Paul Richards

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
192 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Paul Richards is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Richards has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 35 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 34 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Paul Richards's work include Agriculture and Rural Development Research (33 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (23 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (19 papers). Paul Richards is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture and Rural Development Research (33 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (23 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (19 papers). Paul Richards collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Sierra Leone. Paul Richards's co-authors include Donald Q. Innis, Krijn Peters, B. H. Farmer, Esther Yei Mokuwa, P.G.M. Hebinck, Steven Franzel, Evelyne Kiptot, P.C. Struik, Jean‐Pierre Chauveau and David Parkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Paul Richards

177 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Paul Richards
Comparison fields: 5 of 162
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.8k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.1k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 903
  • Plant Science 764
  • Global and Planetary Change 595
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Countries citing papers authored by Paul Richards

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Richards

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Richards

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Richards. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Richards 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 Paul Richards. Paul Richards 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
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3 12
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Making better seeds for African food security - a new approach to scientist-farmer partnerships
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7 3
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Knowledge on yam variety development: insights from farmers’ and researchers’ practices.
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The history and future of African Rice: food security and survival in a West African war zone
12
10
War and Peace in Sierra Leone.
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11 20
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Is the party over? : new labour and the politics of participation
2
13 1
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The social life of war : rambo, diamonds and young soldiers in Sierra Leone
2
15 2
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Seeds and Survival: Plant Genetic Resource Management in Conflict and Post-War Recovery
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17 1
18
Coping with hunger. Hazard and experiment in an African rice-farming system.
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Agricultural pest control by community action: the case of the variegated grasshopper in Southern Nigeria.
9
20
Periodic market systems and rural development: the Ibarapa case study, Nigeria
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