Ester Boserup

12.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Ester Boserup is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Ester Boserup has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 3 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Ester Boserup's work include Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 papers), French Urban and Social Studies (2 papers) and Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 papers). Ester Boserup is often cited by papers focused on Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 papers), French Urban and Social Studies (2 papers) and Agriculture and Rural Development Research (2 papers). Ester Boserup collaborates with scholars based in Denmark and United Kingdom. Ester Boserup's co-authors include Augustine Crispin, Charles M. Elliott, Theodore W. Schultz, Colin Clark, Philip L. Bereano, Vernon W. Ruttan, Robert Chambers, Nicholas Kaldor, Étienne van de Walle and Mats Lundahl and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and The Economic Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ester Boserup

50 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Women's Role in Economic ... 1966 2026 1986 2006 1971 1966 1972 1981 400 800 1.2k
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. Women's Role in Economic Development
    1971 1.4k citations Ester Boserup profile →
  2. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth. The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure
    1966 1.2k citations Augustine Crispin, Ester Boserup Population profile →
  3. Woman's Role in Economic Development
    1972 411 citations Ester Boserup et al. Population profile →
  4. Population and technological change: A study of long-term trends
    1981 404 citations Ester Boserup Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ester Boserup 1.6k 1.3k 970 969 692 53 5.7k
Bina Agarwal 3.0k 1.9× 1.6k 1.3× 1.8k 1.9× 1.8k 1.9× 1.3k 1.9× 93 8.3k
Jean‐Marie Baland 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.2× 378 0.4× 328 0.3× 668 1.0× 56 3.9k
Caroline Moser 2.6k 1.6× 1.0k 0.8× 309 0.3× 972 1.0× 471 0.7× 98 5.5k
Geoffrey McNicoll 2.5k 1.6× 1.8k 1.4× 198 0.2× 1.1k 1.1× 224 0.3× 162 7.3k
Michael Lipton 2.3k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 1.2k 1.3× 213 0.2× 1.2k 1.7× 143 5.4k
Jean‐Philippe Platteau 1.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 186 0.2× 1.9k 2.7× 104 5.5k
Cornelia Butler Flora 1.5k 0.9× 543 0.4× 1.3k 1.4× 302 0.3× 381 0.6× 136 5.3k
Carmen Diana Deere 1.1k 0.7× 548 0.4× 909 0.9× 649 0.7× 596 0.9× 112 2.9k
Ruth Meinzen‐Dick 1.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 2.6k 2.7× 406 0.4× 1.6k 2.3× 177 7.8k
Hanan G. Jacoby 1.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 565 0.6× 460 0.5× 1.5k 2.1× 71 4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ester Boserup

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ester Boserup

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ester Boserup

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ester Boserup. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ester Boserup 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 Ester Boserup. Ester Boserup 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
1.
Boserup, Ester. (2017). The Conditions of Agricultural Growth. 168 indexed citations
2.
Boserup, Ester & Robert Chambers. (2014). The conditions of agricultural growth. 133 indexed citations
3.
Boserup, Ester. (2002). Peranan wanita dalam pembangunan ekonomi. 2 indexed citations
4.
Boserup, Ester. (1999). My professional life and publications 1929-1998. 5 indexed citations
5.
Boserup, Ester. (1993). La mujer y el desarrollo económico. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 3 indexed citations
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Boserup, Ester. (1992). Croissance demographique et economique en economie ouverte. Population. 47(6). 1505–1505. 1 indexed citations
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Cavin, Edward & Ester Boserup. (1984). Population and Technological Change: A Study of Long-Term Trends. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 3(3). 474–474. 12 indexed citations
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Boserup, Ester, et al.. (1982). Die ökonomische Rolle der Frau in Afrika, Asien, Lateinamerika. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Cigno, Alessandro & Ester Boserup. (1982). Population and Technology.. The Economic Journal. 92(366). 451–451. 14 indexed citations
10.
Boserup, Ester & Mats Lundahl. (1981). Peasants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti. Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 83(1). 135–135. 49 indexed citations
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Boserup, Ester. (1978). Women and world development: Irene Tinker and Michele Bo Bramsen, eds., (overseas development council, prepared under the auspices of the American association for the advancement of science) pp. 228. Journal of Development Economics. 5(2). 207–209. 17 indexed citations
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Boserup, Ester. (1977). Preface. Signs. 3(1). xi–xiv. 2 indexed citations
13.
Boserup, Ester. (1974). Environnement, population et technologie dans les sociétés primitives. Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales. 29(3). 538–552. 5 indexed citations
14.
Boserup, Ester. (1972). Reply to Sheffer. American Antiquity. 37(3). 447–447. 2 indexed citations
15.
Boserup, Ester, Colin Clark, & Margaret Haswell. (1971). The Economics of Subsistence Agriculture.. Population Studies. 25(3). 540–540. 2 indexed citations
16.
Boserup, Ester. (1971). Women's Role in Economic Development. 9(2). 1387 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boserup, Ester. (1970). Évolution agraire et pression démographique. Flammarion eBooks. 28 indexed citations
18.
Boserup, Ester. (1970). Present and potential food production in developing countries.. 100–113. 8 indexed citations
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Schultz, Theodore W. & Ester Boserup. (1966). The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure. Journal of Farm Economics. 48(2). 486–486. 112 indexed citations
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Crispin, Augustine & Ester Boserup. (1966). The Conditions of Agricultural Growth. The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure. Population. 21(2). 402–402. 1184 indexed citations breakdown →

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