2026 Ian Burton: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	39	8204	7884	379	355	100	19986

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Environmental Sciences

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19986

Best Publications

Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity

B Smit;O Pilifosova;I Burton;B Challenger

2454
Citations
An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

Barry Smit;Ian Burton;Richard J.T. Klein;J. Wandel

2227
Citations
From Impacts Assessment to Adaptation Priorities: the Shaping of Adaptation Policy

Ian Burton;Saleemul Huq;Bo Lim;Olga Pilifosova

1081
Citations
Community level adaptation to climate change: The potential role of participatory community risk assessment

Maarten K. van Aalst;Terry Cannon;Ian Burton

1020
Citations
THE SCIENCE OF ADAPTATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT

Barry Smit;Ian Burton;Richard J.T. Klein;R. Street

1019
Citations
Assessing Dangerous Climate Change Through an Update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "Reasons for Concern"

Joel B. Smith;Stephen H. Schneider;Michael Oppenheimer;Gary W. Yohe

809
Citations
Risk interpretation and action: A conceptual framework for responses to natural hazards

J. Richard Eiser;Ann Bostrom;Ian Burton;David M. Johnston

717
Citations
Adaptation Policy Frameworks For Climate Change: Developing Strategies, Policies And Measures

Bo Lim;Erika Spanger-Siegfried;Ian Burton;Elizabeth L. Malone

610
Citations
Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

Alexandre Magnan;E.L.F. Schipper;Maxine Burkett;S. Bharwani

474
Citations
From impacts assessment to adaptation priorities: the shaping of adaptation policy

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445
Citations
Knowing better and losing even more: the use of knowledge in hazards management

Gilbert F. White;Robert W. Kates;Ian Burton

407
Citations
The Perception of Natural Hazards in Resource Management

Ian Burton;Robert W. Kates

392
Citations
Environmental risk assessment

Anne V. T. Whyte;Ian Burton

341
Citations
VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSE IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Ian Burton

325
Citations
The hazardousness of a place: A regional ecology of damaging events

Thomas F. Saarinen;Kenneth Hewitt;Ian Burton

296
Citations
An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

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270
Citations
Report on Reports: Our Common Future

Ian Burton

204
Citations
The social construction of disaster risk: Seeking root causes ☆

Anthony Oliver-Smith;Irasema Alcántara-Ayala;Ian Burton;Allan Lavell

160
Citations
The Growth of Adaptation Capacity: Practice and Policy

Ian Burton;Ian Burton

159
Citations
The human ecology of extreme geophysical events

Ian Burton;Robert William Kates;Gilbert F. White

123
Citations
Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change

Bo Lim;Erika Spanger-Siegfried;Ian Burton;Eizabeth Malone

123
Citations
Identifying practical adaptation options: an approach to address climate change-related health risks

Kristie L. Ebi;Ian Burton

110
Citations
The Earthscan reader on adaptation to climate change

E. Lisa F Schipper;Ian Burton

99
Citations
Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

Ian Burton;Kristie L. Ebi;Glenn McGregor

87
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Kates Clark University

Saleemul Huq Independent University

Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute

Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University

Barry Smit University of Guelph

Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute

Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington

Kenneth Hewitt Wilfrid Laurier University

Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University

Joop van der Pligt University of Amsterdam

External Links

Personal website of Ian Burton Google Scholar page

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