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Lesley Head 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 Lesley Head sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 200 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lesley Head 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 Lesley Head sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lesley Head is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research portfolio primarily situated within the Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations, Global and Planetary Change, and General Health Professions.

Their research interests encompass a variety of interconnected topics, such as:

  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Lesley Head has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals with a total of recent papers spread across diverse venues. Notable publications include:

  • "Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires," 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Australia's mass fish kills as a crisis of modern water: Understanding hydrosocial change in the Murray-Darling Basin," 2020, Geoforum
  • "Transformative change requires resisting a new normal," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants," 2021, Local Environment
  • "The state of Geography in Australian universities," 2021, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Their work often involves collaboration with other researchers, as reflected in frequent co-authorship with colleagues such as Sue Jackson, Michela Mariani, Simon Connor, Martin Theuerkauf, and Annika Herbert.

Lesley Head's publications are dispersed across a range of academic journals including:

  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Geoforum
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Local Environment
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Best Publications

  • Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human–nature relations

    Lesley Head

  • Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies

    Lesley M Head;Jennifer M Atchison

  • Landscape - a usefully ambiguous concept

    Chris Gosden;Lesley Head

  • Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change

    Lesley M Head

  • Early human occupation of northern Australia: archaeology and thermoluminescence dating of Jinmium rock-shelter, Northern Territory

    R. L. K. Fullagar;D. M. Price;L. M. Head

  • Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape

    Lesley M Head

  • Climate change and Australia

    Lesley Head;Michael Adams;Helen V. McGregor;Stephanie Toole

  • Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens

    Lesley M. Head;Pat Muir

  • NATIVENESS, INVASIVENESS, AND NATION IN AUSTRALIAN PLANTS*

    Lesley M Head;Pat Muir

  • A science of loss

    Jon Barnett;Petra Tschakert;Lesley Head;W. Neil Adger

  • Cultural ecology: adaptation – retrofitting a concept?

    Lesley M Head

  • Australian Backyard Gardens and the Journey of Migration

    Lesley Head;Pat Muir;Eva Hampel

  • Walking practice and suburban nature-talk

    Gordon R Waitt;Nicholas J Gill;Lesley M Head

  • Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics

    Lesley M Head;Christopher R Gibson

  • Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

    Michela Mariani;Simon E. Connor;Martin Theuerkauf;Annika Herbert

  • The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia

    Christine Eriksen;Nicholas J Gill;Lesley M Head

  • Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability

    Christopher R Gibson;Lesley M Head;Nicholas J Gill;Gordon R Waitt

  • Ingrained: A Human Bio-geography of Wheat

    Lesley M Head;Jennifer Atchison;Alison Gates

  • The Boundaries of Nature Tourism

    Gordon R Waitt;Ruth Lane;Lesley M. Head

  • Changing cultures of water in eastern Australian backyard gardens

    Lesley M Head;Patricia A Muir

  • Landscapes socialised by fire: post‐contact changes in Aboriginal fire use in northern Australia, and implications for prehistory

    Lesley Head

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Uma Kothari
Uma Kothari University of Manchester
Tim Edensor
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
John Dodson
John Dodson Chinese Academy of Sciences
David M. Price
David M. Price University of Wollongong
Helen McGregor
Helen McGregor University of Wollongong
Peter Caputi
Peter Caputi University of Wollongong

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