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41
Citations
6749
World Ranking
5072
National Ranking
359

Bob Baulch 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 Bob Baulch sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 101 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bob Baulch 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 Bob Baulch sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bob Baulch is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily engages with topics in social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable focus on issues related to rural development, land use, and agricultural practices.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications that address land distribution, price monitoring for farmers, and labor dynamics in agricultural settings. Key papers include:

  • The changing distribution of land in rural Vietnam, 2004-2014 (2024), published in Land Use Policy
  • A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi (2024), published in The Journal of Development Studies
  • Malawi's slowly changing employment landscape and its implications for youth (2021), published in Development Southern Africa

Baulch collaborates frequently with other researchers in related fields. Notable coauthors include Minh Song Ngoc Huynh, Trinh Duc Tran, Seng Kiong Kok, Aubrey Jolex, and Todd Benson.

Their work has appeared in journals such as Land Use Policy, The Journal of Development Studies, and Development Southern Africa.

Research conducted by Baulch spans the following topics:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • ICT Impact and Policies
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

Main fields of study for Baulch include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of research involve:

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Soil Science
  • Media Technology
  • Marketing

This body of work reflects a focus on rural economies, agricultural pricing, land distribution policies, and labor market changes, particularly in the context of developing countries. The combination of social sciences and agricultural perspectives informs Baulch's multidisciplinary approach to these issues.

Best Publications

  • Economic mobility and poverty dynamics in developing countries

    Bob Baulch;John Hoddinott

  • Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage, and Testing for Food Market Integration

    Bob Baulch

  • Simulating the Impact of Policy upon Chronic and Transitory Poverty in Rural Pakistan

    Neil McCulloch;Bob Baulch

  • Being Poor and Becoming Poor: Poverty Status and Poverty Transitions in Rural Pakistan

    Bob Baulch;Neil McCulloch

  • Do Monetary and Nonmonetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s

    Bob Baulch;Edoardo Masset

  • Poverty and inequality in Vietnam: spatial patterns and geographic determinants

    Nicholas Minot;Bob Baulch;Michael Epperecht

  • Testing for food market integration revisited

    Bob Baulch

  • Ethnic minority development in Vietnam

    Bob Baulch;Truong Thi Kim Chuyen;Dominique Haughton;Jonathan Haughton

  • Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam

    Paul Glewwe;Nisha Agrawal;David Dollar;John Luke Gallup

  • Ethnic minority development in Vietnam: a socioeconomic perspective

    Bob Baulch;Truong Thi Kim Chuyen;Dominique Haughton;Jonathan Haughton

  • Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Zambia During the 1990s

    Neil McCulloch;Bob Baulch;Milasoa Cherel-Robson

  • Parallel Realities: Exploring Poverty Dynamics Using Mixed Methods in Rural Bangladesh

    Peter Davis;Bob Baulch

  • Neglected Trade‐offs in Poverty Measurement

    Bob Baulch

  • Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa

    Bob Baulch

  • The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting

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  • Distinguishing the Chronically From the Transitorily Poor: Evidence from Pakistan

    Neil McCulloch;Bob Baulch

  • Assets and Poverty Traps in Rural Bangladesh

    Agnes R. Quisumbing;Bob Baulch

  • Ethnic minority poverty in Vietnam

    Bob Baulch;Nguyen Thi Minh Hoa;Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong;Pham Thai Hung

  • Spatial patterns of poverty in Vietnam and their implications for policy

    Nicholas Minot;Bob Baulch

  • Aid distribution and the MDGs

    Bob Baulch

  • Do Monetary and Non-Monetary Indicators Tell the Same Story About Chronic Poverty? A Study of Vietnam in the 1990s

    Bob Baulch;Edoardo Massett

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Minot
Nicholas Minot International Food Policy Research Institute
Agnes R. Quisumbing
Agnes R. Quisumbing International Food Policy Research Institute
Loren Brandt
Loren Brandt University of Toronto
Peter Lanjouw
Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dominique van de Walle
Dominique van de Walle Center for Global Development
Pravin K. Trivedi
Pravin K. Trivedi Indiana University
David Dollar
David Dollar Brookings Institution
Adam Wagstaff
Adam Wagstaff World Bank
Phong Q. Nguyen
Phong Q. Nguyen French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
John Giles
John Giles World Bank

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