Arun Agrawal

32.0k total citations · 14 hit papers
187 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

Arun Agrawal is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Arun Agrawal has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 37 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Arun Agrawal's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (82 papers), Forest Management and Policy (32 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (29 papers). Arun Agrawal is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (82 papers), Forest Management and Policy (32 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (29 papers). Arun Agrawal collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Arun Agrawal's co-authors include Ashwini Chhatre, Clark C. Gibson, Maria Carmen Lemos, Jesse Ribot, Элинор Остром, Kent H. Redford, Anne Larson, Rebecca Hardin, Lauren Persha and Christoph Nolte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Arun Agrawal

183 papers receiving 18.4k citations

Hit Papers

Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in ... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1999 2001 1995 2006 2005 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Arun Agrawal United States 64 12.3k 4.8k 3.5k 3.3k 3.2k 187 20.9k
Yansui Liu China 84 13.4k 1.1× 3.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 4.3k 1.3× 6.6k 2.1× 330 25.0k
Mark S. Reed United Kingdom 57 7.9k 0.6× 3.3k 0.7× 4.0k 1.2× 1.5k 0.4× 1.8k 0.6× 180 17.5k
Johan Rockström Sweden 78 12.5k 1.0× 6.8k 1.4× 5.1k 1.5× 4.2k 1.3× 2.3k 0.7× 228 39.2k
Ian Scoones United Kingdom 64 5.2k 0.4× 5.9k 1.2× 3.7k 1.1× 1.6k 0.5× 6.7k 2.1× 248 19.7k
Will Steffen Australia 53 9.6k 0.8× 4.6k 1.0× 4.0k 1.2× 2.7k 0.8× 829 0.3× 150 29.0k
Fikret Berkes Canada 83 17.0k 1.4× 9.3k 1.9× 7.9k 2.3× 2.7k 0.8× 3.0k 0.9× 247 38.0k
Sven Wunder Indonesia 59 13.3k 1.1× 1.7k 0.4× 3.3k 0.9× 7.6k 2.3× 2.1k 0.6× 185 17.4k
Lance Gunderson United States 45 9.6k 0.8× 4.1k 0.9× 3.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 904 0.3× 96 19.1k
Jianguo Liu United States 83 13.8k 1.1× 2.7k 0.6× 4.3k 1.2× 4.2k 1.3× 995 0.3× 525 32.5k
Philip M. Fearnside Brazil 75 10.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.4× 1.6k 0.5× 2.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 416 19.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Arun Agrawal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arun Agrawal

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reich, Peter B., Kathryn Grace, Arun Agrawal, & Harini Nagendra. (2025). Mitigation justice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(17). e2411231122–e2411231122. 3 indexed citations
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Pradhan, Nabin & Arun Agrawal. (2025). Mapping fine-scale socioeconomic inequality using machine learning and remotely sensed data. PNAS Nexus. 4(2). pgaf040–pgaf040. 2 indexed citations
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Villasante, Sebastián, Lynne Shannon, Sandra Waddock, et al.. (2025). The human right to a safe climate. Nature Sustainability. 8(12). 1423–1424.
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Liao, Chuan, Suhyun Jung, Daniel G. Brown, & Arun Agrawal. (2023). Does land tenure change accelerate deforestation? A matching-based four-country comparison. Ecological Economics. 215. 108011–108011. 5 indexed citations
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Liao, Chuan, Kerstin Nolte, Daniel G. Brown, Jann Lay, & Arun Agrawal. (2023). The carbon cost of agricultural production in the global land rush. Global Environmental Change. 80. 102679–102679. 8 indexed citations
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Abedin, M.J., et al.. (2023). Low-cost informational intervention reduced drinking water arsenic exposure in Bangladesh. PNAS Nexus. 2(3). pgac284–pgac284. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, Cathy, et al.. (2023). Indigenous stewardship for habitat protection. One Earth. 6(2). 68–72. 8 indexed citations
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Fischer, Harry W., et al.. (2023). Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods. Nature Climate Change. 13(12). 1340–1347. 33 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Jonathan A., Cyrus Samii, Daniel G. Brown, Francis Moyo, & Arun Agrawal. (2023). Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(32). e2207398120–e2207398120. 7 indexed citations
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Morrison, Tiffany H., W. Neil Adger, Arun Agrawal, et al.. (2022). Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems. Nature Climate Change. 12(12). 1100–1106. 63 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Jonathan A., Daniel G. Brown, Francis Moyo, Meha Jain, & Arun Agrawal. (2022). Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Tanzania. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84019–84019. 15 indexed citations
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Williams, Tim G., Daniel G. Brown, Arun Agrawal, & Seth D. Guikema. (2021). Let the farmer decide: examining smallholder autonomy in large-scale land acquisitions with an agent-based model. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 105011–105011. 6 indexed citations
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Erbaugh, James T., Nabin Pradhan, Johan A. Oldekop, et al.. (2020). Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(11). 1472–1476. 196 indexed citations
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Oldekop, Johan A., Katharine R. E. Sims, Birendra Karna, Mark J. Whittingham, & Arun Agrawal. (2019). Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal. Nature Sustainability. 2(5). 421–428. 148 indexed citations
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Orlove, Ben, Arun Agrawal, & Maria Carmen Lemos. (2012). Cool Heads for a Hot World – Social Sciences Under a Changing Sky. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Arun. (2009). Why “indigenous” knowledge?. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 39(4). 157–158. 38 indexed citations
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Varshney, K. G., Milan Drábik, & Arun Agrawal. (2006). Cellulose acetate based thorium(IV) phosphate as a new and novel hybrid fibrous cation exchanger : Synthesis, characterization and thermal analysis. INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY- SECTION A. 45(9). 2045–2047. 4 indexed citations
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Sivaramakrishnan, K. & Arun Agrawal. (2003). Regional modernities : the cultural politics of development in India. Stanford University Press eBooks. 45 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Arun & K. Sivaramakrishnan. (2001). Social nature : resources, representations, and rule in India. Oxford University Press eBooks. 20 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Arun. (1996). Successful Collective Action among Village Forest Management Institutions in the Indian Himalayas. HIMALAYA. 16(1). 7. 2 indexed citations

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