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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 50 2797 2556 113 107 239 8997

Rutgerd Boelens publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Rutgerd Boelens between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Rutgerd Boelens published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 9.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 35 publications in 2018. 22 of the 288 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 35. Peak 35 publications in 2018. 1996: 1 publication 1997: 0 publications 1998: 6 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 3 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 9 publications 2006: 12 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 19 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 19 publications 2018: 35 publications 2019: 22 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 11 publications 2025: 11 publications
1996 2025

288 publications in total across all disciplines

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Rutgerd Boelens: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 1
1997 0
1998 6
1999 0
2000 1
2001 3
2002 6
2003 5
2004 1
2005 9
2006 12
2007 10
2008 6
2009 6
2010 12
2011 4
2012 9
2013 8
2014 11
2015 19
2016 15
2017 19
2018 35
2019 22
2020 17
2021 8
2022 9
2023 12
2024 11
2025 11
Total 288
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Rutgerd Boelens 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 Rutgerd Boelens sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 234–243 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

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.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170 239
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Rutgerd Boelens 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 Rutgerd Boelens sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 50 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 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.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187 50
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

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.

Best Publications

  • Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Erik Swyngedouw;Jeroen Vos

  • Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

    Margreet Z. Zwarteveen;Rutgerd Boelens

  • Cultural politics and the hydrosocial cycle: Water, power and identity in the Andean highlands

    Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens

  • The danger of naturalizing water policy concepts: Water productivity and efficiency discourses from field irrigation to virtual water trade

    Rutgerd Boelens;Jeroen Vos

  • Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

    Mark Zeitoun;Bruce Lankford;Tobias Krueger;Tim Forsyth

  • The Politics of Disciplining Water Rights

    Rutgerd Boelens

  • Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

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  • Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey

    Lena Hommes;Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens;Harro Maat

  • Out of the Mainstream: Water Rights, Politics and Identity

    Rutgerd Boelens;David H. Getches;Armando Guevara-Gil

  • Urbanizing rural waters : Rural-urban water transfers and the reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Lima

    Lena Hommes;Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens

  • Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands

    Jaime Hoogesteger;Rutgerd Boelens;Michiel Baud

  • The rules of the game and the game of the rules : normalization and resistance in Andean water control

    R.A. Boelens

  • Prices and Politics in Andean Water Reforms

    Rutgerd Boelens;Margreet Zwarteveen

  • Water reform governmentality in Ecuador: neoliberalism, centralization, and the restraining of polycentric authority and community rule-making

    Rutgerd Boelens;Rutgerd Boelens;Jaime Hoogesteger;Michiel Baud

  • Water, Power and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes

    Rutgerd Boelens

  • Searching for equity: conceptions of justice and equity in peasant irrigation.

    R. Boelens;G. Dávila

  • Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

    Dik Roth;Rutgerd Boelens;Margreet Zwarteveen

  • Water rights and empowerment

    Rutgerd Boelens;Paul Hoogendam

  • Formal Law and Local Water Control in the Andean Region: A Fiercely Contested Field

    Hugo De Vos;Rutgerd Boelens;Rocio Bustamante

  • Hydropower, Encroachment and the Re-patterning of Hydrosocial Territory: The Case of Hidrosogamoso in Colombia

    Bibiana Duarte-Abadía;Rutgerd Boelens;Tatiana Roa-Avendaño

  • The Battlefield of Water Rights: Rule Making Amidst Conflicting Normative Frameworks in the Ecuadorian Highlands

    Rutgerd Boelens;Bernita Doornbos

  • Payment for Environmental Services and Unequal Resource Control in Pimampiro, Ecuador

    Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco;Jessica Budds;Rutgerd Boelens

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Swyngedouw
Erik Swyngedouw University of Manchester
Olli Varis
Olli Varis Aalto University
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Philippus Wester
Philippus Wester International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Richard G. Taylor
Richard G. Taylor University College London
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth London School of Economics and Political Science

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