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94
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World Ranking
137
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20

Ian Scoones 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 Ian Scoones sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 337 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian Scoones 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 Ian Scoones sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 94 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Livelihoods perspectives and rural development

    Ian Scoones

  • Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?

    James Fairhead;Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones

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

    Melissa Leach;Robin Mearns;Ian Scoones

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

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

  • The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals

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

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

    Roy H. Behnke;Ian Scoones;Carol Kerven

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

    I. Scoones

  • Range ecology at disequilibrium

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

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

    Ian Scoones;John Thompson

  • Living with uncertainty : new directions in pastoral development in Africa

    Ian Scoones

  • Rethinking range ecology: implications for rangeland management in Africa.

    R H Behnke;I Scoones

  • Understanding Environmental Policy Processes : Cases from Africa

    James F. Keeley;Ian Scoones

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

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

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

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

  • A trainer's guide for participatory learning and action

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

  • Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice

    Melissa Leach;Ian Scoones;Andy Stirling

  • Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

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

  • Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches

    Ian Scoones;Andrew Stirling;Dinesh Abrol;Joanes Atela

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

    Saturnino M. Borras;Philip McMichael;Ian Scoones

  • Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and Realities

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa Leach
Melissa Leach Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)
Andrew Stirling
Andrew Stirling University of Sussex
John F. Thompson
John F. Thompson University of Sydney
Saturnino M. Borras
Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam
Wendy Wolford
Wendy Wolford Cornell University
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
Jules Pretty
Jules Pretty University of Essex
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Jonathan Rushton
Jonathan Rushton University of Liverpool

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