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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.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 82 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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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