Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 6 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (16 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers). Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (16 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers). Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and United States. Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas's co-authors include Sven Wunder, Esteve Corbera, Jan Börner, Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey‐Rosés, U. Martin Persson, Renaud Lapeyre, Rocío del Pilar Moreno-Sánchez, Manuel Ruíz-Pérez and Paul J. Ferraro and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas

23 papers receiving 1.7k 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 Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services

2017 335 citations Jan Börner, Kathy Baylis et al. profile →
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

2015 311 citations Kathy Baylis, Jordi Honey‐Rosés et al. profile →
From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services

2018 234 citations Sven Wunder, Roy Brouwer et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas France	15	1.3k	968	358	178	175	25	1.8k
Beria Leimona Indonesia	21	973 0.7×	495 0.5×	238 0.7×	199 1.1×	166 0.9×	47	1.4k
Bhim Adhikari Canada	17	1.1k 0.8×	447 0.5×	266 0.7×	107 0.6×	214 1.2×	40	1.5k
Tanya Hayes United States	16	1.0k 0.8×	404 0.4×	247 0.7×	237 1.3×	244 1.4×	23	1.4k
Bettina Matzdorf Germany	27	1.6k 1.2×	820 0.8×	615 1.7×	232 1.3×	528 3.0×	68	2.5k
Heidi J. Albers United States	26	1.1k 0.8×	708 0.7×	200 0.6×	335 1.9×	82 0.5×	75	1.6k
Juan Robalino Costa Rica	23	2.2k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	304 0.8×	427 2.4×	241 1.4×	49	2.8k
Katharine R. E. Sims United States	21	2.4k 1.8×	1.6k 1.7×	511 1.4×	368 2.1×	254 1.5×	42	3.1k
Manuel Ruíz-Pérez Spain	19	1.3k 1.0×	444 0.5×	351 1.0×	254 1.4×	240 1.4×	23	1.9k
Merlin M. Hanauer United States	13	1.0k 0.8×	667 0.7×	201 0.6×	232 1.3×	106 0.6×	20	1.3k
Daniel Hellerstein United States	21	699 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	194 0.5×	154 0.9×	247 1.4×	69	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kainer, Karen A., et al.. (2025). Community‐based timber comanagement and the boundaries of people‐centered conservation in Brazil. Conservation Biology. 39(6). e70118–e70118.

An, Li, Jianguo Liu, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Global hidden spillover effects among concurrent green initiatives. The Science of The Total Environment. 917. 169880–169880. 6 indexed citations

Villegas‐Palacio, Clara, et al.. (2024). Complexity of sustainable trajectories of a socioecological system. An application of the wayfinder guide in the tropical andes (Colombia). Environmental Science & Policy. 156. 103747–103747. 2 indexed citations

Ávila-Foucat, Véronique Sophie, et al.. (2023). The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico. AMBIO. 53(12). 1847–1863. 3 indexed citations

Villegas‐Palacio, Clara, et al.. (2023). Decoupling in governance: the land governance network in a region of the Colombian Andes. Land Use Policy. 133. 106880–106880. 4 indexed citations

Blundo‐Canto, Genowefa, et al.. (2022). Under what conditions do payments for environmental services enable forest conservation in the Amazon? A realist synthesis. Ecological Economics. 205. 107697–107697. 6 indexed citations

Perevochtchikova, María, et al.. (2021). Behind the scenes: Scientific networks driving the operationalization of the Social-Ecological System framework. The Science of The Total Environment. 787. 147473–147473. 5 indexed citations

Wunder, Sven, Roy Brouwer, Stefanie Engel, et al.. (2020). Reply to: In defence of simplified PES designs. Nature Sustainability. 3(6). 428–429. 7 indexed citations

Wunder, Sven, et al.. (2020). Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 12(1). 209–234. 116 indexed citations

10.

Wunder, Sven, Roy Brouwer, Stefanie Engel, et al.. (2018). From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services. Nature Sustainability. 1(3). 145–150. 234 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Driss, Esteve Corbera, & Renaud Lapeyre. (2018). Payments for Environmental Services and Motivation Crowding: Towards a Conceptual Framework. Ecological Economics. 156. 434–443. 108 indexed citations

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Simonet, Gabriela, Julie Subervie, Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Marina Cromberg, & Amy E. Duchelle. (2018). Effectiveness of a REDD+ Project in Reducing Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 101(1). 211–229. 77 indexed citations

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Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Driss, et al.. (2016). Payments for Environmental Services in a Policymix: Spatial and Temporal Articulation in Mexico. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0152514–e0152514. 36 indexed citations

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Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Driss, Sven Wunder, Manuel Ruíz-Pérez, & Rocío del Pilar Moreno-Sánchez. (2016). Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0149847–e0149847. 190 indexed citations

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Börner, Jan, Kathy Baylis, Esteve Corbera, et al.. (2016). Emerging Evidence on the Effectiveness of Tropical Forest Conservation. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0159152–e0159152. 70 indexed citations

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Costedoat, Sébastien, Mark J. Koetse, Esteve Corbera, & Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas. (2016). Cash only? Unveiling preferences for a PES contract through a choice experiment in Chiapas, Mexico. Land Use Policy. 58. 302–317. 44 indexed citations

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Costedoat, Sébastien, Esteve Corbera, Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas, et al.. (2015). How Effective Are Biodiversity Conservation Payments in Mexico?. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119881–e0119881. 91 indexed citations

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Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Driss, et al.. (2015). Achieving Conservation and Equity amidst Extreme Poverty and Climate Risk: The Makira REDD+ Project in Madagascar. Forests. 6(3). 748–768. 33 indexed citations

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Sist, Plínio, et al.. (2014). The Contribution of Multiple Use Forest Management to Small Farmers’ Annual Incomes in the Eastern Amazon. Forests. 5(7). 1508–1531. 14 indexed citations

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Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Driss, et al.. (2010). Forest loss and management in land reform settlements: Implications for REDD governance in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Science & Policy. 14(2). 188–200. 38 indexed citations

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