James R. Oakleaf

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

James R. Oakleaf is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Oakleaf has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James R. Oakleaf's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (5 papers). James R. Oakleaf is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers) and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy (5 papers). James R. Oakleaf collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. James R. Oakleaf's co-authors include Christina M. Kennedy, Sharon Baruch‐Mordo, Joseph M. Kiesecker, David M. Theobald, Joe Kiesecker, Бин Чэн, Paul West, James Gerber, Justin A. Johnson and Jeffrey J. Opperman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

James R. Oakleaf

24 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Managing the middle: A shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient

2019 440 citations Christina M. Kennedy, James R. Oakleaf et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Mapping the planet’s critical areas for biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people

2024 43 citations Rachel Neugarten, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James R. Oakleaf United States	15	558	530	222	190	187	24	1.3k
Scott Atkinson United States	17	597 1.1×	546 1.0×	229 1.0×	219 1.2×	189 1.0×	26	1.3k
Ruidong Wu China	22	474 0.8×	725 1.4×	278 1.3×	294 1.5×	151 0.8×	54	1.6k
Sharon Baruch‐Mordo United States	21	1.2k 2.1×	735 1.4×	290 1.3×	293 1.5×	160 0.9×	30	2.0k
Laurenţiu Rozyłowicz Romania	25	466 0.8×	570 1.1×	238 1.1×	214 1.1×	205 1.1×	59	1.3k
Andreas Brink Italy	15	663 1.2×	987 1.9×	143 0.6×	214 1.1×	171 0.9×	28	1.5k
Sandra Luque France	22	645 1.2×	1.1k 2.0×	226 1.0×	302 1.6×	200 1.1×	49	1.7k
Thomas Connor United States	18	469 0.8×	307 0.6×	329 1.5×	174 0.9×	95 0.5×	33	1.1k
Likai Zhu China	22	631 1.1×	927 1.7×	205 0.9×	159 0.8×	198 1.1×	66	1.5k
Nike Doggart Tanzania	14	379 0.7×	543 1.0×	226 1.0×	257 1.4×	105 0.6×	21	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James R. Oakleaf

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Theobald, David M., James R. Oakleaf, Glenn R. Moncrieff, et al.. (2025). Global extent and change in human modification of terrestrial ecosystems from 1990 to 2022. Scientific Data. 12(1). 606–606. 1 indexed citations

Neugarten, Rachel, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Richard Sharp, et al.. (2024). Mapping the planet’s critical areas for biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. Nature Communications. 15(1). 261–261. 43 indexed citations breakdown →

Kiesecker, Joseph M., Jeffrey S. Evans, James R. Oakleaf, et al.. (2024). Land use and Europe’s renewable energy transition: identifying low-conflict areas for wind and solar development. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 12 indexed citations

Oakleaf, James R., Christina M. Kennedy, Nicholas H. Wolff, et al.. (2024). Mapping global land conversion pressure to support conservation planning. Scientific Data. 11(1). 830–830. 3 indexed citations

Kiesecker, Joseph M., K. Nagaraju Shivaprakash, James R. Oakleaf, et al.. (2023). The Road to India’s Renewable Energy Transition Must Pass through Crowded Lands. Land. 12(11). 2049–2049. 1 indexed citations

Wolff, Nicholas H., Piero Visconti, Heini Kujala, et al.. (2023). Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk. One Earth. 6(11). 1564–1575. 9 indexed citations

Theobald, David M., Christina M. Kennedy, Бин Чэн, et al.. (2020). Earth transformed: detailed mapping of global human modification from 1990 to 2017. Earth system science data. 12(3). 1953–1972. 152 indexed citations

Riggio, Jason, Jonathan Baillie, Steven P. Brumby, et al.. (2020). Global human influence maps reveal clear opportunities in conserving Earth’s remaining intact terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 26(8). 4344–4356. 111 indexed citations

Kennedy, Christina M., James R. Oakleaf, David M. Theobald, Sharon Baruch‐Mordo, & Joseph M. Kiesecker. (2019). Managing the middle: A shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient. Global Change Biology. 25(3). 811–826. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oakleaf, James R., Christina M. Kennedy, Sharon Baruch‐Mordo, et al.. (2019). Mapping global development potential for renewable energy, fossil fuels, mining and agriculture sectors. Scientific Data. 6(1). 101–101. 77 indexed citations

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Kiesecker, Joseph M., et al.. (2019). Renewable Energy and Land Use in India: A Vision to Facilitate Sustainable Development. Sustainability. 12(1). 281–281. 46 indexed citations

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Heiner, Michael, Nyamsuren Batsaikhan, Yunden Bayarjargal, et al.. (2019). Making space: Putting landscape‐level mitigation into practice in Mongolia. Conservation Science and Practice. 1(10). 12 indexed citations

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Heiner, Michael, James Fitzsimons, James R. Oakleaf, et al.. (2018). Moving from reactive to proactive development planning to conserve Indigenous community and biodiversity values. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 74. 1–13. 40 indexed citations

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Baruch‐Mordo, Sharon, Joseph M. Kiesecker, Christina M. Kennedy, James R. Oakleaf, & Jeffrey J. Opperman. (2018). From Paris to practice: sustainable implementation of renewable energy goals. Environmental Research Letters. 14(2). 24013–24013. 55 indexed citations

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Oakleaf, James R., Marcelo Matsumoto, Christina M. Kennedy, et al.. (2017). LegalGEO: Conservation tool to guide the siting of legal reserves under the Brazilian Forest Code. Applied Geography. 86. 53–65. 17 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Christina M., Daniela A. Miteva, Leandro Baumgarten, et al.. (2016). Bigger is better: Improved nature conservation and economic returns from landscape-level mitigation. Science Advances. 2(7). e1501021–e1501021. 47 indexed citations

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Oakleaf, James R., Christina M. Kennedy, Sharon Baruch‐Mordo, et al.. (2015). A World at Risk: Aggregating Development Trends to Forecast Global Habitat Conversion. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0138334–e0138334. 46 indexed citations

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Oakleaf, James R., Christina M. Kennedy, Timothy Boucher, & Joseph M. Kiesecker. (2013). Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability. Sustainability. 5(10). 4444–4460. 1 indexed citations

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Oakleaf, James R., et al.. (2010). Cyberinfrastructure for collaborative geologic carbon sequestration research: a conceptual model. Rocky Mountain geology. 45(2). 163–180. 1 indexed citations

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Oakleaf, John K., Dennis L. Murray, James R. Oakleaf, et al.. (2006). Habitat Selection by Recolonizing Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States. Journal of Wildlife Management. 70(2). 554–563. 76 indexed citations

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