Joseph W. Bull

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Joseph W. Bull is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Economics and Econometrics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph W. Bull has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 60 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Joseph W. Bull's work include Environmental Conservation and Management (64 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (58 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (15 papers). Joseph W. Bull is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Conservation and Management (64 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (58 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (15 papers). Joseph W. Bull collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Denmark. Joseph W. Bull's co-authors include E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Ascelin Gordon, Martine Maron, K. Blake Suttle, Niels Strange, Navinder J. Singh, Sophus zu Ermgassen, James Watson, Megan Evans and Prue Addison and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Joseph W. Bull

86 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biodiversity offsets in theory and practice

2013 348 citations Joseph W. Bull, Ascelin Gordon et al. Oryx profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph W. Bull United Kingdom	36	2.4k	2.0k	1.6k	717	651	87	3.5k
James Salzman United States	19	863 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	250 0.3×	434 0.7×	83	3.1k
J. B. Ruhl United States	25	863 0.4×	601 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	391 0.5×	416 0.6×	165	2.7k
Niels Strange Denmark	28	718 0.3×	981 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	533 0.7×	403 0.6×	74	2.3k
Megan Evans Australia	25	892 0.4×	748 0.4×	993 0.6×	549 0.8×	761 1.2×	44	2.1k
James Boyd United States	28	468 0.2×	905 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	461 0.6×	531 0.8×	100	2.7k
Sue Stolton United Kingdom	28	915 0.4×	812 0.4×	2.3k 1.4×	586 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	108	3.9k
Frank Wätzold Germany	26	722 0.3×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	415 0.6×	369 0.6×	90	2.3k
Adrian Martin United Kingdom	29	753 0.3×	898 0.5×	2.1k 1.3×	191 0.3×	428 0.7×	82	3.8k
Ian Hodge United Kingdom	30	624 0.3×	848 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	345 0.5×	876 1.3×	118	3.9k
Maria Brockhaus Indonesia	40	551 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	4.5k 2.8×	241 0.3×	987 1.5×	144	6.4k

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All Works

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Ermgassen, Sophus zu, et al.. (2025). The current state, opportunities and challenges for upscaling private investment in biodiversity in Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(3). 515–524. 3 indexed citations

Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark, Sophus zu Ermgassen, Niels Strange, et al.. (2025). A Scoping Review of Determinants of Business Engagement With Biodiversity. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 32(4). 5540–5556. 1 indexed citations

Bromwich, Talitha, Thomas White, Sophus zu Ermgassen, et al.. (2025). Navigating uncertainty in life cycle assessment‐based approaches to biodiversity footprinting. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6 indexed citations

Bull, Joseph W.. (2024). Life Is Uncertain: Inherent Variability Exhibited by Organisms, and at Higher Levels of Biological Organization. Astrobiology. 24(3). 318–327.

Sonter, Laura J., Martine Maron, Anna Meta×as, & Joseph W. Bull. (2024). Ensuring legitimate project-level claims about net biodiversity outcomes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(7). 599–602. 1 indexed citations

Swinfield, Tom, et al.. (2024). Nature-based credit markets at a crossroads. Nature Sustainability. 7(10). 1217–1220. 21 indexed citations

Booth, Hollie, et al.. (2024). Fair division for avoidance of biodiversity impacts. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(12). 1102–1110. 2 indexed citations

Collins, Rebecca, Ben Balmford, Amy Binner, et al.. (2024). Biodiversity offsets perform poorly for both people and nature, but better approaches are available. One Earth. 7(12). 2165–2174. 2 indexed citations

Bromwich, Talitha, et al.. (2024). Alternative Life Cycle Impact Assessment Methods for Biodiversity Footprinting Could Motivate Different Strategic Priorities: A Case Study for a Dutch Dairy Multinational. Business Strategy and the Environment. 34(2). 2128–2138. 2 indexed citations

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Semiadi, Gono, Freddy Pattiselanno, Jatna Supriatna, et al.. (2024). Insights from 20 years of mammal population research in Indonesia. Oryx. 58(4). 485–492. 4 indexed citations

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Ermgassen, Sophus zu, B. Alexander Simmons, Ascelin Gordon, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the impact of biodiversity offsetting on native vegetation. Global Change Biology. 29(15). 4397–4411. 14 indexed citations

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Maron, Martine, Fabien Quétier, Kerry ten Kate, et al.. (2023). ‘Nature positive’ must incorporate, not undermine, the mitigation hierarchy. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(1). 14–17. 35 indexed citations

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Bull, Joseph W., et al.. (2023). Nature-positive goals for an organization’s food consumption. Nature Food. 4(1). 96–108. 19 indexed citations

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Sonter, Laura J., Martine Maron, Joseph W. Bull, et al.. (2023). How to fuel an energy transition with ecologically responsible mining. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(35). e2307006120–e2307006120. 13 indexed citations

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Ermgassen, Sophus zu, et al.. (2021). Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory Biodiversity Net Gain using evidence from early-adopter jurisdictions in England. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 7 indexed citations

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Addison, Prue, P. J. Stephenson, Joseph W. Bull, et al.. (2020). Bringing sustainability to life: A framework to guide biodiversity indicator development for business performance management. Business Strategy and the Environment. 29(8). 3303–3313. 62 indexed citations

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Smith, Thomas C., et al.. (2019). Biodiversity means business: Reframing global biodiversity goals for the private sector. Conservation Letters. 13(1). 52 indexed citations

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Bull, Joseph W., Julia Baker, Victoria F. Griffiths, Julia P. G. Jones, & E.J. Milner‐Gulland. (2018). Ensuring No Net Loss for people as well as biodiversity: good practice principles. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 14 indexed citations

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Arlidge, William N. S., Joseph W. Bull, Prue Addison, et al.. (2018). A Global Mitigation Hierarchy for Nature Conservation. BioScience. 68(5). 336–347. 154 indexed citations

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Gordon, Ascelin, Joseph W. Bull, Chris Wilcox, & Martine Maron. (2015). FORUM: Perverse incentives risk undermining biodiversity offset policies. Journal of Applied Ecology. 52(2). 532–537. 122 indexed citations

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