Ben Cousins
Impact in
- Soil Science top 0.5%
- Land Rights and Reforms
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- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Papers in
- Soil Science 74
- Land Rights and Reforms 74
- Law 48
- Legal Issues in South Africa 47
- Co-authors
- Sheona Shackleton (3 shared papers)Charlie M. Shackleton (3 shared papers)Espen Sjaastad (2 shared papers)Ian Scoones (4 shared papers)Donna Hornby (7 shared papers)Edward Lahiff (3 shared papers)Michael Aliber (3 shared papers)Thembela Kepe (3 shared papers)
- Journals
- Journal of Agrarian Change (8 papers)The Journal of Peasant Studies (6 papers)IDS Bulletin (4 papers)Development Southern Africa (3 papers)Land Use Policy (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- South AfricaUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Ben Cousins
117 papers receiving 2.0k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 113
- Soil Science 1.1k
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 882
- Urban Studies 363
- Law 405
- Business and International Management 63
Countries citing papers authored by Ben Cousins
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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Cousins
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ben Cousins, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 126 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001 | 192 | |
| 2 | 2008 | 152 | |
| 3 | 2012 | 111 | |
| 4 | 2007 | 104 | |
| 5 | 2010 | 79 | |
| 6 | At the crossroads: Land and agrarian reform in South Africa into the 21st century | 1999 | 79 |
| 7 | 2011 | 78 | |
| 8 | 1999 | 74 | |
| 9 | 1992 | 69 | |
| 10 | 2012 | 69 | |
| 11 | 2018 | 69 | |
| 12 | 2017 | 61 | |
| 13 | 2005 | 59 | |
| 14 | Re-valuing the communal lands of southern Africa: new understandings of rural livelihoods. | 2000 | 56 |
| 15 | 1997 | 53 | |
| 16 | Land Tenure and Economic Development in Rural South Africa: Constraints and Opportunities | 1999 | 51 |
| 17 | 2012 | 50 | |
| 18 | Land, power & custom : controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act | 2008 | 44 |
| 19 | 1996 | 40 | |
| 20 | 2010 | 40 |
About Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins is a scholar working on Soil Science, Law, Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 126 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Rights and Reforms (74 papers), Legal Issues in South Africa (47 papers), African studies and sociopolitical issues (25 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (23 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (16 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (12 papers), South African History and Culture (11 papers) and African history and culture studies (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (1.1k citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (882 citations), Urban Studies (363 citations), Law (405 citations) and Business and International Management (63 citations). Ben Cousins has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Sheona Shackleton, Charlie M. Shackleton, Espen Sjaastad, Ian Scoones, Donna Hornby, Edward Lahiff, Michael Aliber, Thembela Kepe, Rosie Campbell and Tor A. Benjaminsen. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Agrarian Change, The Journal of Peasant Studies, IDS Bulletin, Development Southern Africa and Land Use Policy.
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