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D-Index
43
Citations
10311
World Ranking
4330
National Ranking
2071

Lawrence Busch 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 Lawrence Busch sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 171 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lawrence Busch 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 Lawrence Busch sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% 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

  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lawrence Busch was affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their academic work spanned multiple topics within sociology, agriculture, and environmental studies, with a focus on the intersections between social and biophysical systems.

Their research included contributions in the following areas:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • French Urban and Social Studies
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Busch's work engaged subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's recent publications were primarily featured in the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food and The MIT Press eBooks. Key papers included:

  • Climate Change: How Debates over Standards Shape the Biophysical, Social, Political and Economic Climate (2020), International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Manufacturing Plants: Notes on the Culture of Nature and the Nature of Culture (2021), International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Metatheories and Better Theories: A Reply to Ruttan (2021), International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Index (2021), The MIT Press eBooks

Frequent co-authors in their publications included Lauren Berlant, S. G. Browne, and Judith Butler.

During their career, Busch was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Third-party certification in the global agrifood system

    Maki Hatanaka;Carmen Bain;Lawrence Busch

  • Standards: Recipes for Reality

    Lawrence Busch

  • Global Change in Agrifood Grades and Standards: Agribusiness Strategic Responses in Developing Countries

    Thomas Reardon;Jean-Marie Codron;Lawrence Busch;R. James Bingen

  • New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System*

    Lawrence Busch;Carmen Bain

  • The moral economy of grades and standards

    Lawrence Busch

  • Science, agriculture, and the politics of research

    Lawrence M Busch;William B Lacy

  • Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies

    Lawrence Busch;William B. Lacy;Jeffrey Burkhardt;Laura R. Lacy

  • Adjudicating the GM Food Wars: Science, Risk, and Democracy in World Trade Law.

    David Winickoff;Sheila Jasanoff;Lawrence Busch;Robin Grove-White

  • Third-Party Certification in the Global Agrifood System: An Objective or Socially Mediated Governance Mechanism?

    Maki Hatanaka;Lawrence Busch

  • From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food

    Eileen Berry;Alessandro Bonanno;Lawrence Busch;William H. Friedland

  • Beyond political economy: actor networks and the globalization of agriculture

    Lawrence Busch;Arunas Juska

  • Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: Performing the global market economy

    Allison Loconto;Lawrence Busch

  • WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT “I DON'T KNOWS”

    Joe D. Francis;Lawrence Busch

  • Performing the economy, performing science: from neoclassical to supply chain models in the agrifood sector

    Lawrence Busch

  • Can Fairy Tales Come True? The Surprising Story of Neoliberalism and World Agriculture

    Lawrence Busch

  • Towards A New Political Economy Of Agriculture

    William H. Friedland;Lawrence Busch;Frederick H. Buttel;Alan P. Rudy

  • Bioenergy futures: framing sociotechnical imaginaries in local places.

    Weston M. Eaton;Stephen P. Gasteyer;Lawrence Busch

  • Seeds of Change: Intellectual Property Rights, Genetically Modified Soybeans and Seed Saving in the United States

    Michael Mascarenhas;Lawrence Busch

  • The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market

    Lawrence Busch

  • Inquiry for the public good: Democratic participation in agricultural research

    Gerad Middendorf;Lawrence Busch

  • Food Security In The United States

    Lawrence Busch;William B. Lacy

  • From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food.

    Michael Woolcock;Alessandro Bonanno;Lawrence Busch;William H. Friedland

  • Science, Agriculture, and the Politics of Research

    Gale L. Wolters;Lawrence Busch;William B. Lacy

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Kyle Powys Whyte
Kyle Powys Whyte University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
Jennifer Clapp
Jennifer Clapp University of Waterloo
Thomas Reardon
Thomas Reardon Michigan State University
Peter Saunders
Peter Saunders University of New South Wales
Philip McMichael
Philip McMichael Cornell University
Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University
Geoffrey Lawrence
Geoffrey Lawrence University of Queensland
Edmond A. Pajor
Edmond A. Pajor University of Calgary

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