Jan Börner

9.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
115 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Jan Börner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Börner has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 45 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 38 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Jan Börner's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (62 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (40 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (19 papers). Jan Börner is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (62 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (40 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (19 papers). Jan Börner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Brazil. Jan Börner's co-authors include Sven Wunder, Driss Ezzine‐de‐Blas, Thales A. P. West, Carsten Smith‐Hall, Simone Bauch, Arild Angelsen, B. Belcher, Ronnie Babigumira, Nicholas J. Hogarth and Pamela Jagger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jan Börner

107 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comp... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2014 2017 2015 2020 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis
    2014 792 citations Jan Börner, Sven Wunder et al. profile →
  2. Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
    2014 350 citations Patrick Meyfroidt, Jan Börner et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  3. The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services
    2017 335 citations Jan Börner, U. Martin Persson et al. profile →
  4. Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation
    2015 311 citations Jan Börner, U. Martin Persson et al. profile →
  5. The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness
    2020 277 citations Raoni Rajão, Britaldo Soares‐Filho et al. Science profile →
  6. Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon
    2021 187 citations Argemiro Teixeira Leite‐Filho, Britaldo Soares‐Filho et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation
    2023 172 citations Thales A. P. West, Sven Wunder et al. Science profile →
  8. Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction
    2021 160 citations Jan Börner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Börner Germany 37 3.6k 1.9k 1.2k 784 776 115 6.0k
Erin O. Sills United States 40 3.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 765 0.6× 705 0.9× 560 0.7× 150 6.2k
Thomas K. Rudel United States 37 5.2k 1.5× 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 1.4k 1.7× 897 1.2× 108 7.6k
Maria Brockhaus Indonesia 40 4.5k 1.3× 1.2k 0.6× 733 0.6× 987 1.3× 551 0.7× 144 6.4k
Esteve Corbera Spain 45 6.0k 1.7× 3.0k 1.5× 1.3k 1.1× 934 1.2× 1.7k 2.1× 122 8.9k
G. Cornelis van Kooten Canada 40 2.8k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 491 0.4× 670 0.9× 526 0.7× 280 5.5k
Roldán Muradian Netherlands 28 2.9k 0.8× 2.0k 1.0× 501 0.4× 409 0.5× 1.2k 1.5× 61 5.0k
Ashwini Chhatre United States 28 3.1k 0.9× 875 0.4× 622 0.5× 646 0.8× 583 0.8× 68 4.5k
Hualin Xie China 45 2.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 818 0.7× 718 0.9× 700 0.9× 148 5.3k
Hans van Meijl Netherlands 41 1.8k 0.5× 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.7× 428 0.6× 170 6.7k
Oliver T. Coomes Canada 37 2.9k 0.8× 735 0.4× 1.1k 0.9× 771 1.0× 477 0.6× 115 5.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Börner

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dutta, Trishna, et al.. (2025). Climate-relevant land cover composition and configuration trajectories in Europe. Environmental Research Letters. 20(5). 54018–54018.
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Börner, Jan, et al.. (2025). Not an easy ride: Economic research priorities for pro-environmental trade regulation. Forest Policy and Economics. 182. 103682–103682.
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Börner, Jan, et al.. (2024). Motivational drivers and the effectiveness of conservation incentives. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 8.
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Biber‐Freudenberger, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Incentives for biodiversity conservation under asymmetric land ownership. Ecological Economics. 219. 108152–108152. 4 indexed citations
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Börner, Jan, et al.. (2024). Health benefits of reduced deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 2 indexed citations
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Hartmann, Monika, et al.. (2024). Behavioral factors driving farmers’ intentions to adopt spot spraying for sustainable weed control. Journal of Environmental Management. 353. 120218–120218. 12 indexed citations
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Dietz, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Towards effective national and international governance for a sustainable bioeconomy: A global expert perspective. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100058–100058. 14 indexed citations
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Wuepper, David, Thomas W. Crowther, T. Bruce Lauber, et al.. (2023). Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders. Global Environmental Change. 84. 102770–102770. 14 indexed citations
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West, Thales A. P., Sven Wunder, Erin O. Sills, et al.. (2023). Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation. Science. 381(6660). 873–877. 172 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dürr, J., et al.. (2023). Factors affecting consumption of edible insects as food: entomophagy in Myanmar. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed. 9(6). 721–739. 13 indexed citations
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Leite‐Filho, Argemiro Teixeira, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Juliana Leroy Davis, Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão, & Jan Börner. (2021). Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2591–2591. 187 indexed citations breakdown →
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West, Thales A. P., Jan Börner, Erin O. Sills, & Andreas Kontoleon. (2020). Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24188–24194. 200 indexed citations
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Meyfroidt, Patrick, Jan Börner, Rachael Garrett, et al.. (2020). Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 90202–90202. 83 indexed citations
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Giudice, Renzo, Jan Börner, Sven Wunder, & Elías Cisneros. (2019). Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters. 14(4). 45004–45004. 35 indexed citations
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Thonicke, Kirsten, Fanny Langerwisch, Matthias Baumann, et al.. (2019). A social-ecological approach to identify and quantify biodiversitytipping points in South America's seasonal dry ecosystems. 3 indexed citations
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Börner, Jan, et al.. (2019). Land speculation and conservation policy leakage in Brazil. Environmental Research Letters. 14(4). 45006–45006. 3 indexed citations
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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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