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Ecological States

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Author(s): Jesse Rodenbiker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication year: 2023
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Short impact summary

Ecological States (2023), published by Cornell University Press. Scholarly uptake (strength 0.6). 38 citations — measurable academic uptake.

Full narrative

Ecological States was published by Cornell University Press in 2023. Conceptually, the work connects to Ecology, Geography, Environmental science and Biology.

OpenAlex records 38 citations. Citations peaked in 2026 with 18 citing works. Notable citing venues include Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, The China Quarterly and Journal of Agrarian Change. Inferred role: Scholarly uptake.

282 recorded downloads via open-access infrastructure.

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38
Total Citations
🏆 Top 1% Cited
2022–2026
282
Downloads (OAPEN)
2023 (Jan–Dec)
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🎓 Academic & Scientific
Scholarly uptake Moderate
Strong (≥0.80) Moderate (0.50–0.79) Emerging (<0.50)

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Reader reception Books

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    • 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Environmental Humanities

Citation context scite

  • Total: 2
  • Supporting: 0
  • Mentioning: 2
  • Contradicting: 0

Who is citing this work? OpenAlex

Analysis of 38 citing works. 63.2% come from the Top 10 institutions. Median citing paper cited 0 times itself.

article (35)book (2)reference-entry (1) International Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchThe China QuarterlyJournal of Agrarian Change
United States of America (16) China (11) Hong Kong (6) Australia (4) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (4) Canada (3) Netherlands (3) Germany (1) Moldova, Republic of (1) New Zealand (1) Sweden (1) Senegal (1)
Institutional sectors
Education (34) Facility (3) Nonprofit (2) Government (1) Other (1)
  • The University of Melbourne (3)
  • New York University (3)
  • University of Hong Kong (3)
  • Wageningen University & Research (3)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2)
  • Hohai University (2)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (2)
  • University of Manchester (2)
  • University College London (2)
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University (2)
  • Griffith University (1)
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1)
  • Jesse Rodenbiker (3)
  • Fangzhu Zhang (2)
  • Jichuan Sheng (2)
  • Annah Lake Zhu (2)
  • Max D. Woodworth (1)
  • Rutgerd Boelens (1)
  • David Chen (1)
  • Natalie Koch (1)
  • Lieke Melsen (1)
  • Chen Yang (1)
  • Jill Lindsey Harrison (1)
  • KuoRay Mao (1)

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Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex

1 author · 0 institutions

Authors

  • Jesse Rodenbiker First Corresponding ORCID

Concepts & topics OpenAlex

4 specific concepts identified.
Ecology Geography Environmental science Biology

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Citations OpenAlex

38 citing works (most recent first)
YearTitleVenueDOI
2022 Green silk roads, partner state development, and environmental governance: Belt and road infrastructure on the Sino-East African frontier Critical Asian Studies 10.1080/14672715.2022.2150249
2025 China's Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition Antipode 10.1111/anti.70009
2024 Tourism dreams in rubble: Mass demolition and the reconfiguration of growth coalitions within China's ecological civilization Environment and Planning E Nature and Space 10.1177/25148486241246942
2025 The symbolic power of sustainability: Gulf megaprojects and the case of Expo City Dubai Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society 10.1093/cjres/rsae046
2025 “Beautiful Countryside”: Green Development and the Making of Rural Urbanization in China The China Quarterly 10.1017/s0305741025000384
2024 Performative legitimation of waste-to-energy infrastructure: incineration politics in Guangzhou low-carbon transition Environment and Urbanization 10.1177/09562478241230470
2025 Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 10.1111/tran.70054
2024 Spectacular Technology, Invisible Harms: Witnessing Techno-science on Waste Tours in China Science Technology & Human Values 10.1177/01622439231224503
2024 From water source protection to future village: environmental prefigurative politics and technologies of the self in China’s Qingshan village Eurasian Geography and Economics 10.1080/15387216.2024.2383625
2025 Balancing Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Development: Contested Spaces of Regulating Bamboo Shoots in China's Giant Panda National Park Journal of Agrarian Change 10.1111/joac.70041
2026 Who talks for Chinese urban studies? Assessing urban theory in a rapidly evolving field Transactions in Planning and Urban Research 10.1177/27541223251413697
2024 “Doing the Work of Science”: Tibetan Environmentalists and the Changing Dynamics of Ecological Conservation in China The China Quarterly 10.1017/s0305741024000614
2024 Landscapes of state capitalism: Reconciling the vernacular, national development imaginaries, and green capital accumulation Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 10.1111/sjtg.12574
2025 Negotiating Infrastructural Injustice in Poverty Alleviation Resettlement: The Case of the Southern Shaanxi Migration Project in China Population Space and Place 10.1002/psp.70006
2025 Critical geographies of discretion in the environmental bureaucracy Progress in Environmental Geography 10.1177/27539687251362248
2026 Toward a sociology of urban knowledge: Reconceptualizing urbanization from contemporary China Journal of Urban Affairs 10.1080/07352166.2025.2601023
2026 Bridging planned and autonomous adaptation for flood resilience in multi-ethnic communities along China's Tea-Horse Road Chinese Journal of Sociology 10.1177/2057150x261419582
2026 AESTHETIC POLITICS AND ELITEDRIVEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN CITIES : The Case of Beautifying Sheger in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 10.1111/1468-2427.70064
2026 Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China Journal of Agrarian Change 10.1111/joac.70074
2024 Everyday Oblivion in Eco-Civilized China Qualitative Sociology 10.1007/s11133-024-09566-w
2025 Tourism Development on China’s Northwestern Border: Territorialisation, Reterritorialisation, and Geopolitics of the Great Altai Region in Inner Asia Geopolitics 10.1080/14650045.2025.2462955
2025 Global Geographies of Weather Modification in an Era of Climate Change Annals of the American Association of Geographers 10.1080/24694452.2025.2450200
2025 Towards a critical understanding of digital twins: The politics of digitalizing rivers in China Environment and Planning E Nature and Space 10.1177/25148486251386256
2025 Book review: Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China Urban Studies 10.1177/00420980251318612
2025 Entangled Frontiers: Uncovering the Hydrosocial Territories of Shenzhen Geo Geography and Environment 10.1002/geo2.70048
2026 Chinese Global Environmentalism Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781009363976
2026 Twentieth-Century China: Planning and Urbanism Unknown 10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0117
2026 Climate adaptation and institutional continuity: Understanding lock-in dynamics in China's grassland governance Chinese Journal of Sociology 10.1177/2057150x261420583
2026 Navigating water justice in transforming hydrosocial territories: conflicts between local irrigation and water transfer in Gaoyou Irrigation District, China Environment and Planning C Politics and Space 10.1177/23996544261428664
2026 From the Gobi to the Sahel: Can China’s anti-desertification model work in Africa? AMBIO 10.1007/s13280-026-02363-5
2026 Regulatory Takings as Territorialisation: Collective Forest Rights Inside China's Giant Panda National Park Social & Legal Studies 10.1177/09646639261435097
2026 Staging the thousand-park city: pocket park mania, socioecological fix, and contested eco-dreams in Liaoning, China Urban Geography 10.1080/02723638.2026.2659147
2026 Provincializing ecology: Anthropocene futures from ecological restoration to eco-developmentalism Environment and Planning F 10.1177/26349825261445720
2026 Centralising state power, undermining local growth politics and escalating debt crisis: A new stage of state entrepreneurialism in China Urban Studies 10.1177/00420980261446565
2026 Editorial: The new hydropolitics of China Geographical Research 10.1111/1745-5871.70073
2026 ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 10.1111/1468-2427.70112
2026 Scientists and their monsters: China’s carbon neutrality imaginary Sustainability Science 10.1007/s11625-026-01862-4
2026 When Formalization Fails Cambridge University Press eBooks 10.1017/9781009585699