Christian Lauk

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Christian Lauk is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Lauk has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Christian Lauk's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (18 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (14 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (7 papers). Christian Lauk is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (18 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (14 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (7 papers). Christian Lauk collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and France. Christian Lauk's co-authors include Helmut Haberl, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Willi Haas, Simone Gingrich, Thomas Kästner, Christoph Plutzar, Andreas Mayer and Tomer Fishman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian Lauk

44 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

2017 442 citations Fridolin Krausmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

2013 437 citations Fridolin Krausmann, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

2017 437 citations Karl‐Heinz Erb, Thomas Kästner et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Lauk Austria	24	1.1k	1.1k	848	399	398	44	3.7k
Göran Berndes Sweden	41	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	811 1.0×	591 1.5×	512 1.3×	139	6.1k
Miguel Brandão Sweden	34	653 0.6×	1.9k 1.7×	781 0.9×	149 0.4×	508 1.3×	77	3.8k
Nathan Pelletier Canada	35	969 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	1.9k 2.2×	145 0.4×	380 1.0×	95	4.4k
Simone Gingrich Austria	31	2.0k 1.8×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.7×	400 1.0×	799 2.0×	84	5.3k
Tommy Dalgaard Denmark	41	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.9×	520 1.3×	430 1.1×	137	5.5k
Andreas Mayer Switzerland	33	456 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	411 0.5×	225 0.6×	561 1.4×	167	4.3k
Timothy D. Searchinger United States	26	1.4k 1.2×	956 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	323 0.8×	477 1.2×	41	5.5k
Birka Wicke Netherlands	25	511 0.5×	768 0.7×	723 0.9×	287 0.7×	256 0.6×	54	3.1k
Vassilis Daioglou Netherlands	34	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	377 0.4×	227 0.6×	1.2k 3.0×	70	5.2k
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Germany	44	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	1.9k 2.2×	478 1.2×	1.2k 2.9×	98	6.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Lauk

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Lauk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Lauk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Lauk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Lauk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christian Lauk. Christian Lauk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bednar‐Friedl, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Sustainability transitions in the agri-food system: Evaluating mitigation potentials, economy-wide effects, co-benefits and trade-offs for the case of Austria. Ecological Economics. 226. 108357–108357. 1 indexed citations

Matej, Sarah, Lisa Kaufmann, Philipp Semenchuk, et al.. (2024). Options for reducing a city's global biodiversity footprint – The case of food consumption in Vienna. Journal of Cleaner Production. 437. 140712–140712. 5 indexed citations

Kaufmann, Lisa, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Zhi Cao, et al.. (2024). Society’s material stocks as carbon pool: an economy-wide quantification of global carbon stocks from 1900–2015. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 24051–24051. 2 indexed citations

Penker, Marianne, et al.. (2023). Diverse types of knowledge on a plate: a multi-perspective and multi-method approach for the transformation of urban food systems towards sustainable diets. Sustainability Science. 18(4). 1613–1630. 8 indexed citations

Magerl, A., Simone Gingrich, Sarah Matej, et al.. (2023). The Role of Wildfires in the Interplay of Forest Carbon Stocks and Wood Harvest in the Contiguous United States During the 20th Century. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(8). e2023GB007813–e2023GB007813. 3 indexed citations

Noll, Dominik, Christian Lauk, Willi Haas, et al.. (2021). The sociometabolic transition of a small Greek island: Assessing stock dynamics, resource flows, and material circularity from 1929 to 2019. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(2). 577–591. 15 indexed citations

Theurl, Michaela C., Christian Lauk, Gerald Kalt, et al.. (2020). Food systems in a zero-deforestation world: Dietary change is more important than intensification for climate targets in 2050. The Science of The Total Environment. 735. 139353–139353. 96 indexed citations

Duro, Juan Antonio, Christian Lauk, Thomas Kästner, Karl‐Heinz Erb, & Helmut Haberl. (2020). Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis. Global Environmental Change. 64. 102124–102124. 128 indexed citations

Kalt, Gerald, Christian Lauk, Andreas Mayer, et al.. (2020). Greenhouse gas implications of mobilizing agricultural biomass for energy: a reassessment of global potentials in 2050 under different food-system pathways. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 34066–34066. 35 indexed citations

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Kalt, Gerald, Andreas Mayer, Michaela C. Theurl, et al.. (2019). Natural climate solutions versus bioenergy: Can carbon benefits of natural succession compete with bioenergy from short rotation coppice?. GCB Bioenergy. 11(11). 1283–1297. 48 indexed citations

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Krausmann, Fridolin, Christian Lauk, Willi Haas, & Dominik Wiedenhofer. (2018). From resource extraction to outflows of wastes and emissions: The socioeconomic metabolism of the global economy, 1900–2015. Global Environmental Change. 52. 131–140. 247 indexed citations

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Erb, Karl‐Heinz, Thomas Kästner, Christoph Plutzar, et al.. (2017). Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature. 553(7686). 73–76. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kalt, Gerald, Martin Baumann, Christian Lauk, et al.. (2016). Transformation scenarios towards a low-carbon bioeconomy in Austria. Energy Strategy Reviews. 13-14. 125–133. 27 indexed citations

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Lutz, Juliana, Christian Lauk, Helmut Haberl, et al.. (2016). Land Use Competition. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 20 indexed citations

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Erb, Karl‐Heinz, Christian Lauk, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2016). Exploring the biophysical option space for feeding the world without deforestation. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11382–11382. 234 indexed citations

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Lauk, Christian, et al.. (2015). Global patterns and trends of wood harvest and use between 1990 and 2010. Ecological Economics. 119. 326–337. 35 indexed citations

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Plutzar, Christoph, Christine Kroisleitner, Helmut Haberl, et al.. (2015). Changes in the spatial patterns of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) in Europe 1990–2006. Regional Environmental Change. 16(5). 1225–1238. 62 indexed citations

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Krausmann, Fridolin, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, et al.. (2013). Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(25). 10324–10329. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

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Haberl, Helmut, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, et al.. (2011). Global bioenergy potentials from agricultural land in 2050: Sensitivity to climate change, diets and yields. Biomass and Bioenergy. 35(12). 4753–4769. 176 indexed citations

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Lauk, Christian & Karl‐Heinz Erb. (2009). Biomass consumed in anthropogenic vegetation fires: Global patterns and processes. Ecological Economics. 69(2). 301–309. 50 indexed citations

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