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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 39 5637 5233 2671 2433 82 6964

Tomas M. Koontz publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tomas M. Koontz between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tomas M. Koontz published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 2.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 9 publications in 2010. 4 of the 85 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 9. Peak 9 publications in 2010. 1997: 1 publication 1998: 1 publication 1999: 2 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 1 publication 2014: 7 publications 2015: 1 publication 2016: 2 publications 2017: 0 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 0 publications 2024: 2 publications 2025: 2 publications
1997 2025

85 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tomas M. Koontz: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 1
1998 1
1999 2
2000 0
2001 1
2002 2
2003 3
2004 7
2005 2
2006 5
2007 3
2008 6
2009 2
2010 9
2011 4
2012 3
2013 1
2014 7
2015 1
2016 2
2017 0
2018 3
2019 5
2020 3
2021 6
2022 2
2023 0
2024 2
2025 2
Total 85
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Tomas M. Koontz 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 Tomas M. Koontz 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, 74–83 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: 82 publications — 6th percentile

6% 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 82
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
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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Tomas M. Koontz 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 Tomas M. Koontz 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, 39 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: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% 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 39
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
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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Overview

Tomas M. Koontz is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Locating Power in Ostrom's Design Principles: Watershed Management in India and the United States (2021, Society & Natural Resources)
  • Systematic learning in water governance: insights from five local adaptive management projects for water quality innovation (2021, Ecology and Society)
  • Science and scale mismatch: Horizontal and vertical information sharing in the Puget Sound polycentric governance system (2021, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Understanding barriers and opportunities for diffusion of an agricultural decision-support tool: An organizational perspective (2022, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Dilemmas of public goods provisioning: institutional mechanisms for agricultural drainage management in Ohio, USA (2021, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management)

Their frequent coauthors include Craig W. Thomas, Pranay Ranjan, Katherine Cheng, Pranietha Mudliar, and Elisa Kochskämper.

Koontz has contributed to several publication venues, most notably:

  • Society & Natural Resources (3 publications)
  • Ecology and Society (1 publication)
  • Journal of Environmental Management (1 publication)
  • Journal of Hydrology (1 publication)
  • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (1 publication)

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Complex Systems and Decision Making

Best Publications

  • What Do We Know and Need to Know about the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management

    Tomas M. Koontz;Craig W. Thomas

  • Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government-1

    Tomas M. Koontz;Toddi A. Steelman;JoAnn Carmin;Katrina Smith Korfmacher

  • From Planning to Implementation: Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Approaches for Collaborative Watershed Management

    Tomas M. Koontz;Jens Newig

  • Research Note A Typology of Collaborative Watershed Groups: Citizen-Based, Agency-Based, and Mixed Partnerships

    Elizabeth A. Moore;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Multi-level governance, policy implementation and participation: the EU's mandated participatory planning approach to implementing environmental policy

    Jens Newig;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Is sustainability knowledge half the battle? An examination of sustainability knowledge, attitudes, norms, and efficacy to understand sustainable behaviours.

    Alexander John Heeren;Ajay S. Singh;Adam Zwickle;Tomas M. Koontz

  • One size does not fit all: Matching breadth of stakeholder participation to watershed group accomplishments

    Tomas M. Koontz;Elizabeth Moore Johnson

  • We Finished the Plan, So Now What? Impacts of Collaborative Stakeholder Participation on Land Use Policy

    Tomas M. Koontz

  • Adaptive institutions in social-ecological systems governance: A synthesis framework

    Tomas M. Koontz;Divya Gupta;Pranietha Mudliar;Pranay Ranjan

  • Collaboration for sustainability? A framework for analyzing government impacts in collaborative-environmental management

    Tomas M. Koontz

  • Citizen Participation in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

    Brandi Koehler;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Money Talks?But to Whom? Financial Versus Nonmonetary Motivations in Land Use Decisions

    Tomas M. Koontz

  • Adaptive Management of the Global Climate Problem: Bridging the Gap Between Climate Research and Climate Policy

    Joseph Arvai;Gavin Bridge;Nives Dolsak;Robert Franzese

  • When community is not enough : Institutions and values in community-based forest management in southern Indiana

    Clark C. Gibson;Tomas Koontz

  • Reducing nonpoint source pollution through collaboration: policies and programs across the U.S. States.

    Scott D. Hardy;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Goal specificity: A proxy measure for improvements in environmental outcomes in collaborative governance

    Jennifer C. Biddle;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Research Designs for Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Management on Natural Resource Conservation

    Craig W. Thomas;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Implementing ecosystem management in public agencies: lessons from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.

    Tomas M. Koontz;Jennifer Bodine

  • Stumbling Forward: The Organizational Challenges of Building and Sustaining Collaborative Watershed Management

    Joseph E. Bonnell;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Rules for collaboration: institutional analysis of group membership and levels of action in watershed partnerships.

    Scott D. Hardy;Tomas M. Koontz

  • Theory into practice: implementing ecosystem management objectives in the USDA Forest Service.

    Kelly F. Butler;Tomas M. Koontz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Newig
Jens Newig Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brent Sohngen
Brent Sohngen The Ohio State University
Jeremy T. Bruskotter
Jeremy T. Bruskotter The Ohio State University
Matthew Huber
Matthew Huber Purdue University West Lafayette
Catherine J. Robinson
Catherine J. Robinson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gavin Bridge
Gavin Bridge Durham University
Clark C. Gibson
Clark C. Gibson University of California, San Diego

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