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D-Index
41
Citations
7895
World Ranking
459
National Ranking
253

David M. Konisky publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David M. Konisky sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 131 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

David M. Konisky D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David M. Konisky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

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

  • Values, conflict, and trust in participatory environmental planning

    Thomas C. Beierle;David M. Konisky

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

    David M. Konisky

  • Public Attitudes Toward Construction of New Power Plants

    Stephen Daniel Ansolabehere;D. M. Konisky

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

    Thomas C Beierle;David M Konisky

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

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

  • Extreme weather events and climate change concern

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

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

    David M. Konisky;Thomas C. Beierle

  • Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country

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

  • The Role of Religion in Environmental Attitudes

    Matthew B. Arbuckle;David M. Konisky

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

    Stephen Ansolabehere;David M. Konisky

  • Inequities in Enforcement? Environmental Justice and Government Performance.

    David M. Konisky

  • The Introduction of Voter Registration and Its Effect on Turnout

    Stephen Ansolabehere;David M. Konisky

  • A framework for evaluating geographic disparities in energy transition vulnerability

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

  • 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

  • Measuring State Environmental Policy

    David M. Konisky;Neal D. Woods

  • When Governments Regulate Governments

    David M. Konisky;Manuel P. Teodoro

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

    David M. Konisky;Neal D. Woods

  • Public Participation in Environmental Planning in the Great Lakes Region

    Thomas C. Beierle;David M. Konisky

  • Regulator Attitudes and the Environmental Race to the Bottom Argument

    David M. Konisky

  • Extreme weather exposure and support for climate change adaptation

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

  • Compliance Bias and Environmental (In)Justice

    David M. Konisky;Christopher Reenock

  • The greening of Christianity? A study of environmental attitudes over time

    David M. Konisky

  • 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

  • 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

  • Energy policy and public opinion: patterns, trends and future directions

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

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

    Greg Goelzhauser;David M Konisky

  • Extreme Weather Exposure and Support for Climate Change Adaptation

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University
Neal D. Woods
Neal D. Woods University of South Carolina
Jeffrey Milyo
Jeffrey Milyo University of Missouri
Ann O'm. Bowman
Ann O'm. Bowman Texas A&M University
Lilliard E. Richardson
Lilliard E. Richardson Pennsylvania State University
Tom Evans
Tom Evans University of Arizona
Anthony R. Zito
Anthony R. Zito Newcastle University

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