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Social Sciences and Humanities
UK
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 87 Citations 41,905 272 World Ranking 116 National Ranking 17

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Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Agriculture
  • Law
  • Ecology

Ian Scoones mainly investigates Politics, Economic growth, Sustainability, Land grabbing and Agriculture. His work in the fields of Politics, such as Elite, overlaps with other areas such as Scale. His Economic growth study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Development economics, Agricultural policy, Livelihood and Natural resource management.

His Sustainability research incorporates themes from Agricultural economics, Environmental protection, Corporate governance, Economic system and Grassroots. His work deals with themes such as Land tenure, Agrarian society, Economy, Inclusion–exclusion principle and Food security, which intersect with Land grabbing. Many of his research projects under Agriculture are closely connected to Food supply with Food supply, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.

His most cited work include:

  • Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis (1974 citations)
  • Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management (1175 citations)
  • Livelihoods perspectives and rural development (966 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Politics, Agriculture, Livelihood, Economic growth and Sustainability. His research investigates the connection between Politics and topics such as Economy that intersect with problems in Land grabbing. His Agriculture research focuses on Development policy and how it connects with Public administration.

In his study, which falls under the umbrella issue of Livelihood, Poverty is strongly linked to Development economics. His research on Economic growth often connects related areas such as Land tenure. His Sustainability research integrates issues from Corporate governance and Sustainable development.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (27.06%)
  • Agriculture (26.27%)
  • Livelihood (17.65%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Politics (27.06%)
  • Political economy (12.16%)
  • Agriculture (26.27%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Ian Scoones focuses on Politics, Political economy, Agriculture, Livelihood and Development economics. His Politics research also works with subjects such as

  • Economy, which have a strong connection to State,
  • Capital that connect with fields like Differentiation. His work carried out in the field of Political economy brings together such families of science as Mainstream, Economic system and Sustainability.

Ian Scoones has included themes like Environmental resource management and Public administration in his Sustainability study. His Agriculture research incorporates elements of Pastoralism, Development policy and Agricultural economics. The various areas that he examines in his Livelihood study include Economic growth, Urbanization and Agrarian system.

Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism (134 citations)
  • The politics of green transformations (127 citations)
  • Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (76 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Agriculture
  • Law
  • China

Ian Scoones mainly focuses on Politics, Political economy, Agriculture, One Health and Agrarian society. His Politics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Sustainability, Framing and State. His research in Political economy intersects with topics in Scarcity, Mainstream and Rural change.

His Agriculture study deals with Capital intersecting with Land reform, Differentiation and Economic growth. Ian Scoones has researched Agrarian society in several fields, including Rural area, Resource, Contract farming and Livelihood. His studies examine the connections between Agricultural productivity and genetics, as well as such issues in Development economics, with regards to Rural development.

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Best Publications

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis

Ian Scoones.
(1998)

5795 Citations

Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

Melissa Leach;Robin Mearns;Ian Scoones.
World Development (1999)

2102 Citations

Livelihoods perspectives and rural development

Ian Scoones.
The Journal of Peasant Studies (2009)

2077 Citations

Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

James Fairhead;Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones.
The Journal of Peasant Studies (2012)

1743 Citations

Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction

Saturnino M. Borras;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones;Ben White.
(2011)

1112 Citations

Range ecology at disequilibrium

Roy H. Behnke;Ian. Scoones;Carol. Kerven.
(1993)

1030 Citations

Range Ecology At Disequilibrium: New Models Of Natural Variability And Pastoral Adaptation In African Savannas

Roy H. Behnke;Ian Scoones;Carol Kerven.
(1994)

1028 Citations

The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

Benjamin White;Saturnino Borras jr.;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones.
(2012)

1025 Citations

New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?

I. Scoones.
Annual Review of Anthropology (1999)

971 Citations

Beyond Farmer First: rural people's knowledge, agricultural research and extension practice

Ian Scoones;John Thompson.
(1994)

947 Citations

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