Lorenzo Cotula

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Cotula is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Cotula has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 23 papers in Soil Science and 21 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Cotula's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (26 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (22 papers) and International Arbitration and Investment Law (17 papers). Lorenzo Cotula is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (26 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (22 papers) and International Arbitration and Investment Law (17 papers). Lorenzo Cotula collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Chile. Lorenzo Cotula's co-authors include Sonja Vermeulen, James F. Keeley, S. Vermeulen, Camilla Toulmin, Ced Hesse, Liz Alden Wily, Ward Anseeuw, Michael Taylor, James Mayers and Laura German and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, International Affairs and The Journal of Development Studies.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Cotula

67 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural invest... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2012 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa.
    2009 694 citations Lorenzo Cotula et al. profile →
  2. The international political economy of the global land rush: A critical appraisal of trends, scale, geography and drivers
    2012 443 citations Lorenzo Cotula profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lorenzo Cotula United Kingdom 21 2.1k 1.5k 686 623 281 73 3.4k
Ruth Hall South Africa 25 3.0k 1.5× 1.8k 1.2× 815 1.2× 1.3k 2.1× 230 0.8× 66 4.4k
Jennifer C. Franco Netherlands 26 2.5k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 725 1.1× 915 1.5× 147 0.5× 57 3.5k
Nico Heerink Netherlands 36 1.4k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 741 1.1× 388 0.6× 1.0k 3.6× 116 3.9k
Saturnino M. Borras Netherlands 34 4.6k 2.2× 1.9k 1.3× 1.2k 1.8× 1.8k 2.8× 275 1.0× 73 6.1k
Saturnino M. Borras Netherlands 26 1.9k 0.9× 778 0.5× 425 0.6× 720 1.2× 90 0.3× 33 2.6k
Annelies Zoomers Netherlands 21 928 0.5× 547 0.4× 526 0.8× 886 1.4× 223 0.8× 96 2.5k
Ephraim Nkonya United States 28 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 695 1.0× 227 0.4× 638 2.3× 86 3.5k
Thomas Sikor United Kingdom 32 1.2k 0.6× 738 0.5× 2.2k 3.3× 960 1.5× 380 1.4× 66 3.9k
Frank Place Kenya 33 2.3k 1.1× 2.4k 1.6× 963 1.4× 464 0.7× 628 2.2× 106 4.5k
Stein T. Holden Norway 38 2.9k 1.4× 3.0k 2.0× 851 1.2× 494 0.8× 952 3.4× 133 5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lorenzo Cotula

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lorenzo Cotula

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lorenzo Cotula

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cotula, Lorenzo & Nicolás M. Perrone. (2024). Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia. Leiden Journal of International Law. 37(2). 440–461. 2 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). ‘Local Communities’ and the Development Conundrum: Where International Investment Law Meets Human Rights and Businesses. Business and Human Rights Journal. 9(2). 270–293.
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2023). Trade with Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific: The UK’s Economic Partnership Agreements. King s Law Journal. 34(1). 50–70.
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2023). International Investment Law and Climate Change: Reframing the ISDS Reform Agenda. The Journal of World Investment & Trade. 24(4-5). 766–791. 5 indexed citations
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German, Laura, et al.. (2020). “Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains. World Development. 134. 105018–105018. 85 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2020). Towards a political economy of the COVID-19 crisis: Reflections on an agenda for research and action. World Development. 138. 105235–105235. 17 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2020). (Dis)integration in Global Resource Governance: Extractivism, Human Rights, and Investment Treaties. Journal of International Economic Law. 23(2). 431–454. 14 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2019). Between Hope and Critique: Human Rights, Social Justice and Re-Imagining International Law from the Bottom Up. eYLS (Yale Law School). 48(2). 473–521. 4 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo & James Thuo Gathii. (2019). Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited, and Stirling Capital Limited v. Republic of Kenya. American Journal of International Law. 113(3). 574–581. 1 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2017). Democracy and International Investment Law. Leiden Journal of International Law. 30(2). 351–382. 2 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo, et al.. (2016). Land investments, accountability and the law : lessons from West Africa. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 3 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2015). Property in a shrinking planet: fault lines in international human rights and investment law. International Journal of Law in Context. 11(2). 113–134. 3 indexed citations
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Polack, Emily, et al.. (2014). Developing tools to secure land rights in West Africa: a 'bottom up' approach.. 3 indexed citations
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Salem, Ahmed Hamed, et al.. (2013). Bibliographie / Bibliography. Verfassung in Recht und Übersee. 46(4). 494–505. 1 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2012). Law at two speeds: Legal frameworks regulating foreign investment in the global South. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 3 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo, et al.. (2010). Alternatives to land acquisitions: agricultural investment and collaborative business models. Highlights from an international lesson-sharing workshop, Maputo, 17th-18th March 2010.. 5 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2009). Land grab or development opportunity? International farmland deals in Africa. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 7(1). 10 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2008). International Law and Negotiating Power in Foreign Investment Projects: Comparing Property Rights Protection Under Human Rights and Investment Law in Africa. TDM. 33(1). 62–111. 3 indexed citations
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Cotula, Lorenzo. (2007). Genero y legislacion. Los derechos de la mujer en la agricultura. 2 indexed citations

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