Joost Dessein

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Joost Dessein is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joost Dessein has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 31 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joost Dessein's work include Organic Food and Agriculture (25 papers), Rural development and sustainability (17 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 papers). Joost Dessein is often cited by papers focused on Organic Food and Agriculture (25 papers), Rural development and sustainability (17 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 papers). Joost Dessein collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Ethiopia. Joost Dessein's co-authors include Katriina Soini, Michiel De Krom, Elke Rogge, Frank Nevens, Steven Van Passel, Lies Debruyne, B.B. Bock, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Laurens Klerkx and Gianluca Brunori and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Joost Dessein

93 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation

2021 230 citations Laurens Klerkx, Fabio Bartolini et al. Journal of Rural Studies profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joost Dessein Belgium	22	648	507	348	237	228	101	2.0k
Claire Lamine France	20	771 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	360 1.0×	181 0.8×	171 0.8×	52	2.0k
Giuseppe Feola Netherlands	27	538 0.8×	552 1.1×	497 1.4×	711 3.0×	421 1.8×	82	2.6k
John Thompson United Kingdom	21	784 1.2×	388 0.8×	451 1.3×	622 2.6×	330 1.4×	48	2.8k
Fred Magdoff United States	22	493 0.8×	704 1.4×	472 1.4×	162 0.7×	116 0.5×	60	2.2k
Karlheinz Knickel Germany	20	1.6k 2.5×	827 1.6×	385 1.1×	432 1.8×	271 1.2×	46	2.9k
J.S.C. Wiskerke Netherlands	24	547 0.8×	829 1.6×	195 0.6×	277 1.2×	154 0.7×	72	1.9k
Dayton M. Lambert United States	30	774 1.2×	666 1.3×	261 0.8×	377 1.6×	137 0.6×	200	3.2k
D. Roep Netherlands	20	669 1.0×	392 0.8×	184 0.5×	210 0.9×	110 0.5×	63	1.4k
Matt Lobley United Kingdom	22	1.2k 1.9×	685 1.4×	137 0.4×	473 2.0×	193 0.8×	80	2.5k
Lummina Horlings Netherlands	23	529 0.8×	301 0.6×	549 1.6×	520 2.2×	266 1.2×	75	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joost Dessein

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Klerkx, Laurens, et al.. (2025). Governance by satellite: Remote sensing, bureaucrats and agency in the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. Journal of Rural Studies. 114. 103558–103558. 2 indexed citations

Adams, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). “The people of Techiman eat Teporo”: migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana. Agriculture and Human Values. 42(3). 1789–1804.

Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2025). Unpacking the role of non-state actors' discourses in enhancing climate justice in Uganda's extractive industries. The Extractive Industries and Society. 24. 101741–101741.

Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2025). Science as a territory in dispute: an analysis of power and paradigms in the conceptualization of agroecology. Agriculture and Human Values. 42(3). 1757–1771. 3 indexed citations

Kuyper, Thomas W., et al.. (2025). Urban food policy councils as politicized spaces: The case of Arusha, Tanzania. Food Policy. 131. 102802–102802.

Debruyne, Lies, et al.. (2024). Participation and co-theorising: How stakeholder interests and scientific outputs clash in the Horizon 2020 multi-actor approach. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 96(1).

Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2024). A Geography of Agrarian Structures in Argentina: Productive Models, Socioenvironmental Impacts and Neodevelopmentalism. Journal of Latin American geography. 1 indexed citations

Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2023). Exploring approaches to equal and effective participation of governance actors in trans-local city food networks. Geoforum. 145. 103831–103831. 2 indexed citations

Dessein, Joost, Lutgart Lenaerts, Enyew Adgo, et al.. (2023). Listen to the radio and go on field trips: A study on farmers' attributes to opt for extension methods in Northwest Ethiopia. AIMS Agriculture and Food. 9(1). 3–29.

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Ludwig, David, et al.. (2022). Relating inclusive innovations to Indigenous and local knowledge: a conceptual framework. Agriculture and Human Values. 40(1). 395–408. 14 indexed citations

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Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2022). Constructing legitimacy for technologies developed in response to environmental regulation: the case of ammonia emission-reducing technology for the Flemish intensive livestock industry. Agriculture and Human Values. 40(2). 649–665. 6 indexed citations

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Soini, Katriina, et al.. (2022). Place‐embedded agency: Exploring knowledge–place connections for enabling plurality in governance of social–ecological systems. People and Nature. 4(5). 1141–1158. 14 indexed citations

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Bartolini, Fabio, et al.. (2022). Understanding Integration Experience and Wellbeing of Economic-Asylum Seekers in Italy: the Case of Nigerian Immigrants. Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale. 24(1). 189–210. 5 indexed citations

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Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2020). Social justice-oriented narratives in European urban food strategies: Bringing forward redistribution, recognition and representation. Agriculture and Human Values. 38(3). 709–727. 37 indexed citations

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Block, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Four Perspectives of Sustainability Applied to the Local Food Strategy of Ghent (Belgium): Need for a Cycle of Democratic Participation?. Sustainability. 8(1). 55–55. 14 indexed citations

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Krom, Michiel De, et al.. (2014). Op zoek naar de wortels van een gepolariseerd publiek debat: de case van een gecontesteerde ggo-veldproef. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Mettepenningen, Evy, Nick Schuermans, Valerie Vandermeulen, et al.. (2011). Multifunctionality and local identity as paradigms for sustainable and competitive agriculture. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Marchand, Fleur, et al.. (2010). Developing indicators for sustainable entrepreneurship in Flemish agriculture. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Dessein, Joost, et al.. (2010). Regional identity in rural development: Three case studies of regional branding. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3-4). 19–24. 22 indexed citations

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Dessein, Joost, Jan Lepoutre, Frank Nevens, et al.. (2006). Erven van de toekomst: over duurzame landbouw in Vlaanderen. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations

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