Leif Petersen

945 total citations
34 papers, 629 citations indexed

About

Leif Petersen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Plant Science and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Leif Petersen has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 629 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Leif Petersen's work include Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 papers), Groundwater and Watershed Analysis (3 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (3 papers). Leif Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 papers), Groundwater and Watershed Analysis (3 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (3 papers). Leif Petersen collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Sweden. Leif Petersen's co-authors include Abdul Gafur, Ole K. Borggaard, Andrew Charman, Laurence Piper, Jens Raunsø Jensen, J. P. Møberg, Kjeld Rasmussen, Eugene Moll, Marc Hockings and Teresa Legg and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Hydrology and Plant and Soil.

In The Last Decade

Leif Petersen

33 papers receiving 572 citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leif Petersen South Africa	12	223	146	86	73	70	34	629
Brian Murphy United States	11	244 1.1×	139 1.0×	78 0.9×	44 0.6×	74 1.1×	47	880
Danielle M. Tendall Switzerland	6	112 0.5×	207 1.4×	61 0.7×	87 1.2×	46 0.7×	7	709
Zhe Guo United States	11	189 0.8×	115 0.8×	82 1.0×	79 1.1×	43 0.6×	44	673
G.W. Meijerink Netherlands	10	138 0.6×	64 0.4×	70 0.8×	89 1.2×	26 0.4×	50	459
Bryan Lohmar United States	12	206 0.9×	99 0.7×	70 0.8×	170 2.3×	76 1.1×	29	750
Boubaker Dhehibi Tunisia	13	117 0.5×	89 0.6×	42 0.5×	141 1.9×	39 0.6×	94	689
John Lingard United Kingdom	15	299 1.3×	133 0.9×	68 0.8×	135 1.8×	35 0.5×	46	974
Asif Reza Anik Bangladesh	13	269 1.2×	89 0.6×	105 1.2×	127 1.7×	31 0.4×	37	709
Till Stellmacher Germany	20	106 0.5×	189 1.3×	238 2.8×	95 1.3×	94 1.3×	35	922

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leif Petersen

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Wilson, Anna, Gillian F. Black, Leif Petersen, et al.. (2025). Place-pedagogies of water stress. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1–33. 1 indexed citations

Black, Gillian F., Leif Petersen, A. N. Wilson, et al.. (2025). Participatory Visual Methods and the Mobilization of Community Knowledge: Working Towards Community-Derived Disaster Risk Management in the Context of Advancing Climate Change. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 6(2). 1 indexed citations

Piper, Laurence, et al.. (2024). Policy engagement as ‘empowered representation’: democratic mediation through a participatory research project on climate resilience. Evidence & Policy. 21(1). 1–21. 1 indexed citations

Wilson, Anna, Leif Petersen, Gillian F. Black, et al.. (2023). Understanding resilience capitals, agency and habitus in household experiences of water scarcity, floods and fire in marginalized settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 100710–100710. 5 indexed citations

Black, Gillian F., et al.. (2023). Participatory visual methods and the mobilization of community knowledge: Working towards more equitable research processes. 1 indexed citations

Pereira, Laura, et al.. (2022). ‘Hampers’ as an effective strategy to shift towards sustainable diets in South African low-income communities. Development Southern Africa. 40(2). 350–372. 3 indexed citations

Petersen, Leif, et al.. (2019). What price cheap goods? Survivalists, informalists and competition in the township retail grocery trade. UWC Research Repository (University of the Western Cape). 9 indexed citations

Petersen, Leif & Andrew Charman. (2018). The role of family in the township informal economy of food and drink in KwaMashu, South Africa. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 38(7-8). 564–577. 14 indexed citations

Petersen, Leif, et al.. (2017). Trade dynamics in Cape Town township informal foodservice – a qualitative and supply chain study. Development Southern Africa. 35(1). 70–89. 8 indexed citations

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Charman, Andrew & Leif Petersen. (2015). The layout of the township economy: the surprising spatial distribution of informal township enterprises. 1 indexed citations

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Petersen, Leif. (2014). Wild harvest - natural resources and traditional medicine in Cape Town's informal economy. 100(2). 74–75. 1 indexed citations

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Petersen, Leif. (2014). Cape Town's trade in wild medicines: ecological threat or essential livelihood resource?. 1 indexed citations

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Charman, Andrew, Clare Herrick, & Leif Petersen. (2014). Formalising urban informality: micro-enterprise and the regulation of liquor in Cape Town. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 52(4). 623–646. 7 indexed citations

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Charman, Andrew, et al.. (2013). Why are foreign-run spaza shops more successful? The rapidly changing spaza sector in South Africa. 23 indexed citations

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Borggaard, Ole K., Abdul Gafur, & Leif Petersen. (2003). Sustainability Appraisal of Shifting Cultivation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. AMBIO. 32(2). 118–123. 45 indexed citations

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Gafur, Abdul, et al.. (2000). Changes in soil nutrient content under shifting cultivation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 100(1). 37–46. 26 indexed citations

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Møberg, J. P., Leif Petersen, & Kjeld Rasmussen. (1988). Constituents of some widely distributed soils in Denmark. Geoderma. 42(3-4). 295–316. 39 indexed citations

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Alva, A. K. & Leif Petersen. (1979). Soil physical properties in relation to rice yield and water consumption under flooded and unflooded conditions. Plant and Soil. 52(3). 353–363. 1 indexed citations

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Petersen, Leif. (1969). Chemical Determination of Pyrite in Soils. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. 19(1). 40–44. 11 indexed citations

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Petersen, Leif. (1966). Ochreous Deposits in Drain-Pipes. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. 16(3-4). 120–128. 10 indexed citations

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