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Ian Scoones

Ian Scoones publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology and African studies and sociopolitical issues.

World rank
#2,957
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#242
of 90,785
Works
88
Citations
864
Citations per work
9.8

What does Ian Scoones research?

Sociology and Political Science: 15.0%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 12.5%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11.3%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 8.8%other fields: 52.4%15%top field
Sociology and Political Science15.0%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics12.5%Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law11.3%General Agricultural and Biological Sciences8.8%other fields52.4%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics12% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law11% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences9% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science8% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Scoones's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptation, Sustainability, Smallholder Farmers, Agroecology, Land Reform, Agricultural Development, Colonialism and Livestock Farming.

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 26 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptation182 topics
  2. Sustainability182 topics
  3. Smallholder Farmers173 topics
  4. Agroecology132 topics
  5. Land Reform112 topics
  6. Agricultural Development101 topic
  7. Colonialism102 topics
  8. Livestock Farming101 topic
  9. Nationalism102 topics
  10. Political Economy92 topics
  11. Rural Development92 topics
  12. Pastoralists81 topic
  13. Rangeland Degradation81 topic
  14. Sustainable Agriculture72 topics
  15. History61 topic
  16. Zimbabwe61 topic
  17. Land Tenure51 topic
  18. Property Rights51 topic
  19. African History41 topic
  20. Agricultural Innovation41 topic
  21. Livelihood Diversification41 topic
  22. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  23. Development Policies31 topic
  24. Food Sovereignty31 topic
  25. Foreign Aid31 topic
  26. Land Grabbing31 topic

Where does Ian Scoones work?

Ian Scoones's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ian Scoones have?

Science Explorer counts 88 works and 864 citations for Ian Scoones, ranking #2,957 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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