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Jikun Huang

Jikun Huang

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Economics and Finance
China
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
96
Citations
33481
World Ranking
128
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in China Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in China Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jikun Huang is affiliated with Peking University in China and has a specialization in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions across several subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research concentrates on key topics such as Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, Agricultural risk and resilience, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Rural development and sustainability.

Huang's recent publications span multiple high-profile journals and cover diverse areas within agricultural economics and sustainability. Representative papers include:

  • The state of food systems worldwide in the countdown to 2030 (2023, Nature Food)
  • The river chief system and agricultural non-point source water pollution control in China (2021, Journal of Integrative Agriculture)
  • Regional rural and structural transformations and farmer's income in the past four decades in China (2021, China Agricultural Economic Review)
  • Farmers' risk preference and fertilizer use (2021, Journal of Integrative Agriculture)
  • Black tea markets worldwide: Are they integrated? (2022, Journal of Integrative Agriculture)

In addition to journal articles, Huang has contributed to book publications, including the work titled Revising Public Agricultural Support to Mitigate Climate Change published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks in 2020.

Huang frequently collaborates with several researchers, with multiple coauthored works alongside:

  • Patrick Caron
  • Jinxia Wang
  • Kate Schneider
  • Jessica Fanzo
  • Lawrence Haddad

Common venues for Huang's research papers include:

  • Nature Food
  • Journal of Integrative Agriculture
  • Strategic Study of CAE
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • China Agricultural Economic Review

Recognition for Huang's work includes being named a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Impact of Bt Cotton in China

    Carl Pray;Danmeng Ma;Jikun Huang;Fangbin Qiao

  • THE EVOLUTION OF CHINA'S RURAL LABOR MARKETS DURING THE REFORMS

    Alan de Brauw;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Linxiu Zhang

  • Five years of Bt cotton in China - the benefits continue.

    Carl E. Pray;Jikun Huang;Ruifa Hu;Scott Rozelle

  • Plant biotechnology in China.

    Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Carl Pray;Qinfang Wang

  • Growth, Population and Industrialization and Urban Land Expansion of China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Emi Uchida

  • Impact of urbanization on cultivated land changes in China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott D. Rozelle;Jipeng Zhang

  • Technological change: rediscovering the engine of productivity growth in China's rural economy

    Jikun Huang;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle

  • The Impact of Bt Cotton in China

    Carl Pray;Jikun Huang

  • Insect-resistant GM rice in farmers' fields: Assessing productivity and health effects in China

    Jikun Huang;Ruifa Hu;Ruifa Hu;Ruifa Hu;Scott Rozelle;Scott Rozelle;Scott Rozelle;Carl Pray;Carl Pray;Carl Pray

  • Cultivated land conversion and potential agricultural productivity in China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott D. Rozelle;Emi Uchida

  • Enhancing the crops to feed the poor

    Jikun Huang;Carl Pray;Scott D. Rozelle

  • Land Rights in Rural China: Facts, Fictions and Issues

    Loren Brandt;Jikun Huang;Guo Li;Scott Rozelle

  • Biotechnology as an alternative to chemical pesticides: a case study of Bt cotton in China

    Jikun Huang;Ruifa Hu;Carl Pray;Fangbin Qiao

  • Local governance and public goods provision in rural China

    Xiaobo Zhang;Shenggen Fan;Linxiu Zhang;Jikun Huang

  • Economic Growth and the Expansion of Urban Land in China

    Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Emi Uchida

  • The impact of climate change on China's agriculture.

    Jinxia Wang;Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar;Jikun Huang

  • Risk preferences and pesticide use by cotton farmers in China

    Elaine M. Liu;JiKun Huang

  • The Creation and Spread of Technology and Total Factor Productivity in China's Agriculture

    Songqing Jin;Jikun Huang;Ruifa Hu;Scott D. Rozelle

  • Grain for Green versus Grain : Conflict between Food Security and Conservation Set-Aside in China

    Zhigang Xu;Jintao Xu;Xiangzheng Deng;Jikun Huang

  • Understanding recent challenges and new food policy in China

    Jikun Huang;Jikun Huang;Guolei Yang

  • China's Food Economy to the Twenty-first Century: Supply, Demand, and Trade*

    Jikun Huang;Scott Rozelle;Mark W. Rosegrant

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Jinxia Wang
Jinxia Wang Peking University
Carl E. Pray
Carl E. Pray Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Linxiu Zhang
Linxiu Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiangzheng Deng
Xiangzheng Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Songqing Jin
Songqing Jin Michigan State University
Will Martin
Will Martin International Food Policy Research Institute
John Gibson
John Gibson University of Waikato
Kym Anderson
Kym Anderson University of Adelaide
Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute

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