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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 64 1110 971 211 188 416 14963
Environmental Sciences 61 2806 2681 219 211 397 11963

Timothy O'Riordan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Timothy O'Riordan between 1963 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Timothy O'Riordan published across 63 years, from 1963 to 2025, averaging 7.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 1988. 10 of the 494 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1963 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 26. Peak 26 publications in 1988. 1963: 1 publication 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 1 publication 1970: 2 publications 1971: 3 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 2 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 2 publications 1976: 4 publications 1977: 5 publications 1978: 3 publications 1979: 7 publications 1980: 6 publications 1981: 5 publications 1982: 11 publications 1983: 9 publications 1984: 11 publications 1985: 12 publications 1986: 5 publications 1987: 11 publications 1988: 26 publications 1989: 13 publications 1990: 12 publications 1991: 11 publications 1992: 10 publications 1993: 11 publications 1994: 7 publications 1995: 18 publications 1996: 12 publications 1997: 13 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 11 publications 2000: 16 publications 2001: 12 publications 2002: 16 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 22 publications 2014: 15 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 17 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 4 publications
1963 2025

494 publications in total across all disciplines

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Timothy O'Riordan: publications per year, 1963 to 2025
Year Publications
1963 1
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 1
1970 2
1971 3
1972 0
1973 2
1974 0
1975 2
1976 4
1977 5
1978 3
1979 7
1980 6
1981 5
1982 11
1983 9
1984 11
1985 12
1986 5
1987 11
1988 26
1989 13
1990 12
1991 11
1992 10
1993 11
1994 7
1995 18
1996 12
1997 13
1998 7
1999 11
2000 16
2001 12
2002 16
2003 4
2004 8
2005 9
2006 5
2007 7
2008 9
2009 8
2010 6
2011 4
2012 8
2013 22
2014 15
2015 9
2016 17
2017 10
2018 9
2019 11
2020 7
2021 8
2022 4
2023 9
2024 6
2025 4
Total 494
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Timothy O'Riordan publications per year - data summary

  • Timothy O'Riordan, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of East Anglia, has 494 publications recorded across 63 years, from 1963 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1963 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 1988, with 26 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1963 and 1969, with 1 publication each.
  • 7 of the 63 years in the span carry no publications at all (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 7.8 papers per year over the whole span, or 8.8 per year counting only the 56 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 31 publications, 6% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1963-1983: 61 publications (2.9 per year); 1984-2004: 246 publications (11.7 per year); 2005-2025: 187 publications (8.9 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Timothy O'Riordan 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 Timothy O'Riordan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 414–423 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 416 publications — 96th percentile

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

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20 416
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Timothy O'Riordan publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Timothy O'Riordan, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of East Anglia, records 416 publications - the 96th percentile of the discipline.
  • 96% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Timothy O'Riordan, and about 4% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Timothy O'Riordan ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Timothy O'Riordan 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 Timothy O'Riordan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 64 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

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.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79 64
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Timothy O'Riordan D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Timothy O'Riordan, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from University of East Anglia, records 64 D-Index - the 86th percentile of the discipline.
  • 86% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Timothy O'Riordan, and about 14% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Timothy O'Riordan ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Overview

Timothy O'Riordan is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple topics primarily centered on sustainability, climate change, and environmental policy.

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues, with a notable presence in Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, where they have published 23 papers. Other frequent venues include Sustainability, Sustainability Science, Journal of the British Academy, and JAMA Ophthalmology.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Revisiting the Psychology of Denial Concerning Low-Carbon Behaviors: From Moral Disengagement to Generating Social Change" (2020, Sustainability)
  • "Investigating the Future Role of Higher Education in Creating Sustainability Transitions" (2020, Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development)
  • "War and the Politics of Energy and Climate Change" (2022, Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development)
  • "Economic Burden of Late-Stage Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Bulgaria, Germany, and the US" (2024, JAMA Ophthalmology)
  • "America's Zero Carbon Action Plan" (2021, Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development)

Frequent co-authors associated with Timothy O'Riordan include:

  • Myanna Lahsen
  • Filipe Duarte Santos
  • Miguel Rocha de Sousa
  • Jiesper Strandsbjerg Tristan Pedersen
  • Alan McGowan

Their work is interdisciplinary, covering various fields and subfields such as sociology and political science, global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, management, monitoring, policy and law, and ophthalmology. The numbers of publications in these subfields reflect the range and diversity of their research interests.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Best Publications

  • Valuing Environmental Goods: An Assessment of the Contingent Valuation Method

    Timothy O'Riordan;Ronald G. Cummings;David S. Brookshire;William D. Schultze

  • Interpreting the precautionary principle

    Timothy O'Riordan;James Cameron

  • The psychology of denial concerning climate mitigation measures: evidence from Swiss focus groups

    S. Stoll-Kleemann;Tim O’Riordan;Carlo C. Jaeger

  • Transformative social innovation and (dis)empowerment

    Flor Avelino;Julia Wittmayer;Bonno Pel;Paul Weaver

  • A Quantitative Test of the Cultural Theory of Risk Perceptions: Comparison with the Psychometric Paradigm

    Claire Marris;Ian H. Langford;Timothy O'Riordan

  • Institutions, climate change and cultural theory: towards a common analytical framework

    Timothy O’Riordan;Andrew Jordan

  • A quantitative test of the cultural theory of risk perceptions

    Claire Marris;Ian H. Langford;Timothy O'Riordan

  • Environmental Science for Environmental Management

    Timothy O'Riordan

  • The importance of an integrating framework for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the example of health and well-being

    Ana Raquel Nunes;Kelley Lee;Tim O'Riordan

  • The Precautionary Principle in Contemporary Environmental Politics

    Timothy O'Riordan;Andrew Jordan

  • Exploring the "psychometric paradigm": comparisons between aggregate and individual analyses.

    Claire Marris;Ian Langford;Thomas Saunderson;Timothy O'Riordan

  • Using surveys in public participation processes for risk decision-making: the case of the 2003 British GM Nation? Public Debate

    Nicholas Frank Pidgeon;Wouter Poortinga;Gene Rowe;Thomas Edward Horlick-Jones

  • The precautionary principle: protecting public health, the environment and the future of our children

    Marco Martuzzi;Joel A. Tickner;Joel Tickner;Timothy O’Riordan

  • A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment: part I. integrating socio-economic and climate change scenarios

    Irene Lorenzoni;Andrew Jordan;Mike Hulme;R. Kerry Turner

  • Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities: Protecting beyond the protected

    Timothy O'Riordan;Susanne Stoll-Kleemann

  • The GM Debate: Risk, Politics and Public Engagement

    Thomas Edward Horlick-Jones;John Walls;Gene Rowe;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon

  • The Sustainability Challenges of Our Meat and Dairy Diets

    Susanne Stoll-Kleemann;Tim O'Riordan

  • Towards sustainable flood and coastal management: identifying drivers of, and obstacles to, managed realignment

    Laure Ledoux;Laure Ledoux;Sarah Cornell;Tim O’Riordan;Robert Harvey

  • From Participation to Partnership in Biodiversity Protection: Experience from Germany and South Africa

    Susanne Stoll-Kleemann;Timothy O'Riordan

  • Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable

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  • The roots of modern environmentalism: David Pepper, with John Perkins and Martyn Young Croom Helm, London, UK, 1984, 242 pp, £17.95

    Timothy O'Riordan

  • Beyond the limits: global collapse or a sustainable future?

    Timothy O'Riordan

  • Sustainable Development: Economics and Environment in the Third World@@@Sustaining Earth: Response to the Environmental Threat

    Timothy O'Riordan;David Pearce;Edward Barbier;Anil Markandya

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Irene Lorenzoni
Irene Lorenzoni University of East Anglia
Ian H. Langford
Ian H. Langford University of East Anglia
Andrew A. Lovett
Andrew A. Lovett University of East Anglia
Paul M. Dolman
Paul M. Dolman University of East Anglia
Nicholas Frank Pidgeon
Nicholas Frank Pidgeon Cardiff University
R. Kerry Turner
R. Kerry Turner University of East Anglia
René Kemp
René Kemp Maastricht University
Susan L. Cutter
Susan L. Cutter University of South Carolina
Paul M. Weaver
Paul M. Weaver University of Limerick

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