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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 85 Citations 28,291 251 World Ranking 139 National Ranking 21

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Social psychology

Nicholas Frank Pidgeon focuses on Climate change, Social psychology, Public relations, Political economy of climate change and Environmental ethics. His Climate change research includes elements of Affect, Action, Development economics, Framing and Construal level theory. His Affect research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Publics, Optimal distinctiveness theory and Environmental protection.

His Social psychology study incorporates themes from Global warming, Risk perception, Perception and Skepticism. His work carried out in the field of Public relations brings together such families of science as Risk assessment, Risk factor, Blame and Set. His Political economy of climate change course of study focuses on Environmental resource management and Environmental planning, Expression, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Empirical evidence and Value.

His most cited work include:

  • Man-Made Disasters (872 citations)
  • The Social Amplification of Risk (744 citations)
  • Public Views on Climate Change: European and USA Perspectives (703 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Climate change, Public relations, Social psychology, Perception and Public engagement. Many of his research projects under Climate change are closely connected to Environmental ethics with Environmental ethics, tying the diverse disciplines of science together. His Environmental ethics studies intersect with other disciplines such as Action and Social science.

His study focuses on the intersection of Public relations and fields such as Politics with connections in the field of Corporate governance. His research on Social psychology often connects related topics like Risk perception. His Public engagement research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Deliberation, Engineering ethics, Public debate and Geoengineering.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Climate change (25.27%)
  • Public relations (20.22%)
  • Social psychology (13.72%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Climate change (25.27%)
  • Public relations (20.22%)
  • Vulnerability (3.25%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Climate change, Public relations, Vulnerability, Deliberation and Environmental ethics. His research on Climate change frequently links to adjacent areas such as Environmental planning. His work in the fields of Public relations, such as Stakeholder, overlaps with other areas such as Trilemma.

In Stakeholder, Nicholas Frank Pidgeon works on issues like Ambivalence, which are connected to Perception. His research investigates the connection with Vulnerability and areas like Poverty which intersect with concerns in Government, Quality of life, Qualitative research and Scholarship. His Deliberation research includes themes of Publics, Oil shale and Public engagement.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands. (29 citations)
  • Public perceptions of carbon dioxide removal in the United States and the United Kingdom (18 citations)
  • Acceptance of energy transitions and policies: Public conceptualisations of energy as a need and basic right in the United Kingdom (16 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Social psychology

His scientific interests lie mostly in Climate change, Perception, Software deployment, Vulnerability and Public relations. His research in the fields of Climate change adaptation overlaps with other disciplines such as Cross national. Nicholas Frank Pidgeon interconnects Greenhouse gas removal, Stakeholder and Politics in the investigation of issues within Perception.

Social acceptability, Equity, Energy storage, Investment and Marketing are fields of study that intersect with his Software deployment study. Nicholas Frank Pidgeon has researched Vulnerability in several fields, including Empowerment, Economic Justice, Variety, Flexibility and Flexibility. The Public relations study combines topics in areas such as Framing, Salient, Focus group and Energy system.

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Best Publications

Man-Made Disasters

Barry A. Turner;Nick F. Pidgeon.
(1995)

1404 Citations

Public Views on Climate Change: European and USA Perspectives

Irene Lorenzoni;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon.
(2006)

1179 Citations

The Social Amplification of Risk

Nick F. Pidgeon;Roger E. Kasperson;Paul Slovic.
(2003)

1166 Citations

Qualitative research and psychological theorizing.

Karen L. Henwood;Nick F. Pidgeon.
British Journal of Psychology (1992)

1041 Citations

The psychological distance of climate change

Alexa Spence;Wouter Poortinga;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon.
Risk Analysis (2012)

917 Citations

Perceptions of climate change and willingness to save energy related to flood experience

A. Spence;Wouter Poortinga;Catherine Butler;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon.
Nature Climate Change (2011)

836 Citations

Exploring the Dimensionality of Trust in Risk Regulation

Wouter Poortinga;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon.
Risk Analysis (2003)

775 Citations

Uncertain climate: An investigation into public scepticism about anthropogenic climate change

Wouter Poortinga;Alexa Spence;Lorraine E. Whitmarsh;Stuart B. Capstick.
Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions (2011)

663 Citations

Framing and Communicating Climate Change: The Effects of Distance and Outcome Frame Manipulations

Alexa Spence;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon.
Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions (2010)

655 Citations

The role of social and decision sciences in communicating uncertain climate risks

Nicholas Frank Pidgeon;Baruch Fischhoff.
Nature Climate Change (2011)

640 Citations

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