Michael Lipton

9.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
143 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Lipton is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Lipton has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 27 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 26 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Lipton's work include Agricultural Innovations and Practices (18 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (17 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (14 papers). Michael Lipton is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Innovations and Practices (18 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (17 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (14 papers). Michael Lipton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Michael Lipton's co-authors include William Diebold, Martin Ravallion, Robert Eastwood, John Isbister, Marian Radetzki, Julie Litchfield, Biplab Dasgupta, John Connell, Jean‐Marc Faurès and Dudley Seers and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The Economic Journal and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Michael Lipton

131 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development 1977 2026 1993 2009 1977 1980 1977 100 200 300 400 500

Peers

Michael Lipton
Comparison fields: 5 of 131
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.3k
  • Economics and Econometrics 1.6k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.2k
  • Soil Science 1.2k
  • Political Science and International Relations 702
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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Lipton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Lipton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Lipton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Lipton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Lipton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Lipton. Michael Lipton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Learning From Others: Increasing Agricultural Productivity for Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
9
2 77
3 3
4 8
5
Poverty and policy
395
6 61
7 1
8
Biotechnology : a hope or threat?
4
9 16
10
Land assets and rural poverty
31
11
African food strategies and the EEC's role : an interim review
5
12 1
13
Minimum wages, exploitation and Botswana's unemployment crisis
3
14 0
15 4
16 1
17
theory of the optimising peasant
24
18
The crisis of Indian planning, economic policy in the 1960's.
5
19
Britain and Southern Africa
1
20 2

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