Arild Vatn

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Arild Vatn is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Arild Vatn has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 32 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 29 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Arild Vatn's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (25 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (23 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (13 papers). Arild Vatn is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (25 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (23 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (13 papers). Arild Vatn collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and Denmark. Arild Vatn's co-authors include Daniel W. Bromley, Valborg Kvakkestad, Paul Vedeld, Clive L. Spash, Per Kristian Rørstad, Katrine Soma, Eirik Romstad, Even Bergseng, Peter Botterweg and Marianne Aasen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Arild Vatn

96 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An institutional analysis of payments for environmental services

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arild Vatn Norway	30	1.8k	1.6k	1.0k	453	452	99	3.6k
Roldán Muradian Netherlands	28	2.9k 1.6×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	501 1.1×	625 1.4×	61	5.0k
Guy Garrod United Kingdom	33	1.3k 0.7×	2.5k 1.6×	714 0.7×	490 1.1×	477 1.1×	124	3.9k
Stefanie Engel Germany	26	3.4k 1.9×	2.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	460 1.0×	650 1.4×	80	5.0k
Stefano Pagiola United States	24	3.9k 2.2×	2.6k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	591 1.3×	399 0.9×	69	5.1k
Joshua Farley United States	27	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	959 0.9×	157 0.3×	429 0.9×	81	3.5k
Bettina Matzdorf Germany	27	1.6k 0.9×	820 0.5×	615 0.6×	528 1.2×	182 0.4×	68	2.5k
Anantha Kumar Duraiappah United States	19	2.6k 1.4×	783 0.5×	815 0.8×	212 0.5×	494 1.1×	46	3.9k
Heidi Wittmer Germany	28	2.5k 1.4×	733 0.5×	936 0.9×	181 0.4×	362 0.8×	49	3.7k
Andrea Cattaneo Italy	29	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	303 0.3×	727 1.6×	260 0.6×	56	3.1k
Elena G. Irwin United States	29	2.8k 1.6×	2.3k 1.4×	429 0.4×	493 1.1×	535 1.2×	82	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Arild Vatn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arild Vatn

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Murali, Ranjani, Christopher B. Anderson, Barbara Muraca, et al.. (2025). Navigating diverse human–nature worldviews for more inclusive conservation. Conservation Biology. 40(1). e70144–e70144. 1 indexed citations

Thøgersen, John, Arild Vatn, & Marianne Aasen. (2024). The chicken or the egg? Spillover between private climate action and climate policy support. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 99. 102434–102434. 3 indexed citations

Arias‐Arévalo, Paola, Ana Sofía Monroy‐Sais, Sara Nelson, et al.. (2023). The role of power in leveraging the diverse values of nature for transformative change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101352–101352. 29 indexed citations

Vatn, Arild, et al.. (2023). Regulation of Externalities: Rights, Options, and Procedure. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Schläpfer, Felix & Arild Vatn. (2023). Regulation of externalities: rights, options, and procedure. 2. 2 indexed citations

Gould, Rachelle K., Paola Arias‐Arévalo, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, et al.. (2023). The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101355–101355. 20 indexed citations

Saarikoski, Heli, Kaisu Aapala, Janne Artell, et al.. (2022). Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation. Ecosystem Services. 57. 101471–101471. 6 indexed citations

Tan, Rong, et al.. (2021). What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China. Journal of Chinese Governance. 6(4). 486–514. 29 indexed citations

Vatn, Arild, et al.. (2020). Pesticide taxes or voluntary action? An analysis of responses among Norwegian grain farmers. Journal of Environmental Management. 276. 111074–111074. 10 indexed citations

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Aasen, Marianne, et al.. (2019). Folk og klima: Nordmenns holdninger til klimaendringer, klimapolitikk og eget ansvar. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 5 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild, et al.. (2017). Management regimes for REDD+ : an analysis of the regime in the RDS Rio Negro REDD+ pilot. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 1 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild, et al.. (2014). An assessment of the Forest Allowance Programme in the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve in Brazil. The International Forestry Review. 16(1). 87–102. 9 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild. (2014). Markets in environmental governance. From theory to practice. Ecological Economics. 117. 225–233. 108 indexed citations

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Kajembe, G. C., et al.. (2013). Strategic power and power struggles in the national REDD+ governance process in Tanzania: any effect on its legitimacy?. 83(1). 69–82. 3 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild & Pål Vedeld. (2011). Getting Ready! : A Study of National Governance Structures for REDD+. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 22 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild, et al.. (2009). Actitudes de los productores ganaderos de El Petén, Guatemala, respecto a la implementación de sistemas silvopastoriles. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 2 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild. (2009). Combining Post Keynesian, Ecological and Institutional Economics Perspectives. Chapters. 3 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild. (2009). An institutional analysis of methods for environmental appraisal. Ecological Economics. 68(8-9). 2207–2215. 204 indexed citations

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Vatn, Arild. (2005). Institutions and the Environment. Books. 32 indexed citations

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Botterweg, Peter, et al.. (1998). The EUROSEM-GRIDSEM modeling system for erosion analyses under different natural and economic conditions. Ecological Modelling. 108(1-3). 115–129. 20 indexed citations

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