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57
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1799
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70

Bas Arts 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 Bas Arts sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 212 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bas Arts 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 Bas Arts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bas Arts is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and is primarily engaged in research within Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The research topics covered by Bas Arts include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Forest Management and Policy, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, International Maritime Law Issues, Genetically Modified Organisms Research, and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact.

Bas Arts has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Land Use Policy
  • International Journal of the Commons
  • Ecosystems and People
  • Ecosystem Services

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bas Arts demonstrate a focus on forest governance, land use, and ecosystem service management. These include:

  • The performance of global forest governance: Three contrasting perspectives (2024), Forest Policy and Economics
  • Thriving in turbulent times: Livelihood resilience and vulnerability assessment of Bolivian Indigenous forest households (2022), Land Use Policy
  • Power analysis as a tool to analyse trade-offs between ecosystem services in forest management: A case study from nine European countries (2021), Ecosystem Services
  • Relational values of nature: leverage points for nature policy in Europe (2020), Ecosystems and People
  • Land use and land cover scenarios: An interdisciplinary approach integrating local conditions and the global shared socioeconomic pathways (2020), Land Use Policy

Bas Arts has also contributed to book literature, having a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Forest Governance: Hydra or Chloris? (2021).

Frequent co-authors in Bas Arts' research include:

  • Wil de Jong
  • Marieke van der Zon
  • Wenyuan Liang
  • Jiayun Dong
  • Nataly Juerges

Best Publications

  • Policy and power: A conceptual framework between the 'old' and 'new' policy idioms

    B.J.M. Arts;J.P.M. van Tatenhove

  • Forests, discourses, institutions; A discursive-institutional analysis of global forest governance

    Bas Arts;Marleen Buizer

  • Political Modernisation and Policy Arrangements: A Framework for Understanding Environmental Policy Change

    Bas Arts;Pieter Leroy;Jan van Tatenhove

  • The political influence of global NGOs : case studies on the climate and biodiversity conventions

    B.J.M. Arts

  • Political modernisation and the environment : the renewal of environmental policy arrangements

    Jan van Tatenhove;Bas Arts;Pieter Leroy

  • Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance

    Pieter Leroy;Bas Arts

  • Landscape Approaches : A State-of-the-Art Review

    Bas Arts;Marleen Buizer;Lummina Horlings;Verina Ingram

  • Bioeconomy – an emerging meta-discourse affecting forest discourses?

    Helga Pülzl;Daniela Kleinschmit;Bas Arts

  • Discursive shifts in Dutch river management: ‘deep’ institutional change or adaptation strategy?

    M. A. Wiering;B. J. M. Arts

  • 'Green Alliances' of Business and NGOs. New Styles of Self-Regulation or 'Dead-End Roads'?

    B.J.M. Arts

  • Analysing governance modes and shifts — Governance arrangements in Dutch nature policy

    Rikke Arnouts;Mariëlle van der Zouwen;Bas Arts

  • Non-state actors in international relations

    Bas Arts;Math Noortmann;Bob Reinalda

  • The evolution of REDD+: An analysis of discursive-institutional dynamics

    Jan Willem den Besten;Jan Willem den Besten;Bas Arts;Patrick Verkooijen

  • Beyond environmental frames: The social representation and cultural resonance of nature in conflicts over a Dutch woodland

    Arjen E. Buijs;Bas J.M. Arts;Birgit H.M. Elands;Jaap Lengkeek

  • Governance, scale and the environment: the importance of recognizing knowledge claims in transdisciplinary arenas

    Marleen Buizer;Bas Arts;Kasper Kok

  • Leaders and laggards in environmental policy: a quantitative analysis of domestic policy outputs

    Duncan Liefferink;Bas Arts;Jelmer Kamstra;Jeroen Ooijevaar

  • Assessing Political Influence in Complex Decision-making: An Instrument Based on Triangulation

    B.J.M. Arts;P.J.M. Verschuren

  • The Congo Basin forests in a changing climate: Policy discourses on adaptation and mitigation (REDD+)

    Olufunso A. Somorin;Olufunso A. Somorin;H. Carolyn Peach Brown;Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers;Denis J. Sonwa

  • Non-state actors in global environmental governance : new arrangements beyond the state

    B.J.M. Arts

  • Non-State Actors in Global Governance. Three Faces of Power

    B.J.M. Arts

  • Forests, discourses, institutions. A discursive-institutional analysis of global forest governance

    B.J.M. Arts;I.M. Buizer

Frequent Co-Authors

Esther Turnhout
Esther Turnhout University of Twente
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Christoph Knill
Christoph Knill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kasper Kok
Kasper Kok Wageningen University & Research
Arjen E. J. Wals
Arjen E. J. Wals Wageningen University & Research
Godefridus M. J. Mohren
Godefridus M. J. Mohren Wageningen University & Research
Pieter Glasbergen
Pieter Glasbergen Maastricht University
Maria Brockhaus
Maria Brockhaus University of Helsinki
Duncan Liefferink
Duncan Liefferink Radboud University
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research

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