Javier Godar

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Javier Godar is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Javier Godar has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 10 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Javier Godar's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (11 papers) and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (9 papers). Javier Godar is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (11 papers) and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (9 papers). Javier Godar collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Belgium and Germany. Javier Godar's co-authors include U. Martin Persson, E. Jorge Tizado, Toby Gardner, Thomas Kästner, Florence Pendrill, Patrick Meyfroidt, Daniel Moran, Benno Pokorny, Pablo Pacheco and Sarah Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Cleaner Production and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Javier Godar

31 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

  1. Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions
    2019 369 citations Florence Pendrill, U. Martin Persson et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  2. Deforestation displaced: trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition
    2019 235 citations Florence Pendrill, U. Martin Persson et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Javier Godar Sweden 21 1.1k 527 494 467 352 32 2.1k
Lisa Rausch United States 16 1.1k 1.0× 366 0.7× 412 0.8× 517 1.1× 93 0.3× 31 1.8k
Nathalie F. Walker United States 10 1.2k 1.1× 502 1.0× 400 0.8× 427 0.9× 92 0.3× 12 1.8k
Robert Heilmayr United States 17 1.0k 1.0× 481 0.9× 371 0.8× 255 0.5× 142 0.4× 34 1.7k
Charlotte Streck Germany 22 1.1k 1.1× 328 0.6× 693 1.4× 167 0.4× 252 0.7× 75 2.1k
Alessandro Paletto Italy 30 1.5k 1.4× 348 0.7× 435 0.9× 185 0.4× 431 1.2× 168 2.8k
Geoff Cockfield Australia 31 1.0k 1.0× 479 0.9× 314 0.6× 251 0.5× 175 0.5× 98 2.3k
Wolfgang Britz Germany 26 562 0.5× 478 0.9× 536 1.1× 775 1.7× 301 0.9× 135 2.5k
Siwa Msangi United States 25 368 0.3× 514 1.0× 390 0.8× 520 1.1× 301 0.9× 73 2.7k
Jampel Dell’Angelo United States 24 812 0.8× 400 0.8× 253 0.5× 572 1.2× 375 1.1× 46 3.1k
Rachael Garrett United States 33 1.5k 1.4× 855 1.6× 501 1.0× 879 1.9× 188 0.5× 76 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Javier Godar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Javier Godar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Javier Godar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Javier Godar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Javier Godar 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 Javier Godar. Javier Godar 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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Oldekop, Johan A., et al.. (2024). Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(8). 1482–1492. 5 indexed citations
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Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Toby Gardner, et al.. (2022). Addressing indirect sourcing in zero deforestation commodity supply chains. Science Advances. 8(17). 42 indexed citations
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Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, et al.. (2020). The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil’s beef exports. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(50). 31770–31779. 102 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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Escobar, Neus, et al.. (2020). Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports. Global Environmental Change. 62. 102067–102067. 122 indexed citations
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Moran, Daniel, Stefan Giljum, Keiichiro Kanemoto, & Javier Godar. (2020). From Satellite to Supply Chain: New Approaches Connect Earth Observation to Economic Decisions. One Earth. 3(1). 5–8. 32 indexed citations
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Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, et al.. (2020). The origin, supply chain, and deforestation footprint of Brazil's beef exports.. 9 indexed citations
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Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, Javier Godar, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, et al.. (2019). Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 35003–35003. 99 indexed citations
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Green, Jonathan, Simon Croft, América Paz Durán, et al.. (2019). Linking global drivers of agricultural trade to on-the-ground impacts on biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(46). 23202–23208. 118 indexed citations
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Pendrill, Florence, U. Martin Persson, Javier Godar, & Thomas Kästner. (2019). Deforestation displaced: trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition. Environmental Research Letters. 14(5). 55003–55003. 235 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reis, Tiago N.P. dos, Patrick Meyfroidt, Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen, et al.. (2019). Understanding Trade Stickiness to Improve the Sustainability of Global Commodity Supply Chains. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Waroux, Yann le Polain de, Matthias Baumann, Ignácio Gasparri, et al.. (2017). Rents, Actors, and the Expansion of Commodity Frontiers in the Gran Chaco. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(1). 204–225. 102 indexed citations
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Ran, Ylva, et al.. (2016). Towards more spatially explicit assessments of virtual water flows: linking local water use and scarcity to global demand of Brazilian farming commodities. Environmental Research Letters. 11(7). 75003–75003. 41 indexed citations
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Medina, Gabriel, et al.. (2015). Development Conditions for Family Farming: Lessons From Brazil. World Development. 74. 386–396. 61 indexed citations
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Godar, Javier, Toby Gardner, E. Jorge Tizado, & Pablo Pacheco. (2014). Actor-specific contributions to the deforestation slowdown in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(43). 15591–15596. 186 indexed citations
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Godar, Javier & Toby Gardner. (2014). Governing for sustainability in agricultural-forest frontiers: A case study of the Brazilian Amazon. 5 indexed citations
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Godar, Javier, E. Jorge Tizado, & Benno Pokorny. (2011). Who is responsible for deforestation in the Amazon? A spatially explicit analysis along the Transamazon Highway in Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management. 267. 58–73. 89 indexed citations
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