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D-Index
44
Citations
7503
World Ranking
4170
National Ranking
246

Brent Swallow 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 Brent Swallow sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 160 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brent Swallow 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 Brent Swallow sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Brent Swallow is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their publications primarily focus on complex interactions between natural resource management, economic development, and policy frameworks.

The scientist's work spans several key fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of particular emphasis in Brent Swallow's research include:

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

The scholar's main topics of work encompass:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Among recent academic publications are:

  • "Coupling coordination analysis of China's water resources utilization efficiency and economic development level," 2022, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Governance of forests and governance of forest information: Interlinkages in the age of open and digital data," 2020, Forest Policy and Economics
  • "Identifying the effects of a land-use policy on willingness to pay for open space using an endogenous switching regression model," 2021, Land Use Policy
  • "Co-management for sustainable development and conservation in Sanjiangyuan National Park and the surrounding Tibetan nomadic pastoralist areas," 2023, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "An insight into the drag effect of water, land, and energy on economic growth across space and time: the application of improved Solow growth model," 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Brent Swallow include:

  • Salla Rantala
  • Riikka Paloniemi
  • Feng Qiu
  • Ting Ma
  • Linsheng Zhong

Publication venues where Brent Swallow's research has appeared include:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Forest Policy and Economics
  • Land Use Policy
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie

Best Publications

  • Fractal Poverty Traps

    Christopher B. Barrett;Brent M. Swallow

  • MEASURING THE COSTS OF AFRICAN ANIMAL TRYPANOSOMOSIS, THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF CONTROL AND RETURNS TO RESEARCH

    Patricia M. Kristjanson;B.M. Swallow;G.J. Rowlands;R.L. Kruska

  • Forestry-based carbon sequestration projects in Africa: Potential benefits and challenges

    Rohit Jindal;Brent Swallow;John Kerr

  • Impacts of trypanosomiasis on African agriculture.

    B.M. Swallow

  • Compensation and Rewards for Environmental Services in the Developing World: Framing Pan-Tropical Analysis and Comparison

    Brent M. Swallow;Mikkel F. Kallesoe;Usman A. Iftikhar;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Locating REDD: A global survey and analysis of REDD readiness and demonstration activities

    Gillian A. Cerbu;Brent M. Swallow;Dara Y. Thompson

  • Tradeoffs, synergies and traps among ecosystem services in the Lake Victoria basin of East Africa

    Brent M. Swallow;Joseph K. Sang;Joseph K. Sang;Meshack Nyabenge;Daniel K. Bundotich

  • Invasion of prosopis juliflora and local livelihoods: case study from the Lake Baringo area of Kenya

    Emmanuel Mwangi;Brent Swallow

  • The effects of scales, flows and filters on property rights and collective action in watershed management

    Brent M. Swallow;Dennis P. Garrity;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Using conjoint analysis to estimate farmer's preferences for cattle traits in West Africa

    Kouadio Tano;Mulumba Kamuanga;Merle D. Faminow;Brent Swallow

  • Prosopis juliflora Invasion and Rural Livelihoods in the Lake Baringo Area of Kenya

    Esther Mwangi;Brent Swallow

  • Designing a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program to reduce deforestation in Tanzania: : An assessment of payment approaches

    David Kaczan;Brent M. Swallow;W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz

  • Managing mobility in African rangelands.

    M. Niamir-Fuller;N. McCarthy;B. Swallow;M. Kirk

  • Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries

    Ruth Meinzen-Dick;Anna Knox;Frank Place;Brent Swallow

  • Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands

    Brent M. Swallow;Daniel W. Bromley

  • Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edmonton, Canada

    Haoluan Wang;Feng Qiu;Brent Swallow

  • The Policy Terrain in Protected Area Landscapes: Challenges for Agroforestry in Integrated Landscape Conservation

    Rebecca Ashley;Diane Russell;Brent Swallow

  • Evaluating willingness to contribute to a local public good: Application of contingent valuation to tsetse control in Ethiopia

    B.M. Swallow;M. Woudyalew

  • Property rights, risk, and livestock development in Africa

    N. McCarthy;B. Swallow;M. Kirk;P. Hazell

  • Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

    Monica di Gregorio;Konrad Hagedorn;Michael Kirk;Benedikt Korf

  • A conjoint analysis of farmer preferences for community forestry contracts in the Sumber Jaya Watershed, Indonesia.

    Bustanul Arifin;Brent M. Swallow;S. Suyanto;Richard D. Coe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
Meine van Noordwijk
Meine van Noordwijk World Agroforestry Centre
Peter B. R. Hazell
Peter B. R. Hazell Imperial College London
Wiktor L. Adamowicz
Wiktor L. Adamowicz University of Alberta
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Daniel W. Bromley
Daniel W. Bromley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Louis V. Verchot
Louis V. Verchot Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Benedikt Korf
Benedikt Korf University of Zurich
Daniel Murdiyarso
Daniel Murdiyarso IPB University
M. van Noordwijk
M. van Noordwijk World Agroforestry Centre

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