and practical applications

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Michael H. Dworkin

  • How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Promoting novelty, rigor, and style in energy social science: towards codes of practice for appropriate methods and research design

    Benjamin K Sovacool;Benjamin K Sovacool;John Axsen;Steven Sorrell

  • Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization.

    Frank W. Geels;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Tim Schwanen;Steve Sorrell

  • Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • Conceptualizing and measuring energy security: a synthesized approach

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Ishani Mukherjee

  • Beyond batteries: an examination of the benefits and barriers to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) transition

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Richard F. Hirsh

  • The political economy of energy poverty: A review of key challenges

    Benjamin K. Sovacool

  • New frontiers and conceptual frameworks for energy justice

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Matthew Burke;Lucy Baker;Chaitanya Kumar Kotikalapudi

  • Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Raphael J. Heffron;Darren McCauley;Andreas Goldthau;Andreas Goldthau

  • Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Saleem H. Ali;Saleem H. Ali;Saleem H. Ali;Morgan Bazilian;Ben Radley

  • Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals

    Francesco Fuso Nerini;Francesco Fuso Nerini;Benjamin Sovacool;Nick Hughes;Laura Cozzi

  • The Socio-Technical Dynamics of Low-Carbon Transitions

    Frank W Geels;Benjamin K Sovacool;Benjamin K Sovacool;Tim Schwanen;Steven Sorrell

  • Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework

    Aleh Cherp;Aleh Cherp;Vadim Vinichenko;Jessica Jewell;Jessica Jewell;Elina Brutschin

  • It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures

    Ghislain Dubois;Benjamin Sovacool;Benjamin Sovacool;Carlo Aall;Maria Nilsson

  • Competing Dimensions of Energy Security: An International Perspective

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

  • Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change:

    Benjamin K Sovacool;David J Hess

  • Twelve metropolitan carbon footprints: A preliminary comparative global assessment

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilyn A. Brown
Marilyn A. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology
Jingzheng Ren
Jingzheng Ren Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Paula Kivimaa
Paula Kivimaa University of Sussex
Morgan Bazilian
Morgan Bazilian Colorado School of Mines
Frank W. Geels
Frank W. Geels University of Manchester
Jonn Axsen
Jonn Axsen Simon Fraser University
Andrew Stirling
Andrew Stirling University of Sussex
Thijs Van de Graaf
Thijs Van de Graaf Ghent University
Andreas Goldthau
Andreas Goldthau University of Erfurt
David J. Hess
David J. Hess Vanderbilt University

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