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Cees Leeuwis 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 Cees Leeuwis sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 304 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cees Leeuwis 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 Cees Leeuwis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Cees Leeuwis is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on innovations and development within food systems and rural areas.

The main field of study encompasses the broader Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with subfields including:

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Plant Science
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Business and International Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

Key topics explored in their work cover:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research

Leeuwis has contributed to various scientific publications, many appearing in the following venues:

  • Agricultural Systems
  • The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Development Research
  • Sustainability

Among recent notable papers are:

  • How food systems change (or not): governance implications for system transformation processes, 2021, Food Security
  • Scaling Readiness: Science and practice of an approach to enhance impact of research for development, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • Science of Scaling: Understanding and guiding the scaling of innovation for societal outcomes, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • Why (not) participate in citizen science? Motivational factors and barriers to participate in a citizen science program for malaria control in Rwanda, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Are farmers ready to use phone-based digital tools for agronomic advice? Ex-ante user readiness assessment using the case of Rwandan banana farmers, 2021, The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

Their book publication includes:

  • Scaling readiness: Concepts, practices, and implementation, published by International Potato Center eBooks, 2020

Cees Leeuwis collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Laurens Klerkx
  • Rico Lie
  • Marc Schut
  • Annemarie van Paassen
  • Francesco Cecchi

Best Publications

  • Communication for Rural Innovation: Rethinking Agricultural Extension

    Cees Leeuwis

  • Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

    Laurens Klerkx;Noelle Aarts;Noelle Aarts;Cees Leeuwis

  • Evolution of systems approaches to agricultural innovation: concepts, analysis and interventions

    Laurens Klerkx;Barbara van Mierlo;Cees Leeuwis

  • Establishment and embedding of innovation brokers at different innovation system levels: Insights from the Dutch agricultural sector

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Communication for Rural Innovation

    Cees Leeuwis;Ann Van den Ban

  • Rethinking Communication in Innovation Processes: Creating Space for Change in Complex Systems

    Cees Leeuwis;Noelle Aarts

  • Reconceptualizing Participation for Sustainable Rural Development: Towards a Negotiation Approach

    Cees Leeuwis

  • Matching demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure: Experiences with innovation intermediaries

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?

    Laurens Klerkx;Andrew Hall;Cees Leeuwis

  • Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme

    Catherine W. Kilelu;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa

    Dominique Hounkonnou;Dansou Kossou;Thomas W. Kuyper;Cees Leeuwis

  • Balancing multiple interests: embedding innovation intermediation in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

    Seerp Wigboldus;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis;Marc Schut;Marc Schut

  • New roles of science in society: Different repertoires of knowledge brokering

    Esther Turnhout;Marian Stuiver;Judith Klostermann;Bette Harms

  • Normative contestation in transitions ‘in the making’: Animal welfare concerns and system innovation in pig husbandry

    Boelie Elzen;Frank W. Geels;Cees Leeuwis;Barbara van Mierlo

  • Innovation platforms: experiences with their institutional embedding in agricultural research for development

    Marc Schut;Laurens Klerkx;Murat Sartas;Dieuwke Lamers

  • Wheelbarrows full of frogs: social learning in rural resource management : international research and reflections

    C. Leeuwis;R. Pyburn;N.G. Röling

  • Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science?

    Ken E. Giller;Cees Leeuwis;Jens A. Andersson;Wim Andriesse

  • Explaining mastitis incidence in Dutch dairy farming: The influence of farmers’ attitudes and behaviour

    J. Jansen;B.H.P. van den Borne;R.J. Renes;G. van Schaik

  • Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

    Catherine W. Kilelu;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis;Andy Hall

  • Wheelbarrows full of frogs : social learning in rural resource management

    Cees Leeuwis;Rhiannon Pyburn

  • Learning towards system innovation: Evaluating a systemic instrument

    B. van Mierlo;C. Leeuwis;R. Smits;R.J.A. Klein Woolthuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurens Klerkx
Laurens Klerkx Wageningen University & Research
Paul C. Struik
Paul C. Struik Wageningen University & Research
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research
W. van der Werf
W. van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
M.K. van Ittersum
M.K. van Ittersum Wageningen University & Research
Willem Takken
Willem Takken Wageningen University & Research
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Herbert H. T. Prins
Herbert H. T. Prins Wageningen University & Research
Ignas M. A. Heitkönig
Ignas M. A. Heitkönig Wageningen University & Research

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