2026 Esther Turnhout: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	42	1494	1395	47	45	99	7925

Esther Turnhout publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Esther Turnhout sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 99 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Esther Turnhout D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Esther Turnhout sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Esther Turnhout is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, focusing particularly on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the scientist engages with a range of topics related to environmental governance and sustainability.

The main topics of their work include:

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Geographies of human-animal interactions

Esther Turnhout frequently publishes in Environmental Science & Policy, with six publications, followed by Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and Geoforum, both with three publications each. They have also contributed to Conservation Biology and Conservation and Society.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Esther Turnhout include:

"Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism," 2021, Nature Sustainability
"Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development," 2021, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
"How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability," 2021, Environmental Research Letters
"Co-producing the science-policy interface: towards common but differentiated responsibilities," 2022, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
"A better knowledge is possible: Transforming environmental science for justice and pluralism," 2024, Environmental Science & Policy

Collaboration forms an important part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Jelle Behagel, Pamela McElwee, Eszter Kelemen, Michelle Lim, and Joachim H. Spangenberg.

Best Publications

The politics of co-production: participation, power, and transformation

Esther Turnhout;Tamara Metze;Carina Wyborn;Carina Wyborn;Nicole Klenk

826
Citations
Ecological Indicators: between the two fires of science and policy

Esther Turnhout;Matthijs Hisschemöller;Herman Eijsackers

538
Citations
To co-produce or not to co-produce

Maria Carmen Lemos;James C. Arnott;Nicole M. Ardoin;Kristin Baja

371
Citations
How participation creates citizens: participatory governance as performative practice.

Esther Turnhout;Severine Van Bommel;Noelle Aarts

369
Citations
Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism

Unai Pascual;Unai Pascual;William M. Adams;William M. Adams;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sandra Myrna Díaz;Sharachchandra Lele

339
Citations
New roles of science in society: Different repertoires of knowledge brokering

Esther Turnhout;Marian Stuiver;Judith Klostermann;Bette Harms

311
Citations
Rethinking biodiversity: from goods and services to “living with”

Esther Turnhout;Claire Waterton;Katja Neves;Marleen Buizer

309
Citations
Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the IPBES.

Silke Beck;Maud Borie;Jason Chilvers;Alejandro Esguerra

292
Citations
Measurementality’ in biodiversity governance: knowledge, transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

Esther Turnhout;Katja Neves;Elisa de Lijster

282
Citations
Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science - policy interface

Anna Wesselink;Karen S. Buchanan;Yola Georgiadou;Esther Turnhout

277
Citations
Conservation policy: Listen to the voices of experience

Esther Turnhout;Bob Bloomfield;Mike Hulme;Johannes Vogel

257
Citations
In pursuit of carbon accountability: the politics of REDD+ measuring, reporting and verification systems

Aarti Gupta;Eva Lövbrand;Esther Turnhout;Marjanneke J Vijge

220
Citations
Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development

Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers;Jona Razzaque;Pamela McElwee;Esther Turnhout

209
Citations
What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity

Esther Turnhout;Art Dewulf;Michael Hulme

204
Citations
Envisioning REDD+ in a post-Paris era: between evolving expectations and current practice

Esther Turnhout;Aarti Gupta;Janice Weatherley-Singh;Marjanneke J. Vijge

173
Citations
The effectiveness of boundary objects: the case of ecological indicators

Esther Turnhout

166
Citations
Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

I. Díaz-Reviriego;E. Turnhout;S. Beck

148
Citations
The politics of environmental knowledge

Esther Turnhout

145
Citations
Science in Wadden Sea policy: from accommodation to advocacy

Esther Turnhout;Matthijs Hisschemöller;Herman Eijsackers

138
Citations
Working at the science–policy interface: a discursive analysis of boundary work at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Dave Huitema;Esther Turnhout

131
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bas Arts Wageningen University & Research

Joachim H. Spangenberg Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research

Eva Lövbrand Linköping University

Jennifer Clapp University of Waterloo

Tim Jackson University of Surrey

Mike Hulme University of Cambridge

Margaret Skutsch National Autonomous University of Mexico

Arjen E. J. Wals Wageningen University & Research

Rolf Lidskog Örebro University

External Links

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