2026 David M. Konisky: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	41	459	414	253	217	131	7895

Overview

David M. Konisky is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences and environmental science, with substantial contributions in related subfields such as sociology and political science, pollution, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental policy and law.

Their main topics of work include:

Energy and Environment Impacts
Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
Air Quality and Health Impacts
Environmental Education and Sustainability
Climate Change Communication and Perception

Konisky has coauthored many papers with several frequent collaborators, including:

Sanya Carley
Trevor Memmott
Michelle Graff
Nikolaos Zirogiannis
Destenie Nock

Their work appears regularly in journals and publication venues such as:

Harvard Dataverse
Nature Energy
Environmental Research Letters
Publius The Journal of Federalism
Energy Research & Social Science

Selected recent papers by David M. Konisky include:

"The justice and equity implications of the clean energy transition" (2020, Nature Energy)
"Sociodemographic disparities in energy insecurity among low-income households before and during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021, Nature Energy)
"Energy infrastructure, NIMBYism, and public opinion: a systematic literature review of three decades of empirical survey literature" (2020, Environmental Research Letters)
"The State of American Federalism 2019-2020: Polarized and Punitive Intergovernmental Relations" (2020, Publius The Journal of Federalism)
"An analysis of energy justice programs across the United States" (2021, Energy Policy)

Best Publications

The justice and equity implications of the clean energy transition

Sanya Carley;David M. Konisky

750
Citations
Values, conflict, and trust in participatory environmental planning

Thomas C. Beierle;David M. Konisky

647
Citations
Regulatory Competition and Environmental Enforcement: Is There a Race to the Bottom?

David M. Konisky

481
Citations
Public Attitudes Toward Construction of New Power Plants

Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere;D. M. Konisky

323
Citations
What are we Gaining from Stakeholder Involvement? Observations from Environmental Planning in the Great Lakes:

Thomas C Beierle;David M Konisky

307
Citations
Environmental Policy Attitudes: Issues, Geographical Scale, and Political Trust*

David M. Konisky;Jeffrey Milyo;Lilliard E. Richardson

297
Citations
Extreme weather events and climate change concern

David M. Konisky;Llewelyn Hughes;Charles H. Kaylor

291
Citations
Innovations in Public Participation and Environmental Decision Making: Examples from the Great Lakes Region

David M. Konisky;Thomas C. Beierle

250
Citations
Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country

Sanya Carley;Tom P. Evans;David M. Konisky

203
Citations
The Role of Religion in Environmental Attitudes

Matthew B. Arbuckle;David M. Konisky

166
Citations
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

Stephen Ansolabehere;David M. Konisky

160
Citations
Inequities in Enforcement? Environmental Justice and Government Performance.

David M. Konisky

156
Citations
The Introduction of Voter Registration and Its Effect on Turnout

Stephen Ansolabehere;David M. Konisky

155
Citations
A framework for evaluating geographic disparities in energy transition vulnerability

Sanya Carley;Tom P. Evans;Michelle Graff;David M. Konisky

140
Citations
Sociodemographic disparities in energy insecurity among low-income households before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Trevor Memmott;Sanya Carley;Michelle Graff;David M. Konisky

140
Citations
Measuring State Environmental Policy

David M. Konisky;Neal D. Woods

112
Citations
When Governments Regulate Governments

David M. Konisky;Manuel P. Teodoro

99
Citations
Exporting Air Pollution? Regulatory Enforcement and Environmental Free Riding in the United States

David M. Konisky;Neal D. Woods

96
Citations
Public Participation in Environmental Planning in the Great Lakes Region

Thomas C. Beierle;David M. Konisky

78
Citations
Regulator Attitudes and the Environmental Race to the Bottom Argument

David M. Konisky

77
Citations
Extreme weather exposure and support for climate change adaptation

Aaron Ray;Llewelyn Hughes;David M. Konisky;Charles Kaylor

77
Citations
Compliance Bias and Environmental (In)Justice

David M. Konisky;Christopher Reenock

68
Citations
The greening of Christianity? A study of environmental attitudes over time

David M. Konisky

63
Citations
Energy infrastructure, NIMBYism, and public opinion: a systematic literature review of three decades of empirical survey literature

Sanya Carley;David M Konisky;Zoya Atiq;Nick Land

60
Citations
Stakeholder perceptions of the United States energy transition: Local-level dynamics and community responses to national politics and policy

Michelle Graff;Sanya Carley;David M. Konisky

53
Citations
Energy policy and public opinion: patterns, trends and future directions

Parrish Bergquist;Parrish Bergquist;David M Konisky;John Kotcher

51
Citations
The State of American Federalism 2019–2020: Polarized and Punitive Intergovernmental Relations

Greg Goelzhauser;David M Konisky

51
Citations
Extreme Weather Exposure and Support for Climate Change Adaptation

Aaron Ray;Llewelyn Hughes;Charles H. Kaylor;David Konisky

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University

Neal D. Woods University of South Carolina

Jeffrey Milyo University of Missouri

Ann O'm. Bowman Texas A&M University

Lilliard E. Richardson Pennsylvania State University

Tom Evans University of Arizona

Anthony R. Zito Newcastle University

External Links

Personal website of David M. Konisky

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