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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
87
Citations
66999
World Ranking
226
National Ranking
40

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - 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

Frank W. Geels is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a notable concentration on sustainability and climate change governance, climate change policy and economics, and environmental impact and sustainability.

Their work extensively covers several interconnected fields and subfields including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Environmental Engineering

Main topics addressed in their publications feature:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change-and how "sustainability transition policy" can help (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research (2020), Energy Research & Social Science
  • Innovation and climate change: A review and introduction to the special issue (2022), Technovation
  • Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions (2022), Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank W. Geels include:

  • Benjamin K. Sovacool
  • Bruno Turnheim
  • Marfuga Iskandarova
  • Jochen Markard
  • Martina Ayoub

They commonly publish in venues such as:

  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Research Policy
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Frank W. Geels has been recognized through awards including membership in the Academia Europaea since 2015 and fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study

    FW Frank Geels

  • Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways

    FW Frank Geels;JW Johan Schot

  • From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory

    FW Frank Geels

  • The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms

    Frank W. Geels

  • Strategic niche management and sustainable innovation journeys: Theory, findings, research agenda and policy

    JW Johan Schot;FW Frank Geels

  • An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

    Jonathan Köhler;Frank W. Geels;Florian Kern;Jochen Markard

  • Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective

    Frank W. Geels

  • Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective

    Frank W Geels

  • Technological Transitions And System Innovations: A Co-evolutionary And Socio-technical Analysis

    Frank W. Geels

  • A socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transitions: introducing the multi-level perspective into transport studies

    Frank W. Geels

  • Processes and patterns in transitions and system innovations: Refining the co-evolutionary multi-level perspective

    FW Frank Geels

  • The dynamics of transitions in socio-technical systems: A multi-level analysis of the transition pathway from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles (1860–1930)

    FW Frank Geels

  • The ongoing energy transition: Lessons from a socio-technical, multi-level analysis of the Dutch electricity system (1960-2004)

    Gpj Geert Verbong;FW Frank Geels

  • System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy

    Boelie Elzen;Frank W. Geels;Kenneth Green

  • Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization.

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

  • Non-linearity and Expectations in Niche-Development Trajectories: Ups and Downs in Dutch Biogas Development (1973–2003)

    FW Frank Geels;Rpjm Rob Raven

  • Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change

    Felix Creutzig;Joyashree Roy;William F. Lamb;Inês M. L. Azevedo

  • Socio-technical transitions to sustainability: a review of criticisms and elaborations of the Multi-Level Perspective

    Frank W Geels

  • Dynamics in socio-technical systems : typology of change processes and contrasting case studies

    Frank W. Geels;René Kemp

  • The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014)

    Frank W. Geels;Florian Kern;Gerhard Fuchs;Nele Hinderer

  • Technological transitions and system innovations: A co-evolutionary and socio-technical analysis: A Co-evolutionary and Socio-Technical Analysis

    Frank W. Geels

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Johan Schot
Johan Schot Utrecht University
René Kemp
René Kemp Maastricht University
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Jochen Markard
Jochen Markard ETH Zurich
Andries F. Hof
Andries F. Hof Utrecht University
Ken Green
Ken Green University of Manchester
Tim Schwanen
Tim Schwanen University of Oxford
Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London

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