David Wuepper

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

David Wuepper is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wuepper has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 14 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David Wuepper's work include Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (13 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers). David Wuepper is often cited by papers focused on Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (13 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers). David Wuepper collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. David Wuepper's co-authors include Robert Finger, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, David A. Robinson, Christine Alewell, Emanuele Lugato, Luca Montanarella, Jae E. Yang, Cristiano Ballabio and Johannes Sauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

David Wuepper

40 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosio... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2019 250 500 750
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. Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)
    2020 881 citations Pasquale Borrelli, David A. Robinson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Countries and the global rate of soil erosion
    2019 359 citations David Wuepper, Pasquale Borrelli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Wuepper Switzerland 23 1.1k 497 496 439 418 43 2.3k
Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo Indonesia 24 1.4k 1.3× 1.7k 3.4× 1.0k 2.0× 427 1.0× 399 1.0× 41 3.7k
Simon Batterbury Australia 24 718 0.7× 1.5k 3.1× 783 1.6× 176 0.4× 493 1.2× 89 4.1k
Manuel González de Molina Spain 26 375 0.4× 413 0.8× 610 1.2× 148 0.3× 641 1.5× 109 2.3k
Liangjie Xin China 27 639 0.6× 1.1k 2.2× 385 0.8× 175 0.4× 477 1.1× 82 2.0k
Ganesh P. Shivakoti Thailand 30 463 0.4× 1.1k 2.1× 481 1.0× 78 0.2× 572 1.4× 101 2.6k
Anita Wreford New Zealand 22 345 0.3× 1.4k 2.8× 321 0.6× 185 0.4× 338 0.8× 78 3.2k
Ephraim Nkonya United States 28 1.1k 1.0× 695 1.4× 279 0.6× 141 0.3× 1.6k 3.8× 86 3.5k
Gudrun Schwilch Switzerland 22 509 0.5× 676 1.4× 200 0.4× 100 0.2× 259 0.6× 56 1.6k
Ian Nuberg Australia 23 391 0.4× 549 1.1× 191 0.4× 76 0.2× 592 1.4× 84 1.9k
Netra Chhetri United States 20 804 0.8× 1.2k 2.4× 596 1.2× 180 0.4× 614 1.5× 52 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by David Wuepper

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Wuepper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Wuepper. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by David Wuepper. The network helps show where David Wuepper may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Wuepper

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Wuepper. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Wuepper 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 David Wuepper. David Wuepper is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Henningsen, Arne, et al.. (2025). Estimating Causal Effects With Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists. Journal of Agricultural Economics.
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Wuepper, David, et al.. (2025). Satellite Data in Agricultural and Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice. Agricultural Economics. 56(3). 493–511. 4 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, Niklas Möhring, Anna F. Cord, et al.. (2025). From technological fixes to systemic change: Vision-led innovation for Europe's crop farming systems. Agricultural Systems. 233. 104593–104593.
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Wuepper, David, et al.. (2024). Agri-environmental policies from 1960 to 2022. Nature Food. 5(4). 323–331. 24 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, Thomas W. Crowther, T. Bruce Lauber, et al.. (2023). Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders. Global Environmental Change. 84. 102770–102770. 14 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, et al.. (2023). Behavioral agricultural economics. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 45(4). 2094–2105. 40 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanbing, Sergei Schaub, David Wuepper, & Robert Finger. (2023). Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation. Food Policy. 120. 102482–102482. 18 indexed citations
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Sellare, Jorge, Jan Börner, Fritz Brugger, et al.. (2022). Six research priorities to support corporate due-diligence policies. Nature. 606(7916). 861–863. 27 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanbing, Sergei Schaub, David Wuepper, & Robert Finger. (2022). Culture and Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David & Robert Finger. (2022). Regression discontinuity designs in agricultural and environmental economics. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 50(1). 1–28. 30 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, et al.. (2021). Does family farming reduce rural unemployment?. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 48(2). 315–337. 8 indexed citations
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Huber, Robert, et al.. (2021). The role of non-cognitive skills in farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation measures. Ecological Economics. 189. 107169–107169. 59 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, et al.. (2021). Preferences, personality, aspirations, and farmer behavior. Agricultural Economics. 52(6). 901–913. 36 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2021). A ‘debt’ based approach to land degradation as an indicator of global change. Global Change Biology. 27(21). 5407–5410. 19 indexed citations
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Borrelli, Pasquale, David A. Robinson, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2021). Global soil erosion: Storm on the horizon . 1 indexed citations
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Borrelli, Pasquale, David A. Robinson, Panos Panagos, et al.. (2020). Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21994–22001. 881 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wuepper, David, Solen Le Clec’h, David Zilberman, Nathaniel D. Mueller, & Robert Finger. (2020). Countries influence the trade-off between crop yields and nitrogen pollution. Nature Food. 1(11). 713–719. 51 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, et al.. (2020). Does it matter who advises farmers? Pest management choices with public and private extension. Food Policy. 99. 101995–101995. 82 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, Pasquale Borrelli, Daniel Mueller, & Robert Finger. (2020). Quantifying the soil erosion legacy of the Soviet Union. Agricultural Systems. 185. 102940–102940. 4 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David. (2016). What is the value of world heritage status for a German national park? A choice experiment from Jasmund, 1 year after inscription. Tourism Economics. 23(5). 1114–1123. 20 indexed citations

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