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44
Citations
11565
World Ranking
4047
National Ranking
165

Gert Spaargaren 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 Gert Spaargaren sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gert Spaargaren 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 Gert Spaargaren 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

Gert Spaargaren is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields, including Social Sciences, Business, Management and Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Food Science, Pollution, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work addresses multiple topics, notably:

  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Food Supply Chain Traceability
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens, 2020, published in Global Environmental Change
  • Reworking boundaries in the home-as-office: boundary traffic during COVID-19 lockdown and the future of working from home, 2022, published in Sustainability Science Practice and Policy
  • Fisher and Trader Responses to Traceability Interventions in Indonesia, 2020, published in Society & Natural Resources
  • Responses of Indonesian tuna processing companies to enhanced public and private traceability, 2020, published in Marine Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Spaargaren include:

  • Simon R. Bush
  • Mandy Doddema
  • Budy Wiryawan
  • Patience Mguni
  • B.J.M. van Vliet

Their research contributions are regularly published in venues such as:

  • Global Environmental Change
  • Sustainability Science Practice and Policy
  • Society & Natural Resources
  • Marine Policy

Best Publications

  • Ecological modernisation theory in debate: A review

    Arthur P.J. Mol;Gert Spaargaren

  • Sociology, environment, and modernity: Ecological modernization as a theory of social change

    Gert Spaargaren;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Sustainable Consumption: A Theoretical and Environmental Policy Perspective

    Gert Spaargaren

  • Theories of practices: Agency, technology, and culture. Exploring the relevance of practice theories for the governance of sustainable consumption practices in the new world-order

    Gert Spaargaren

  • Lifestyles, consumption and the environment: The ecological modernization of domestic consumption

    Gert Spaargaren;Bas Van Vliet

  • The Ecological Modernisation Reader. Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice

    Arthur P.J. Mol;David A. Sonnenfeld;Gert Spaargaren

  • The ecological modernization of production and consumption : essays in environmental sociology

    G. Spaargaren

  • Environment, modernity and the risk-society: the apocalyptic horizon of environmental reform.

    Arthur P.J. Mol;Gert Spaargaren

  • Greening global consumption: Redefining politics and authority

    Gert Spaargaren;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Environment and Global Modernity

    Gert Spaargaren;A. P. J. Mol;Frederick H. Buttel

  • Citizen-Consumers as Agents of Change in Globalizing Modernity: The Case of Sustainable Consumption

    Gert Spaargaren;Peter Oosterveer

  • Food Practices in Transition - Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity

    Gert Spaargaren;Peter Oosterveer;Anne Loeber

  • Ecological Modernization Theory and the Changing Discourse on Environment and Modernity

    G. Spaargaren

  • When social practices meet smart grids : Flexibility, grid management, and domestic consumption in The Netherlands

    Robin Smale;Bas van Vliet;Gert Spaargaren

  • Ecological modernization theory and domestic consumption

    Gert Spaargaren

  • Smart grids, information flows and emerging domestic energy practices

    Joeri Naus;Gert Spaargaren;Bas J.M. van Vliet;Hilje M. van der Horst

  • Promoting sustainable consumption in China: a conceptual framework and research review

    Wenling Liu;Peter Oosterveer;Gert Spaargaren

  • Energy consumption practices of rural households in north China: Basic characteristics and potential for low carbon development

    Wenling Liu;Wenling Liu;Gert Spaargaren;Nico Heerink;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Governing environmental flows : global challenges to social theory

    Gert Spaargaren;A. P. J. Mol;Frederick H. Buttel

  • Ecological modernization theory. Taking stock, moving forward

    Arthur P.J. Mol;Gert Spaargaren;David A. Sonnenfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur P.J. Mol
Arthur P.J. Mol Wageningen University & Research
Peter Oosterveer
Peter Oosterveer Wageningen University & Research
Nico Heerink
Nico Heerink Wageningen University & Research
Grietje Zeeman
Grietje Zeeman Wageningen University & Research
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University
Simon R. Bush
Simon R. Bush Wageningen University & Research

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