2026 Benjamin K. Sovacool: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	140	8	5	2	2	778	67407

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

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

2571
Citations
What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda

Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool

1502
Citations
Electricity market design for the prosumer era

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

1317
Citations
Energy justice: conceptual insights and practical applications

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

1265
Citations
How long will it take? Conceptualizing the temporal dynamics of energy transitions

Benjamin K. Sovacool;Benjamin K. Sovacool

1166
Citations
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

1138
Citations
Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization.

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

980
Citations
Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey

Benjamin K. Sovacool

851
Citations
Conceptualizing and measuring energy security: a synthesized approach

Benjamin K. Sovacool;Ishani Mukherjee

809
Citations
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

806
Citations
The political economy of energy poverty: A review of key challenges

Benjamin K. Sovacool

760
Citations
New frontiers and conceptual frameworks for energy justice

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

727
Citations
Energy decisions reframed as justice and ethical concerns

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

707
Citations
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

669
Citations
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals

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

661
Citations
The Socio-Technical Dynamics of Low-Carbon Transitions

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

642
Citations
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

597
Citations
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

576
Citations
Competing Dimensions of Energy Security: An International Perspective

Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

566
Citations
Ordering theories: Typologies and conceptual frameworks for sociotechnical change:

Benjamin K Sovacool;David J Hess

532
Citations
Twelve metropolitan carbon footprints: A preliminary comparative global assessment

Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

497
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marilyn A. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology

Paula Kivimaa University of Sussex

Frank W. Geels University of Manchester

Andrew Stirling University of Sussex

Jonn Axsen Simon Fraser University

Didier Sornette ETH Zurich

Tim Schwanen University of Oxford

David J. Hess Vanderbilt University

Mark Z. Jacobson Stanford University

Thomas Dietz Michigan State University

External Links

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