Nicolas Béfort

575 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 362 citations indexed

About

Nicolas Béfort is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Béfort has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 362 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 6 papers in Strategy and Management and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Béfort's work include Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development (15 papers), Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 papers) and Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (4 papers). Nicolas Béfort is often cited by papers focused on Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development (15 papers), Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 papers) and Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (4 papers). Nicolas Béfort collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United Kingdom. Nicolas Béfort's co-authors include Martino Nieddu, Romain Debref, Mario Giampietro, Alexandru Giurca, Frans Hermans, Franck-Dominique Vivien, Dalia D’Amato, Stéphane Lhuillery, Florian Pion and Piergiuseppe Morone and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Béfort

16 papers receiving 348 citations

Hit Papers

The Hijacking of the Bioeconomy 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150
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. The Hijacking of the Bioeconomy
    2019 196 citations Martino Nieddu, Nicolas Béfort et al. Ecological Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Béfort France 7 273 116 98 57 43 18 362
Romain Debref France 8 201 0.7× 96 0.8× 74 0.8× 46 0.8× 29 0.7× 17 289
Swinda F. Pfau Netherlands 5 249 0.9× 120 1.0× 70 0.7× 41 0.7× 23 0.5× 5 322
J.E. Hagens Netherlands 5 256 0.9× 123 1.1× 70 0.7× 41 0.7× 23 0.5× 9 387
Martino Nieddu France 10 208 0.8× 106 0.9× 73 0.7× 56 1.0× 28 0.7× 39 418
Alexandru Giurca Germany 14 385 1.4× 202 1.7× 100 1.0× 63 1.1× 46 1.1× 25 616
David B. Sawaya 3 152 0.6× 46 0.4× 81 0.8× 13 0.2× 33 0.8× 4 286
Thomas Vogelpohl Germany 9 153 0.6× 53 0.5× 63 0.6× 23 0.4× 31 0.7× 16 324
Daniel Barben Austria 7 143 0.5× 66 0.6× 63 0.6× 15 0.3× 8 0.2× 12 275
Kutay Cingiz Netherlands 5 156 0.6× 104 0.9× 38 0.4× 24 0.4× 5 0.1× 13 243
Myrna van Leeuwen Netherlands 8 201 0.7× 127 1.1× 30 0.3× 31 0.5× 3 0.1× 19 327

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolas Béfort

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolas Béfort

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Béfort

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Béfort, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). The role of dynamic capabilities in the development of eco-innovations. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 53. 101031–101031.
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Béfort, Nicolas, et al.. (2024). From Niches to Global Value Chains: The Role of Firms' Collaborative Strategies in the Bioeconomy. Business Strategy and the Environment. 34(2). 2571–2588. 2 indexed citations
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Béfort, Nicolas, et al.. (2024). From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics. Research Policy. 54(1). 105130–105130. 4 indexed citations
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Lhuillery, Stéphane, et al.. (2024). Biotechnology or bioeconomy: Six of one and half a dozen of the other?. Ecological Economics. 229. 108470–108470. 2 indexed citations
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Giurca, Alexandru & Nicolas Béfort. (2023). Deconstructing substitution narratives: The case of bioeconomy innovations from the forest-based sector. Ecological Economics. 207. 107753–107753. 30 indexed citations
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Morone, Piergiuseppe, Dalia D’Amato, Nicolas Béfort, & Gülşah Yılan. (2023). The Circular Bioeconomy. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Debref, Romain, et al.. (2023). The complex relationships between non-food agriculture and the sustainable bioeconomy: The French case. Ecological Economics. 214. 107974–107974. 9 indexed citations
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Giurca, Alexandru, et al.. (2022). Exploring transformative policy imaginaries for a sustainable Post-COVID society. Journal of Cleaner Production. 344. 131053–131053. 17 indexed citations
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Béfort, Nicolas. (2022). The Bioeconomy. 3 indexed citations
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Béfort, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). The role of sustainability in the emergence and evolution of bioeconomy clusters: An application of a multiscalar framework. Journal of Cleaner Production. 376. 134306–134306. 11 indexed citations
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Béfort, Nicolas & Martino Nieddu. (2020). Bioéconomie : un retour historique sur deux problématisations de l’usage des ressources renouvelables. Natures Sciences Sociétés. 28(3-4). 216–225.
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Béfort, Nicolas. (2020). Going beyond definitions to understand tensions within the bioeconomy: The contribution of sociotechnical regimes to contested fields. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 153. 119923–119923. 58 indexed citations
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Béfort, Nicolas. (2020). The promises of drop-in vs. functional innovations: The case of bioplastics. Ecological Economics. 181. 106886–106886. 16 indexed citations
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Nieddu, Martino, et al.. (2019). The Hijacking of the Bioeconomy. Ecological Economics. 159. 189–197. 196 indexed citations breakdown →
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Béfort, Nicolas, et al.. (2019). Toward a European bioeconomic transition: is a soft shift enough to challenge hard socio-ecological issues?. Natures Sciences Sociétés. 27(4). 438–444. 5 indexed citations
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Béfort, Nicolas & Martino Nieddu. (2017). De la variété des ancrages territoriaux des firmes en Chimie Doublement Verte. Géographie Économie Société. 19(1). 133–152. 4 indexed citations
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