2026 Benjamin van Rooij: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	29	295	266	9	9	133	3193

Overview

Benjamin van Rooij is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and specializes in research within the social sciences. Their work intersects several subfields including sociology and political science, strategy and management, political science and international relations, clinical psychology, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics related to crime patterns and interventions, regulation and compliance studies, criminal justice and corrections analysis, policing practices and perceptions, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and crime, illicit activities, and governance.

Benjamin van Rooij has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Regulation & Governance
Journal of Business Ethics
Crime Law and Social Change
PLoS ONE

Their recent papers reflect a focus on understanding compliance and legal socialization, especially in the context of COVID-19 mitigation measures. Notable recent publications are:

Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
The Intelligent Lockdown: Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the Netherlands (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Social distancing in America: Understanding long-term adherence to COVID-19 mitigation recommendations (2021, PLoS ONE)
Legal socialization: Understanding the obligation to obey the law (2021, Journal of Social Issues)
Age-Graded Differences and Parental Influences on Adolescents' Obligation to Obey the Law (2020, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology)

Benjamin van Rooij collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Malouke Esra Kuiper, Adam Fine, Chris Reinders Folmer, Emmeke Barbara Kooistra, and Anne Leonore de Bruijn. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial number of publications across various aspects of regulation, compliance, and criminology.

Best Publications

Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns

Benjamin van Rooij

317
Citations
Regulating land and pollution in China : lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement : theory and cases

Benjamin van Rooij

259
Citations
The People vs. Pollution: understanding citizen action against pollution in China

Benjamin van Rooij

241
Citations
Fragile Convergence: Understanding Variation in the Enforcement of China's Industrial Pollution Law

Benjamin Van Rooij;Carlos Wing-Hung Lo

202
Citations
The authoritarian logic of regulatory pluralism: Understanding China's new environmental actors

Benjamin van Rooij;Rachel E. Stern;Kathinka Fürst

124
Citations
Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States

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120
Citations
Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States

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94
Citations
Changes in enforcement styles among environmental enforcement officials in China

Carlos Wing-Hung Lo;Gerald E Fryxell;Benjamin Van Rooij

93
Citations
Learning to Live with Pollution: The Making of Environmental Subjects in a Chinese Industrialized Village*

Anna Lora-Wainwright;Yiyun Zhang;Yunmei Wu;Benjamin Van Rooij

89
Citations
The People’s Regulation: Citizens and Implementation of Law in China

Benjamin van Rooij

85
Citations
The intelligent lockdown: Compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures in the Netherlands

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71
Citations
Bringing Justice to the Poor: Bottom-Up Legal Development Cooperation

Benjamin van Rooij

62
Citations
Explaining the enforcement gap in China: Local government support and internal agency obstacles as predictors of enforcement actions in Guangzhou

Carlos Wing-Hung Lo;Gerald E. Fryxell;Benjamin van Rooij;Wei Wang

43
Citations
Toxic Corporate Culture: Assessing Organizational Processes of Deviancy

Benjamin van Rooij;Adam Fine

42
Citations
Rule orientation and behavior: Development and validation of a scale measuring individual acceptance of rule violation

Adam Fine;Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij;Yuval Feldman;Shaul Shalvi

40
Citations
Social distancing in America: Understanding long-term adherence to COVID-19 mitigation recommendations.

Christopher P. Reinders Folmer;Megan A. Brownlee;Adam D. Fine;Emmeke B. Kooistra

38
Citations
Beyond deterrent enforcement styles: Behavioural intuitions of Chinese environmental law enforcement agents in a context of challenging inspections

Ning Liu;Benjamin Van Rooij;Benjamin Van Rooij;Carlos Wing-Hung Lo

33
Citations
Legal socialization: Understanding the obligation to obey the law

Adam D. Fine;Benjamin van Rooij

31
Citations
Reorienting Regulation: Pollution Enforcement in Industrializing Countries

Lesley K. Mcallister;Benjamin Van Rooij;Robert A. Kagan

29
Citations
Understanding China's Court Mediation Surge: Insights from a Local Court

Yedan Li;Joris Kocken;Benjamin van Rooij

26
Citations
Age-Graded Differences and Parental Influences on Adolescents’ Obligation to Obey the Law

Adam Fine;April Thomas;Benjamin van Rooij;Elizabeth Cauffman

25
Citations
Comparative compliance: digital piracy, deterrence, social norms, and duty in China and the United States

Benjamin van Rooij;Adam Fine;Yanyan Zhang;Yunmei Wu

24
Citations
Compliance Dynamism: Capturing the Polynormative and Situational Nature of Business Responses to Law

Yunmei Wu;Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

20
Citations
For whom does deterrence affect behavior? Identifying key individual differences.

Adam Fine;Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

19
Citations
Do People Know the Law? Empirical Evidence about Legal Knowledge and Its Implications for Compliance

Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

19
Citations
Organization and Procedure in Environmental Law Enforcement: Sichuan in Comparative Perspective:

Benjamin Van Rooij

18
Citations
Contextual Compliance: Situational and Subjective Cost-Benefit Decisions about Pesticides by Chinese Farmers

Huiqi Yan;Benjamin van Rooij;Jeroen van der Heijden

16
Citations
The Return of the Landlord: Chinese Land Acquisition Conflicts as Illustrated by Peri-Urban Kunming

Benjamin van Rooij

16
Citations
The enforcement–compliance paradox: Implementation of pesticide regulation in China

Huiqi Yan;Benjamin van Rooij;Jeroen van der Heijden;Jeroen van der Heijden

15
Citations
Law Lost, Compliance Found: A Frontline Understanding of the Non-linear Nature of Business and Employee Responses to Law

Na Li;Benjamin van Rooij

9
Citations
Social Distancing in America: Understanding Long-term Adherence to COVID-19 Mitigation Recommendations

Chris Reinders Folmer;Megan Brownlee;Adam Fine;Malouke Esra Kuiper

8
Citations
The Compensation Trap: The Limits of Community-Based Pollution Regulation in China

Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

6
Citations
Pollution Law Enforcement in China : Understanding national and regional variation

Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij;Zhu Qiaoqiao;Li Na;Wang Qiliang

5
Citations
Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior

Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij;D. Daniel Sokol

1
Citations
Centralizing Trends and Pollution Law Enforcement in China

Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij;Li Na;Qiaoqiao Zhu;Wang Qiliang

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaul Shalvi University of Amsterdam

Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine

Robert A. Kagan University of California, Berkeley

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Overview

Best Publications

Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns

Regulating land and pollution in China : lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement : theory and cases

The People vs. Pollution: understanding citizen action against pollution in China

Fragile Convergence: Understanding Variation in the Enforcement of China's Industrial Pollution Law

The authoritarian logic of regulatory pluralism: Understanding China's new environmental actors

Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States

Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States

Changes in enforcement styles among environmental enforcement officials in China

Learning to Live with Pollution: The Making of Environmental Subjects in a Chinese Industrialized Village*

The People’s Regulation: Citizens and Implementation of Law in China

The intelligent lockdown: Compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures in the Netherlands

Bringing Justice to the Poor: Bottom-Up Legal Development Cooperation

Explaining the enforcement gap in China: Local government support and internal agency obstacles as predictors of enforcement actions in Guangzhou

Toxic Corporate Culture: Assessing Organizational Processes of Deviancy

Rule orientation and behavior: Development and validation of a scale measuring individual acceptance of rule violation

Social distancing in America: Understanding long-term adherence to COVID-19 mitigation recommendations.

Beyond deterrent enforcement styles: Behavioural intuitions of Chinese environmental law enforcement agents in a context of challenging inspections

Legal socialization: Understanding the obligation to obey the law

Reorienting Regulation: Pollution Enforcement in Industrializing Countries

Understanding China's Court Mediation Surge: Insights from a Local Court

Age-Graded Differences and Parental Influences on Adolescents’ Obligation to Obey the Law

Comparative compliance: digital piracy, deterrence, social norms, and duty in China and the United States

Compliance Dynamism: Capturing the Polynormative and Situational Nature of Business Responses to Law

For whom does deterrence affect behavior? Identifying key individual differences.

Do People Know the Law? Empirical Evidence about Legal Knowledge and Its Implications for Compliance

Organization and Procedure in Environmental Law Enforcement: Sichuan in Comparative Perspective:

Contextual Compliance: Situational and Subjective Cost-Benefit Decisions about Pesticides by Chinese Farmers

The Return of the Landlord: Chinese Land Acquisition Conflicts as Illustrated by Peri-Urban Kunming

The enforcement–compliance paradox: Implementation of pesticide regulation in China

Law Lost, Compliance Found: A Frontline Understanding of the Non-linear Nature of Business and Employee Responses to Law

Social Distancing in America: Understanding Long-term Adherence to COVID-19 Mitigation Recommendations

The Compensation Trap: The Limits of Community-Based Pollution Regulation in China

Pollution Law Enforcement in China : Understanding national and regional variation

Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior

Centralizing Trends and Pollution Law Enforcement in China

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