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D-Index
84
Citations
44435
World Ranking
279
National Ranking
128

Arun Agrawal publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arun Agrawal sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 229 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Arun Agrawal D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Arun Agrawal sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 84 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Arun Agrawal is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields, focusing on environmental governance, resource management, and related socio-economic issues.

Agrawal's work has been published in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • One Earth
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The scientist's research covers multiple subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Soil Science
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Economics and Econometrics

Main topics in their work include:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Agrawal illustrate a focus on forest conservation, sustainability, and energy transitions. Notable publications are:

  • "Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally," 2020, One Earth
  • "Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world," 2020, Nature Plants
  • "Clean energy transitions and human well-being outcomes in Lower and Middle Income Countries: A systematic review," 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Equity in environmental governance: perceived fairness of distributional justice principles in marine co-management," 2021, Environmental Science & Policy

Frequent coauthors working alongside Agrawal include:

  • Nabin Pradhan
  • James T. Erbaugh
  • Johan A. Oldekop
  • Ashwini Chhatre
  • James L. Adams

Agrawal has contributed to book publications with titles such as "Responsibilization in Natural Resource Governance. Vuorovaikutteista luonnonvarahallintaa etsimässä: kansalaisten vastuuttamisesta kohti vastuullisuuden tukemista" (Itä-Suomen yliopisto eBooks, 2021) and "The Impact of Knowledge and Deliberative Processes on Local Spending Preferences for Climate Action" (Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, expected 2025).

Arun Agrawal has received recognition including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation

    Arun Agrawal;Clark C Gibson

  • Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

    Arun Agrawal

  • Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources

    Arun Agrawal

  • Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

    Arun Agrawal

  • Accountability in decentralization: A framework with South Asian and West African cases

    Arun Agrawal;Jesse Ribot

  • Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal

    Arun Agrawal;Elinor Ostrom

  • Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources

    Jesse C. Ribot;Arun Agrawal;Anne M. Larson

  • Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: Context, methods, and politics

    Arun Agrawal

  • The role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change

    Arun Agrawal

  • Changing Governance of the World's Forests

    Arun Agrawal;Ashwini Chhatre;Rebecca Hardin

  • Environmentality : Community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India

    Arun Agrawal

  • Trade-offs and synergies between carbon storage and livelihood benefits from forest commons

    Ashwini Chhatre;Arun Agrawal

  • Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge: Some Critical Comments

    Arun Agrawal

  • Does REDD+ Threaten to Recentralize Forest Governance?

    Jacob Wesley Phelps;Edward L. Webb;Arun Agrawal

  • Indigenous knowledge and the politics of classification

    Arun Agrawal

  • Social and Ecological Synergy: Local Rulemaking, Forest Livelihoods, and Biodiversity Conservation

    Lauren Persha;Arun Agrawal;Ashwini Chhatre

  • Explaining success on the commons: Community forest governance in the Indian Himalaya

    Arun Agrawal;Ashwini Chhatre

  • Communities and the environment : ethnicity, gender, and the state in community-based conservation

    Arun Agrawal;Clark C. Gibson

  • Conservation and Displacement: An Overview

    Arun Agrawal;Kent Redford

  • Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal’s Terai

    Arun Agrawal;Krishna Gupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington
Jesse C. Ribot
Jesse C. Ribot American University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University
Anthony Bebbington
Anthony Bebbington Clark University
William M. Adams
William M. Adams University of Cambridge
Kent H. Redford
Kent H. Redford University of New England
Iain J. Gordon
Iain J. Gordon James Hutton Institute
Stefan Kinne
Stefan Kinne Max Planck Society
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge

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