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Researcher profile · Semantic Scholar

Benjamin Sovacool

University of Sussex
Aarhus University

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Benjamin Sovacool — researcher profile on SciRah

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h-index: 95
Works: 528
Citations: 36K

Most-cited papers

It starts at home? Climate policies targeting household consumption and behavioral decisions are key to low-carbon futures
G. Dubois, Benjamin Sovacool, C. Aall, M. Nilsson +16 more
2019Energy Research & Social Science509 citations Open access
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On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research
C. Breyer, S. Khalili, D. Bogdanov, M. Ram +19 more
2022IEEE Access452 citations Open access
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Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research
D. McCauley, Vasna Ramasar, R. Heffron, Benjamin Sovacool +2 more
2019Applied Energy434 citations Open access
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Climate change and industrial F-gases: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options for reducing synthetic greenhouse gas emissions
Benjamin Sovacool, S. Griffiths, Jinsoo Kim, M. Bazilian
2021365 citations Open access
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Fear and loathing of electric vehicles: The reactionary rhetoric of range anxiety
L. Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Benjamin Sovacool, Johannes Kester
2019Energy Research & Social Science265 citations Open access
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A systematic review of the energy and climate impacts of teleworking
Andrew Hook, Victor Court, Benjamin Sovacool, S. Sorrell
2020Environmental Research Letters246 citations Open access
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The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: A review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries
Benjamin Sovacool, S. Griffiths
2020207 citations Open access
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Differences in carbon emissions reduction between countries pursuing renewable electricity versus nuclear power
Benjamin Sovacool, P. Schmid, A. Stirling, Goetz Walter +1 more
2020Nature Energy194 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing the food and beverages industry: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options
Benjamin Sovacool, M. Bazilian, S. Griffiths, Jinsoo Kim +2 more
2021Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews182 citations Open access
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Further reflections on vulnerability and resistance in the United Kingdom's smart meter transition
Benjamin Sovacool, Paula Kivimaa, S. Hielscher, Kirsten E. H. Jenkins
2019Energy Policy171 citations Open access
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Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology
Benjamin Sovacool, Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, S. Griffiths
2020Energy Research & Social Science166 citations Open access
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Exploring the sustainability challenges facing digitalization and internet data centers
Dlzar Al Kez, A. Foley, David Laverty, D. F. Del Rio +1 more
2022Journal of Cleaner Production150 citations Open access
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Innovation and climate change: A review and introduction to the special issue
Stelvia V. Matos, Eric Viardot, Benjamin Sovacool, F. Geels +1 more
2022Technovation148 citations Open access
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Navigating tensions between rapid and just low-carbon transitions
P. Newell, F. Geels, Benjamin Sovacool
2022Environmental Research Letters129 citations Open access
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Towards improved solar energy justice: Exploring the complex inequities of household adoption of photovoltaic panels
Benjamin Sovacool, Max Lacey Barnacle, Adrian Smith, M. Brisbois
2022Energy Policy122 citations Open access
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New Dimensions of Vulnerability to Energy and Transport Poverty
M. Martiskainen, Benjamin Sovacool, M. Lacey-Barnacle, D. Hopkins +4 more
2021Joule120 citations Open access
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How much wind power potential does europe have? Examining european wind power potential with an enhanced socio-technical atlas
P. Enevoldsen, Finn-Hendrik Permien, Ines Bakhtaoui, Anna-Katharina von Krauland +6 more
2019Energy Policy108 citations Open access
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Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe
S. Krupnik, A. Wagner, O. Koretskaya, T. Rudek +32 more
2022Energy Research & Social Science96 citations Open access
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Industrial clusters for deep decarbonization
Benjamin Sovacool, F. Geels, M. Iskandarova
2022Science92 citations Open access
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The energy use implications of 5G: Reviewing whole network operational energy, embodied energy, and indirect effects
Laurence Williams, Benjamin Sovacool, T. Foxon
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews88 citations Open access
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Hot transformations: Governing rapid and deep household heating transitions in China, Denmark, Finland and the United Kingdom
Benjamin Sovacool, M. Martiskainen
2020Energy Policy85 citations Open access
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Vehicle-to-Grid
L. Noel, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Johannes Kester, Benjamin Sovacool
201982 citations Open access
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Clean, low-carbon but corrupt? Examining corruption risks and solutions for the renewable energy sector in Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya and South Africa
Benjamin Sovacool
2021Energy Strategy Reviews77 citations Open access
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Reckless or righteous? Reviewing the sociotechnical benefits and risks of climate change geoengineering
Benjamin Sovacool
202177 citations Open access
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Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions
Benjamin Sovacool, Andrew Hook, Siddharth Sareen, F. Geels
2021Global Environmental Change75 citations Open access
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Decarbonizing household heating: Reviewing demographics, geography and low-carbon practices and preferences in five European countries
Benjamin Sovacool, L. Cabeza, A. Pisello, A. F. Colladon +3 more
2021Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews75 citations Open access
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Policy prescriptions to address energy and transport poverty in the United Kingdom
Benjamin Sovacool, P. Upham, M. Martiskainen, Kirsten E. H. Jenkins +2 more
2023Nature Energy74 citations Open access
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Uneasy tensions in energy justice and systems transformation
D. Bidwell, Benjamin Sovacool
2023Nature Energy64 citations Open access
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Who finances renewable energy in Europe? Examining temporality, authority and contestation in solar and wind subsidies in Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
M. Iskandarova, Agata Dembek, Maria Fraaije, W. Matthews +3 more
2021Energy Strategy Reviews64 citations Open access
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Rethinking the governance of energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing three academic perspectives on electricity infrastructure investment
J. Gregory, Benjamin Sovacool
2019Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews64 citations Open access
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Climate policy for a net-zero future: ten recommendations for Direct Air Capture
Benjamin Sovacool, C. Baum, Sean Low, Cameron L. Roberts +1 more
2022Environmental Research Letters63 citations Open access
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Decarbonization, population disruption and resource inventories in the global energy transition
K. Svobodova, J. Owen, D. Kemp, Vítězslav Moudrý +3 more
2022Nature Communications63 citations Open access
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Reviewing the scope and thematic focus of 100 000 publications on energy consumption, services and social aspects of climate change: a big data approach to demand-side mitigation
F. Creutzig, M. Callaghan, A. Ramakrishnan, Aneeque Javaid +33 more
2021Environmental Research Letters60 citations Open access
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Transitioning to a sustainable development framework for bioenergy in Malaysia: policy suggestions to catalyse the utilisation of palm oil mill residues
S. F. Salleh, M. E. Mohd Roslan, Adlansyah Abd Rahman, A. Shamsuddin +2 more
202060 citations Open access
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Knowledge, energy sustainability, and vulnerability in the demographics of smart home technology diffusion
Benjamin Sovacool, M. Martiskainen, D. F. D. Rio
2021Energy Policy58 citations Open access
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Six bold steps towards net-zero industry
Benjamin Sovacool, M. Bazilian, Jinsoo Kim, S. Griffiths
2023Energy Research & Social Science57 citations Open access
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A perspective on the human dimensions of a transition to net-zero energy systems
G. Perlaviciute, L. Steg, Benjamin Sovacool
2021Energy and Climate Change56 citations Open access
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The next climate war? Statecraft, security, and weaponization in the geopolitics of a low-carbon future
Benjamin Sovacool, C. Baum, Sean Low
2023Energy Strategy Reviews54 citations Open access
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Expanding carbon removal to the Global South: Thematic concerns on systems, justice, and climate governance
Benjamin Sovacool
2023Energy and Climate Change54 citations Open access
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Reviewing the sociotechnical dynamics of carbon removal
Benjamin Sovacool, C. Baum, Sean Low
2023Joule52 citations Open access
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Risk–risk governance in a low‐carbon future: Exploring institutional, technological, and behavioral tradeoffs in climate geoengineering pathways
Benjamin Sovacool, C. Baum, Sean Low
2022Risk Analysis48 citations Open access
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Harnessing human and machine intelligence for planetary-level climate action
Ramit Debnath, F. Creutzig, Benjamin Sovacool, E. Shuckburgh
2023npj Climate Action45 citations Open access
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Justice, poverty, and electricity decarbonization
C. Monyei, Benjamin Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown, Kirsten E. H. Jenkins +2 more
2019Electricity Journal44 citations Open access
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Climate protection or privilege? A whole systems justice milieu of twenty negative emissions and solar geoengineering technologies
Benjamin Sovacool, C. Baum, Sean Low
2022Political Geography39 citations Open access
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Making the internet globally sustainable: Technical and policy options for improved energy management, governance and community acceptance of Nordic datacenters
Benjamin Sovacool, C. Monyei, P. Upham
2022Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews39 citations Open access
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Left in the dark: Colonial racial capitalism and solar energy transitions in India
R. Stock, Benjamin Sovacool
2023Energy Research & Social Science38 citations Open access
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Energy Studies
Benjamin Sovacool, M. Jefferson
2021Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals38 citations
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A cross-country analysis of sustainability, transport and energy poverty
Dylan D. Furszyfer Del Rio, Benjamin Sovacool, S. Griffiths, A. Foley +1 more
2023npj Urban Sustainability37 citations Open access
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From forests to factories: How modern slavery deepens the crisis of climate change
K. Bales, Benjamin Sovacool
2021Energy Research & Social Science37 citations Open access
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Power struggles: Governing renewable electricity in a time of technological disruption
Lucy Baker, Andrew Hook, Benjamin Sovacool
2021Geoforum37 citations Open access
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