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French Urban and Social Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Wanting Zeng
Chengdu University of Technology
2
Jocelyne S. Sze
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
3
Sanne Kruid
Woodwell Climate Research Center
4
Carine Pachoud
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
5
Alessandra Mezzadri
University of London
6
Bonoua Faye
Northeast Agricultural University
7
Kevin Joseph Dillman
University of Iceland
8
Victor Moinard
ParisTech
9
Eva Purkarthofer
Aalto University
10
Noémie Brazeau-Béliveau
Université Laval

Rising Stars Papers

1
Identification of ecological security patterns of alpine wetland grasslands based on landscape ecological risks: A study in Zoigê County
The Science of The Total Environment|2024
65 cit.
2
The social reproduction of agrarian change: Feminist political economy and rural transformations in the global south. An introduction
Journal of Agrarian Change|2024
59 cit.
3
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
International Feminist Journal of Politics|2025
20 cit.
4
Lessons Learnt from the Influencing Factors of Forested Areas’ Vulnerability under Climatic Change and Human Pressure in Arid Areas: A Case Study of the Thiès Region, Senegal
Applied Sciences|2024
17 cit.
5
Connecting the farmers' knowledge and behaviors: Detection of influencing factors to sustainable cultivated land protection in Thiès Region, Senegal
Journal of Rural Studies|2025
16 cit.
6
Evaluating the impact of sustainable technology, resource utilization, and climate change on soil emissions: A CS-ARDL analysis of leading agricultural economies
Cleaner Engineering and Technology|2024
15 cit.
7
Value theories in motion: Circular labour migration, unfinished land dispossession and reproductive struggles across the urban–rural divide
Environment and Planning F|2024
14 cit.
8
Addressing the “Lying Flat” Challenge in China: Incentive Mechanisms for New-Generation Employees through a Moderated Mediation Model
Behavioral Sciences|2024
14 cit.
9
Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Evolution of Grain Cropping Patterns in Northeast China: Insights from Remote Sensing and Spatial Overlay Analysis
Agriculture|2024
13 cit.
10
Decentralization Policies and Rural Socio-Economic Growth in Senegal: An Exploration of Their Contributions to Development and Transformation
World|2024
11 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Camille Noûs
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
2
Arielle Canard
Maison des Sciences sociales et des Humanités - Lyon St-Étienne
3
Thomas Perrin
Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés
4
Fabien Nadou
Institut d'Economie Scientifique Et de Gestion
5
Geneviève Cloutier
Université Laval
6
Solène Tournus
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7
Jérôme Dupras
Université du Québec en Outaouais
8
Aurélien Évrard
Droit et changement social
9
Lydie Launay
Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
10
Étienne Walker
Espaces et Sociétés

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
“Co-construction” in deliberative democracy: lessons from the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications|2022
98 cit.
2
A simple procedure to detect, test for the presence of stuttering, and cure stuttered data with spreadsheet programs
Peer Community Journal|2022
22 cit.
3
Analyzing Technical and Organizational Changes in Circular Economy (CE) Implementation with a TOE Framework: Insights from a CE Project of Kamouraska (Quebec)
Circular Economy and Sustainability|2022
21 cit.
4
Rumor Classification through a Multimodal Fusion Framework and Ensemble Learning
Information Systems Frontiers|2022
20 cit.
5
Contradictory distributive principles and land tenure govern benefit-sharing of payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Chiapas, Mexico
Environmental Research Letters|2022
19 cit.
6
A new and almost perfectly accurate approximation of the eigenvalue effective population size of a dioecious population: comparisons with other estimates and detailed proofs
Peer Community Journal|2023
12 cit.
7
Exploring local perceptions and drivers of engagement in biodiversity monitoring among participants in payments for ecosystem services schemes in southeastern Mexico
Conservation Biology|2024
11 cit.
8
Influence of Hillslope Flow on Hydroclimatic Evolution Under Climate Change
Earth s Future|2022
10 cit.
9
Remote participatory research has logistical benefits, but presents scientific and ethical challenges
Environmental Research Letters|2023
10 cit.
10
Narrating the Interplay Between Circular Economy (CE) and Ecological Transition: A Social and Cultural Perspective from CE Experiments in Kamouraska (Quebec) and La Rochelle (France)
Circular Economy|2023
10 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Kate Driscoll Derickson
University of Minnesota
2
Colin McFarlane
Durham University
3
Bernard Pecqueur
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4
Annick Gibon
Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage
5
Yves Sintomer
Université Paris 8
6
André Torre
Université Paris-Saclay
7
Laurent Thévenot
École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique
8
Dominique Vinck
University of Lausanne
9
John Law
Keele University
10
Laurent Simon
HEC Montréal

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity
Systemic Practice and Action Research|1992
3.2k cit.
2
Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: Environmental consequences and policy response
Journal of Environmental Management|2000
2k cit.
3
Proximity and Localization
Regional Studies|2005
1.4k cit.
4
After Ant: Complexity, Naming and Topology
The Sociological Review|1999
1.3k cit.
5
Enacting the social
Economy and Society|2004
1.2k cit.
6
The Sociology of Critical Capacity
European Journal of Social Theory|1999
1.1k cit.
7
Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology
Social Studies of Science|1994
1.1k cit.
8
From resilience to resourcefulness
Progress in Human Geography|2012
991 cit.
9
Assemblage and geography
Area|2011
803 cit.
10
Assemblage and critical urbanism
City|2011
783 cit.

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