Michael Winter

7.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
131 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Winter is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Winter has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Winter's work include Rural development and sustainability (39 papers), Agricultural Economics and Policy (20 papers) and Organic Food and Agriculture (14 papers). Michael Winter is often cited by papers focused on Rural development and sustainability (39 papers), Agricultural Economics and Policy (20 papers) and Organic Food and Agriculture (14 papers). Michael Winter collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Michael Winter's co-authors include Robert Fish, Carol Morris, Andrew Church, Matt Lobley, Mark Howard, David Coley, Nick Evans, David Christian Rose, Graham Cox and Philip Lowe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Michael Winter

122 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism

2003 652 citations Michael Winter Journal of Rural Studies profile →
Conceptualising cultural ecosystem services: A novel framework for research and critical engagement

2016 522 citations Robert Fish, Michael Winter et al. profile →
Decision support tools for agriculture: Towards effective design and delivery

2016 359 citations Matt Lobley, Michael Winter et al. profile →
Agriculture 4.0: Making it work for people, production, and the planet

2020 198 citations Rebecca Wheeler, Michael Winter et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Winter	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	791	743	131	5.3k
Erik Mathijs	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	968 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	508 0.7×	193	6.8k
Sonja Vermeulen	854 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	923 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	583 0.8×	52	4.9k
Prabhu Pingali	2.3k 1.3×	2.5k 1.8×	726 0.6×	950 1.2×	595 0.8×	153	8.1k
Evan Fraser	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	2.5k 2.2×	1.5k 1.9×	841 1.1×	143	9.6k
Joachim von Braun	1.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	833 1.1×	346 0.5×	263	8.7k
Mark W. Rosegrant	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	448 0.6×	211	11.0k
John Ingram	3.0k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	2.7k 3.5×	1.0k 1.4×	71	10.3k
Hossein Azadi	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	775 1.0×	239 0.3×	358	7.3k
H. Renting	2.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	582 0.5×	457 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	49	4.4k
Guido Van Huylenbroeck	2.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	869 1.1×	747 1.0×	303	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Winter

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Winter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Winter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Winter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Winter 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 Winter. Michael Winter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maher, Anthony, et al.. (2025). ‘We can only grow grass here’: Unsettling the traditionality of grassland narrative. Rural History. 36(1). 153–171.

Winter, Michael, Hannah Chiswell, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Rebecca Wheeler, & Matt Lobley. (2024). Agricultural restructuring in a Devon Parish: A new chapter in an old story. Journal of Rural Studies. 111. 103416–103416.

Winter, Michael, et al.. (2024). Feeding People in a Crisis. Bristol University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Winter, Michael, et al.. (2022). The role of the livestock auction mart in promoting help-seeking behavior change among farmers in the UK. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1581–1581. 18 indexed citations

Harvey, David, et al.. (2021). The Real Agricultural Revolution.

Russel, Duncan, et al.. (2020). The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity. Sustainability. 12(7). 2761–2761. 11 indexed citations

Morris, Carol, Robert Fish, Michael Winter, & Matt Lobley. (2017). Sustainable intensification: The view from the farm. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations

Collins, Adrian L., Yusheng Zhang, Michael Winter, et al.. (2016). Tackling agricultural diffuse pollution: What might uptake of farmer-preferred measures deliver for emissions to water and air?. The Science of The Total Environment. 547. 269–281. 53 indexed citations

Hodgson, C. J., David M. Oliver, Robert Fish, et al.. (2016). Seasonal persistence of faecal indicator organisms in soil following dairy slurry application to land by surface broadcasting and shallow injection. Journal of Environmental Management. 183. 325–332. 25 indexed citations

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Harvey, David, et al.. (2013). Accounting for agriculture: the origins of the Farm Management Survey. 61(1). 135–153. 5 indexed citations

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Gooday, Richard, David R. Chadwick, Paul Newell‐Price, et al.. (2013). Modelling the cost-effectiveness of mitigation methods for multiple pollutants at farm scale. The Science of The Total Environment. 468-469. 1198–1209. 51 indexed citations

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Winter, Michael. (2010). James Tenney: Selected Works 1961–1969. New World Records CD 80570.. Journal of the Society for American Music. 4(4). 531–533. 1 indexed citations

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Hodgson, C. J., D. R. Chadwick, David M. Oliver, et al.. (2009). Establishing relative release kinetics of faecal indicator organisms from different faecal matrices. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 49(1). 124–130. 32 indexed citations

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Oliver, David M., Trevor Page, C. J. Hodgson, et al.. (2009). Development and testing of a risk indexing framework to determine field-scale critical source areas of faecal bacteria on grassland. Environmental Modelling & Software. 25(4). 503–512. 26 indexed citations

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Winter, Michael. (2003). Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism. Journal of Rural Studies. 19(1). 23–32. 652 indexed citations breakdown →

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Winter, Michael. (1996). Pressure, power and policy: State autonomy and policy networks in Britain and the United States. Journal of Rural Studies. 12(1). 97–98. 3 indexed citations

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Winter, Michael. (1996). Rural Politics: Policies for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 69 indexed citations

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Winter, Michael. (1993). Ende eines Traums : Blick zurück auf das utopische Zeitalter Europas. J.B. Metzler eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Löwe, Peter, et al.. (1991). The origins and early development of the National Farmers' Union. 5 indexed citations

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Bouquet, Mary & Michael Winter. (1987). Who from their labours rest? : conflict and practice in rural tourism. Avebury eBooks. 38 indexed citations

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