Robert Chambers

29.3k citations
168 papers · 11.5k · 6 hit papers · h-index 39

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Robert Chambers

153 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Robert Chambers's Hit Papers

Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last 1997 · 1.5k citations
1.5k0+11+23Years since publication50010001.5k

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Robert Chambers
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  • Business and International Management 514
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2.0k
  • Development 494
  • Safety Research 936
  • Urban Studies 628
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Robert Chambers, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Sustainable rural livelihoods: Practical concepts for the 21st century
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19911856
2
The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal
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19941550
3
Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last
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19971502
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Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): Analysis of experience
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1994735
5
Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?
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1995553
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Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): Challenges, potentials and paradigm
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1994500
7 2000377
8 2006284
9
Challenging the Professions: Frontiers for Rural Development
1993262
10 1981209
11 1985183
12 2006169
13 1983164
14 2012147
15
Crying Out for Change: Voices of the Poor
2000138
16 2014136
17
Sustainable livelihoods, environment and development: putting poor rural people first
1987123
18
Participatory GIS: opportunity or oxymoron?
1998110
19 1986106
20 2005100

About Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law, Political Science and International Relations, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and History, having authored 168 papers that have together received 11.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Legal principles and applications (11 papers), Scottish History and National Identity (7 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (7 papers), International Development and Aid (6 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (5 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 papers), Social and Economic Development in India (5 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Business and International Management (514 citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (2.0k citations), Development (494 citations), Safety Research (936 citations) and Urban Studies (628 citations). Robert Chambers has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Frequent co-authors include Gordon Conway, Patti Petesch, Meera Kaul Shah, Deepa Narayan, B. P. Ghildyal, Janice Jiggins, Ester Boserup, Linda Mayoux, Michael Howes and Richard Longhurst. Their work appears in journals such as IDS Bulletin, World Development, Public Administration and Development, International Migration Review and Journal of International Development.

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