Arnim Scheidel

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Arnim Scheidel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Arnim Scheidel has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Arnim Scheidel's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (16 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (11 papers). Arnim Scheidel is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (16 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (11 papers). Arnim Scheidel collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Netherlands and Canada. Arnim Scheidel's co-authors include Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene, Joan Martínez Alier, Federico Demaria, Alevgül H. Şorman, Courtney Work, Brototi Roy, Sofía Ávila, Grettel Navas and Sara Mingorría and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Arnim Scheidel

35 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Is there a global environ... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2020 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Is there a global environmental justice movement?
    2016 326 citations Joan Martínez Alier, Leah Temper et al. The Journal of Peasant Studies profile →
  2. Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview
    2020 295 citations Arnim Scheidel, Daniela Del Bene et al. Global Environmental Change profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Arnim Scheidel 999 574 461 402 363 37 2.2k
Federico Demaria 862 0.9× 460 0.8× 370 0.8× 237 0.6× 418 1.2× 38 2.3k
Leah Temper 1.4k 1.4× 716 1.2× 817 1.8× 421 1.0× 548 1.5× 39 3.0k
Alexander Dunlap 828 0.8× 279 0.5× 486 1.1× 351 0.9× 433 1.2× 62 1.7k
Mariana Walter 794 0.8× 331 0.6× 619 1.3× 161 0.4× 326 0.9× 37 1.7k
Richard Cowell 1.3k 1.3× 851 1.5× 235 0.5× 127 0.3× 256 0.7× 84 2.2k
Stanislav Shmelev 475 0.5× 550 1.0× 260 0.6× 189 0.5× 229 0.6× 78 1.9k
Daniela Del Bene 722 0.7× 328 0.6× 381 0.8× 165 0.4× 271 0.7× 19 1.4k
Christos Zografos 715 0.7× 571 1.0× 157 0.3× 154 0.4× 208 0.6× 47 1.8k
Erika Weinthal 907 0.9× 472 0.8× 262 0.6× 73 0.2× 444 1.2× 80 2.5k
Giuseppina Siciliano 432 0.4× 366 0.6× 108 0.2× 215 0.5× 260 0.7× 33 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Arnim Scheidel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Arnim Scheidel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arnim Scheidel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walter, Mariana, et al.. (2026). Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(4). e2513327123–e2513327123.
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Xu, Yunan, et al.. (2025). After the land rush: land and social life in Cambodia. Globalizations. 22(8). 1635–1653.
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Scheidel, Arnim, et al.. (2025). Do laws provoke or prevent green grabbing? A systematic review. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 52(7). 1493–1517. 1 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Daniela Del Bene, et al.. (2023). Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights. Science Advances. 9(23). eade9557–eade9557. 60 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim, Juan Liu, Daniela Del Bene, Sara Mingorría, & Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás. (2022). Ecologies of contention: how more-than-human natures shape contentious actions and politics. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 50(7). 2777–2798. 3 indexed citations
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Rosa, Lorenzo, Maria Cristina Rulli, Saleem H. Ali, et al.. (2021). Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2319–2319. 55 indexed citations
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Rosa, Lorenzo, Maria Cristina Rulli, Saleem H. Ali, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4477–4477. 9 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim & Simone Gingrich. (2020). Toward sustainable and just forest recovery: research gaps and potentials for knowledge integration. One Earth. 3(6). 680–690. 17 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim, Daniela Del Bene, Juan Liu, et al.. (2020). Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview. Global Environmental Change. 63. 102104–102104. 295 indexed citations breakdown →
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Temper, Leah, Sofía Ávila, Daniela Del Bene, et al.. (2020). Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 123004–123004. 184 indexed citations
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Siciliano, Giuseppina, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel, Juan Liu, & Frauke Urban. (2019). Environmental justice and Chinese dam-building in the global South. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 37. 20–27. 17 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim & Anke Schaffartzik. (2019). A socio-metabolic perspective on environmental justice and degrowth movements. Ecological Economics. 161. 330–333. 13 indexed citations
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Gamboa, Gonzalo, Sara Mingorría, & Arnim Scheidel. (2019). The meaning of poverty matters: Trade-offs in poverty reduction programmes. Ecological Economics. 169. 106450–106450. 25 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim. (2018). Carbon stock indicators: reductionist assessments and contentious policies on land use. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 46(5). 913–934. 19 indexed citations
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Work, Courtney, et al.. (2018). Maladaptation and development as usual? Investigating climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in Cambodia. Climate Policy. 19(sup1). S47–S62. 51 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, & Joan Martínez Alier. (2017). Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. Sustainability Science. 13(3). 585–598. 167 indexed citations
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Gerber, Julien‐François & Arnim Scheidel. (2017). In Search of Substantive Economics: Comparing Today's Two Major Socio-metabolic Approaches to the Economy – MEFA and MuSIASEM. Ecological Economics. 144. 186–194. 60 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim, Leah Temper, Federico Demaria, & Joan Martínez Alier. (2017). Correction to: Ecological distribution conflicts as forces for sustainability: an overview and conceptual framework. Sustainability Science. 13(4). 1195–1195. 4 indexed citations
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Scheidel, Arnim. (2013). New challenges in rural development: A multi-scale inquiry into emerging issues, posed by the global land rush. Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). 3 indexed citations

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