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Benjamin van Rooij

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Law

D-Index
29
Citations
3193
World Ranking
295
National Ranking
9

Benjamin van Rooij publication distribution in Law in 2026

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 133 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Benjamin van Rooij D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin van Rooij sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 29 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Benjamin van Rooij

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

    Benjamin van Rooij

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

    Benjamin Van Rooij;Carlos Wing-Hung Lo

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

    Benjamin van Rooij;Rachel E. Stern;Kathinka Fürst

  • Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States

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  • Compliance with COVID-19 Mitigation Measures in the United States

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  • Changes in enforcement styles among environmental enforcement officials in China

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

  • 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

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

    Benjamin van Rooij

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

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

    Benjamin van Rooij

  • 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

  • Toxic Corporate Culture: Assessing Organizational Processes of Deviancy

    Benjamin van Rooij;Adam Fine

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Legal socialization: Understanding the obligation to obey the law

    Adam D. Fine;Benjamin van Rooij

  • Reorienting Regulation: Pollution Enforcement in Industrializing Countries

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

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

    Yedan Li;Joris Kocken;Benjamin van Rooij

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

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

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

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

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

    Yunmei Wu;Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

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

    Adam Fine;Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

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

    Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

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

    Benjamin Van Rooij

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

    Huiqi Yan;Benjamin van Rooij;Jeroen van der Heijden

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

    Benjamin van Rooij

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

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

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

    Na Li;Benjamin van Rooij

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

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

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

    Benjamin van Rooij;Benjamin van Rooij

  • Pollution Law Enforcement in China : Understanding national and regional variation

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

  • Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior

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

  • Centralizing Trends and Pollution Law Enforcement in China

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi University of Amsterdam
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jeroen van der Heijden
Jeroen van der Heijden Victoria University of Wellington
Elizabeth Cauffman
Elizabeth Cauffman University of California, Irvine
Gerald E. Fryxell
Gerald E. Fryxell China Europe International Business School
Robert A. Kagan
Robert A. Kagan University of California, Berkeley
David Levi-Faur
David Levi-Faur Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eva Thomann
Eva Thomann University of Exeter

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