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D-Index
42
Citations
9977
World Ranking
4653
National Ranking
325

Helen Ross publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helen Ross sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 207 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Helen Ross D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helen Ross sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Helen Ross is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has concentrated their research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of issues related to environment and sustainability, with specific attention to:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Helen Ross has contributed numerous articles to several publication venues, with the most frequent being the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, in which they have 16 publications. Other notable journals include Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, AMBIO, the Journal of Cleaner Production, and PLoS ONE.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital, 2022, AMBIO
  • Plastic pollution and packaging: Corporate commitments and actions from the food and beverage sector, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Ocean plastic crisis-Mental models of plastic pollution from remote Indonesian coastal communities, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Health in" and "Health of" Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • Building rural resilience through agri-food value chains and community interactions: A vegetable case study in Wuhan, China, 2023, Journal of Rural Studies

Frequent collaborators in their research include Claudia Baldwin, Anna Phelan, Kelly S. Fielding, Natalie A. Jones, and Duan Biggs, with multiple joint publications observed.

Best Publications

  • Community Resilience: Toward an Integrated Approach

    Fikret Berkes;Helen Ross

  • Mental models: an interdisciplinary synthesis of theory and methods

    Natalie A. Jones;Helen Ross;Timothy Lynam;Pascal Perez

  • The components of resilience—Perceptions of an Australian rural community

    Elizabeth Buikstra;Helen Ross;Christine A. King;Peter G. Baker

  • Six attributes of social resilience

    Kirsten Maclean;Michael Cuthill;Helen Ross

  • Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital

    Esther Carmen;Ioan Fazey;Helen Ross;Melissa Bedinger

  • Panarchy and community resilience: Sustainability science and policy implications

    Fikret Berkes;Helen Ross

  • The study of human values in understanding and managing social-ecological systems

    Natalie A. Jones;Sylvie Shaw;Helen Ross;Katherine Witt

  • The great experiment with devolved NRM governance: lessons from community engagement in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s

    A Curtis;H Ross;G R Marshall;C Baldwin

  • Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas Slayter and Esther Wangari (eds) London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Reviewed by Helen Ross

    Helen Ross

  • Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: visions of future systems and how to get there

    Ioan Fazey;Niko Schäpke;Guido Caniglia;Anthony Hodgson

  • Co-management and Indigenous protected areas in Australia: achievements and ways forward

    Helen Ross;Chrissy Grant;Cathy Robinson;Arturo Izurieta

  • Laying Down the Ladder: A Typology of Public Participation in Australian Natural Resource Management

    Helen Ross;Marlene Buchy;Wendy Proctor

  • Individual resilience in rural people: a Queensland study, Australia.

    Desley Hegney;Elizabeth Buikstra;Peter Baker;Cath Rogers-Clark

  • Plastic pollution and packaging: Corporate commitments and actions from the food and beverage sector

    Anna (Anya) Phelan;Katie Meissner;Jacquelyn Humphrey;Helen Ross

  • Research approaches for understanding, enhancing, and monitoring community resilience

    Helen Ross;Fikret Berkes

  • Mental Models in Rangeland Research, Communication and Management.

    Nick Abel;Helen Ross;Paul Walker

  • Ocean plastic crisis-Mental models of plastic pollution from remote Indonesian coastal communities.

    Anna Anya Phelan;Helen Ross;Novie Andri Setianto;Kelly Fielding

  • Building Co-Management as a Process: Problem Solving Through Partnerships in Aboriginal Country, Australia

    Melanie Zurba;Helen Ross;Arturo Izurieta;Philip Rist

  • Eliciting Mental Models: a Comparison of Interview Procedures in the Context of Natural Resource Management

    Natalie A. Jones;Helen Ross;Timothy Lynam;Pascal Perez

  • Mental models for conservation research and practice

    Katie Moon;Angela M. Guerrero;Vanessa. M. Adams;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs;Duan Biggs

  • A common-pool resource approach for water quality management: An Australian case study

    Ashutosh Sarker;Helen Ross;Krishna K. Shrestha

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly S. Fielding
Kelly S. Fielding University of Queensland
Brian Head
Brian Head University of Queensland
Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes University of Manitoba
Ioan Fazey
Ioan Fazey University of York
James Udy
James Udy Queensland University of Technology
Ashutosh Sarker
Ashutosh Sarker International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Syria
Catherine J. Robinson
Catherine J. Robinson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Allan Curtis
Allan Curtis Charles Sturt University
Véronique Chevalier
Véronique Chevalier Institut Pasteur
Saleem H. Ali
Saleem H. Ali University of Delaware

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