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D-Index
41
Citations
7030
World Ranking
5053
National Ranking
857

Les Levidow 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 Les Levidow sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 202 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Les Levidow 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 Les Levidow 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: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Les Levidow is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specific focus areas including Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Business and International Management, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly output covers a range of interdisciplinary topics related to agriculture, sustainability, and socio-environmental innovation. Key topics addressed in their work include Organic Food and Agriculture, Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, and Municipal Solid Waste Management.

Les Levidow has contributed to several journals and publication venues. Frequent venues for their work include Science as Culture, Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd, Social Studies of Science, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society.

Notable recent papers authored by Les Levidow include:

  • Sociotechnical imaginaries of low-carbon waste-energy futures: UK techno-market fixes displacing public accountability, 2020, Social Studies of Science
  • Agroecological innovation constructing socionatural order for social transformation: two case studies in Brazil, 2021, Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society
  • Green New Deals: What Shapes Green and Deal?, 2022, Capitalism Nature Socialism
  • EcoSol-agroecology networks respond to the Covid-19 crisis: building an economy of proximity in Brazil's Baixada Santista region, 2022, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Territorialising Local Food Systems for an Agroecological Transition in Latin America, 2023, Land

Their collaborative work frequently involves co-authors including Davis Gruber Sansolo, Mônica Schiavinatto, Sujatha Raman, Andrea Berardi, and Julia Jung.

In addition to articles, Les Levidow has published books, notably "Beyond Climate Fixes" in 2023 through Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press, with multiple editions distributed by these publishers.

Best Publications

  • Improving water-efficient irrigation: Prospects and difficulties of innovative practices

    Les Levidow;Daniele Zaccaria;Rodrigo Maia;Eduardo Vivas

  • The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research

    Saturnino M. Borras;Jennifer C. Franco;S. Ryan Isakson;Les Levidow

  • Agroecological Research: Conforming—or Transforming the Dominant Agro-Food Regime?

    Les Levidow;Michel Pimbert;Gaëtan Vanloqueren

  • The bio-economy concept and knowledge base in a public goods and farmer perspective

    Otto Schmidt;Susanne Padel;Les Levidow

  • Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique

    Jennifer Franco;Les Levidow;David Fig;Lucia Goldfarb

  • Sustainable Capital? The Neoliberalization of Nature and Knowledge in the European “Knowledge-based Bio-economy”

    Kean Birch;Les Levidow;Theo Papaioannou

  • Science and governance in Europe: Lessons from the case of agricultural biotechnology

    Les Levidow;Claire Marris

  • Divergent paradigms of European agro-food innovation: the Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) as an R&D agenda

    Les Levidow;Kean Birch;Theo Papaioannou

  • EU agri-innovation policy: two contending visions of the bio-economy

    Les Levidow;Kean Birch;Theo Papaioannou

  • Precautionary Uncertainty Regulating GM Crops in Europe

    Les Levidow

  • Marketizing higher education: neoliberal strategies and counter-strategies

    Les Levidow

  • Genetically modified crops in the European Union: regulatory conflicts as precautionary opportunities

    Les Levidow;Susan Carr;David Wield

  • Recasting “Substantial Equivalence”:Transatlantic Governance of GM Food:

    Les Levidow;Joseph Murphy;Susan Carr

  • European transitions towards a corporate-environmental food regime: Agroecological incorporation or contestation?

    Les Levidow

  • State imaginaries of the public good: shaping UK innovation priorities for bioenergy.

    Les Levidow;Theo Papaioannou

  • Process eco-innovation: assessing meso-level eco-efficiency in industrial water-service systems

    Les Levidow;Palle Lindgaard-Jørgensen;Åsa Nilsson;Sara Alongi Skenhall

  • EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder

    Les Levidow

  • European Union regulation of agri-biotechnology: precautionary links between science, expertise and policy

    Les Levidow;Susan Carr;David Wield

  • Coexistence or contradiction? GM crops versus alternative agricultures in Europe

    Les Levidow;Karin Boschert

  • Regulating agricultural biotechnology in Europe: harmonisation difficulties, opportunities, dilemmas

    Les Levidow;Susan Carr;David Wield;René von Schomberg

  • Democratizing technology—or technologizing democracy? Regulating agricultural biotechnology in Europe

    Les Levidow

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Upham
Paul Upham University of Groningen
Saturnino M. Borras
Saturnino M. Borras Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth London School of Economics and Political Science
Maarten Hajer
Maarten Hajer Utrecht University
Jos Bijman
Jos Bijman Wageningen University & Research

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