2026 Edella Schlager: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	33	195	173	148	131	95	8198

Edella Schlager publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edella Schlager sits on this spectrum.

37 publications 262+

This scientist: 95 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Edella Schlager D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edella Schlager sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Overview

Edella Schlager is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations, public administration, and sociology. Their work integrates environmental and policy challenges, addressing complex governance mechanisms and institutional design.

Their publications demonstrate engagement with key topics including public policy and administration research, policy transfer and learning, and sustainability and climate change governance. Other areas of interest include water-energy-food nexus studies, local government finance and decentralization, experimental behavioral economics studies, and management and organizational studies.

Edella Schlager's research appears frequently in several academic venues. Notably, these include:

Ecology and Society
Policy Studies Journal
Annals of Glaciology
Public Administration
International Journal of the Commons

Among their recent papers are:

"Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems" (2020, Ecology and Society)
"Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods" (2020, Public Administration)
"Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements" (2021, Policy Studies Journal)
"Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks" (2021, Ecology and Society)
"Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks" (2021, Policy Studies Journal)

Frequent collaborators include Tomás Olivier, Jeffrey Hanlon, Anna Puggaard, Nicolaj Hansen, and Louise Sandberg Sørensen.

Best Publications

Property rights regimes and natural resources: A conceptual analysis

E. Schlager;Elinor Ostrom

3740
Citations
Political Pitfalls of Integrated Watershed Management

William Blomquist;Edella Schlager

418
Citations
Mobile flows, storage, and self-organized institutions for governing common-pool resources

E. Schlager;W. Blomquist;S. Y. Tang

372
Citations
Policy making and collective action: Defining coalitions within the advocacy coalition framework

Edella Schlager

368
Citations
A Comparison of Three Emerging Theories of the Policy Process

Edella Schlager;William Blomquist

223
Citations
Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

Daniel A. DeCaro;Brian C. Chaffin;Edella Schlager;Ahjond S. Garmestani

180
Citations
Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

William A. Blomquist;Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

175
Citations
The Role of Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages in Common Pool Resource Management: Assessing Interstate River Compacts

Tanya Heikkila;Edella Schlager;Mark W. Davis

163
Citations
Varieties of Policy Feedback Research: Looking Backward, Moving Forward

Daniel Béland;Edella Schlager

160
Citations
The role of law in adaptive governance.

Barbara A Cosens;Robin K Craig;Shana Lee Hirsch;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold

159
Citations
A Comparison of Frameworks, Theories, and Models of Policy Processes

Unknown

138
Citations
Embracing Watershed Politics

Edella Schlager;William A. Blomquist

129
Citations
Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: An analysis of tools available in U.S. environmental law

Robin Kundis Craig;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen;Craig R. Allen;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold

119
Citations
Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems.

Lance Gunderson;Barbara Cosens;Barbara Cosens;Brian C. Chaffin;Craig Anthony Arnold;Craig Anthony Arnold

106
Citations
Institutions and the performance of coupled infrastructure systems

John M. Anderies;Marco A. Janssen;Edella Schlager

102
Citations
Resolving Water Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Interstate River Compacts

Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

102
Citations
Les approches cognitives des politiques publiques : perspectives américaines

Unknown

101
Citations
Left High and Dry? Climate Change, Common-Pool Resource Theory, and the Adaptability of Western Water Compacts

Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

89
Citations
New Theories of the Policy Process

Edella Schlager;Christopher M. Weible

85
Citations
Rationality, Cooperation, and Common Pool Resources:

Edella Schlager

83
Citations
Community management of groundwater.

E. Schlager;M. Giordano;K. G. Villholth

77
Citations
Balancing Open Science and Data Privacy in the Water Sciences

Samuel C. Zipper;Kaitlin Stack Whitney;Jillian M. Deines;Kevin M. Befus

70
Citations
Challenges of governing groundwater in U.S. western states

Edella Schlager

58
Citations
Resolving Water Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of

Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

0
Citations
The Role of Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages in Common Pool Resource Management: Assessing

Tanya Heikkila;Edella Schlager;Mark W. Davis

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver

Ahjond S. Garmestani Environmental Protection Agency

Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver

J. B. Ruhl Vanderbilt University

Tom Gleeson University of Victoria

John M. Anderies Arizona State University

Kaveh Madani Yale University

Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley

Patricia Gober Arizona State University

External Links

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