Holly K. Gibbs

6.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
41 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Holly K. Gibbs is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Holly K. Gibbs has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Holly K. Gibbs's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (35 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 papers). Holly K. Gibbs is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (35 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (15 papers). Holly K. Gibbs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Holly K. Gibbs's co-authors include Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley, Lisa Rausch, Frédéric Achard, Peter Holmgren, Murray K. Clayton, Jacob Munger, Nathalie F. Walker, Douglas C. Morton and Praveen Noojipady and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Holly K. Gibbs

39 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

2010 1.3k citations Holly K. Gibbs, Frédéric Achard et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Brazil's Soy Moratorium

2015 472 citations Holly K. Gibbs, Lisa Rausch et al. profile →
The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

2018 330 citations Éric F. Lambin, Holly K. Gibbs et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness

2020 277 citations Jan Börner, Lisa Rausch et al. profile →
Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

2017 243 citations Kimberly M. Carlson, Robert Heilmayr et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Holly K. Gibbs United States	21	2.7k	1.3k	793	783	519	41	4.4k
Claudia Stickler United States	20	2.6k 1.0×	967 0.7×	610 0.8×	757 1.0×	317 0.6×	32	4.1k
Pablo Pacheco Indonesia	40	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	953 1.2×	593 0.8×	654 1.3×	132	4.4k
Thomas Kästner Germany	42	2.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.9×	692 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	386 0.7×	96	7.0k
Oliver T. Coomes Canada	37	2.9k 1.1×	771 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	735 0.9×	186 0.4×	115	5.0k
Stephen G. Perz United States	34	2.8k 1.0×	683 0.5×	889 1.1×	689 0.9×	218 0.4×	110	4.0k
Rachael Garrett United States	33	1.5k 0.5×	855 0.7×	879 1.1×	501 0.6×	615 1.2×	76	3.3k
Thomas K. Rudel United States	37	5.2k 1.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	1.5k 1.9×	334 0.6×	108	7.6k
Márcia N. Macedo United States	31	3.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	585 0.7×	590 0.8×	147 0.3×	63	5.6k
Susanna B. Hecht United States	30	2.2k 0.8×	583 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	448 0.6×	339 0.7×	83	4.2k
John Herbohn Australia	33	2.3k 0.8×	587 0.5×	525 0.7×	398 0.5×	260 0.5×	218	3.7k

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Brandão, Amintas, et al.. (2024). Protected Areas in the Brazilian Amazon Threatened by Cycles of Property Registration, Cattle Ranching, and Deforestation. Land. 13(7). 901–901.

Phaneuf, Daniel J., et al.. (2024). The value of property rights and environmental policy in Brazil: Evidence from a new database on land prices. Global Environmental Change. 87. 102854–102854. 1 indexed citations

Rausch, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Behind the cattle industry: Modern slave labor used to produce Brazil's beef and leather. Environmental Development. 51. 101000–101000. 1 indexed citations

Levy, Samuel A., Federico Cammelli, Jacob Munger, Holly K. Gibbs, & Rachael Garrett. (2023). Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments. Global Environmental Change. 80. 102671–102671. 25 indexed citations

Brandão, Amintas, Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, & Holly K. Gibbs. (2023). Mapping Slaughterhouse Supply Zones in the Brazilian Amazon with Cattle Transit Records. Land. 12(9). 1782–1782. 2 indexed citations

Gibbs, Holly K., et al.. (2023). Agricultural intensification and childhood cancer in Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(45). e2306003120–e2306003120. 16 indexed citations

West, Thales A. P., Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, & Holly K. Gibbs. (2022). Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle. Conservation Letters. 15(6). 13 indexed citations

Rausch, Lisa, et al.. (2022). Sustainable intensification in the Brazilian cattle industry: the role for reduced slaughter age. Environmental Research Letters. 17(6). 64026–64026. 13 indexed citations

Gibbs, Holly K., et al.. (2021). Agricultural Displacement and Deforestation Leakage in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Land Economics. 97(1). 155–179. 14 indexed citations

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Rausch, Lisa, et al.. (2021). The Role of High-Volume Ranches as Cattle Suppliers: Supply Chain Connections and Cattle Production in Mato Grosso. Land. 10(10). 1098–1098. 5 indexed citations

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Gibbs, Holly K., et al.. (2021). Environmental policies that shape productivity: Evidence from cattle ranching in the Amazon. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 109. 102490–102490. 27 indexed citations

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Gibbs, Holly K., et al.. (2021). Agricultural Displacement and Deforestation Leakage in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Land Economics. 97(1). 155–179. 1 indexed citations

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Heilmayr, Robert, Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, & Holly K. Gibbs. (2020). Brazil’s Amazon Soy Moratorium reduced deforestation. Nature Food. 1(12). 801–810. 117 indexed citations

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Rausch, Lisa, Holly K. Gibbs, Ian Schelly, et al.. (2019). Soy expansion in Brazil's Cerrado. Conservation Letters. 12(6). 93 indexed citations

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Lambin, Éric F., Holly K. Gibbs, Robert Heilmayr, et al.. (2018). The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation. Nature Climate Change. 8(2). 109–116. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Frey, Gabriel, Thales A. P. West, Thomas Hickler, et al.. (2018). Simulated Impacts of Soy and Infrastructure Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Maximum Entropy Approach. Forests. 9(10). 600–600. 17 indexed citations

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L’Roe, Jessica, Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, & Holly K. Gibbs. (2016). Mapping properties to monitor forests: Landholder response to a large environmental registration program in the Brazilian Amazon. Land Use Policy. 57. 193–203. 47 indexed citations

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Rausch, Lisa & Holly K. Gibbs. (2016). Property Arrangements and Soy Governance in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso: Implications for Deforestation-Free Production. Land. 5(2). 7–7. 34 indexed citations

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Gibbs, Holly K., Frédéric Achard, Murray K. Clayton, et al.. (2010). Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(38). 16732–16737. 1306 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gibbs, Holly K. & Martin Herold. (2007). Tropical Deforestation and Carbon Emissions: Introduction to Special Issue. Environmental Research Letters. 2. 1 indexed citations

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