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 Rutgerd Boelens sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 239 publications — 76th percentile
76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.
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 Rutgerd Boelens sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile
66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.
Rutgerd Boelens is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, general agricultural and biological sciences, and ocean engineering.
The work of Rutgerd Boelens concentrates on several key topics including water governance and infrastructure, hydropower, displacement, and environmental impact, geographies of human-animal interactions, agriculture, land use and rural development, water resources management and optimization, environmental law and policy, and mining and resource management.
Boelens has contributed to multiple publications in notable academic venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:
Geoforum
The Journal of Peasant Studies
Political Geography
Water
International Journal of the Commons
Their recent papers cover a range of subjects related to water justice, hydrosocial territories, and commons struggles. Selected works include:
"Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice," published in 2022 in The Journal of Peasant Studies
"(Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure," 2022 in Political Geography
"Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America," 2020 in Ecological Economics
"Governmentalities, hydrosocial territories & recognition politics: The making of objects and subjects for climate change adaptation in Ecuador," 2020 in Geoforum
"Rooted water collectives: Towards an analytical framework," 2020 in Ecological Economics
The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:
Jeroen Vos
Jaime Hoogesteger
Gert Jan Veldwisch
Bibiana Duarte-Abadía
Margreet Zwarteveen
Boelens has also contributed to book publications, notably with Rutgers University Press, publishing "Liquid Relations" in 2020.
Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Erik Swyngedouw;Jeroen Vos
Margreet Z. Zwarteveen;Rutgerd Boelens
Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens
Rutgerd Boelens;Jeroen Vos
Mark Zeitoun;Bruce Lankford;Tobias Krueger;Tim Forsyth
Rutgerd Boelens
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Lena Hommes;Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens;Harro Maat
Rutgerd Boelens;David H. Getches;Armando Guevara-Gil
Lena Hommes;Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens
Jaime Hoogesteger;Rutgerd Boelens;Michiel Baud
R.A. Boelens
Rutgerd Boelens;Margreet Zwarteveen
Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Michiel Baud
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R. Boelens;G. Dávila
Dik Roth;Rutgerd Boelens;Margreet Zwarteveen
Rutgerd Boelens;Paul Hoogendam
Hugo De Vos;Rutgerd Boelens;Rocio Bustamante
Bibiana Duarte-Abadía;Rutgerd Boelens;Tatiana Roa-Avendaño
Rutgerd Boelens;Bernita Doornbos
Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco;Jessica Budds;Rutgerd Boelens
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