Johan A. Oldekop

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Johan A. Oldekop is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Johan A. Oldekop has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 7 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Johan A. Oldekop's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (13 papers). Johan A. Oldekop is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (13 papers). Johan A. Oldekop collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Johan A. Oldekop's co-authors include Karl L. Evans, George Holmes, W. E. Harris, Arun Agrawal, James T. Erbaugh, Peter Newton, Reem Hajjar, Katharine R. E. Sims, Mark J. Whittingham and Dan Brockington and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Johan A. Oldekop

43 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

A global assessment of the social and conservation outcomes of protected areas

2015 561 citations Johan A. Oldekop, George Holmes et al. Conservation Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johan A. Oldekop United Kingdom	24	1.6k	548	405	320	257	45	2.3k
Jennifer Hauck Germany	24	1.3k 0.8×	292 0.5×	308 0.8×	373 1.2×	212 0.8×	42	2.2k
Andra‐Ioana Horcea‐Milcu Germany	20	1.3k 0.8×	208 0.4×	258 0.6×	407 1.3×	361 1.4×	39	2.0k
Pernilla Malmer Sweden	5	1.2k 0.8×	172 0.3×	576 1.4×	453 1.4×	405 1.6×	6	2.4k
Pamela McElwee United States	26	1.5k 0.9×	386 0.7×	356 0.9×	500 1.6×	644 2.5×	67	2.6k
George Holmes United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.9×	458 0.8×	764 1.9×	519 1.6×	454 1.8×	77	2.8k
Katie Moon Australia	21	676 0.4×	259 0.5×	361 0.9×	390 1.2×	287 1.1×	42	1.7k
Karina Benessaiah United States	16	1.4k 0.9×	406 0.7×	344 0.8×	542 1.7×	513 2.0×	30	2.4k
Małgorzata Grodzińska‐Jurczak Poland	27	882 0.6×	334 0.6×	284 0.7×	527 1.6×	291 1.1×	82	1.9k
Marine Elbakidze Sweden	32	1.9k 1.2×	204 0.4×	445 1.1×	472 1.5×	206 0.8×	76	2.9k
Marja Spierenburg Netherlands	24	1.6k 1.0×	214 0.4×	554 1.4×	593 1.9×	657 2.6×	59	3.1k

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Schleicher, Judith, Arnout van Soesbergen, Marije Schaafsma, et al.. (2025). Where Nature and Poverty Meet: Developing a Multidimensional Environment-Poverty Measure. The Journal of Development Studies. 61(6). 869–889.

Hall, Charlotte, Johan A. Oldekop, Upasak Das, et al.. (2025). Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi. Conservation Letters. 18(1). 1 indexed citations

Oldekop, Johan A., et al.. (2025). Sustainable forest transitions: A new analytical framework to understand social and ecological outcomes of reforestation. One Earth. 8(5). 101248–101248.

Hajjar, Reem, et al.. (2025). Navigating data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes. Conservation Biology. 39(2). e14457–e14457. 3 indexed citations

Mansourian, Stéphanie, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Marlène Elias, et al.. (2025). Ecosystem restoration centered in people. Restoration Ecology. 33(7). 1 indexed citations

Mansourian, Stéphanie, Ida N.S. Djenontin, Marlène Elias, et al.. (2025). Situating the “human” in forest landscape restoration. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 1 indexed citations

Kamoto, Judith, et al.. (2024). Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Nature Food. 5(8). 661–666. 3 indexed citations

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

Pritchard, Rose, et al.. (2023). Rights based approaches to forest landscape restoration; learning from the Indian forest policy experience. Forest Policy and Economics. 157. 103073–103073. 11 indexed citations

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Pritchard, Rose, Laura Aileen Sauls, Johan A. Oldekop, Wilhelm Andrew Kiwango, & Dan Brockington. (2022). Data justice and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology. 36(5). e13919–e13919. 46 indexed citations

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Oldekop, Johan A., et al.. (2022). Privately protected areas increase global protected area coverage and connectivity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(6). 730–737. 28 indexed citations

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Hajjar, Reem, Johan A. Oldekop, P. Cronkleton, et al.. (2020). A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests. Nature Sustainability. 4(3). 216–224. 126 indexed citations

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Erbaugh, James T., Nabin Pradhan, Johan A. Oldekop, et al.. (2020). Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(11). 1472–1476. 196 indexed citations

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Oldekop, Johan A., et al.. (2020). Assessing multidimensional sustainability: Lessons from Brazil’s social protection programs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20511–20519. 29 indexed citations

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Oldekop, Johan A., et al.. (2020). Conservation and social outcomes of private protected areas. Conservation Biology. 35(4). 1098–1110. 38 indexed citations

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Schleicher, Judith, Johanna Eklund, Megan Barnes, et al.. (2019). Statistical matching for conservation science. Conservation Biology. 34(3). 538–549. 135 indexed citations

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Oldekop, Johan A., Katharine R. E. Sims, Birendra Karna, Mark J. Whittingham, & Arun Agrawal. (2019). Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal. Nature Sustainability. 2(5). 421–428. 148 indexed citations

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Evans, Karl L., et al.. (2018). Impact of protected areas on poverty, extreme poverty, and inequality in Nepal. Conservation Letters. 11(6). 60 indexed citations

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Oldekop, Johan A., Anthony Bebbington, Julia Mcmorrow, et al.. (2012). Evaluating the effects of common‐pool resource institutions and market forces on species richness and forest cover in Ecuadorian indigenous Kichwa communities. Conservation Letters. 6(2). 107–115. 15 indexed citations

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Oldekop, Johan A., Anthony Bebbington, Dan Brockington, & Richard F. Preziosi. (2010). Understanding the Lessons and Limitations of Conservation and Development. Conservation Biology. 24(2). 461–469. 38 indexed citations

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