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52
Citations
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2369
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1149

Jesse C. Ribot 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 Jesse C. Ribot sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jesse C. Ribot 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 Jesse C. Ribot sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jesse C. Ribot is affiliated with American University in the United States and specializes primarily in the social sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, political science and international relations, demography, and anthropology.

The key themes in Ribot's work involve climate change, adaptation, and migration, with a particular focus on migration and labor dynamics, disaster management and resilience, sustainability and climate change governance, anthropological studies, Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, and qualitative research methods and ethics.

Notable recent papers by Ribot include:

  • "Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change" (2021) published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Postscript: A Theory of Access Revisited" (2020) published in Society & Natural Resources
  • "Climate of Anxiety in the Sahel: Emigration in Xenophobic Times" (2020) published in Public Culture
  • "Violent silence: framing out social causes of climate-related crises" (2022) published in The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • "Violent Silence" (2021) published in Current History

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ribot include:

  • Matthew D. Turner
  • Nancy Lee Peluso
  • Papa Lamine Faye
  • Myanna Lahsen
  • Prakash Kashwan

Ribot's work has been published multiple times in key academic venues, such as:

  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Society & Natural Resources
  • Public Culture
  • Current History

In recognition of their research contributions, Ribot was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2018.

Best Publications

  • A Theory of Access.

    Jesse C. Ribot;Nancy Lee Peluso

  • Accountability in decentralization: A framework with South Asian and West African cases

    Arun Agrawal;Jesse Ribot

  • Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources

    Jesse C. Ribot

  • Recentralizing while decentralizing: How national governments reappropriate forest resources

    Jesse C. Ribot;Arun Agrawal;Anne M. Larson

  • Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutionalizing Popular Participation

    Jesse C. Ribot

  • Theorizing Access: Forest Profits along Senegal's Charcoal Commodity Chain

    Jesse C. Ribot

  • Decentralisation, participation and accountability in Sahelian forestry: legal instruments of political-administrative control.

    Jesse Craig Ribot

  • Waiting for Democracy: The Politics of Choice in Natural Resource Decentralization

    Jesse Craig Ribot

  • Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene

    Jesse Ribot

  • African decentralization : local actors, powers and accountability

    Jesse Craig Ribot

  • Democratic Decentralisation of Natural Resources: Institutional Choice and Discretionary Power Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Jesse C. Ribot

  • Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens: an introduction

    Anne M Larson;Jesse C Ribot

  • The poverty of forestry policy: double standards on an uneven playing field

    Anne M. Larson;Jesse C. Ribot

  • Vulnerability before adaptation: Toward transformative climate action

    Jesse C Ribot

  • Democratic decentralization in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution to forest management, livelihoods, and enfranchisement

    Jesse C Ribot;J. F. Lund;T. Treue

  • From Exclusion to Participation: Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around?

    Jesse C. Ribot

  • Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens

    J.C. Ribot;A.M. Larson

  • Special Issue Introduction: Adding insult to injury: Climate change and the inequities of climate intervention

    Elizabeth Marino;Jesse Ribot

  • REDD-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance

    Thomas Sikor;Johannes Stahl;Thomas Enters;Jesse C. Ribot

  • Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-arid Tropics

    Jesse Craig Ribot;Antonio Rocha Magalhães;Stahis Solomon Panagides

  • Vulnerability does not just fall from the sky: toward multi-scale pro-poor climate policy

    Jesse Ribot

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M. Larson
Anne M. Larson Center for International Forestry Research, Peru
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arthur C. Petersen
Arthur C. Petersen University College London
Shonali Pachauri
Shonali Pachauri International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick International Food Policy Research Institute
Roger A. C. Jones
Roger A. C. Jones University of Western Australia
Bas J. van Ruijven
Bas J. van Ruijven International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Joern Birkmann
Joern Birkmann University of Stuttgart
Benjamin L. Preston
Benjamin L. Preston RAND Corporation
Frank Biermann
Frank Biermann Utrecht University

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