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39
Citations
8584
World Ranking
5569
National Ranking
930

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

David Demeritt is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Business, Management and Accounting, Health Professions, and Social Sciences, with particular focus on Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Microbiology, and Molecular Medicine.

The research topics covered by Demeritt's work include:

  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

Demeritt has published articles in several academic journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Why regulators assess risk differently: Regulatory style, business organization, and the varied practice of risk-based food safety inspections across the EU" (2020, Regulation & Governance)
  • "Steering by their own lights: Why regulators across Europe use different indicators to measure healthcare quality" (2020, Health Policy)
  • ""Carrying the black pot": Food safety and risk in China's reactive regulatory state" (2022, Regulation & Governance)
  • "The boundary conditions for regulation: Welfare systems, state traditions, and the varied governance of work safety in Europe" (2020, Governance)
  • "Genomic epidemiology of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli from Argentinian pig and dairy farms reveals animal-specific patterns of co-resistance and resistance mechanisms" (2024, Applied and Environmental Microbiology)

The most frequent venues for Demeritt's publications include:

  • Regulation & Governance
  • Health Policy
  • Governance
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in Demeritt's work are:

  • Henry Rothstein
  • Regine Paul
  • Li Wang
  • Anne-Laure Beaussier
  • Oliver Mounsey

Demeritt has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science

    David Demeritt

  • What is the ‘social construction of nature’? A typology and sympathetic critique

    David Demeritt

  • Changing the intellectual climate

    Noel Castree;Noel Castree;William M. Adams;John Barry;Daniel Brockington

  • Climate change and sustainable development: towards dialogue

    Stewart Cohen;David Demeritt;John Robinson;Dale Rothman

  • Science studies, climate change and the prospects for constructivist critique

    David Demeritt

  • SCIENCE, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AND NATURE

    David Demeritt

  • The nature of metaphors in cultural geography and environmental history

    David Demeritt

  • Ensemble predictions and perceptions of risk, uncertainty, and error in flood forecasting

    David Demeritt;Hannah Cloke;Florian Pappenberger;Jutta Thielen

  • The new social contract for science: Accountability, relevance, and value in US and UK science and research policy

    David Demeritt

  • Ecology, objectivity and critique in writings on nature and human societies

    David Demeritt

  • Being constructive about nature

    D Demeritt

  • The Right Stuff? Informing Adaptation to Climate Change in British Local Government

    James J. Porter;David Demeritt;Suraje Dessai

  • Scientific forest conservation and the statistical picturing of nature's limits in the Progressive-era United States

    David Demeritt

  • Social theory and the reconstruction of science and geography

    David Demeritt

  • Climate Change and Mandatory Carbon Reporting: Impacts on Business Process and Performance

    Samuel Wa Sun Tang;David Burgess Demeritt

  • A Companion to Environmental Geography

    Noel Castree;David Demeritt;Diana Liverman;Bruce Rhoads

  • Flood-risk management, mapping, and planning: the institutional politics of decision support in England

    James Porter;David Demeritt

  • Models of best practice in flood risk communication and management

    David Demeritt;Sebastien Nobert

  • Challenges in communicating and using ensembles in operational flood forecasting

    David Demeritt;Sébastien Nobert;Hannah Cloke;Florian Pappenberger

  • Un-ethical review? Why it is wrong to apply the medical model of research governance to human geography:

    Sarah Dyer;David Demeritt

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannah Cloke
Hannah Cloke University of Reading
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Loretta Lees
Loretta Lees University of Leicester
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Lorenzo Alfieri
Lorenzo Alfieri European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Bruce D. Malamud
Bruce D. Malamud King's College London
Peter Salamon
Peter Salamon Universitat Politècnica de València

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