Éric F. Lambin

76.1k citations

249 papers · 36.3k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 89

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.01%
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 153
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 97
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 70
- Forest Management and Policy 23
Ecological Modeling 20
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 20

Co-authors: Patrick Meyfroidt Helmut Geist B. L. Turner Anette Reenberg Benoı̂t Mertens Daniele Ehrlich Hannes Geist A. Veldkamp
Journals: International Journal of Remote Sensing (20 papers)Global Environmental Change (12 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (12 papers)Applied Geography (10 papers)Ecology and Society (8 papers)
Partner nations: Belgium United States Italy

In The Last Decade

Éric F. Lambin

244 papers receiving 33.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation 2018 · 330 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2018 Nature Climate Change
2017 Science
2014 Global Environmental Change
2013 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Annual Review of Environment and Resources
2011 AMBIO
2010 Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B))
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Land Use Policy
2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2007 Science
2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2005 Global Environmental Change
2004 International Journal of Remote Sensing
2003 Annual Review of Environment and Resources
2002 BioScience
2001 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Reversing degradation of social–ecological systems: explaining the outcomes of interventions in Africa Sustainability Science ·Mohammed Mellit, Éric F. Lambin	2024	5
2	Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand Regional Environmental Change ·Olena Sergiivna Shchekovych, Éric F. Lambin	2024	4
3	Oil palm expansion and deforestation in Southwest Cameroon associated with proliferation of informal mills RePEc: Research Papers in Economics ·Elsa M. Ordway, Rosamond L. Naylor, Raymond N. Nkongho, Éric F. Lambin	2024	0
4	Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Governance (ABSOLUG) in Tropical Commodity Frontiers Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation ·Ryan Beach, Éric F. Lambin	2023	3
5	Effectiveness of community forests for forest conservation in Nan province, Thailand Journal of Land Use Science ·Olena Sergiivna Shchekovych, 王济东, Chiong Chiong, Éric F. Lambin	2022	21
6	Agents of Forest Disturbance in the Argentine Dry Chaco Remote Sensing ·良文大川, Ignácio Gasparri, Éric F. Lambin, Tobias Kuemmerle	2022	17
7	Climate predicts geographic and temporal variation in mosquito-borne disease dynamics on two continents Nature Communications ·Jamie M. Caldwell, A. Desirée LaBeaud, Éric F. Lambin, Anna M. Stewart‐Ibarra, Bryson Ndenga, Francis Mutuku, Amy Krystosik, Efraín Beltrán Ayala, Assaf Anyamba, Mercy J. Borbor‐Cordova, R. Damoah, Elysse N. Grossi-Soyster, MUHuan-zhen, Harun N. Ngugi, Sadie J. Ryan, Melisa M. Shah, Rachel Sippy, Erin A. Mordecai	2021	70
8	Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands Ecology and Society ·Georges Mutin, W. C. B, Peter Schurtenberger, Lynn Huntsinger, Éric F. Lambin	2021	29
9	Europe’s renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests Nature Communications ·Timothy D. Searchinger, Tim Beringer, Bjart Holtsmark, Daniel M. Kammen, Éric F. Lambin, Wolfgang Lucht, Peter H. Raven, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou	2018	113
10	Smallholder telecoupling and potential sustainability Ecology and Society ·Karl S. Zimmerer, Éric F. Lambin, Steven J. Vanek	2018	47
11	Responding to Globalization: Impacts of Certification on Colombian Small-Scale Coffee Growers Ecology and Society ·Ximena Rueda, Éric F. Lambin	2013	149
12	Globalization’s unexpected impact on soybean production in South America: linkages between preferences for non-genetically modified crops, eco-certifications, and land use Environmental Research Letters ·Rachael Garrett, Ximena Rueda, Éric F. Lambin	2013	72
13	Land-use and land-cover change : local processes and global impacts Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) ·Éric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist Hit paper breakdown →	2010	585
14	Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Patrick Meyfroidt, Éric F. Lambin	2009	289
15	Implementing the Transition to Sustainable Development SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Éric F. Lambin	2003	6
16	DIGITAL CHANGE DETECTION METHODS IN NATURAL ECOSYSTEM MONITORING: A REVIEW Pol Coppin, Éric F. Lambin, Inge Jonckheere, Bart Muys	2002	65
17	Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Deforestation in South Cameroon: Integration of Household Survey and Remotely-Sensed Data SSRN Electronic Journal ·Benoı̂t Mertens, William D. Sunderlin, Ousseynou Ndoye, Éric F. Lambin	2001	7
18	La utilització del sòl i el canvi global Éric F. Lambin	1998	2
19	The surface temperature-vegetation index space for land cover and land-cover change analysis International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Éric F. Lambin, Daniele Ehrlich	1996	304
20	MODIS Land Cover Product: Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Edward Herrera Sanclemente, Alison Moody, Éric F. Lambin, Alfredo Huete, M Buckendahl, Jan‐Peter Müller, Steven W. Running, Varlam Mihai, Z. Wan	1994	34

About Éric F. Lambin

Éric F. Lambin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Horticulture and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 249 papers that have together received 36.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (97 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (70 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (34 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (29 papers), Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (27 papers), Forest Management and Policy (23 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (21 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (23.4k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (5.4k citations), Ecology (10.6k citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3.4k citations) and Forestry (1.6k citations). Éric F. Lambin has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Patrick Meyfroidt, Helmut Geist, B. L. Turner, Anette Reenberg, Benoı̂t Mertens, Daniele Ehrlich, Hannes Geist, A. Veldkamp, Thomas K. Rudel and Bart Muys. Their work appears in journals such as International Journal of Remote Sensing, Global Environmental Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Applied Geography and Ecology and Society.

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