2026 Paul A. Sabatier: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	49	245	141	91	49362

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Overview

Paul A. Sabatier was affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research contributions spanned multiple fields with a predominant focus on environmental science and social sciences.

Their scientific work was marked by investigations into topics such as:

Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Groundwater and Watershed Analysis

Sabatier published extensively in several subfields, including:

Global and Planetary Change
Sociology and Political Science
Atmospheric Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Environmental Engineering

Among their recent papers were:

"Spatio-temporal behaviours of tropical cyclones over the bay of Bengal Basin in last five decades" (2021) published in Tropical Cyclone Research and Review
"Climate change, multi-hazards and society: An empirical study on the coastal community of Indian Sundarban" (2022) published in Natural Hazards Research
"Assessing the level of contamination of metals in surface soils at thermal power area: Evidence from developing country (India)" (2021) in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
"Modeling cyclone-induced multi-hazard risk assessment using analytical hierarchical processing and GIS for coastal West Bengal, India" (2021) in Regional Studies in Marine Science
"Dynamicity of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) An analysis from peri-urban and rural neighbourhoods of Durgapur Municipal Corporation (DMC) in India" (2023) in Regional Sustainability

Sabatier collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

Subhasis Bhattacharya
Subrata Haldar
Somnath Mandal
Pintu Mandal
Manas Mondal

Their work appeared regularly in publishing venues such as:

Spatial Information Research
Safety in Extreme Environments
SSRN Electronic Journal
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review

In addition to articles, Sabatier contributed to book publications, with one noted title being WEF Stormwater Quality Modeling: Today's Models published by Water Environment Federation in 2020.

Best Publications

Policy Change And Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach

Alasdair Roberts;Paul A. Sabatier;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

5852
Citations
AN ADVOCACY COALITION FRAMEWORK OF POLICY CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF POLICY-ORIENTED LEARNING THEREIN

Paul A. Sabatier

5395
Citations
Theories of the Policy Process

Paul A. Sabatier

4866
Citations
The advocacy coalition framework: Innovations and clarifications

Paul A. Sabatier;Christopher M. Weible

4514
Citations
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Implementation Research: a Critical Analysis and Suggested Synthesis

Paul A. Sabatier

3614
Citations
Implementation and public policy

Malcolm L. Goggin;Daniel A. Mazmanian;Paul A. Sabatier

3204
Citations
The advocacy coalition framework: revisions and relevance for Europe

Paul A. Sabatier

2236
Citations
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC POLICY: A FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS*

Paul Sabatier;Daniel Mazmanian

1743
Citations
Knowledge, Policy-Oriented Learning, and Policy Change An Advocacy Coalition Framework

Paul A. Sabatier

1331
Citations
Toward Better Theories of the Policy Process

Paul A. Sabatier

1289
Citations
Themes and Variations: Taking Stock of the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Christopher M. Weible;Paul A. Sabatier;Kelly McQueen

1120
Citations
THE CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION: A GUIDE TO ACCOMPLISHING POLICY OBJECTIVES

P Sabatier;D Mazmanian

1020
Citations
Effective policy implementation

Daniel A. Mazmanian;Paul A. Sabatier

942
Citations
Advocacy-Koalitionen, Policy-Wandel und Policy-Lernen: Eine Alternative zur Phasenheuristik

Paul A. Sabatier

872
Citations
Swimming upstream : collaborative approaches to watershed management

Paul A. Sabatier

783
Citations
Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Paul A. Sabatier

773
Citations
Stakeholder Partnerships as Collaborative Policymaking: Evaluation Criteria Applied to Watershed Management in California and Washington.

William D. Leach;Neil W. Pelkey;Paul A. Sabatier

710
Citations
A Quarter Century of the Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Christopher M. Weible;Paul A. Sabatier;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Daniel Nohrstedt

502
Citations
Comparing Policy Networks: Marine Protected Areas in California

Christopher M. Weible;Paul A. Sabatier

458
Citations
To Trust an Adversary: Integrating Rational and Psychological Models of Collaborative Policymaking

William D. Leach;Paul A. Sabatier

424
Citations
Understanding and influencing the policy process

Christopher M. Weible;Tanya Heikkila;Peter deLeon;Paul A. Sabatier

371
Citations
A Guide to the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Christopher M. Weible;Paul A. Sabatier

347
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith University of Oklahoma

Mark Lubell University of California, Davis

Peter DeLeon University of Colorado Denver

Daniel Nohrstedt Uppsala University

Bryan G. Norton Georgia Institute of Technology

Claudio M. Radaelli European University Institute

Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver

External Links

Personal website of Paul A. Sabatier

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