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Miet Maertens

Miet Maertens

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
46
Citations
8112
World Ranking
1678
National Ranking
19

Miet Maertens publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miet Maertens sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 280 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Miet Maertens D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miet Maertens sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Miet Maertens is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, and Business and International Management.

The main topics covered in Miet Maertens' research include:

  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Their publication record includes significant papers such as:

  • Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Resilience of global and local value chains to the Covid-19 pandemic: Survey evidence from vegetable value chains in Senegal (2021, Agricultural Economics)
  • Standards, trade margins and product quality: Firm-level evidence from Peru (2020, Food Policy)
  • Digital extension, price risk, and farm performance: experimental evidence from Nigeria (2021, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • Design of Digital Agricultural Extension Tools: Perspectives from Extension Agents in Nigeria (2020, Journal of Agricultural Economics)

Frequent co-authors of Miet Maertens include:

  • Kaat Van Hoyweghen
  • Goedele Van den Broeck
  • Janne Bemelmans
  • Charlotte Janssens
  • Peter Havlík

The venues where Miet Maertens most often publishes are:

  • Food Policy
  • Nature Food
  • Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • World Development
  • Journal of Cleaner Production

Miet Maertens has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks: Rural Employment in Africa (2022).

Best Publications

  • Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal

    Miet Maertens;Johan F.M. Swinnen

  • Tradeoffs between income, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning during tropical rainforest conversion and agroforestry intensification

    Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Michael Kessler;Jan Barkmann;Merijn M. Bos

  • Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries

    Johan F. M. Swinnen;Miet Maertens

  • Globalization and poverty in Senegal: a worst case scenario?

    Miet Maertens;Liesbeth Colen;Johan F. M. Swinnen

  • Can agricultural cooperatives reduce poverty? Heterogeneous impact of cooperative membership on farmers’ welfare in Rwanda

    Ellen Verhofstadt;Miet Maertens

  • Modern Food Supply Chains and Development: Evidence from Horticulture Export Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Miet Maertens;Bart Minten;Johan Swinnen

  • Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains

    John C Beghin;Miet Maertens;Johan Swinnen

  • Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains

    John Beghin;Miet Maertens;Johan F.M. Swinnen;Johan F.M. Swinnen

  • Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade.

    Charlotte Janssens;Charlotte Janssens;Petr Havlík;Tamás Krisztin;Justin Baker

  • Smallholder cooperatives and agricultural performance in Rwanda: do organizational differences matter?

    Ellen Verhofstadt;Miet Maertens

  • Understanding the Process of Agricultural Technology Adoption: Mineral Fertilizer in Eastern DR Congo

    Isabel Lambrecht;Bernard Vanlauwe;Roel Merckx;Miet Maertens

  • Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains: The Case of Rice in Benin

    Miet Maertens;Katrien Vande Velde

  • Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries

    Miet Maertens;Johan F.M. Swinnen

  • Private Standards, Trade and Poverty: GlobalGAP and Horticultural Employment in Senegal

    Liesbeth Colen;Miet Maertens;Johan Swinnen

  • Sustainable agricultural intensification in forest frontier areas

    Miet Maertens;Manfred Zeller;Regina Birner

  • Foreign Direct Investment as an Engine for Economic Growth and Human Development: A Review of the Arguments and Empirical Evidence

    Liesbeth Colen;Miet Maertens;Johan Swinnen

  • Do Private Sustainability Standards Contribute to Income Growth and Poverty Alleviation? A Comparison of Different Coffee Certification Schemes in Ethiopia

    Fikadu Mitiku;Yann de Mey;Jan Nyssen;Miet Maertens

  • Do private standards create exclusive supply chains? New evidence from the Peruvian asparagus export sector

    Monica Schuster;Miet Maertens

  • Global value chains, large-scale farming, and poverty: Long-term effects in Senegal

    Goedele Van den Broeck;Johan F. M. Swinnen;Miet Maertens

  • Horticultural exports and food security in developing countries

    Goedele van Den Broeck;Miet Maertens

  • Horticultural exports and food security in developing countries

    Goedele Van den Broeck;Miet Maertens

  • The Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Globalization, Supply Chains and Smallholder Farmers.

    Miet Maertens

  • Contract-farming in staple food chains: the case of rice in Benin

    Katrien Vande Velde;Miet Maertens

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan F.M. Swinnen
Johan F.M. Swinnen International Food Policy Research Institute
Erik Mathijs
Erik Mathijs KU Leuven
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Manfred Zeller
Manfred Zeller University of Hohenheim
Bernard Vanlauwe
Bernard Vanlauwe International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Steven Van Passel
Steven Van Passel University of Antwerp
Peter Craufurd
Peter Craufurd International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Jan Nyssen
Jan Nyssen Ghent University
John C. Beghin
John C. Beghin University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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