Jürgen Scheffran

12.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
222 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Jürgen Scheffran is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürgen Scheffran has authored 222 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 39 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Jürgen Scheffran's work include Transboundary Water Resource Management (46 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (33 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (26 papers). Jürgen Scheffran is often cited by papers focused on Transboundary Water Resource Management (46 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (33 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (26 papers). Jürgen Scheffran collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Jürgen Scheffran's co-authors include Janpeter Schilling, Muhammad Abid, Uwe A. Schneider, Elke Hertig, Hossein Azadi, Liang Emlyn Yang, Farhad Zulfiqar, Muhammad Ashfaq, Papa Sow and Korbinian P. Freier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jürgen Scheffran

209 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Enhanced chemical weathering as a geoengineering strategy to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, supply nutrients, and mitigate ocean acidification

2013 416 citations Jürgen Scheffran et al. profile →
Farmers' perceptions of and adaptation strategies to climate change and their determinants: the case of Punjab province, Pakistan

2015 383 citations Jürgen Scheffran et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →
Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation in North Africa with focus on Morocco

2012 346 citations Jürgen Scheffran et al. profile →
Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict

2019 330 citations Katharine J. Mach, Caroline M. Kraan et al. profile →
Climate change vulnerability, adaptation and risk perceptions at farm level in Punjab, Pakistan

2016 313 citations Jürgen Scheffran et al. profile →
Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa

2020 263 citations Jürgen Scheffran et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jürgen Scheffran

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürgen Scheffran

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jürgen Scheffran. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jürgen Scheffran 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 Jürgen Scheffran. Jürgen Scheffran 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Interactive effects of multiple stressors in coastal ecosystems 2025 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·(unknown), Carsten Lemmen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Moritz Mathis, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Hasenbein, Jürgen Scheffran, Kai Wirtz	5
2	Lifestyle changes for climate mitigation in cities and their relationship to urban health and well-being: A literature review 2024 ·Sustainable Cities and Society ·(unknown), Peter Hoffmann, Jürgen Scheffran	4
3	Climate change (Mal)adaptation in the Bangladesh Sundarbans – a Systematic Review 2024 ·(unknown), Jürgen Scheffran	0
4	Community Governance Performance of Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management in Sub-Saharan Africa 2024 ·Sustainability ·(unknown), Louis Celliers, Jürgen Scheffran, María Máñez Costa	3
5	The impacts of climate change on violent conflict risk: a review of causal pathways 2024 ·Environmental Research Communications ·Xiaolan Xie, Mengmeng Hao, F. Ding, Jürgen Scheffran, Tobias Ide, Jean-François Maystadt, (unknown), Qian Wang, Shuai Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dong Jiang	4
6	Systematic Mapping of Climate Change Impacts on Human Security in Bangladesh 2024 ·Climate ·(unknown), Jan Petzold, (unknown), (unknown), Jürgen Scheffran	6
7	Viable North Sea (ViNoS): A NetLogo Agent-based Modelof German Small-scale Fisheries 2024 ·The Journal of Open Source Software ·Carsten Lemmen, (unknown), (unknown), Jürgen Scheffran	2
8	Cross-system interactions for positive tipping cascades 2024 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Sibel Eker, Timothy M. Lenton, Tom Powell, Jürgen Scheffran, Steven R. Smith, (unknown), Caroline Zimm	6
9	Impact of Land Cover Changes on Reducing Greenhouse Emissions: Site Selection, Baseline Modeling, and Strategic Environmental Assessment of REDD+ Projects 2023 ·Land Degradation and Development ·(unknown), Mehdi Gholamalifard, Yahya Kooch, Hossein Azadi, Jürgen Scheffran	3
10	Toward climate-resilient and biodiverse agriculture in the Mediterranean region: experiences and perceptions of farmers engaged in sustainable food production 2023 ·Organic Agriculture ·(unknown), Juan Miguel Rodríguez López, (unknown), Andrea L. Balbo, Jürgen Scheffran	3
11	An integrated deep-learning and multi-level framework for understanding the behavior of terrorist groups 2023 ·Heliyon ·Jiang Dong, (unknown), Fangyu Ding, Tobias Ide, Jürgen Scheffran, David Helman, (unknown), (unknown), Jingying Fu, (unknown), Xiaolan Xie, Tian Ma, Mengmeng Hao, Quansheng Ge	5
12	Framing future trajectories of human activities in the German North Sea to inform cumulative effects assessments and marine spatial planning 2023 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Vanessa Stelzenmüller, (unknown), (unknown), Carsten Lemmen, (unknown), Matthias Hasenbein, (unknown), Wolfgang Probst, Rabea Diekmann, Jürgen Scheffran, O.G. Bos, Kai Wirtz	9
13	Exploring the direct and indirect impacts of climate variability on armed conflict in South Asia 2022 ·iScience ·Xiaolan Xie, Mengmeng Hao, F. Ding, David Helman, Jürgen Scheffran, Qian Wang, Quansheng Ge, Dong Jiang	8
14	Modelling armed conflict risk under climate change with machine learning and time-series data 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Quansheng Ge, Mengmeng Hao, F. Ding, Dong Jiang, Jürgen Scheffran, David Helman, Tobias Ide	33
15	Perspectives on tipping points in integrated models of the natural and human Earth system: cascading effects and telecoupling 2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Christian L. E. Franzke, Alessio Ciullo, Elisabeth Gilmore, Denise Margaret Matias, Nidhi Nagabhatla, Anton Orlov, Shona Paterson, Jürgen Scheffran, Jana Sillmann	52
16	DIVERSITY AND MULTIPLE DRIVERS OF PASTORAL FULANI MIGRATION TO GHANA 2020 ·Nomadic Peoples ·Kaderi Noagah Bukari, (unknown), Papa Sow, Jürgen Scheffran	9
17	Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict 2020 ·Earth s Future ·Katharine J. Mach, W. Neil Adger, Halvard Buhaug, Marshall Burke, James D. Fearon, Christopher B. Field, Cullen S. Hendrix, Caroline M. Kraan, Jean-François Maystadt, John Ο’Loughlin, Philip Roessler, Jürgen Scheffran, Kenneth Schultz, Nina von Uexkull	48
18	Vulnerability of informal settlements in the context of rapid urbanization and climate change 2019 ·Environment and Urbanization ·David Samuel Williams, María Máñez Costa, Catherine Sutherland, Louis Celliers, Jürgen Scheffran	143
19	Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals 2018 ·Nature Communications ·M. G. Lawrence, Stefan Schäfer, Helene Muri, Vivian Scott, Andreas Oschlies, Naomi E. Vaughan, Oliviér Boucher, Hauke Schmidt, Jim Haywood, Jürgen Scheffran	189
20	Resilience of small-scale societies: a view from drylands 2016 ·Ecology and Society ·Andrea L. Balbo, Erik Gómez‐Baggethun, Matthieu Salpeteur, Arnald Puy, Stefano Biagetti, Jürgen Scheffran	55

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