Birgit Müller

7.9k citations

82 papers · 3.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 1%
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 20
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 14
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 5
Sociology and Political Science 15

Co-authors: Karin Frank (24 shared papers)Jürgen Groeneveld (17 shared papers)Maja Schlüter‬ (10 shared papers)Jule Schulze (9 shared papers)Gunnar Dreßler (17 shared papers)Nina Schwarz (10 shared papers)Romina Martin (3 shared papers)Anja Linstädter (5 shared papers)
Journals: Ecological Economics (6 papers)Environmental Modelling & Software (6 papers)Agricultural Systems (5 papers)Global Environmental Change (4 papers)Ecology and Society (3 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Birgit Müller

79 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems 2016 · 311 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Ecological Economics
2013 Environmental Modelling & Software

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1	Describing human decisions in agent-based models – ODD + D, an extension of the ODD protocol Environmental Modelling & Software ·Birgit Müller, Friedrich J. Bohn, Gunnar Dreßler, Jürgen Groeneveld, Christian Klassert, Romina Martin, Maja Schlüter‬, Jule Schulze, Hanna Weise, Nina Schwarz Hit paper breakdown →	2013	359
2	A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems Ecological Economics ·Maja Schlüter‬, Andrés Baeza, Gunnar Dreßler, Karin Frank, Jürgen Groeneveld, Wander Jager, Marco A. Janssen, Ryan R. J. McAllister, Birgit Müller, Kirill Orach, Nina Schwarz, Nanda Wijermans Hit paper breakdown →	2016	311
3	NEW HORIZONS FOR MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW OF COUPLED SOCIAL‐ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS MODELING Natural Resource Modeling ·Maja Schlüter‬, Ryan R. J. McAllister, Robert Arlinghaus, Nils Bunnefeld, Klaus Eisenack, Franz Hölker, E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Birgit Müller, Emily Nicholson, Martin F. Quaas, M. STÖVEN	2011	262
4	Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models – A review Environmental Modelling & Software ·Jürgen Groeneveld, Birgit Müller, Carsten M. Buchmann, Gunnar Dreßler, Cheng Guo, Niklas Hase, Falk Hoffmann, F. Cirucci John, Christian Klassert, Thomas Lauf, Veronika Liebelt, Henning Nolzen, Nadine Pannicke, Jule Schulze, Hanna Weise, Nina Schwarz	2016	217
5	Agent-Based Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems: Achievements, Challenges, and a Way Forward Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation ·Jule Schulze, Birgit Müller, Jürgen Groeneveld, Volker Grimm	2017	161
6	Simple or complicated agent-based models? A complicated issue Environmental Modelling & Software ·Zhanli Sun, Iris Lorscheid, James Millington, Steffen Lauf, Nicholas R. Magliocca, Jürgen Groeneveld, Stefano Balbi, Henning Nolzen, Birgit Müller, Jule Schulze, Carsten M. Buchmann	2016	132
7	Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models Agricultural Systems ·Robert Huber, Martha Bakker, Alfons Balmann, Thomas Berger, Mike Bithell, Calum Brown, Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey, Hang Xiong, Quang Bao Le, Gabriele Mack, Patrick Meyfroidt, James Millington, Birgit Müller, Gary Polhill, Zhanli Sun, Roman Seidl, Christian Troost, Robert Finger	2018	119
8	Maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance in agriculture Global Environmental Change ·Birgit Müller, Leigh Johnson, David Kreuer	2017	97
9	Relevance of rest periods in non-equilibrium rangeland systems – A modelling analysis Agricultural Systems ·Birgit Müller, Karin Frank, Christian Wissel	2006	96
10	Perceived health and comfort in relation to energy use and building characteristics Building Research & Information ·Claude-Alain Roulet, Niklaus Johner, F. Foradini, Philomena M. Bluyssen, C.W.J. Cox, Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes, Birgit Müller, Claire E. Aizlewood	2006	90
11	The potential of models and modeling for social-ecological systems research: the reference frame ModSES Ecology and Society ·Maja Schlüter‬, Birgit Müller, Karin Frank	2019	83
12	Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ·Graeme S. Cumming, Graham Epstein, John M. Anderies, Cristina I. Apetrei, Jacopo A. Baggio, Örjan Bodin, Sivee Chawla, Hayley S. Clements, Michael Cox, Lukas Egli, Georgina G. Gurney, Mark Lubell, Nicholas R. Magliocca, Tiffany H. Morrison, Birgit Müller, Ralf Seppelt, Maja Schlüter‬, Hita Unnikrishnan, Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás, Christopher M. Weible	2020	83
13	How much climate change can pastoral livelihoods tolerate? Modelling rangeland use and evaluating risk Global Environmental Change ·Romina Martin, Birgit Müller, Anja Linstädter, Karin Frank	2013	78
14	Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services provision in a degraded ecosystem: A systematic assessment in the Lake Urmia basin, Iran The Science of The Total Environment ·Khadijeh Rahimi Balkanlou, Birgit Müller, Anna F. Cord, Fatemeh Panahi, Arash Malekian, Mohammad Jafari, Lukas Egli	2020	74
15	Livelihood security in face of drought – Assessing the vulnerability of pastoral households Environmental Modelling & Software ·Romina Martin, Anja Linstädter, Karin Frank, Birgit Müller	2014	69
16	Why, when and how do HVAC-systems pollute the indoor environment and what to do about it? the European AIRLESS project Building and Environment ·Philomena M. Bluyssen, C.W.J. Cox, Olli Seppänen, Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes, Geo Clausen, Birgit Müller, Claude-Alain Roulet	2002	69
17	Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale Global Environmental Change ·Birgit Müller, Falk Hoffmann, Thomas Heckelei, Christoph Müller, Thomas W. Hertel, Gary Polhill, Mark T. van Wijk, T.J. Achterbosch, Peter Alexander, Calum Brown, David Kreuer, Frank Ewert, Jiaqi Ge, James Millington, Ralf Seppelt, Peter H. Verburg, Heidi Webber	2020	65
18	Standardised and transparent model descriptions for agent-based models: Current status and prospects Environmental Modelling & Software ·Birgit Müller, Stefano Balbi, Carsten M. Buchmann, Luís Moreira de Sousa, Gunnar Dreßler, Jürgen Groeneveld, Christian Klassert, Quang Bao Le, James Millington, Henning Nolzen, Dawn C. Parker, Gary Polhill, Maja Schlüter‬, Jule Schulze, Nina Schwarz, Zhanli Sun, Patrick Taillandier, Hanna Weise	2014	62
19	LEARNING FROM LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: MODELING THE PASTORAL‐NOMADIC RANGE MANAGEMENT OF THE HIMBA, NAMIBIA Ecological Applications ·Birgit Müller, Anja Linstädter, Karin Frank, Michael Bollig, Christian Wissel	2007	55
20	Volatile Garlic Odor Components: Gas Phases and Adsorbed Exhaled Air Analysed by Headspace Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Planta Medica ·Into Laakso, Tuulikki Seppänen‐Laakso, R. Hiltunen, Birgit Müller, Herwig Jansen, Karl Knobloch	1989	55

About Birgit Müller

Birgit Müller is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Management Science and Operations Research and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 82 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (14 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (12 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (9 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (8 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (6 papers), demographic modeling and climate adaptation (5 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.2k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (550 citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (349 citations), Soil Science (291 citations) and Management Science and Operations Research (357 citations). Birgit Müller has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Karin Frank, Jürgen Groeneveld, Maja Schlüter‬, Jule Schulze, Gunnar Dreßler, Nina Schwarz, Romina Martin, Anja Linstädter, Christian Klassert and Hanna Weise. Their work appears in journals such as Ecological Economics, Environmental Modelling & Software, Agricultural Systems, Global Environmental Change and Ecology and Society.

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