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73
Citations
20815
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633
National Ranking
25

Laurens Klerkx 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 Laurens Klerkx sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 262 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Laurens Klerkx 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 Laurens Klerkx sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 73 D-Index — 92nd percentile

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

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

Overview

Laurens Klerkx is a researcher affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, specializing in the intersection of agriculture, innovation, and sustainability. Their work spans multiple fields, notably Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting.

Their research scope covers a number of subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Strategy and Management.

Klerkx's main topics of research include:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Notable recent publications authored by or including Laurens Klerkx are:

  • Supporting food systems transformation: The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems (2020), Agricultural Systems
  • Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems (2021), Nature Food
  • The future(s) of digital agriculture and sustainable food systems: An analysis of high-level policy documents (2020), Ecosystem Services
  • Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation (2021), Journal of Rural Studies
  • Drivers of decoupling and recoupling of crop and livestock systems at farm and territorial scales (2020), Ecology and Society

Klerkx frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Cees Leeuwis
  • James Turner
  • P. Marijn Poortvliet
  • Kristiaan P.W. Kok
  • Daniel Gaitán-Cremaschi

Their work is regularly published in a set of journals that serve as key venues for agricultural and rural studies research. These include:

  • The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
  • Agricultural Systems
  • Journal of Rural Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agriculture and Human Values

Best Publications

  • A review of social science on digital agriculture, smart farming and agriculture 4.0: New contributions and a future research agenda

    Laurens Klerkx;Emma Jakku;Pierre Labarthe

  • Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

    Laurens Klerkx;Noelle Aarts;Noelle Aarts;Cees Leeuwis

  • Evolution of systems approaches to agricultural innovation: concepts, analysis and interventions

    Laurens Klerkx;Barbara van Mierlo;Cees Leeuwis

  • Establishment and embedding of innovation brokers at different innovation system levels: Insights from the Dutch agricultural sector

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: A systematic review and a research agenda

    Paula Kivimaa;Paula Kivimaa;Wouter Boon;Sampsa Hyysalo;Laurens Klerkx

  • Dealing with the game-changing technologies of Agriculture 4.0: How do we manage diversity and responsibility in food system transition pathways?

    Laurens Klerkx;David Rose

  • Matching demand and supply in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure: Experiences with innovation intermediaries

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?

    Laurens Klerkx;Andrew Hall;Cees Leeuwis

  • Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme

    Catherine W. Kilelu;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Beyond agricultural innovation systems? Exploring an agricultural innovation ecosystems approach for niche design and development in sustainability transitions

    Ashlee Ann E. Pigford;Gordon M. Hickey;Laurens Klerkx

  • Orchestrating innovation networks: The case of innovation brokers in the agri-food sector

    Maarten H. Batterink;Emiel F.M. Wubben;Laurens Klerkx;S.W.F. (Onno) Omta

  • Balancing multiple interests: embedding innovation intermediation in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure

    Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis

  • Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

    Seerp Wigboldus;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis;Marc Schut;Marc Schut

  • The future(s) of digital agriculture and sustainable food systems: An analysis of high-level policy documents

    Alana Lajoie-O'Malley;Kelly Bronson;Simone van der Burg;Laurens Klerkx

  • Managing Socio-Ethical Challenges in the Development of Smart Farming: From a Fragmented to a Comprehensive Approach for Responsible Research and Innovation

    C. Eastwood;L. Klerkx;M. Ayre;B. Dela Rue

  • Combinations of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital for farm innovation: How farmers configure different support networks

    Gabriela Cofré-Bravo;Laurens Klerkx;Alejandra Engler

  • Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas : a socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation

    Kelly Rijswijk;Laurens Klerkx;Manlio Bacco;Fabio Bartolini;Fabio Bartolini

  • Supporting food systems transformation : The what, why, who, where and how of mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems

    Laurens Klerkx;Stephanie Begemann

  • Dynamics and distribution of public and private research and extension roles for technological innovation and diffusion: Case studies of the implementation and adaptation of precision farming technologies

    C. Eastwood;L. Klerkx;R. Nettle

  • Innovation platforms: experiences with their institutional embedding in agricultural research for development

    Marc Schut;Laurens Klerkx;Murat Sartas;Dieuwke Lamers

  • Beyond knowledge brokerage: An exploratory study of innovation intermediaries in an evolving smallholder agricultural system in Kenya

    Catherine W. Kilelu;Laurens Klerkx;Cees Leeuwis;Andy Hall

  • The interaction of multiple champions in orchestrating innovation networks: Conflicts and complementarities

    Laurens Klerkx;Noelle Aarts

Frequent Co-Authors

Cees Leeuwis
Cees Leeuwis Wageningen University & Research
Jonne Rodenburg
Jonne Rodenburg University of Greenwich
Lammert Bastiaans
Lammert Bastiaans Wageningen University & Research
Paula Kivimaa
Paula Kivimaa University of Sussex
James O.S. Hammond
James O.S. Hammond Birkbeck, University of London
Paul C. Struik
Paul C. Struik Wageningen University & Research
Timothy S. Griffin
Timothy S. Griffin University of Maine
Alfons Oude Lansink
Alfons Oude Lansink Wageningen University & Research
Jianchu Xu
Jianchu Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pablo Tittonell
Pablo Tittonell University of Groningen

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