Ian Scoones

190 papers and 17.0k indexed citations i.

About

Ian Scoones is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Scoones has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 52 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 46 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Ian Scoones’s work include Land Rights and Reforms (43 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (42 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (35 papers). Ian Scoones is often cited by papers focused on Land Rights and Reforms (43 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (42 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (35 papers). Ian Scoones collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and South Africa. Ian Scoones's co-authors include Melissa Leach, Saturnino M. Borras, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, Ben White, James Fairhead, John Thompson, Robin Mearns, Andy Stirling and James F. Keeley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Environmental Health Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Scoones

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Scoones

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ian Scoones. 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 Ian Scoones. The network helps show where Ian Scoones may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Scoones

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