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Richard C. Stedman

Richard C. Stedman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
64
Citations
22875
World Ranking
1078
National Ranking
501

Richard C. Stedman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 268 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard C. Stedman 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 Richard C. Stedman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard C. Stedman is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans across the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on sociology, ecology, policy, and conservation.

The researcher's work covers various subfields including:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Main topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Integrating social considerations in multicriteria decision analysis for utility-scale solar photovoltaic siting," 2021, Applied Energy
  • "Measuring good governance: piloting an instrument for evaluating good governance principles," 2020, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
  • "Are big and small solar separate things?: The importance of scale in public support for solar energy development in upstate New York," 2021, Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility-Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York," 2023, Rural Sociology
  • "Preserving ones meaningful place or not? Understanding environmental stewardship behaviour in river landscapes," 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Applied Energy
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Wildlife Society Bulletin
  • Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Collaborations are regularly made with several co-authors, among whom are:

  • T. Bruce Lauber
  • William F. Siemer
  • Christopher M. Raymond
  • Robi Nilson
  • Nancy A. Connelly

Richard C. Stedman has contributed to academic books as well, notably having a publication titled "Changing Senses of Place" released by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • SENSE OF PLACE AS AN ATTITUDE: LAKESHORE OWNERS ATTITUDES TOWARD THEIR PROPERTIES

    Bradley S. Jorgensen;Richard C. Stedman

  • Toward a Social Psychology of Place: Predicting Behavior from Place-Based Cognitions, Attitude, and Identity

    Richard C. Stedman

  • Is It Really Just a Social Construction?: The Contribution of the Physical Environment to Sense of Place

    Richard C. Stedman

  • Conservation social science: understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Robin Roth;Sarah C. Klain;Kai Chan

  • A comparative analysis of predictors of sense of place dimensions: attachment to, dependence on, and identification with lakeshore properties.

    Bradley S. Jorgensen;Richard C. Stedman

  • Sense of place in environmental education

    Alex Kudryavtsev;Richard C. Stedman;Marianne E. Krasny

  • Understanding the multi-dimensional structure of pro-environmental behavior

    Lincoln R. Larson;Richard C. Stedman;Caren B. Cooper;Daniel J. Decker

  • Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Robin Roth;Sarah C. Klain;Kai M. A. Chan

  • Residents' Perceptions of Community and Environmental Impacts From Development of Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale: A Comparison of Pennsylvania and New York Cases

    Kathryn J. Brasier;Matthew R. Filteau;Diane K. McLaughlin;Jeffrey Jacquet

  • The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research : a review and research agenda

    Vanessa A. Masterson;Richard C. Stedman;Johan Enqvist;Maria Tengö

  • Understanding Place Attachment Among Second Home Owners

    Richard C. Stedman

  • Sense of place and forest science: toward a program of quantitative research.

    Richard C. Stedman

  • The End of the (Research) World As We Know It? Understanding and Coping With Declining Response Rates to Mail Surveys

    Richard C. Stedman;Nancy A. Connelly;Thomas A. Heberlein;Daniel J. Decker

  • A Picture and 1000 Words: Using Resident-Employed Photography to Understand Attachment to High Amenity Places

    Richard Stedman;Tom Beckley;Sara Wallace;Marke Ambard

  • Environmental Concern: Examining the Role of Place Meaning and Place Attachment

    Joan M. Brehm;Brian W. Eisenhauer;Richard C. Stedman

  • Rethinking resilience to wildfire

    David B. McWethy;Tania Schoennagel;Philip E. Higuera;Meg Krawchuk

  • Are wildlife recreationists conservationists? Linking hunting, birdwatching, and pro‐environmental behavior

    Caren Cooper;Lincoln Larson;Ashley Dayer;Richard Stedman

  • Sense of Place, Fast and Slow: The Potential Contributions of Affordance Theory to Sense of Place.

    Christopher M. Raymond;Marketta Kyttä;Richard Stedman

  • The impact of environmental education on sense of place among urban youth

    Alex Kudryavtsev;Marianne E. Krasny;Richard C. Stedman

  • Between fixities and flows: Navigating place attachments in an increasingly mobile world

    Andrés Di Masso;Daniel R. Williams;Christopher M. Raymond;Matthias Buchecker

  • Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions

    Niki Frantzeskaki;Adina Dumitru;Isabelle Anguelovski;Flor Avelino

  • Resource dependence and community well-being in rural Canada.

    Richard C. Stedman;John R. Parkins;Thomas M. Beckley

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Decker
Daniel J. Decker Cornell University
Marianne E. Krasny
Marianne E. Krasny Cornell University
A. E. Luloff
A. E. Luloff Pennsylvania State University
Barbara A. Knuth
Barbara A. Knuth Cornell University
Nathan J. Bennett
Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia
Gregory L. Poe
Gregory L. Poe Cornell University
Thomas A. Heberlein
Thomas A. Heberlein University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lars G. Rudstam
Lars G. Rudstam Cornell University
Tara L. Teel
Tara L. Teel Colorado State University
Kai M. A. Chan
Kai M. A. Chan University of British Columbia

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