Åsa Persson

28.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Åsa Persson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Åsa Persson has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 18 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Åsa Persson's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (25 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers). Åsa Persson is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (25 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (14 papers). Åsa Persson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Netherlands and Australia. Åsa Persson's co-authors include Johan Holmgren, Ulf Söderman, Måns Nilsson, Johan Rockström, Carl Folke, Hens Runhaar, Elise Remling, Mark Williams, Katherine Richardson and Lisa Deutsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Åsa Persson

85 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

2011 905 citations Åsa Persson et al. profile →
Detecting and measuring individual trees using an airborne laser scanner

2002 631 citations Åsa Persson, Johan Holmgren et al. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Åsa Persson Sweden	31	2.1k	1.5k	1.4k	931	901	91	5.1k
John L. Innes Canada	50	889 0.4×	4.5k 3.1×	2.1k 1.5×	1.9k 2.0×	521 0.6×	278	8.7k
Harini Nagendra India	53	1.5k 0.7×	6.4k 4.3×	1.6k 1.1×	3.9k 4.2×	197 0.2×	191	10.9k
Timothy K. Kratz United States	38	605 0.3×	3.4k 2.3×	2.0k 1.4×	3.8k 4.0×	148 0.2×	75	9.7k
J. Morgan Grove United States	51	2.9k 1.4×	8.3k 5.6×	1.5k 1.1×	2.7k 2.9×	198 0.2×	124	14.3k
Susan Gross Solomon Canada	10	777 0.4×	4.0k 2.7×	622 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	100 0.1×	32	8.3k
Daniel Murdiyarso Indonesia	51	778 0.4×	5.2k 3.5×	564 0.4×	6.7k 7.2×	108 0.1×	173	11.2k
Jerome K. Vanclay Australia	38	1.1k 0.5×	4.1k 2.8×	4.5k 3.2×	878 0.9×	505 0.6×	227	7.4k
Timon McPhearson United States	54	2.1k 1.0×	6.5k 4.4×	643 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	82 0.1×	141	10.5k
Burak Güneralp United States	29	2.0k 0.9×	6.7k 4.5×	651 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	118 0.1×	67	9.9k
Ahjond S. Garmestani United States	45	937 0.4×	2.7k 1.9×	724 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	123 0.1×	108	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Åsa Persson

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Wüestefeld, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Automated Snow Avalanche Monitoring and Alert System Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Norway. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(4). 1326–1345. 5 indexed citations

Malekpour, Shirin, Cameron Allen, Ambuj Sagar, et al.. (2023). What scientists need to do to accelerate progress on the SDGs. Nature. 621(7978). 250–254. 49 indexed citations

Newig, Jens, Michael Rose, Thomas Bolognesi, et al.. (2023). To Assess Progress in the Social Sciences, We Should Study Knowledge Cumulation, not Disruptiveness. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

Browne, Katherine E., Adis Dzebo, Gabriela Iacobuţă, et al.. (2023). How does policy coherence shape effectiveness and inequality? Implications for sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda. Sustainable Development. 31(5). 3161–3174. 20 indexed citations

Linnér, Björn‐Ola, et al.. (2023). Greening recovery – Overcoming policy incoherence for sustainability transformations. Environmental Policy and Governance. 33(5). 546–560. 4 indexed citations

Biermann, Frank, Jeroen Oomen, Aarti Gupta, et al.. (2022). Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non‐use agreement. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 13(3). 98 indexed citations

Pickering, Jonathan, James Patterson, Frank Biermann, et al.. (2022). Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(2). e–i. 1 indexed citations

Biermann, Frank, Michele M. Betsill, Sarah Burch, et al.. (2019). The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization: a critical assessment after ten years. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 39. 17–23. 16 indexed citations

Pickering, Jonathan & Åsa Persson. (2019). Democratising planetary boundaries: experts, social values and deliberative risk evaluation in Earth system governance. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 22(1). 59–71. 45 indexed citations

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Persson, Åsa, et al.. (2018). Environmental policy integration : Taking stock of policy practice in different contexts. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 6 indexed citations

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Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, Sylvia, Arthur L. Dahl, & Åsa Persson. (2018). The emerging accountability regimes for the Sustainable Development Goals and policy integration: Friend or foe?. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 36(8). 1371–1390. 32 indexed citations

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Runhaar, Hens, Bettina Wilk, Åsa Persson, Caroline Uittenbroek, & Christine Wamsler. (2017). Mainstreaming climate adaptation: taking stock about “what works” from empirical research worldwide. Regional Environmental Change. 18(4). 1201–1210. 212 indexed citations

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Persson, Åsa, Nina Weitz, & Måns Nilsson. (2016). Follow‐up and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals: Alignment vs. Internalization. Review of European Comparative & International Environmental Law. 25(1). 59–68. 89 indexed citations

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Persson, Åsa, et al.. (2013). The New Geopolitics of Environmental Constraints, Changing Ecosystems and Resources Competition. 2 indexed citations

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Persson, Åsa. (2011). Reviews: Governance for the environment: a comparative analysis of environmental policy integration, edited by A Goria, A Sgobbi, I von Homeyer; Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Environment and Planning C Government and Policy. 29(3). 568–569. 1 indexed citations

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Persson, Åsa, et al.. (2005). VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF FULL-WAVEFORM AIRBORNE LASER SCANNER DATA. 100 indexed citations

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Segnestam, Lisa, et al.. (2003). Country-level environmental analysis - a review of international experience. World Bank eBooks. 1–42. 4 indexed citations

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Holmgren, Johan & Åsa Persson. (2003). Identifying species of individual trees using airborne laser scanner. Remote Sensing of Environment. 90(4). 415–423. 470 indexed citations

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Persson, Åsa, Johan Holmgren, & Ulf Söderman. (2002). Detecting and measuring individual trees using an airborne laser scanner. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 68(9). 925–932. 631 indexed citations breakdown →

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Persson, Åsa. (1995). Optical Diagnostics of Tissue Pathologies based on Elastic Scattering Properties.. Lund University Publications Student Papers (Lund University).

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