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D-Index
50
Citations
16506
World Ranking
2696
National Ranking
461

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steve Rayner is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences and business, particularly focusing on the dynamics of innovation, knowledge management, and risk perception and management.

Their recent scholarly contribution includes a paper titled Resources and Technology, published in 2025 in the journal Resources and Technology. This work has accumulated a notable number of citations, reflecting engagement within the academic community.

Steve Rayner frequently collaborates with various researchers, including Michael Thompson, with whom they have coauthored two publications, Elizabeth L. Malone, and Steven Ney.

Their research has appeared primarily in the venue Resources and Technology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study cover:

  • Strategy and Management
  • Sociology and Political Science

Their work addresses key topics such as:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Risk Perception and Management

In recognition of their professional contributions, Steve Rayner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Power, Action and Belief. A New Sociology of Knowledge?

    J Law;G. J Fyfe;M Callon;B Latour

  • Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]

    Christopher Boehm;Harold B. Barclay;Robert Knox Dentan;Marie-Claude Dupre

  • Cultural theory and risk analysis

    Steve Rayner

  • Geoengineering the Climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty

    John Shepherd;Steve Rayner

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World. The Case of Climate Change

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • How Fair Is Safe Enough? The Cultural Approach to Societal Technology Choice1

    Steve Rayner;Robin Cantor

  • Human choice and climate change

    Steve Rayner;Elizabeth L. Malone

  • Climate change 2007: Lifting the taboo on adaptation

    Roger Pielke;Gwyn Prins;Steve Rayner;Daniel Sarewitz

  • Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and environmental policy discourses

    Steve Rayner

  • Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans

    Robert Costanza;Francisco Andrade;Paula Antunes;Marjan van den Belt

  • Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organization

    Jonathan L. Gross;Steve Rayner

  • Weather Forecasts are for Wimps: Why Water Resource Managers Do Not Use Climate Forecasts

    Steve Rayner;Denise Lach;Helen Ingram

  • Time to ditch Kyoto

    Gwyn Prins;Steve Rayner

  • Democracy in the age of assessment: Reflections on the roles of expertise and democracy in public-sector decision making

    Steve Rayner

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • The Oxford Principles

    Steve Rayner;Clare Heyward;Tim Kruger;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon

  • How to eat an elephant: a bottom-up approach to climate policy.

    Steve Rayner

  • City networks: breaking gridlocks or forging (new) lock-ins?

    Michele Acuto;Steve Rayner

  • The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009

    Gwyn Prins;Isabel Galiana;Christopher Green;Reiner Grundmann

  • Taming the waters: strategies to domesticate the wicked problems of water resource management

    Denise Lach;Steve Rayner;Helen Ingram

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Daniel Sarewitz
Daniel Sarewitz Arizona State University
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
John P. Robinson
John P. Robinson University of Maryland, College Park
Karin E. Limburg
Karin E. Limburg SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Roberto Schaeffer
Roberto Schaeffer Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
David W. Keith
David W. Keith University of Chicago
Donald F. Boesch
Donald F. Boesch University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Michael A. Young
Michael A. Young Illinois Institute of Technology

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