Clemens Greiner

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 916 citations indexed

About

Clemens Greiner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Clemens Greiner has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 916 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Clemens Greiner's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 papers) and Transboundary Water Resource Management (5 papers). Clemens Greiner is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 papers) and Transboundary Water Resource Management (5 papers). Clemens Greiner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Clemens Greiner's co-authors include Patrick Sakdapolrak, Britta Klagge, Michael Bollig, M. Becker, Miguel Álvarez, Steven Van Wolputte, Han van Dijk, Nikolaus Schareika, Tobias Haller and Mary Lawhon and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, Geoforum and Energy Research & Social Science.

In The Last Decade

Clemens Greiner

26 papers receiving 837 citations

Hit Papers

Translocality: Concepts, Applications and Emerging Resear... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200 250
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. Translocality: Concepts, Applications and Emerging Research Perspectives
    2013 268 citations Clemens Greiner, Patrick Sakdapolrak Geography Compass profile →

Peers

Clemens Greiner
Esther Wangari United States
Rebecca Elmhirst United Kingdom
Susan Paulson United States
Barbara Thomas‐Slayter United States
Lawrence S. Grossman United States
Sherilyn MacGregor United Kingdom
Jeff Popke United States
Seema Arora‐Jonsson Sweden
Rosemary Black Australia
Theodoros Iosifides Greece
Esther Wangari United States
Clemens Greiner
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Countries citing papers authored by Clemens Greiner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clemens Greiner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Clemens Greiner. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Clemens Greiner. The network helps show where Clemens Greiner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clemens Greiner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Clemens Greiner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Clemens Greiner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Clemens Greiner. Clemens Greiner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klagge, Britta, et al.. (2025). Governance of future-making: Green hydrogen in Namibia and South Africa. Geoforum. 161. 104244–104244. 10 indexed citations
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Biber‐Freudenberger, Lisa, Christina Bogner, Georg Bareth, et al.. (2025). Impacts of road development in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for holistic perspectives in research and policy. iScience. 28(2). 111913–111913. 1 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens & Britta Klagge. (2024). The temporalities and externalities of ancillary infrastructure in large-scale renewable energy projects: Insights from the rural periphery. Energy Policy. 193. 114303–114303. 4 indexed citations
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Dannenberg, Peter, Boris Braun, Clemens Greiner, et al.. (2024). Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security. Plants People Planet. 6(3). 604–610. 3 indexed citations
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Lawhon, Mary, Alexander Follmann, Boris Braun, et al.. (2023). Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south. Futures. 154. 103270–103270. 15 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens, et al.. (2021). Roads to Change: Livelihoods, Land Disputes, and Anticipation of Future Developments in Rural Kenya. European Journal of Development Research. 33(4). 1044–1068. 24 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens, Steven Van Wolputte, & Michael Bollig. (2021). African Futures. ERef Bayreuth (University of Bayreuth). 5 indexed citations
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Klagge, Britta, et al.. (2020). Cross-Scale Linkages of Centralized Electricity Generation: Geothermal Development and Investor–Community Relations in Kenya. Politics and Governance. 8(3). 211–222. 19 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens & Michael Bollig. (2018). African Studies between Area Studies Tradition and Global Entanglement Approaches: Perspectives from The University of Cologne. Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 54. 15–28.
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Greiner, Clemens, et al.. (2016). The translocal villagers. Mining, mobility and stratification in post-apartheid South Africa. Mobilities. 12(6). 875–889. 20 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens. (2016). Land-use change, territorial restructuring, and economies of anticipation in dryland Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 10(3). 530–547. 42 indexed citations
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Haller, Tobias, et al.. (2016). Conflicts, security and marginalisation: institutional change of the pastoral commons in a ‘glocal’ world. Revue Scientifique et Technique de l OIE. 35(2). 405–416. 14 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens, et al.. (2016). Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 10(1). 130–149. 19 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens. (2016). Pastoralism and Land‐Tenure Change in Kenya: The Failure of Customary Institutions. Development and Change. 48(1). 78–97. 41 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens, Miguel Álvarez, & M. Becker. (2013). From Cattle to Corn: Attributes of Emerging Farming Systems of Former Pastoral Nomads in East Pokot, Kenya. Society & Natural Resources. 26(12). 1478–1490. 32 indexed citations
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Greiner, Clemens & Patrick Sakdapolrak. (2013). Translocality: Concepts, Applications and Emerging Research Perspectives. Geography Compass. 7(5). 373–384. 268 indexed citations breakdown →
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Greiner, Clemens & Patrick Sakdapolrak. (2012). Rural–urban migration, agrarian change, and the environment in Kenya: a critical review of the literature. Population and Environment. 34(4). 524–553. 74 indexed citations

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