Joost Vervoort

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Joost Vervoort is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Joost Vervoort has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 18 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Joost Vervoort's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (34 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (17 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (12 papers). Joost Vervoort is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (34 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (17 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (12 papers). Joost Vervoort collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Joost Vervoort's co-authors include Aarti Gupta, Ariella Helfgott, Karen Anderton, Sandra van der Hel, Mahendra Sethi, Oscar Widerberg, James Patterson, Carolina Adler, Margot Hurlbert and Karsten Schulz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

Joost Vervoort

82 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joost Vervoort Netherlands	32	1.3k	754	509	464	459	86	3.1k
C.J.A.M. Termeer Netherlands	33	2.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	560 1.1×	512 1.1×	626 1.4×	146	4.5k
Stephan Rist Switzerland	34	1.5k 1.2×	801 1.1×	552 1.1×	1.0k 2.2×	458 1.0×	118	4.2k
Urs Wiesmann Switzerland	23	1.2k 0.9×	791 1.0×	519 1.0×	457 1.0×	465 1.0×	70	3.1k
Gordon M. Hickey Canada	32	989 0.8×	589 0.8×	353 0.7×	620 1.3×	330 0.7×	152	3.2k
Georgina Cundill South Africa	29	2.3k 1.8×	1.0k 1.4×	824 1.6×	422 0.9×	388 0.8×	50	4.3k
Laura Pereira South Africa	28	897 0.7×	484 0.6×	456 0.9×	479 1.0×	236 0.5×	85	3.0k
Julia Leventon Germany	27	1.2k 0.9×	443 0.6×	597 1.2×	429 0.9×	198 0.4×	47	2.7k
Anil Graves United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.5×	531 0.7×	504 1.0×	359 0.8×	319 0.7×	78	4.3k
L. Jamila Haider Sweden	20	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	485 1.0×	302 0.7×	230 0.5×	39	3.5k
Héléna Posthumus United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.9×	448 0.6×	482 0.9×	543 1.2×	224 0.5×	35	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Joost Vervoort

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joost Vervoort

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All Works

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Novo, Paula, Rafael Calderón-Contreras, Laura C. J. Pereira, et al.. (2025). Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge. Ecology and Society. 30(4).

Helfgott, Ariella, Gerald Midgley, Abrar Chaudhury, et al.. (2023). Multi-level participation in integrative, systemic planning: The case of climate adaptation in Ghana. European Journal of Operational Research. 309(3). 1201–1217. 6 indexed citations

Rutting, Lucas, Joost Vervoort, Heleen Mees, et al.. (2022). Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations. Sustainability Science. 18(3). 1117–1133. 27 indexed citations

Mangnus, Astrid, Jeroen Oomen, Joost Vervoort, & Maarten A. Hajer. (2021). Futures literacy and the diversity of the future. Futures. 132. 102793–102793. 74 indexed citations

Dinesh, Dhanush, D.L.T. Hegger, Laurens Klerkx, et al.. (2021). Enacting theories of change for food systems transformation under climate change. Global Food Security. 31. 100583–100583. 43 indexed citations

Vervoort, Joost, Astrid Mangnus, Steven R. McGreevy, et al.. (2021). Unlocking the potential of gaming for anticipatory governance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 100130–100130. 18 indexed citations

Mangnus, Astrid, et al.. (2021). Picture the future, play the present: Re-imagining sustainable cities through a large-scale location-based game. Futures. 135. 102858–102858. 13 indexed citations

Hebinck, Aniek, Odirilwe Selomane, E.J. Veen, et al.. (2021). Exploring the transformative potential of urban food. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 16 indexed citations

Rupprecht, Christoph, Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus, et al.. (2020). Multispecies sustainability. Global Sustainability. 3. 39 indexed citations

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Vervoort, Joost, et al.. (2020). Using participatory action research to operationalize critical systems thinking in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society. 25(1). 33 indexed citations

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Hebinck, Aniek, Odirilwe Selomane, E.J. Veen, et al.. (2020). Exploring the transformative potential of urban food: a future research agenda. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Pereira, Laura, Angel Hsu, Jeanne Nel, et al.. (2019). Bottom-up Initiatives and Participatory Approaches for Outlooks. City Research Online (City University London). 1 indexed citations

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Raudsepp‐Hearne, Ciara, Garry Peterson, Elena M. Bennett, et al.. (2019). Seeds of good anthropocenes: developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe. Sustainability Science. 15(2). 605–617. 67 indexed citations

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Mangnus, Astrid, Joost Vervoort, Steven R. McGreevy, et al.. (2019). New pathways for governing food system transformations: a pluralistic practice-based futures approach using visioning, back-casting, and serious gaming. Ecology and Society. 24(4). 46 indexed citations

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Dinesh, Dhanush, Robert B. Zougmoré, Joost Vervoort, et al.. (2018). Facilitating Change for Climate-Smart Agriculture through Science-Policy Engagement. Sustainability. 10(8). 2616–2616. 43 indexed citations

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Zurek, Monika, Aniek Hebinck, Adrian Leip, et al.. (2018). Assessing Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security of the EU Food System—An Integrated Approach. Sustainability. 10(11). 4271–4271. 63 indexed citations

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Zurek, Monika, John Ingram, Martine Rutten, et al.. (2016). Deliverable 1.1: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing and Devising Policy for Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security in the EU: the SUSFANS conceptual framework. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2 indexed citations

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Kristjanson, Patti, et al.. (2014). Moving from Knowledge to Action: Blogging research and outcome highlights. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 1 indexed citations

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Vervoort, Joost, et al.. (2014). A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society. 19(3). 31 indexed citations

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Vervoort, Joost, Lucas Rutting, Kasper Kok, et al.. (2012). Exploring Dimensions, Scales, and Cross-scale Dynamics from the Perspectives of Change Agents in Social–ecological Systems.. Ecology and Society. 17(4). 48 indexed citations

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