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D-Index
39
Citations
19986
World Ranking
8206
National Ranking
379

Ian Burton publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Burton sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 100 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Ian Burton D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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

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

    B Smit;O Pilifosova;I Burton;B Challenger

  • An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

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

  • From Impacts Assessment to Adaptation Priorities: the Shaping of Adaptation Policy

    Ian Burton;Saleemul Huq;Bo Lim;Olga Pilifosova

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

    Maarten K. van Aalst;Terry Cannon;Ian Burton

  • THE SCIENCE OF ADAPTATION: A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • Addressing the risk of maladaptation to climate change

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

  • From impacts assessment to adaptation priorities: the shaping of adaptation policy

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

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

  • The Perception of Natural Hazards in Resource Management

    Ian Burton;Robert W. Kates

  • Environmental risk assessment

    Anne V. T. Whyte;Ian Burton

  • VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTIVE RESPONSE IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE

    Ian Burton

  • The hazardousness of a place: A regional ecology of damaging events

    Thomas F. Saarinen;Kenneth Hewitt;Ian Burton

  • An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

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  • Report on Reports: Our Common Future

    Ian Burton

  • The social construction of disaster risk: Seeking root causes ☆

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

  • The Growth of Adaptation Capacity: Practice and Policy

    Ian Burton;Ian Burton

  • The human ecology of extreme geophysical events

    Ian Burton;Robert William Kates;Gilbert F. White

  • Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change

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

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

    Kristie L. Ebi;Ian Burton

  • The Earthscan reader on adaptation to climate change

    E. Lisa F Schipper;Ian Burton

  • Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

    Ian Burton;Kristie L. Ebi;Glenn McGregor

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Kates
Robert W. Kates Clark University
Saleemul Huq
Saleemul Huq Independent University
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Gary W. Yohe
Gary W. Yohe Wesleyan University
Barry Smit
Barry Smit University of Guelph
Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington
Kenneth Hewitt
Kenneth Hewitt Wilfrid Laurier University
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Joop van der Pligt
Joop van der Pligt University of Amsterdam

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