Deborah Rubin

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 593 citations indexed

About

Deborah Rubin is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Business and International Management and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Rubin has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 593 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 7 papers in Business and International Management and 6 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Deborah Rubin's work include Agricultural Innovations and Practices (10 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (7 papers) and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (5 papers). Deborah Rubin is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Innovations and Practices (10 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (7 papers) and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (5 papers). Deborah Rubin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Kenya. Deborah Rubin's co-authors include Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen‐Dick, Cristina Manfre, Hazel Malapit, Greg Seymour, Elena Martínez, Mara van den Bold, Deanna K. Olney, Elizabeth Waithanji and Jessica Heckert and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, Journal of Rural Studies and Agriculture and Human Values.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Rubin

15 papers receiving 559 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)

2019 195 citations Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing et al. World Development profile →

Peers

Deborah Rubin

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Ellen Verhofstadt Belgium

Cathy Rozel Farnworth Kenya

Paul Corral United States

Assefa Admassie Ethiopia

Lauren Pandolfelli United States

Chiara Kovarik United States

Esteban J. Quiñones United States

Netsayi Mudege Kenya

Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus United States

Gbemisola Oseni United States

Ellen Verhofstadt Belgium

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210 ×0.9

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240 ×1.0

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167 ×0.8

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73 ×0.7

BIM

161 ×1.7

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Citations per year, relative to Deborah Rubin Deborah Rubin (= 1×) peers Ellen Verhofstadt

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Rubin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Rubin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Rubin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deborah Rubin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deborah Rubin 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 Deborah Rubin. Deborah Rubin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Doss, Cheryl R. & Deborah Rubin. (2025). Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Reflections From a Long-Term Collaboration Using Mixed Methods. Feminist Economics. 31(2). 1–34.

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Biruma, M., et al.. (2024). Farmer-preferred traits and variety choices for finger millet in Uganda. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 8. 2 indexed citations

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Rubin, Deborah, et al.. (2023). Crowdsourcing priorities: a new participatory ex-ante framework for crop improvement. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 2 indexed citations

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Gómez, Miguel I., et al.. (2023). Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 4 indexed citations

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Cullen, Beth, Katherine A. Snyder, Deborah Rubin, & Hale Tufan. (2023). ‘They think we are delaying their outputs’. The challenges of interdisciplinary research: understanding power dynamics between social and biophysical scientists in international crop breeding teams. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 8 indexed citations

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Quisumbing, Agnes, Jessica Heckert, Kalyani Raghunathan, et al.. (2021). Women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural value chains: evidence from four countries in Asia and Africa. Food Security. 13(5). 1101–1124. 46 indexed citations

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Malapit, Hazel, Catherine Ragasa, Elena Martínez, et al.. (2020). Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines. Journal of Rural Studies. 76. 240–253. 52 indexed citations

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Meinzen‐Dick, Ruth, et al.. (2019). Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Lessons from Qualitative Research. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 17 indexed citations

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Malapit, Hazel, Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen‐Dick, et al.. (2019). Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). World Development. 122. 675–692. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahmed, Akhter, et al.. (2018). Tracking empowerment along the value chain: Testing a modified WEAI in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence in Bangladesh. IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute). 3 indexed citations

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Rubin, Deborah. (2016). Qualitative Methods for Gender Research in Agricultural Development. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Quisumbing, Agnes, Deborah Rubin, Cristina Manfre, et al.. (2015). Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia. Agriculture and Human Values. 32(4). 705–725. 154 indexed citations

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Quisumbing, Agnes, Deborah Rubin, Cristina Manfre, et al.. (2014). Closing the Gender Asset Gap: Learning from Value Chain Development in Africa and Asia. SSRN Electronic Journal. 44 indexed citations

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Manfre, Cristina, et al.. (2013). REDUCING THE GENDER GAP IN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND ADVISORY SERVICES How to Find the Best Fit for Men and Women Farmers. 54 indexed citations

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Rubin, Deborah, et al.. (2001). Anthropology in International Development. Anthropology News. 42(8). 29–30. 3 indexed citations

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Rubin, Deborah. (1990). Women's Work and Children's Nutrition in South-Western Kenya. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 12(4). 1–5. 5 indexed citations

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