Helmut Haberl

29.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
199 papers, 17.2k citations indexed

About

Helmut Haberl is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Helmut Haberl has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 17.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Environmental Engineering, 77 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 48 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Helmut Haberl's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (76 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (48 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (40 papers). Helmut Haberl is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (76 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (48 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (40 papers). Helmut Haberl collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Helmut Haberl's co-authors include Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, Simone Gingrich, Christoph Plutzar, Christian Lauk, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Thomas Kästner, Veronika Gaube and Alberte Bondeau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Helmut Haberl

191 papers receiving 16.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

2007 1.0k citations Helmut Haberl, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

2016 973 citations Karl‐Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century

2009 719 citations Fridolin Krausmann, Simone Gingrich et al. Ecological Economics profile →
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

2020 494 citations Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al. profile →
Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

2014 452 citations Helmut Haberl et al. profile →
Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

2017 442 citations Fridolin Krausmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

2017 437 citations Karl‐Heinz Erb, Thomas Kästner et al. profile →
Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

2013 437 citations Fridolin Krausmann, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Potential for future reductions of global GHG and air pollutants from circular waste management systems

2022 178 citations Helmut Haberl et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helmut Haberl

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Tipping points toward sustainability: The role of industrial ecology 2025 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Claudia R. Binder, Aristide Athanassiadis, David Bristow, Helmut Haberl, Christopher Kennedy	0
2	Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence 2025 ·Ecological Economics ·Juan Antonio Duro, (unknown), Hanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl	1
3	Mapping material stocks in buildings and infrastructures across the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration at high-resolution using multi-source geographical data 2024 ·Resources Conservation and Recycling ·Bowen Cai, André Baumgart, Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Shenghui Fang, Zhenfeng Shao	12
4	Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings 2024 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Helmut Haberl, André Baumgart, Julian Zeidler, Franz Schug, David Frantz, Daniela Palacios‐Lopez, Tomer Fishman, (unknown), Bowen Cai, Doris Virág, Patrick Hostert, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Thomas Esch	7
5	From extraction to end‐uses and waste management: Modeling economy‐wide material cycles and stock dynamics around the world 2024 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Dominik Wiedenhofer, Jan Streeck, Hanspeter Wieland, (unknown), André Baumgart, Barbara Plank, Christoph Helbig, Stefan Pauliuk, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann	11
6	Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape‐scale vertebrate richness 2023 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown), Christoph Plutzar, Dietmar Moser, Philipp Semenchuk, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Franz Essl, Andreas Gattringer, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann, Bernd Lenzner, Johannes Wessely, Sarah Matej, Robin Pouteau, Stefan Dullinger	6
7	High‐resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data 2022 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Franz Schug, David Frantz, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, Doris Virág, Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert	14
8	Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Philipp Semenchuk, Christoph Plutzar, Thomas Kästner, Sarah Matej, (unknown), Karl‐Heinz Erb, Franz Essl, Helmut Haberl, Johannes Wessely, Fridolin Krausmann, Stefan Dullinger	83
9	The use of steel in the United Kingdom's transport sector: A stock–flow–service nexus case study 2020 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Luis Gabriel Carmona, Kai Whiting, Helmut Haberl, Tânia Sousa	28
10	Household time use, carbon footprints, and urban form: a review of the potential contributions of everyday living to the 1.5 °C climate target 2018 ·Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ·Dominik Wiedenhofer, Barbara Smetschka, Lewis Akenji, Mikko Jalas, Helmut Haberl	120
11	Land Use Competition 2016 ·DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) ·(unknown), Juliana Lutz, Christian Lauk, Helmut Haberl, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Tobias Krueger, Patrick Hostert, Antje Bruns, Daniel B. Müller	20
12	Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production for Biomass Consumption in the European Union, 1986–2007 2015 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Thomas Kästner, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl	45
13	Europe’s other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Helmut Haberl, Karl Hülber, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k, Fridolin Krausmann, Ingolf Kühn, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Philip E. Hulme	90
14	Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy by Mark Jaccard 2008 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Helmut Haberl	1
15	Industrialization, Fossil Fuels, and the Transformation of Land Use 2008 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Karl‐Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Fridolin Krausmann, Helmut Haberl	52
16	Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems breakdown → 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Helmut Haberl, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Christoph Plutzar, Simone Gingrich, Wolfgang Lucht, Marina Fischer‐Kowalski	1048
17	A comprehensive global 5 min resolution land-use data set for the year 2000 consistent with national census data 2007 ·Journal of Land Use Science ·Karl‐Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube, Fridolin Krausmann, Christoph Plutzar, Alberte Bondeau, Helmut Haberl	179
18	The Energetic Metabolism of the European Union and the United States: Decadal Energy Input Time-Series with an Emphasis on Biomass 2006 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Helmut Haberl, Helga Weisz, Christof Amann, Alberte Bondeau, Nina Eisenmenger, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann	41
19	On the Utility of Counting Joules: Reply to Comments by Mario Giampietro 2006 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Helmut Haberl	10
20	The Energetic Metabolism of Societies Part I: Accounting Concepts 2001 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·Helmut Haberl	146

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