Christoph Oberlack

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Christoph Oberlack is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Oberlack has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Christoph Oberlack's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (10 papers). Christoph Oberlack is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (10 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (10 papers). Christoph Oberlack collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Christoph Oberlack's co-authors include Klaus Eisenack, Peter Messerli, Markus Giger, Esther Hoffmann, Maja Rotter, Susanne C. Moser, Anna Pechan, Richard J. T. Klein, C.J.A.M. Termeer and Stephan Rist and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Climate Change and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Oberlack

44 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Explaining and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Oberlack Switzerland	22	905	454	288	244	227	48	1.7k
Hemant Ojha Australia	23	1.3k 1.5×	760 1.7×	359 1.2×	341 1.4×	253 1.1×	86	2.3k
Catherine M. Tucker United States	24	1.0k 1.1×	328 0.7×	307 1.1×	212 0.9×	240 1.1×	51	2.1k
Boniface Kiteme Switzerland	19	481 0.5×	292 0.6×	355 1.2×	270 1.1×	257 1.1×	66	1.6k
Neil Dawson United Kingdom	20	1.1k 1.2×	366 0.8×	384 1.3×	117 0.5×	342 1.5×	39	2.0k
E. Carina H. Keskitalo Sweden	26	1.1k 1.3×	905 2.0×	160 0.6×	323 1.3×	264 1.2×	101	2.3k
Nicholas J. Hogarth Finland	17	1.0k 1.1×	208 0.5×	316 1.1×	130 0.5×	271 1.2×	36	1.6k
Grace B. Villamor Germany	25	826 0.9×	195 0.4×	255 0.9×	302 1.2×	242 1.1×	82	1.6k
Frank van Laerhoven Netherlands	22	625 0.7×	413 0.9×	165 0.6×	123 0.5×	423 1.9×	54	1.6k
Marcel Kok Netherlands	26	1.1k 1.3×	477 1.1×	155 0.5×	223 0.9×	439 1.9×	75	2.3k
Dil Khatri Sweden	15	767 0.8×	462 1.0×	162 0.6×	210 0.9×	130 0.6×	48	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Oberlack

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Oberlack, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Regulations for Deforestation‐Free Value Chains? Exploring the Implementation of the EU Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products in the Cocoa and Coffee Sectors of Peru. Global Policy. 16(4). 602–614. 1 indexed citations

Zabel, Astrid, Amare Bantider, Thomas Breu, et al.. (2025). Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement. AMBIO. 54(4). 740–744.

Oberlack, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Why do forests persist and re-emerge amidst tropical deforestation pressures? Archetypes of governance and impact pathways. Forest Policy and Economics. 169. 103352–103352.

Thomas, Evert, et al.. (2024). Tackling Gender Inequality in Community-Based Organizations: The Contribution of Cacao Cooperatives to Environmental Justice for Women in Peru. International Journal of the Commons. 18(1). 112–130.

Oberlack, Christoph, Simona Pedde, Luigi Piemontese, Tomáš Václavík, & Diana Sietz. (2023). Archetypes in support of tailoring land-use policies. Environmental Research Letters. 18(6). 60202–60202. 9 indexed citations

Kimmich, Christian, Melf‐Hinrich Ehlers, Elke Kellner, et al.. (2023). Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems: current approaches and potential futures. Sustainability Science. 18(1). 1–10. 5 indexed citations

Piemontese, Luigi, Regina Neudert, Christoph Oberlack, et al.. (2022). Validity and validation in archetype analysis: practical assessment framework and guidelines. Environmental Research Letters. 17(2). 25010–25010. 23 indexed citations

Heinimann, Andreas, et al.. (2022). Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14. 100158–100158. 6 indexed citations

Oberlack, Christoph, Markus Giger, Ward Anseeuw, et al.. (2021). Why do large-scale agricultural investments induce different socio-economic, food security, and environmental impacts? Evidence from Kenya, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Ecology and Society. 26(4). 13 indexed citations

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Boillat, Sébastien, Adrian Martin, Jorge C. Llopis, et al.. (2020). Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice. Journal of Land Use Science. 15(1). 1–10. 23 indexed citations

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Oberlack, Christoph, Diana Sietz, Ariane de Bremond, et al.. (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making. Ecology and Society. 24(2). 141 indexed citations

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Eakin, Hallie, Laura Cramer, Mark Purdon, et al.. (2019). Advancing the research agenda on food systems governance and transformation. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations

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Eakin, Hallie, Laura Cramer, Mark Purdon, et al.. (2019). Advancing the research agenda on food systems governance and transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 39. 94–102. 56 indexed citations

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Oberlack, Christoph, Thomas Breu, Markus Giger, et al.. (2019). Theories of change in sustainability science: Understanding how change happens. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 28(2). 106–111. 46 indexed citations

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Schneider, Flurina, et al.. (2018). Whose Agency Counts in Land Use Decision-Making in Myanmar? A Comparative Analysis of Three Cases in Tanintharyi Region. Sustainability. 10(10). 3823–3823. 20 indexed citations

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Roggero, Matteo, Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás, Christoph Oberlack, et al.. (2018). Introduction to the special issue on adapting institutions to climate change. Journal of Institutional Economics. 14(3). 409–422. 6 indexed citations

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Oberlack, Christoph, Sébastien Boillat, Stefan Brönnimann, et al.. (2017). Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems: Is the tragedy of the grabbed commons unavoidable?. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations

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Messerli, Peter, et al.. (2017). Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation.. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations

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Oberlack, Christoph. (2016). Diagnosing institutional barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate change. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 22(5). 805–838. 72 indexed citations

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Oberlack, Christoph & Klaus Eisenack. (2013). Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation. Global Environmental Change. 24. 349–362. 37 indexed citations

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