Helmut Geist

12.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Helmut Geist is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Helmut Geist has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Helmut Geist's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (4 papers) and Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (3 papers). Helmut Geist is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (4 papers) and Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (3 papers). Helmut Geist collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Helmut Geist's co-authors include Éric F. Lambin, Jumanne M. Abdallah, Kang‐Tsung Chang, Stephen Whitfield and Antônio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and has published in prestigious journals such as BioScience, Sustainability and Land Use Policy.

In The Last Decade

Helmut Geist

13 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation

2002 2.3k citations Helmut Geist, Éric F. Lambin BioScience profile →
Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions

2003 2.1k citations Éric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →
Land-use and land-cover change : local processes and global impacts

2010 585 citations Éric F. Lambin, Helmut Geist Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helmut Geist Germany	9	4.3k	1.5k	1.1k	633	581	15	5.5k
Bruno Locatelli France	43	3.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	739 0.7×	633 1.0×	487 0.8×	154	5.5k
Jefferson Fox United States	40	3.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	644 0.6×	340 0.5×	830 1.4×	126	5.9k
Anette Reenberg Denmark	31	4.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	433 0.7×	813 1.4×	85	7.1k
Marc J. Metzger United Kingdom	39	3.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	760 0.7×	610 1.0×	581 1.0×	128	6.5k
Holly K. Gibbs United States	21	2.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	488 0.4×	783 1.2×	463 0.8×	41	4.4k
Bernardo B. N. Strassburg Brazil	35	3.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	901 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	636 1.1×	69	6.5k
Louise Willemen Netherlands	25	5.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	283 0.5×	59	6.5k
Márcia N. Macedo United States	31	3.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	520 0.5×	590 0.9×	657 1.1×	63	5.6k
Catharina J.E. Schulp Netherlands	38	3.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	689 0.6×	802 1.3×	579 1.0×	71	5.3k
Matthias Baumann Germany	38	3.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	872 0.8×	279 0.4×	669 1.2×	86	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helmut Geist

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

Geist, Helmut. (2022). Perspektivenwechsel der Politischen Ökologie – Back to the roots!. Geographica Helvetica. 77(4). 511–522.

Geist, Helmut. (2021). Tobacco and Deforestation Revisited. How to Move towards a Global Land-Use Transition?. Sustainability. 13(16). 9242–9242. 9 indexed citations

Geist, Helmut. (2018). Integrative Geographie neu denken – z.B. anthropozänisch. Geographica Helvetica. 73(2). 187–191.

Geist, Helmut. (2017). The Causes and Progression of Desertification. 33 indexed citations

Whitfield, Stephen, Helmut Geist, & Antônio Augusto Rossotto Ioris. (2011). Deliberative assessment in complex socioecological systems: recommendations for environmental assessment in drylands. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 183(1-4). 465–483. 18 indexed citations

Lambin, Éric F. & Helmut Geist. (2010). 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)). 585 indexed citations breakdown →

Geist, Helmut, et al.. (2009). Tobacco growers at the crossroads: Towards a comparison of diversification and ecosystem impacts. Land Use Policy. 26(4). 1066–1079. 30 indexed citations

Geist, Helmut, et al.. (2008). The tobacco industry in Malawi: A globalised driver of local land change. 251–268. 1 indexed citations

Geist, Helmut. (2006). Change or collapse? A theoretical approach to global environmental change and landuse in rainforest and arid zone hotspots. Geographische Zeitschrift. 94(3). 143–159. 1 indexed citations

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Geist, Helmut & Éric F. Lambin. (2004). Dynamic Causal Patterns of Desertification. BioScience. 54(9). 817–817. 440 indexed citations

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Lambin, Éric F., et al.. (2003). Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 28(1). 205–241. 2126 indexed citations breakdown →

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Geist, Helmut. (2002). Causes and pathways of land change in Southern Africa during the past 300 years. Moving from simplification to generality and complexity. Erdkunde. 56(2). 144–156. 5 indexed citations

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Geist, Helmut. (2002). CAUSES AND PATHWAYS OF LAND CHANGE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA DURING THE PAST 300 YEARS. 2 indexed citations

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Geist, Helmut & Éric F. Lambin. (2002). Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation. BioScience. 52(2). 143–143. 2250 indexed citations breakdown →

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Geist, Helmut. (1999). Exploring the Entry Points for Political Ecology in the International Research Agenda on Global Environmental Change. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie. 43(1). 158–168. 10 indexed citations

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