Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact Leaderboard

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1

Gediminas Lesutis

University of Cambridge

2

Issah Baddianaah

William V. S. Tubman University

3

Miaozhi Yu

Zhejiang University of Technology

4

Lena Hommes

Universitat de Girona

5

Nitin Liladhar Rane

Swami Vivekanand College of Pharmacy

6

Rongrong Xu

Southern University of Science and Technology

7

Tom Ogwang

Mbarara University of Science and Technology

8

Chen Yang

Northwestern Polytechnical University

9

Mekonnen Hailemariam Zikargae

Bahir Dar University

10

Enoch Adranyi

University of York

Rising Stars Papers

1

Minor mining, major influence: Economic implications and policy challenges of artisanal gold mining

Resources Policy|2024

118 cit.

2

Ensemble deep learning and machine learning: applications, opportunities, challenges, and future directions

Studies in medical and health sciences.|2024

91 cit.

3

Artificial Intelligence-driven corporate finance: enhancing efficiency and decision-making through machine learning, natural language processing, and robotic process automation in corporate governance and sustainability

Studies in Economics and Business Relations|2024

50 cit.

4

Education 4.0 and 5.0: integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) for personalized and adaptive learning

Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics|2024

49 cit.

5

GIS-based multi-influencing factor (MIF) application for optimal site selection of solar photovoltaic power plant in Nashik, India

Environmental Sciences Europe|2024

45 cit.

6

Role and challenges of ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar generative artificial intelligence in human resource management

Studies in Economics and Business Relations|2024

29 cit.

7

Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity

Progress in Human Geography|2024

28 cit.

8

Artificial Intelligence-Driven Corporate Finance: Enhancing Efficiency and Decision-Making Through Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Robotic Process Automation in Corporate Governance and Sustainability

SSRN Electronic Journal|2024

25 cit.

9

Delineation of environmentally sustainable urban settlement using GIS-based MIF and AHP techniques

Geocarto International|2024

25 cit.

10

Ensemble Deep Learning and Machine Learning: Applications, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

SSRN Electronic Journal|2024

24 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Papers

1

European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization

Political Geography|2022

129 cit.

2

Social warfare for lithium extraction? Open-pit lithium mining, counterinsurgency tactics and enforcing green extractivism in northern Portugal

Energy Research & Social Science|2022

118 cit.

3

The political ecologies of "green" extractivism(s): An introduction

Journal of Political Ecology|2024

105 cit.

4

The green economy as counterinsurgency, or the ontological power affirming permanent ecological catastrophe

Environmental Science & Policy|2022

77 cit.

5

Pluralizing energy justice? Towards cultivating an unruly, autonomous and insurrectionary research agenda

Energy Research & Social Science|2023

71 cit.

6

Safety concerns and occupational health hazards of women in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana

The Extractive Industries and Society|2022

62 cit.

7

Women, North-South migration and artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: Motivations, drivers and socio-economic implications

The Extractive Industries and Society|2022

59 cit.

8

Comparing coal and ‘transition materials’? Overlooking complexity, flattening reality and ignoring capitalism

Energy Research & Social Science|2022

51 cit.

9

Gender equality in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: Assessing progress towards SDG 5 using salience and institutional analysis and design

Environmental Science & Policy|2022

46 cit.

10

‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization

Globalizations|2022

42 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1

A global boom in hydropower dam construction

Aquatic Sciences|2014

2.1k cit.

2

Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends

Environmental Conservation|2002

2.1k cit.

3

Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22‐Year Investigation

Conservation Biology|2002

1.8k cit.

4

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

Nature|2012

1.2k cit.

5

An extension of the flood pulse concept

Hydrological Processes|2000

1k cit.

6

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

Biological Conservation|2010

983 cit.

7

Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue

Journal of Cleaner Production|2010

974 cit.

8

The Future of the Brazilian Amazon

Science|2001

894 cit.

9

A global strategy for road building

Nature|2014

875 cit.

10

Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

Nature|2017

818 cit.

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