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Researcher · University of the Western Cape · South Africa

Ben Cousins

Ben Cousins publishes mostly in Soil Science, Law and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, on topics such as Land Rights and Reforms, Legal Issues in South Africa and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development.

ORCID 0000-0001-7711-1604 OpenAlex
World rank
#153,137
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#364
of 5,570
Works
49
Citations
170
Citations per work
3.5

What does Ben Cousins research?

Soil Science: 32.4%Law: 14.7%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 11.8%Sociology and Political Science: 10.3%other fields: 30.8%32%top field
Soil Science32.4%Law14.7%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.8%Sociology and Political Science10.3%other fields30.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Soil Science32% of their works
  2. 2Law15% of their works
  3. 3General Agricultural and Biological Sciences12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Cousins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Land Reform, Land Tenure, Rural Development, Agricultural Investment, Property Rights, Political Economy, Colonialism and Constitutionalism.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Land Reform272 topics
  2. Land Tenure252 topics
  3. Rural Development242 topics
  4. Agricultural Investment221 topic
  5. Property Rights221 topic
  6. Political Economy102 topics
  7. Colonialism82 topics
  8. Constitutionalism81 topic
  9. Developmental Local Government81 topic
  10. Nationalism82 topics
  11. Agroecology51 topic
  12. Food Sovereignty51 topic
  13. History51 topic
  14. Zimbabwe51 topic
  15. Pastoralists41 topic
  16. Rangeland Degradation41 topic
  17. African History31 topic
  18. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  19. Slum Upgrading31 topic
  20. Urban Poverty31 topic
  21. Agricultural Change21 topic
  22. Social Innovation21 topic

Where does Ben Cousins work?

Ben Cousins's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Ben Cousins have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 170 citations for Ben Cousins, ranking #153,137 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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