Sjors Witjes

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Sjors Witjes is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sjors Witjes has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Strategy and Management, 8 papers in Marketing and 4 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Sjors Witjes's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (11 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (8 papers) and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (6 papers). Sjors Witjes is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (11 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (8 papers) and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (6 papers). Sjors Witjes collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Colombia and Sweden. Sjors Witjes's co-authors include Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Denise Reike, Rodrigo Lozano, Jacqueline Cramer, Lucila Maria de Souza Campos, Simone B. Sartori, Michiel C. Zijp, Mónica Rámos-Mejía, Mark Wiering and Hans van Kranenburg and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Sjors Witjes

21 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

The circular economy: New or Refurbished as CE 3.0? — Exploring Controversies in the Conceptualization of the Circular Economy through a Focus on History and Resource Value Retention Options

2017 1.1k citations Denise Reike, Walter J.V. Vermeulen et al. Resources Conservation and Recycling profile →
Towards a more Circular Economy: Proposing a framework linking sustainable public procurement and sustainable business models

2016 473 citations Sjors Witjes, Rodrigo Lozano Resources Conservation and Recycling profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sjors Witjes Netherlands	10	1.4k	733	416	385	276	22	1.8k
Josef‐Peter Schöggl Austria	21	1.2k 0.8×	580 0.8×	426 1.0×	327 0.8×	184 0.7×	41	1.9k
Andreas Feldmann Sweden	15	1.3k 0.9×	602 0.8×	322 0.8×	251 0.7×	168 0.6×	48	1.8k
Laura Piscicelli Netherlands	13	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	352 0.8×	273 0.7×	222 0.8×	19	2.1k
Fenna Blomsma Germany	12	1.7k 1.2×	886 1.2×	679 1.6×	357 0.9×	178 0.6×	15	2.3k
Cali Nuur Sweden	20	1.3k 0.9×	650 0.9×	409 1.0×	306 0.8×	292 1.1×	53	2.3k
Fiona Charnley United Kingdom	23	1.9k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	896 2.2×	380 1.0×	242 0.9×	57	2.9k
Walter R. Stahel Switzerland	13	1.3k 0.9×	761 1.0×	469 1.1×	474 1.2×	274 1.0×	31	2.4k
Vesela Veleva United States	17	1.1k 0.8×	691 0.9×	247 0.6×	214 0.6×	289 1.0×	30	1.8k
Michael Saidani France	16	1.3k 0.9×	525 0.7×	442 1.1×	516 1.3×	295 1.1×	49	1.8k
Michael Lieder Sweden	10	1.9k 1.3×	920 1.3×	893 2.1×	550 1.4×	261 0.9×	13	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sjors Witjes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sjors Witjes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sjors Witjes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sjors Witjes 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 Sjors Witjes. Sjors Witjes 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

Witjes, Sjors, et al.. (2025). Opening closures: Organizational arrangements and moral articulations in institutional global hegemonic and local counter-hegemonic sustainability discourses. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. 10. 100304–100304.

Kranenburg, Hans van & Sjors Witjes. (2024). Organizing the Dutch Energy Transition. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 2 indexed citations

Wiering, Mark, et al.. (2023). Problematising Value Retention for a Circular Economy: Dilemmas and New Value Balancing Principles. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 2 indexed citations

Witjes, Sjors, et al.. (2021). Academics for sustainable development: Exploring consequences and dilemmas of transdisciplinary research approaches. Sustainable Development. 30(2). 289–292. 6 indexed citations

Witjes, Sjors, et al.. (2020). Transdisciplinarity For Sustainability. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 7 indexed citations

Reike, Denise, et al.. (2019). Circular Economy 3.0; Solving confusion around new conceptions of circularity by synthesising and re-organising the 3R’s concept into a 10R hierarchy. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 27. 12–15. 10 indexed citations

Reike, Denise, et al.. (2018). Circular Economy 3.0: getting beyond the messy conceptualization of circularity and the 3R’s, 4R’s and more…. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 16 indexed citations

Witjes, Sjors, Jacqueline Cramer, & Walter J.V. Vermeulen. (2018). On corporate sustainability integration and the support of tools. World Review of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development. 14(5). 581–581. 1 indexed citations

Vermeulen, Walter J.V., Sjors Witjes, & Jacqueline Cramer. (2018). On corporate sustainability integration and the support of tools. World Review of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development. 14(5). 581–581. 3 indexed citations

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Vermeulen, Walter J.V., et al.. (2018). On corporate sustainability integration research: Analysing corporate leaders' experiences and academic learnings from an organisational culture perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production. 203. 1201–1215. 22 indexed citations

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Witjes, Sjors, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, & Jacqueline Cramer. (2017). Assessing Corporate Sustainability integration for corporate self-reflection. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 127. 132–147. 18 indexed citations

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Sartori, Simone B., Sjors Witjes, & Lucila Maria de Souza Campos. (2017). Sustainability performance for Brazilian electricity power industry: An assessment integrating social, economic and environmental issues. Energy Policy. 111. 41–51. 44 indexed citations

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Reike, Denise, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, & Sjors Witjes. (2017). The circular economy: New or Refurbished as CE 3.0? — Exploring Controversies in the Conceptualization of the Circular Economy through a Focus on History and Resource Value Retention Options. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 135. 246–264. 1098 indexed citations breakdown →

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Witjes, Sjors, Walter J.V. Vermeulen, & Jacqueline Cramer. (2016). Exploring corporate sustainability integration into business activities. Experiences from 18 small and medium sized enterprises in the Netherlands. Journal of Cleaner Production. 153. 528–538. 58 indexed citations

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Witjes, Sjors & Rodrigo Lozano. (2016). Towards a more Circular Economy: Proposing a framework linking sustainable public procurement and sustainable business models. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 112. 37–44. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Witjes, Sjors, et al.. (2016). Circular Business: Collaborate and Circulate; a bookreview. Journal of Cleaner Production. 135. 699–700. 3 indexed citations

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Vermeulen, Walter J.V. & Sjors Witjes. (2015). On addressing the dual and embedded nature of business and the route towards corporate sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production. 112. 2822–2832. 35 indexed citations

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Witjes, Sjors. (2015). A new psychology for sustainability leadership; the hidden power of ecological worldviews; a book review. Journal of Cleaner Production. 140. 125–126. 2 indexed citations

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Vermeulen, Walter J.V., Sjors Witjes, & Denise Reike. (2014). Advies over een Raamwerk voor Impactmeting voor Circulair Inkopen. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 1 indexed citations

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Witjes, Sjors, et al.. (2006). The Measurement of the Development of Systems and General Thinking in Agricultural Areas of Colombia: Preliminary Results. 4 indexed citations

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