Twenty years of research on transition in agricultural economics journals

We analyse topics and authorship networks in articles on agricultural transition that were published in 16 subject-related peer-review journals between 1989 and 2008. Increasingly, articles on transition are written by authors from the European Union-15 in collaboration with authors from Central and Eastern Europe countries. The importance of authors from North America has fallen since the mid-1990s, and authors from Former Soviet Union countries have not made a large contribution to the literature. A group of roughly 10 authors plays a central role in the literature on agricultural transition, which has become increasingly method-driven and less descriptive or issue-driven over time. The co-authorship network for transition articles is characterised by a predominance of individuals or small groups of authors who have published only one or two papers. , Oxford University Press.