S. Ryan Isakson

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

S. Ryan Isakson is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Ryan Isakson has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 6 papers in Soil Science and 5 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in S. Ryan Isakson's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 papers), Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers). S. Ryan Isakson is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 papers), Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers). S. Ryan Isakson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Netherlands and India. S. Ryan Isakson's co-authors include Jennifer Clapp, Jennifer C. Franco, Les Levidow, Saturnino M. Borras, Оане Виссер, Madeleine Fairbairn, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Nancy Lee Peluso, Shahra Razavi and Ian Scoones and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, World Development and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

S. Ryan Isakson

18 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research

2015 239 citations Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer C. Franco et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Ryan Isakson Canada	15	771	252	225	199	185	19	1.2k
Madeleine Fairbairn United States	15	609 0.8×	275 1.1×	184 0.8×	110 0.6×	201 1.1×	26	991
Carlos Oya United Kingdom	22	1.1k 1.5×	503 2.0×	188 0.8×	408 2.1×	553 3.0×	67	1.9k
Derek Hall Canada	15	688 0.9×	454 1.8×	81 0.4×	194 1.0×	240 1.3×	30	1.4k
Max Spoor Netherlands	21	925 1.2×	448 1.8×	116 0.5×	129 0.6×	474 2.6×	57	1.6k
Sérgio Sauer Brazil	16	535 0.7×	162 0.6×	86 0.4×	122 0.6×	169 0.9×	59	867
Donald F. Larson United States	21	494 0.6×	160 0.6×	89 0.4×	99 0.5×	411 2.2×	99	1.6k
James F. Keeley Canada	12	670 0.9×	388 1.5×	125 0.6×	79 0.4×	475 2.6×	50	1.6k
Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira United States	13	421 0.5×	173 0.7×	98 0.4×	146 0.7×	77 0.4×	29	832
Mindi Schneider Netherlands	16	482 0.6×	270 1.1×	316 1.4×	162 0.8×	52 0.3×	28	1.1k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Isakson, S. Ryan. (2025). Cultivating Climate Precarity: Mechanisms of Surplus Capture and Immiserizing Growth in Guatemala's Horticultural Export Sector. Journal of Agrarian Change. 26(1).

Clapp, Jennifer & S. Ryan Isakson. (2023). Private finance for food system climate adaptation: opportunity or contradiction?. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 61. 101273–101273. 3 indexed citations

Isakson, S. Ryan, et al.. (2020). Commercial agriculture for food security? The case of oil palm development in northern Guatemala. Food Security. 12(3). 517–535. 15 indexed citations

Clapp, Jennifer & S. Ryan Isakson. (2018). Speculative Harvests. Practical Action Publishing eBooks. 62 indexed citations

Clapp, Jennifer & S. Ryan Isakson. (2018). Risky Returns: The Implications of Financialization in the Food System. Development and Change. 49(2). 437–460. 94 indexed citations

Isaac, Marney E., S. Ryan Isakson, Charles Z. Levkoe, et al.. (2018). Agroecology in Canada: Towards an Integration of Agroecological Practice, Movement, and Science. Sustainability. 10(9). 3299–3299. 40 indexed citations

Clapp, Jennifer & S. Ryan Isakson. (2018). Speculative Harvests: Financialization, Food, and Agriculture. 47 indexed citations

Clapp, Jennifer, S. Ryan Isakson, & Оане Виссер. (2016). The complex dynamics of agriculture as a financial asset: introduction to symposium. Agriculture and Human Values. 34(1). 179–183. 33 indexed citations

Виссер, Оане, Jennifer Clapp, & S. Ryan Isakson. (2015). Introduction to a Symposium on Global Finance and the Agri‐food Sector: Risk and Regulation. Journal of Agrarian Change. 15(4). 541–548. 27 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2015). FFS - Small farmer vulnerability and climate risk: Index insurance as a financial fix. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 267–277. 3 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2015). Derivatives for Development? Small‐Farmer Vulnerability and the Financialization of Climate Risk Management. Journal of Agrarian Change. 15(4). 569–580. 73 indexed citations

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Borras, Saturnino M., et al.. (2015). The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 43(1). 93–115. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2014). Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 41(5). 749–775. 178 indexed citations

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Fairbairn, Madeleine, Jonathan Fox, S. Ryan Isakson, et al.. (2014). Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 41(5). 653–666. 70 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2013). Maize Diversity and the Political Economy of Agrarian Restructuring in Guatemala. Journal of Agrarian Change. 14(3). 347–379. 37 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2011). Market Provisioning and the Conservation of Crop Biodiversity: An Analysis of Peasant Livelihoods and Maize Diversity in the Guatemalan Highlands. World Development. 39(8). 1444–1459. 35 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2009). No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 36(4). 725–759. 146 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan. (2007). Between the market and the Milpa : market engagements, peasant livelihood strategies, and the on-farm conservation of crop genetic diversity in the Guatemalan highlands. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 8 indexed citations

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Isakson, S. Ryan, et al.. (2007). Eliminating market distortions, perpetuating rural inequality: an evaluation of market-assisted land reform in Guatemala. Third World Quarterly. 28(8). 1519–1536. 69 indexed citations

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