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Benjamin K. Sovacool

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Benjamin K. Sovacool — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 87
Works: 349
Citations: 27K

Most-cited papers

Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation
Benjamin K. Sovacool
2021Energy Research & Social Science530 citations Open access
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Carbon capture utilization and storage in review: Sociotechnical implications for a carbon reliant world
Hope McLaughlin, Anna A. Littlefield, Maia Menefee, Austin Kinzer +5 more
2023Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews403 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options
Jinsoo Kim, Benjamin K. Sovacool, M. Bazilian, S. Griffiths +3 more
2022Energy Research & Social Science394 citations Open access
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Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future
Benjamin K. Sovacool, P. Newell, Sanya Carley, J. Fanzo
2022Nature Human Behaviour248 citations Open access
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Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives
Benjamin K. Sovacool, S. Bell, Cara Daggett, C. Labuski +5 more
2023Energy Research & Social Science215 citations Open access
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Dispossessed by decarbonisation: Reducing vulnerability, injustice, and inequality in the lived experience of low-carbon pathways
Benjamin K. Sovacool, B. Turnheim, Andrew Hook, A. Brock +1 more
2021206 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the cement and concrete industry: A systematic review of socio-technical systems, technological innovations, and policy options
S. Griffiths, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, A. Foley +3 more
2023Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews203 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the ceramics industry: A systematic and critical review of policy options, developments and sociotechnical systems
Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin K. Sovacool, A. Foley, S. Griffiths +3 more
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews182 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the pulp and paper industry: A critical and systematic review of sociotechnical developments and policy options
Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin K. Sovacool, S. Griffiths, M. Bazilian +3 more
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews174 citations Open access
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Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure
Benjamin K. Sovacool, D. Hess, R. Cantoni, Dasom Lee +8 more
2022Global Environmental Change172 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the glass industry: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options
Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin K. Sovacool, A. Foley, S. Griffiths +3 more
2021Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews151 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options
S. Griffiths, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Jinsoo Kim, M. Bazilian +1 more
2022Energy Research & Social Science121 citations Open access
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The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research
Benjamin K. Sovacool, F. Geels, A. Andersen, Michael Grubb +17 more
2025Energy Research & Social Science106 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the chemical industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options
Chang-soo Chung, Jinsoo Kim, Benjamin K. Sovacool, S. Griffiths +2 more
2023Energy Research & Social Science91 citations Open access
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Reconfiguring European industry for net-zero: a qualitative review of hydrogen and carbon capture utilization and storage benefits and implementation challenges
Benjamin K. Sovacool, D. F. Del Rio, Kyle S. Herman, M. Iskandarova +2 more
2024Energy & Environmental Science81 citations Open access
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Energy, material, and resource efficiency for industrial decarbonization: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options
Jinsoo Kim, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Morgan D. Bazilian, S. Griffiths +1 more
2024Energy Research & Social Science74 citations Open access
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Anarchy, war, or revolt? Radical perspectives for climate protection, insurgency and civil disobedience in a low-carbon era
Benjamin K. Sovacool, A. Dunlap
2022Energy Research & Social Science70 citations Open access
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Taking it outside: Exploring social opposition to 21 early-stage experiments in radical climate interventions
Sean Low, C. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2022Energy Research & Social Science68 citations Open access
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Industrializing theories: A thematic analysis of conceptual frameworks and typologies for industrial sociotechnical change in a low-carbon future
Benjamin K. Sovacool, M. Iskandarova, Jeremy Hall
2023Energy Research & Social Science65 citations Open access
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Industrial decarbonization via natural gas: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options
Shivani Mathur, Greer Gosnell, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio +3 more
2022Energy Research & Social Science62 citations Open access
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The socio-technical dynamics of net-zero industrial megaprojects: Outside-in and inside-out analyses of the Humber industrial cluster
F. Geels, Benjamin K. Sovacool, M. Iskandarova
2023Energy Research & Social Science59 citations Open access
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Transitioning to electrified, automated and shared mobility in an African context: A comparative review of Johannesburg, Kigali, Lagos and Nairobi
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chux Daniels, Abbas AbdulRafiu
2022Journal of Transport Geography53 citations Open access
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Social innovation supports inclusive and accelerated energy transitions with appropriate governance
Benjamin K. Sovacool, H. Brugger, Iska Brunzema, Alicja Dańkowska +18 more
2023Communications Earth & Environment48 citations Open access
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The “whole systems” energy sustainability of digitalization: Humanizing the community risks and benefits of Nordic datacenter development
Benjamin K. Sovacool, P. Upham, C. Monyei
2022Energy Research & Social Science46 citations Open access
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Between the sun and us: Expert perceptions on the innovation, policy, and deep uncertainties of space-based solar geoengineering
C. Baum, Sean Low, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews46 citations Open access
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Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions
Laur Kanger, J. Schot, Benjamin K. Sovacool, E. V. D. van der Vleuten +5 more
2021Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions45 citations Open access
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The political economy of net-zero transitions: Policy drivers, barriers, and justice benefits to decarbonization in eight carbon-neutral countries.
Benjamin K. Sovacool, D. F. Del Rio, Wei-Min Zhang
2023Journal of Environmental Management44 citations Open access
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Towards a multi-scalar and multi-horizon framework of energy injustice: A whole systems analysis of Estonian energy transition
Laur Kanger, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2022Political Geography44 citations Open access
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The dynamics of global public research funding on climate change, energy, transport, and industrial decarbonisation
Abbas AbdulRafiu, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chux Daniels
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews44 citations Open access
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“Bigger than government”: Exploring the social construction and contestation of net-zero industrial megaprojects in England
Benjamin K. Sovacool, M. Iskandarova, F. Geels
2023Technological forecasting & social change42 citations Open access
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Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK
Adrian Smith, Gerardo A. Torres Contreras, M. Brisbois, M. Lacey-Barnacle +1 more
2023Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions40 citations Open access
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“We're not dead yet!“: Extreme energy and transport poverty, perpetual peripheralization, and spatial justice among Gypsies and Travellers in Northern Ireland
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews39 citations Open access
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Science for whom? Examining the data quality, themes, and trends in 30 years of public funding for global climate change and energy research
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Chux Daniels, Abbas AbdulRafiu
2022Energy Research & Social Science38 citations Open access
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Rethinking Net-Zero systems, spaces, and societies: “Hard” versus “soft” alternatives for nature-based and engineered carbon removal
Sean Low, C. Baum, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2022Global Environmental Change36 citations Open access
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Toward Just and Equitable Mobility: Socioeconomic and Perceptual Barriers for Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure in the United States
Dong-Yeon Lee, Melanie H. McDermott, Benjamin K. Sovacool, R. Isaac
2024Energy and Climate Change35 citations Open access
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Beyond economies of scale: Learning from construction cost overrun risks and time delays in global energy infrastructure projects
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Hanee Ryu
2025Energy Research & Social Science32 citations
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Beyond climate, culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Christina Demski, L. Noel
2021Global Environmental Change32 citations Open access
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Social media enables people-centric climate action in the hard-to-decarbonise building sector
Ramit Debnath, R. Bardhan, Darshil U. Shah, Kamiar Mohaddes +3 more
2022Scientific Reports31 citations Open access
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Blinded by sunspots: Revealing the multidimensional and intersectional inequities of solar energy in India
R. Stock, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2024Global Environmental Change29 citations Open access
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What causes energy and transport poverty in Ireland? Analysing demographic, economic, and social dynamics, and policy implications
Christopher Lowans, A. Foley, D. F. Del Rio, B. Caulfield +3 more
2023Energy Policy29 citations Open access
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Energy and transport poverty amidst plenty: Exploring just transition, lived experiences and policy implications in Iceland
P. Upham, Benjamin K. Sovacool, C. Monyei
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews29 citations Open access
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Attention, sentiments and emotions towards emerging climate technologies on Twitter
Finn Müller-Hansen, Tim Repke, C. Baum, Elina Brutschin +8 more
2023Global Environmental Change28 citations Open access
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Virtue or vice? Solar micro-grids and the dualistic nature of low-carbon energy transitions in rural Ghana
Jude T. Nuru, Jason L. Rhoades, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2022Energy Research & Social Science28 citations Open access
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“Oh Yes! Net-Zero”: Sociotechnical capabilities and regional innovation systems for British industrial decarbonization
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Kyle S. Herman, M. Iskandarova, Jeremy K. Hall
2024Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions27 citations Open access
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Beyond science and policy: Typologizing and harnessing social movements for transformational social change
Benjamin K. Sovacool
2022Energy Research & Social Science27 citations Open access
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The low‐carbon risk society: Dilemmas of risk–risk tradeoffs in energy innovations, transitions, and climate policy
Benjamin K. Sovacool
2024Risk Analysis26 citations Open access
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Does electric mobility display racial or income disparities? Quantifying inequality in the distribution of electric vehicle adoption and charging infrastructure in the United States
Dong-Yeon Lee, Alana Wilson, Melanie H. McDermott, Benjamin K. Sovacool +6 more
2025Applied Energy25 citations Open access
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‘A Dead Sea of Solar Panels:’ solar enclosure, extractivism and the progressive degradation of the California desert
Alexander A. Dunlap, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Bojana Novaković
2024Journal of Peasant Studies23 citations Open access
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Why transparency matters for sustainable data centers and carbon-neutral artificial intelligence (AI)
C. Hankendi, Ayse K. Coskun, Benjamin K. Sovacool
2025iScience20 citations
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“Our town is dying:“ Exploring utility-scale and rooftop solar energy injustices in Southeastern California
Alexander A. Dunlap, Benjamin K. Sovacool, Bojana Novaković
2024Geoforum20 citations
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