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Researcher · Wageningen University & Research · Netherlands

Rutgerd Boelens

Rutgerd Boelens publishes mostly in Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Water Science and Technology, on topics such as Water Governance and Infrastructure, Water resources management and optimization and Water Resource Management and Quality.

ORCID 0000-0002-8412-3109 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,660
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#81
of 107,149
Works
341
Citations
8.4k
Citations per work
24.7
h-index
50
i10-index 130Top 0.2% in Political Science and International Relations
Rutgerd Boelens

What does Rutgerd Boelens research?

Rutgerd Boelens's work is mostly in Social Sciences (56%), Environmental Science (8%), Engineering (6%).

Social Sciences: 192 works · 56.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 192 works · 56.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 137 works · 40.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 45 works · 13.2% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 10 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 91 works · 26.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 48 works · 14.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 27 works · 8.0% of their workWater Science and Technology: 27 works · 8.0% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 6.0% of their workOcean Engineering: 20 works · 6.0% of their workLife Sciences: 10 works · 3.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 3.0% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRutgerd Boelens341works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences56%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences19256.2%
  2. Everything else9126.8%
    1. Environmental Science278.0%
    2. Engineering206.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences103.0%
  1. 1Political Science and International Relations40% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Water Science and Technology8% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5General Agricultural and Biological Sciences3% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rutgerd Boelens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hydrosocial Cycle, Water Privatization, Sustainability, Latin America, Reservoir Operation, Water Resources, Democracy and Resource Management.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Hydrosocial Cycle2231 topic
  2. Water Privatization2231 topic
  3. Sustainability1153 topics
  4. Latin America612 topics
  5. Reservoir Operation441 topic
  6. Water Resources441 topic
  7. Democracy432 topics
  8. Resource Management401 topic
  9. Water Governance401 topic
  10. Hydropower311 topic
  11. Resettlement311 topic
  12. Laos221 topic
  13. Thailand221 topic
  14. Clientelism211 topic
  15. Political Power211 topic
  16. Agroecology201 topic
  17. Food Sovereignty201 topic
  18. Affect191 topic
  19. Geography191 topic

Where does Rutgerd Boelens work?

Rutgerd Boelens's main affiliation in the publication record is Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Rutgerd Boelens have?

OpenAlex counts 341 works and 8,409 citations for Rutgerd Boelens, an h-index of 50, ranking #6,660 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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