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D-Index
43
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14208
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6924
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127

Victor Galaz publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Victor Galaz sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 78 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Victor Galaz D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Victor Galaz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Victor Galaz is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences. Their research spans across various subfields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, communication, public health, environmental and occupational health, and finance.

Their work addresses a range of topics such as ecosystem dynamics and resilience, climate change communication and perception, zoonotic diseases and public health, innovation with a focus on sustainability and human-machine systems, sustainable finance and green bonds, misinformation and its impacts, as well as public relations and crisis communication.

Victor Galaz has published research in several notable venues with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • One Earth
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their recent papers include:

  • Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability (2021), published in Technology in Society
  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere (2021), published in AMBIO
  • On digitalization and sustainability transitions (2021), published in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • The Anthropocene reality of financial risk (2021), published in One Earth
  • Our Future in the Anthropocene Biosphere: Global sustainability and resilient societies (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Victor Galaz's work is frequently co-authored with several researchers including Juan Rocha, Carl Folke, Beatrice Crona, Stefan Daume, and Paula Andrea Sánchez-García. This collaboration reflects interdisciplinary engagements across their research topics and fields.

Best Publications

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

    Frances Westley;Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Thomas Homer-Dixon;Thomas Homer-Dixon

  • Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory

    Andreas Duit;Victor Galaz

  • Reconnecting to the Biosphere

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Åsa Jansson;Åsa Jansson;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Per Olsson

  • Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective

    Per Olsson;Victor Galaz;Wiebren J. Boonstra

  • Bright spots : seeds of a good Anthropocene

    Elena M. Bennett;Martin Solan;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs;Timon McPhearson

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere.

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Stephen Polasky;Johan Rockström;Victor Galaz

  • Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden

    Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Victor Galaz;Thomas Hahn

  • Governance, complexity, and resilience

    Andreas Duit;Victor Galaz;Katarina Eckerberg;Katarina Eckerberg;Jonas Ebbesson

  • Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions

    Brian Walker;Brian Walker;Scott Barrett;Stephen Polasky;Stephen Polasky;Victor Galaz

  • Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability

    Victor Galaz;Miguel A. Centeno;Peter W. Callahan;Amar Causevic

  • Anatomy and resilience of the global production ecosystem

    M. Nyström;J.-B. Jouffray;J.-B. Jouffray;A. V. Norström;B. Crona;B. Crona

  • The problem of fit among biophysical systems, environmental and resource regimes, and broader governance systems : Insights and emerging challenges

    V. Galaz;P. Olsson;T. Hahn;C. Folke

  • Polycentric systems and interacting planetary boundaries : Emerging governance of climate change—ocean acidification—marine biodiversity

    Victor Galaz;Beatrice Crona;Henrik Österblom;Per Olsson

  • Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

    Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Henrik Österblom;Jean Baptiste Jouffray;Jean Baptiste Jouffray;Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin

  • Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene

    Belinda Reyers;Belinda Reyers;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Michele-Lee Moore;Michele-Lee Moore;Reinette Biggs;Reinette Biggs

  • New directions in earth system governance research

    Sarah Burch;Aarti Gupta;Cristina Y.A. Inoue;Agni Kalfagianni

  • 'Planetary boundaries’ — exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

    Victor Galaz;Frank Biermann;Beatrice Crona;Derk Loorbach

  • Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics: The Anthropocene Gap

    Victor Galaz

  • Finance and the Earth system – Exploring the links between financial actors and non-linear changes in the climate system

    Victor Galaz;Victor Galaz;Beatrice Crona;Beatrice Crona;Alice Dauriach;Bert Scholtens;Bert Scholtens

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Per Olsson
Per Olsson Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henrik Österblom
Henrik Österblom Stockholm University
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Brian Walker
Brian Walker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Marten Scheffer
Marten Scheffer Wageningen University & Research
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University

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