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Paul C. Stern 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 Paul C. Stern sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 189 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul C. Stern 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 Paul C. Stern sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 81 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul C. Stern is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research spans across Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Applied Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including Environmental Education and Sustainability, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Kristian Steensen Nielsen, Thomas Dietz, Michael P. Vandenbergh, John Thøgersen, and Kimberly S. Wolske.

Paul C. Stern has published in several recognized academic venues, frequently contributing to Nature Climate Change, Journal of Environmental Psychology, Energy Research & Social Science, American Psychologist, and Nature Energy.

  • "A reexamination on how behavioral interventions can promote household action to limit climate change", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "How psychology can help limit climate change.", 2020, American Psychologist
  • "The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions", 2021, Nature Energy
  • "The case for impact-focused environmental psychology", 2021, Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • "Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility", 2020, One Earth

Among the recognitions received, Paul C. Stern was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1994.

Best Publications

  • New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior

    Paul C. Stern

  • The Struggle to Govern the Commons

    Thomas Dietz;Elinor Ostrom;Paul C. Stern

  • A Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Support for Social Movements: The Case of Environmentalism

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Troy D. Abel;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern:

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Linda Kalof

  • The Value Basis of Environmental Concern

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz

  • Environmental Problems and Human Behavior

    Gerald T. Gardner;Paul C. Stern

  • Influences on Attitude-Behavior Relationships A Natural Experiment with Curbside Recycling

    Gregory A. Guagnano;Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz

  • Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society

    Paul C. Stern;Harvey V. Fineberg

  • Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions

    Thomas Dietz;Gerald T. Gardner;Jonathan Gilligan;Paul C. Stern

  • Values, Beliefs, and Proenvironmental Action: Attitude Formation Toward Emergent Attitude Objects1

    Paul C. Stern;Linda Kalof;Thomas Dietz;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • The Drama of the Commons

    Elinor Ostrom;Thomas Dietz;Nives Dolšak;Paul C. Stern

  • The New Ecological Paradigm in Social-Psychological Context

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • Social Structural and Social Psychological Bases of Environmental Concern

    Thomas Dietz;Paul C. Stern;Gregory A. Guagnano

  • Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making

    Thomas Dietz;Paul C. Stern

  • Personal and contextual influences on househould energy adaptations.

    J. Stanley Black;Paul C. Stern;Julie T. Elworth

  • Public understanding of climate change in the United States.

    Elke U. Weber;Paul C. Stern

  • Information, Incentives, and Proenvironmental Consumer Behavior

    Paul C. Stern

  • Gender, values, and environmentalism

    Thomas Dietz;Linda Kalof;Paul C. Stern

  • Psychological dimensions of global environmental change.

    Paul C. Stern

  • A Brief Inventory of Values

    Paul C. Stern;Thomas Dietz;Gregory A. Guagnano

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz Michigan State University
Barbara Entwisle
Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Thomas Webler
Thomas Webler Keene State College
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis Columbia University
Daniel Druckman
Daniel Druckman George Mason University
Susan Clayton
Susan Clayton College of Wooster
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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