Cees Leeuwis

14.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
253 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Cees Leeuwis is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Business and International Management and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Cees Leeuwis has authored 253 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 39 papers in Business and International Management and 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Cees Leeuwis's work include Agricultural Innovations and Practices (62 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (39 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (28 papers). Cees Leeuwis is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Innovations and Practices (62 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (39 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (28 papers). Cees Leeuwis collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Kenya and United States. Cees Leeuwis's co-authors include Laurens Klerkx, Noëlle Aarts, Marc Schut, Catherine Kilelu, Barbara van Mierlo, Andy Hall, Boelie Elzen, Annemarie van Paassen, Rhiannon Pyburn and O. Sakyi-Dawson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Cees Leeuwis

243 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Communication for Rural Innovation: Rethinking Agricultural Extension

2004 594 citations Cees Leeuwis Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling profile →
Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment

2010 553 citations Laurens Klerkx, Noëlle Aarts et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cees Leeuwis Netherlands	51	3.7k	1.6k	1.6k	1.3k	1.1k	253	9.4k
Laurens Klerkx Netherlands	60	5.0k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.8×	1.9k 1.5×	2.3k 2.2×	241	12.9k
David Zilberman United States	66	5.1k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	3.1k 2.0×	729 0.6×	860 0.8×	510	16.8k
Matin Qaim Germany	72	5.5k 1.5×	973 0.6×	5.4k 3.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	259	15.4k
J.D. van der Ploeg Netherlands	44	4.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	303 0.2×	878 0.8×	212	7.6k
Terry Marsden United Kingdom	53	5.9k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	6.1k 3.9×	566 0.4×	2.0k 1.8×	201	13.0k
Thomas Reardon United States	67	6.4k 1.7×	1.0k 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	2.4k 1.9×	2.6k 2.5×	246	15.9k
Jikun Huang China	72	4.5k 1.2×	3.0k 1.9×	3.8k 2.4×	324 0.2×	760 0.7×	390	17.1k
Guido Van Huylenbroeck Belgium	46	2.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	249 0.2×	738 0.7×	303	9.1k
Ian Scoones United Kingdom	64	6.7k 1.8×	5.2k 3.3×	1.3k 0.8×	703 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	248	19.7k
Robert Chambers United Kingdom	39	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	651 0.4×	515 0.4×	326 0.3×	168	11.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cees Leeuwis

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leeuwis, Cees, et al.. (2025). Shifting the aquaculture regime toward gender equity? Case studies of women’s entrepreneurial niche innovations in Bangladesh. Gender Technology and Development. 29(3). 345–369.

Aarts, Noëlle & Cees Leeuwis. (2023). The Politics of Changing the Dutch Agri-Food System. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1(1). 3 indexed citations

Paassen, Annemarie van, et al.. (2023). Women’s Resistance: An Alternative Perspective to Women’s Participation in Community-Driven Development. The Journal of Development Studies. 60(2). 179–195. 1 indexed citations

Klerkx, Laurens, et al.. (2023). Examining the legitimacy of inclusive innovation processes: perspectives from smallholder farmers in Uasin Gishu, Kenya. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 10(1). 6 indexed citations

Asingizwe, Domina, et al.. (2023). The role of connective interventions in the collective management of public-bad problems: Evidence from a socio-ecological system perspective. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 96(1).

Kansiime, Monica K., et al.. (2023). Investigating the feasibility of developing a collective action for biological control of fall armyworm among smallholder farmers in rural communities of Zambia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

Slingerland, M.A., et al.. (2023). Farmers’ access, demand, and satisfaction with innovation support services and their determinants: the case of the cocoa sector in Central Cameroon. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. 30(4). 617–647. 2 indexed citations

Lie, Rico, et al.. (2021). Intermediation Capabilities of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Ghana’s Agricultural Extension System. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

Adewopo, Julius, et al.. (2021). Are farmers ready to use phone-based digital tools for agronomic advice? Ex-ante user readiness assessment using the case of Rwandan banana farmers. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. 29(1). 29–51. 60 indexed citations

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Lie, Rico, et al.. (2020). Analysis of a Monitoring System for Bacterial Wilt Management by Seed Potato Cooperatives in Ethiopia: Challenges and Future Directions. Sustainability. 12(9). 3580–3580. 8 indexed citations

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Slingerland, M.A., Syndhia Mathé, Wouter Vanhove, et al.. (2020). Farmers’ Perceptions as a Driver of Agricultural Practices: Understanding Soil Fertility Management Practices in Cocoa Agroforestry Systems in Cameroon. Human Ecology. 48(6). 709–720. 31 indexed citations

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Cieslik, Katarzyna, Cees Leeuwis, Art Dewulf, et al.. (2018). Addressing socio-ecological development challenges in the digital age: Exploring the potential of Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action (EVOCA). NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. 86-87(1). 2–11. 31 indexed citations

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Leeuwis, Cees, Katarzyna Cieslik, Art Dewulf, et al.. (2018). Reflections on the potential of virtual citizen science platforms to address collective action challenges: Lessons and implications for future research. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. 86-87(1). 146–157. 24 indexed citations

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Homan, Tobias, Thomas A. Smith, Daniel Masiga, et al.. (2017). ODOR-BAITED TRAPS AS A NOVEL TOOL FOR MALARIA CONTROL-THE SOLARMAL TRIAL. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 95(5). 1 indexed citations

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Oria, Prisca A., Alexandra Hiscox, Jane Alaii, et al.. (2014). Tracking the mutual shaping of the technical and social dimensions of solar-powered mosquito trapping systems (SMoTS) for malaria control on Rusinga Island, western Kenya. Parasites & Vectors. 7(1). 523–523. 12 indexed citations

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Kilelu, Catherine, Laurens Klerkx, & Cees Leeuwis. (2013). How Dynamics of Learning are Linked to Innovation Support Services: Insights from a Smallholder Commercialization Project in Kenya. The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension. 20(2). 213–232. 72 indexed citations

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Klerkx, Laurens, et al.. (2010). Dealing with incumbent regimes: Deliberateness and serendipity of innovation agency. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 423–433. 4 indexed citations

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Leeuwis, Cees, et al.. (2009). Theoretical perspectives on the role and significance of rural producer organisations in development: implications for capacity development. Social and economic studies. 58. 75–109. 3 indexed citations

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Stuiver, M., J.D. van der Ploeg, & Cees Leeuwis. (2003). The VEL and VANLA environmental co-operatives as field laboratories. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. 51(1-2). 27–39. 33 indexed citations

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Leeuwis, Cees, Rhiannon Pyburn, & N.G. Röling. (2002). Wheelbarrows full of frogs: social learning in rural resource management : international research and reflections. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 27 indexed citations

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