Tom Lavers

1.8k total citations
37 papers, 736 citations indexed

About

Tom Lavers is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Lavers has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 736 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Tom Lavers's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (11 papers) and International Development and Aid (10 papers). Tom Lavers is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (11 papers) and International Development and Aid (10 papers). Tom Lavers collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Tom Lavers's co-authors include Sam Hickey, Festus Boamah, Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, Barnaby Dye, Marianne Furrer, Uma Rani, Alula Pankhurst, Addis Ababa and Philippa Bevan and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, World Development and Social Indicators Research.

In The Last Decade

Tom Lavers

36 papers receiving 668 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tom Lavers 328 230 224 156 123 37 736
An Ansoms 276 0.8× 500 2.2× 162 0.7× 164 1.1× 169 1.4× 63 940
Blessings Chinsinga 337 1.0× 147 0.6× 155 0.7× 48 0.3× 48 0.4× 54 626
Lionel Cliffe 178 0.5× 521 2.3× 250 1.1× 201 1.3× 75 0.6× 66 924
Dessalegn Rahmato 341 1.0× 188 0.8× 323 1.4× 216 1.4× 21 0.2× 38 715
Surjit S. Bhalla 168 0.5× 320 1.4× 236 1.1× 68 0.4× 40 0.3× 27 713
Magdalena León 228 0.7× 244 1.1× 181 0.8× 94 0.6× 10 0.1× 33 683
Lotsmart Fonjong 125 0.4× 119 0.5× 120 0.5× 57 0.4× 21 0.2× 40 504
Deryke Belshaw 87 0.3× 198 0.9× 98 0.4× 66 0.4× 41 0.3× 40 537
Susana Lastarría‐Cornhiel 230 0.7× 210 0.9× 234 1.0× 69 0.4× 10 0.1× 17 642
Edward Lahiff 325 1.0× 277 1.2× 484 2.2× 71 0.5× 10 0.1× 55 860

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Lavers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Lavers

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

All Works

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Lavers, Tom. (2024). Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance. Econstor (Econstor). 1 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2023). Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2021). Aiming for Universal Health Coverage through insurance in Ethiopia: State infrastructural power and the challenge of enrolment. Social Science & Medicine. 282. 114174–114174. 7 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2019). Towards Universal Health Coverage in Ethiopia's ‘developmental state’? The political drivers of health insurance. Social Science & Medicine. 228. 60–67. 42 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom & Barnaby Dye. (2019). Theorising the Political Economy of Dams: Towards a Research Agenda. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2018). Responding to land-based conflict in Ethiopia: The land rights of ethnic minorities under federalism. African Affairs. 117(468). 462–484. 33 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2016). Understanding elite commitment to social protection: Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme. Working Paper Series. 13 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2016). Agricultural Investment in Ethiopia: Undermining National Sovereignty or Tool for State Building?. Development and Change. 47(5). 1078–1101. 27 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2013). Implications of the ‘Land Grab’ for State-Society Relations in Africa: Exploring the Relationship between Agricultural Investment and State Sovereignty in Ethiopia. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2012). Patterns of agrarian transformation in Ethiopia: State-mediated commercialisation and the ‘land grab’. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 39(3-4). 795–822. 106 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2012). ‘Land grab’ as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 39(1). 105–132. 157 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2011). LDPI Working Paper 2. The role of foreign investment in Ethiopia’s smallholder-focused agricultural development strategy. 2 indexed citations
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Lavers, Tom. (2007). Reconciling the needs and wants of respondents in two rural Ethiopian communities. Social Indicators Research. 86(1). 129–147. 14 indexed citations
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Bevan, Philippa, et al.. (2006). Ethiopian Urban Studies. 2 indexed citations

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