Jeroen Candel

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Jeroen Candel is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, General Health Professions and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeroen Candel has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 11 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jeroen Candel's work include Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (11 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (11 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). Jeroen Candel is often cited by papers focused on Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (11 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (11 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers). Jeroen Candel collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Jeroen Candel's co-authors include Robbert Biesbroek, Hanna Schebesta, C.J.A.M. Termeer, Laura Pereira, G.E. Breeman, Sabina Stiller, Katrien Termeer, Peter H. Feindt, Carsten Daugbjerg and Teresa Shamah‐Levy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Jeroen Candel

57 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Toward a processual understanding of policy integration

2016 325 citations Jeroen Candel, Robbert Biesbroek profile →
Game-changing potential of the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy

2020 180 citations Hanna Schebesta, Jeroen Candel Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeroen Candel Netherlands	19	454	406	317	283	278	61	1.8k
Steffanie Scott Canada	24	534 1.2×	341 0.8×	252 0.8×	204 0.7×	216 0.8×	61	1.5k
Olivier De Schutter Belgium	18	391 0.9×	708 1.7×	216 0.7×	251 0.9×	119 0.4×	94	1.9k
David Laborde United States	22	275 0.6×	309 0.8×	194 0.6×	157 0.6×	265 1.0×	92	2.6k
Nigel Poole United Kingdom	27	607 1.3×	528 1.3×	193 0.6×	79 0.3×	341 1.2×	122	2.5k
Carsten Daugbjerg Denmark	26	366 0.8×	556 1.4×	263 0.8×	532 1.9×	110 0.4×	83	2.0k
Marijke D’Haese Belgium	27	349 0.8×	749 1.8×	166 0.5×	68 0.2×	118 0.4×	130	2.4k
Hermann Waibel Germany	27	544 1.2×	687 1.7×	283 0.9×	82 0.3×	73 0.3×	120	2.1k
P.G.M. Hebinck Netherlands	22	357 0.8×	611 1.5×	442 1.4×	58 0.2×	89 0.3×	84	1.6k
Nancy McCarthy United States	23	231 0.5×	861 2.1×	431 1.4×	79 0.3×	110 0.4×	58	2.2k
Mindi Schneider Netherlands	16	316 0.7×	482 1.2×	81 0.3×	230 0.8×	113 0.4×	28	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeroen Candel

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Candel, Jeroen & Carsten Daugbjerg. (2025). EU Green Deal’s food system agenda fails to deliver post-exceptionalist breakthrough. Nature Food. 6(6). 563–570. 2 indexed citations

Candel, Jeroen, et al.. (2025). From the ground up: exploring European carbon farming through social practice theory. Journal of Rural Studies. 120. 103850–103850. 1 indexed citations

Ran, Ylva, U. Martin Persson, Therese Lindahl, et al.. (2025). Are interventions for environmentally sustainable dietary behaviours effective? A review. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2(3). 32001–32001.

Candel, Jeroen, Anne J. Sietsma, & Robbert Biesbroek. (2025). National pathways for food systems transformation are limited in scope and degree of ambition. Nature Food. 6(8). 809–816.

Candel, Jeroen, et al.. (2024). Biomethane from manure in the RePowerEU: A critical perspective on the scale-up of renewable energy production from the livestock sector. Energy Research & Social Science. 118. 103793–103793. 2 indexed citations

Finger, Robert P., et al.. (2024). Farmer Protests in Europe 2023–2024. EuroChoices. 23(3). 59–63. 27 indexed citations

Verain, M.C.D., et al.. (2024). Harnessing the potential of public procurement for the protein transition – perceived barriers and facilitators. Agriculture and Human Values. 42(1). 351–368. 3 indexed citations

Candel, Jeroen, et al.. (2023). Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives. AMBIO. 52(12). 1968–1980. 14 indexed citations

Fesenfeld, Lukas, Jeroen Candel, & Franziska Gaupp. (2023). Governance principles for accelerating food systems transformation in the European Union. Nature Food. 4(10). 826–829. 11 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen, et al.. (2022). Benchmarking policy goals and actions for healthy food environments in Ethiopia to prevent malnutrition in all its forms using document analysis. BMJ Open. 12(8). e058480–e058480. 3 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen. (2022). Power to the people? Food democracy initiatives’ contributions to democratic goods. Agriculture and Human Values. 39(4). 1477–1489. 21 indexed citations

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Metze, Tamara, et al.. (2022). Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition. AMBIO. 51(10). 2079–2090. 11 indexed citations

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Jackson, Peter, Marta G. Rivera‐Ferre, Jeroen Candel, et al.. (2021). Food as a commodity, human right or common good. Nature Food. 2(3). 132–134. 39 indexed citations

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Turnhout, Esther, et al.. (2021). Do we need a new science-policy interface for food systems?. Science. 373(6559). 1093–1095. 39 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen, et al.. (2021). The potential of trans‐local policy networks for contributing to sustainable food systems—The Dutch City Deal: Food on the Urban Agenda. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 5 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen. (2019). The expediency of policy integration. Policy Studies. 42(4). 346–361. 61 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen, et al.. (2019). A comparative assessment of local municipal food policy integration in the Netherlands. International Planning Studies. 26(1). 56–69. 43 indexed citations

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Feindt, Peter H., et al.. (2019). Assessing how policies enable or constrain the resilience of farming systems in the European Union: case study results : Deliverable D4.2. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 4 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen, G.E. Breeman, & C.J.A.M. Termeer. (2015). The European Commission's ability to deal with wicked problems: an in-depth case study of the governance of food security. Journal of European Public Policy. 23(6). 789–813. 21 indexed citations

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Candel, Jeroen, G.E. Breeman, Sabina Stiller, & C.J.A.M. Termeer. (2013). Disentangling the consensus frame of food security: The case of the EU Common Agricultural Policy reform debate. Food Policy. 44. 47–58. 92 indexed citations

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