2026 Ian Scoones: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	94	137	114	20	17	337	49659

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

137

114

337

49659

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

49659

World Ranking

137

National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ian Scoones is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across social sciences and environmental science, with a significant focus on sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, general agricultural and biological sciences, ecology, and anthropology.

Their primary research topics include:

Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
African history and culture studies
African studies and sociopolitical issues
Land Rights and Reforms
Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Transboundary Water Resource Management

Ian Scoones frequently publishes in venues such as:

IDS Bulletin
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Development and Change
World Development
Nomadic Peoples

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ian Scoones include:

Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Pastoralists and peasants: perspectives on agrarian change, 2020, The Journal of Peasant Studies
Livestock, methane, and climate change: The politics of global assessments, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change

Frequent coauthors with whom Ian Scoones has collaborated include:

Melissa Leach
Felix Murimbarimba
Jeremy Lind
Toendepi Shonhe
Hayley MacGregor

Best Publications

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis

Ian Scoones

6476
Citations
Livelihoods perspectives and rural development

Ian Scoones

2738
Citations
Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

James Fairhead;Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones

2481
Citations
Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

Melissa Leach;Robin Mearns;Ian Scoones

2335
Citations
Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction

Saturnino M. Borras;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones;Ben White

1318
Citations
The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

Benjamin White;Saturnino Borras jr.;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones

1184
Citations
Range Ecology At Disequilibrium: New Models Of Natural Variability And Pastoral Adaptation In African Savannas

Roy H. Behnke;Ian Scoones;Carol Kerven

1079
Citations
New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?

I. Scoones

1043
Citations
Range ecology at disequilibrium

Roy H. Behnke;Ian. Scoones;Carol. Kerven

1036
Citations
Beyond Farmer First: rural people's knowledge, agricultural research and extension practice

Ian Scoones;John Thompson

995
Citations
Living with uncertainty : new directions in pastoral development in Africa

Ian Scoones

925
Citations
Rethinking range ecology: implications for rangeland management in Africa.

R H Behnke;I Scoones

914
Citations
Understanding Environmental Policy Processes : Cases from Africa

James F. Keeley;Ian Scoones

889
Citations
Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’

Ruth Hall;Marc Edelman;Saturnino M. Borras;Ian Scoones

762
Citations
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

Wendy Wolford;Saturnino M. Borras;Ruth Hall;Ian Scoones

724
Citations
A trainer's guide for participatory learning and action

Jules N. Pretty;Irene Guijt;Ian Scoones;John Thompson

706
Citations
Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice

Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones;Andy Stirling

684
Citations
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

Melissa Leach;Johan Rockström;Paul Raskin;Ian Christopher Scoones

625
Citations
Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches

Ian Scoones;Andrew Stirling;Dinesh Abrol;Joanes Atela

622
Citations
The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction

Saturnino M. Borras;Philip McMichael;Ian Scoones

572
Citations
Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities

I. Scoones;N. Marongwe;B. Mavedzenge;J. Mahenehene

562
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa Leach Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)

Andrew Stirling University of Sussex

Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam

Adrian Smith University of Oxford

Brian Wynne Lancaster University

Jules Pretty University of Essex

Brendan W. Wren London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

James L. N. Wood University of Cambridge

Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong

Jonathan Rushton University of Liverpool

External Links

Personal website of Ian Scoones

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