Ben White

6.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
69 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Ben White is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben White has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Ben White's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (27 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (14 papers) and Asian Studies and History (14 papers). Ben White is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (27 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (14 papers) and Asian Studies and History (14 papers). Ben White collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Indonesia. Ben White's co-authors include Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras, Marc Edelman, Julia Julia, Lidewyde Berckmoes, Gillian Hart, Andrew Turton and Harriet Friedmann and has published in prestigious journals such as International Affairs, The Journal of Peasant Studies and Development and Change.

In The Last Decade

Ben White

66 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: a... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 2015 2013 2012 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Towards a better understanding of global land grabbing: an editorial introduction
    2011 624 citations Saturnino M. Borras, Ruth Hall et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →
  2. The new enclosures: critical perspectives on corporate land deals
    2012 588 citations Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →
  3. Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’
    2015 423 citations Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →
  4. Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
    2013 388 citations Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras et al. Development and Change profile →
  5. Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming
    2012 289 citations Ben White profile →
  6. Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
    2017 249 citations Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →
  7. Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?
    2024 48 citations Wendy Wolford, Ben White et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben White Netherlands 26 2.8k 1.3k 1.1k 685 576 69 4.1k
Ruth Hall South Africa 25 3.0k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 1.8k 1.6× 815 1.2× 569 1.0× 66 4.4k
Wendy Wolford United States 29 3.0k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 864 1.3× 813 1.4× 60 4.5k
Jennifer C. Franco Netherlands 26 2.5k 0.9× 915 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 725 1.1× 554 1.0× 57 3.5k
Marc Edelman United States 28 2.2k 0.8× 1.5k 1.1× 522 0.5× 449 0.7× 780 1.4× 143 3.9k
Saturnino M. Borras Netherlands 34 4.6k 1.7× 1.8k 1.3× 1.9k 1.8× 1.2k 1.8× 928 1.6× 73 6.1k
Saturnino M. Borras Netherlands 26 1.9k 0.7× 720 0.5× 778 0.7× 425 0.6× 338 0.6× 33 2.6k
Cristóbal Kay United Kingdom 28 2.0k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 611 0.6× 386 0.6× 668 1.2× 134 3.6k
Henry Bernstein United Kingdom 33 2.4k 0.9× 1.8k 1.4× 893 0.8× 253 0.4× 638 1.1× 104 4.1k
Annelies Zoomers Netherlands 21 928 0.3× 886 0.7× 547 0.5× 526 0.8× 369 0.6× 96 2.5k
Michael Woods United Kingdom 36 2.7k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 256 0.2× 1.1k 1.7× 710 1.2× 103 4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben White

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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White, Ben & Marcus Taylor. (2025). Labour and Land in Indonesia: An Introduction. Journal of Agrarian Change. 25(4).
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Huijsmans, Roy, et al.. (2025). Generational Reproduction of Indonesian Smallholder Farming: Cases From Java and Flores. Journal of Agrarian Change. 25(4). 1 indexed citations
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White, Ben, et al.. (2024). The persistence and expansion of sharecropping in a Javanese village. Journal of Agrarian Change. 25(4). 2 indexed citations
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White, Ben, et al.. (2022). Agrarian movements and rural populism in Indonesia. Journal of Agrarian Change. 23(1). 68–84. 27 indexed citations
5.
Pannell, David J., et al.. (2021). A dynamic model of optimal lime application for wheat production in Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 65(2). 472–490. 5 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2020). Rural household pluriactivity and plurilocality: a source of resilience to climate breakdown. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 451(1). 12001–12001. 2 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2020). Agriculture and the Generation Problem. Practical Action Publishing eBooks. 41 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2018). Marx and Chayanov at the margins: understanding agrarian change in Java. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 45(5-6). 1108–1126. 53 indexed citations
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White, Ben, et al.. (2017). Gender and generation in Southeast Asian agro-commodity booms. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 44(6). 1103–1110. 42 indexed citations
10.
White, Ben. (2017). Review: Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid, edited by Ilan Pappé. Journal of Palestine Studies. 46(4). 123–125. 1 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2014). Revisiting rural places: pathways to poverty and prosperity in Southeast Asia. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 41(4). 635–638. 4 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2013). Quarterly Update on Conflict and Diplomacy. Journal of Palestine Studies. 42(3). 139–159. 1 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2013). Quarterly Update on Conflict and Diplomacy. Journal of Palestine Studies. 42(2). 128–142. 1 indexed citations
14.
Scoones, Ian, Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras, Ben White, & Wendy Wolford. (2013). The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 40(5). 911–912. 15 indexed citations
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White, Ben, et al.. (2010). Agrofuels capitalism: a view from political economy. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 37(4). 593–607. 103 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2007). Clifford Geertz: Singular Genius of Interpretive Anthropology. Development and Change. 38(6). 1187–1208. 17 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2004). Towards a social history of economic crises: Yogyakarta in the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s.. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 195–220. 5 indexed citations
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White, Ben, et al.. (2003). Critical Review of Crisis Studies, 1998-2002: Debates on Poverty, Employment and Solidarity in Indonesia. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 5 indexed citations
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White, Ben. (2002). Agrarian debates and agrarian research in Java, past and present. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1 indexed citations
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White, Ben, et al.. (2001). 'Children, work and education: perspectives on policy'. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1 indexed citations

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