Kathleen Hermans

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kathleen Hermans is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathleen Hermans has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Kathleen Hermans's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 papers) and Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (6 papers). Kathleen Hermans is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 papers) and Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (6 papers). Kathleen Hermans collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Austria. Kathleen Hermans's co-authors include Robert McLeman, Ralf Seppelt, Michael Beckmann, Nina Schwarz, Joerg A. Priess, Andreas Dittrich, Christoph Schröter‐Schlaack, Bartosz Bartkowski, Martin Völk and Andrea Kaim and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, Global Environmental Change and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kathleen Hermans

25 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

2017 433 citations Anna F. Cord, Bartosz Bartkowski et al. Ecosystem Services profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathleen Hermans Germany	16	766	324	203	158	133	26	1.3k
Trevor Birkenholtz United States	16	537 0.7×	338 1.0×	212 1.0×	147 0.9×	177 1.3×	30	1.6k
Patrícia Pinho Brazil	14	552 0.7×	277 0.9×	118 0.6×	145 0.9×	177 1.3×	23	992
Marta Berbés‐Blázquez Canada	15	686 0.9×	302 0.9×	114 0.6×	189 1.2×	89 0.7×	26	1.2k
Mark Hirons United Kingdom	19	446 0.6×	214 0.7×	141 0.7×	117 0.7×	111 0.8×	43	1.0k
Federica Ravera Spain	20	500 0.7×	225 0.7×	162 0.8×	238 1.5×	166 1.2×	43	1.1k
Monica Dumitrașcu Romania	21	619 0.8×	131 0.4×	299 1.5×	183 1.2×	113 0.8×	89	1.3k
Lilibeth A. Acosta Germany	17	882 1.2×	218 0.7×	189 0.9×	224 1.4×	297 2.2×	38	1.4k
Gretchen Walters Switzerland	16	746 1.0×	146 0.5×	210 1.0×	237 1.5×	137 1.0×	43	1.2k
Shilpi Srivastava United Kingdom	13	496 0.6×	289 0.9×	147 0.7×	189 1.2×	59 0.4×	29	1.1k
Sarah K. Jones France	18	604 0.8×	104 0.3×	252 1.2×	140 0.9×	138 1.0×	36	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kathleen Hermans

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kathleen Hermans

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathleen Hermans

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hoch, Jannis, Jens de Bruijn, Kathleen Hermans, et al.. (2024). Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change. Global Environmental Change. 88. 102920–102920. 1 indexed citations

Hermans, Kathleen, Nodir Djanibekov, Iskandar Abdullaev, et al.. (2024). Future research directions for understanding the interconnections between climate change, water scarcity, and mobility in rural Central Asia. Climate and Development. 17(7). 638–647. 1 indexed citations

Seppelt, Ralf, et al.. (2023). Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: the role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology and Society. 28(1). 2 indexed citations

Teucher, Mike, et al.. (2023). Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: two sides to every story. Regional Environmental Change. 23(2). 7 indexed citations

Hermans, Kathleen, et al.. (2023). What we know and do not know about reciprocal pathways of environmental change and migration: lessons from Ethiopia. Ecology and Society. 28(3).

Hoffmann, Roman, et al.. (2022). Agricultural livelihoods, adaptation, and environmental migration in sub-Saharan drylands: a meta-analytical review. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 83003–83003. 21 indexed citations

Hermans, Kathleen, Elisabeth Berger, Lisa Biber‐Freudenberger, et al.. (2021). Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research ‐ an opportunity for redirection. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 30(2). 72–76. 9 indexed citations

Hermans, Kathleen, et al.. (2021). Investigating environment-related migration processes in Ethiopia – A participatory Bayesian network. Ecosystems and People. 17(1). 128–147. 11 indexed citations

Ide, Tobias, et al.. (2020). Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. Global Environmental Change. 63. 102094–102094. 29 indexed citations

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Radel, Claudia, Brad D. Jokisch, Birgit Schmook, et al.. (2019). Migration as a feature of land system transitions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 38. 103–110. 45 indexed citations

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Olsson, Lennart, Humberto Alves Barbosa, Suruchi Bhadwal, et al.. (2019). Land Degradation : IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land 5 Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and 6 Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1–1. 24 indexed citations

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Beckmann, Michael, et al.. (2018). Environmental change, adaptation strategies and the relevance of migration in Sub-Saharan drylands. Environmental Research Letters. 13(11). 113003–113003. 57 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Nina, et al.. (2018). Agent-based modeling of environment-migration linkages: a review. Ecology and Society. 23(2). 58 indexed citations

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Jaeger‐Erben, Melanie, Johanna Kramm, Marco Sonnberger, et al.. (2018). Building Capacities for Transdisciplinary Research: Challenges and Recommendations for Early-Career Researchers. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 27(4). 379–386. 29 indexed citations

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Hermans, Kathleen & Tobias Ide. (2018). Advancing research on climate change, conflict and migration. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 150(1). 40–44. 9 indexed citations

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Cord, Anna F., Bartosz Bartkowski, Michael Beckmann, et al.. (2017). Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead. Ecosystem Services. 28. 264–272. 433 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carter, Sarah, Ameur M. Manceur, Ralf Seppelt, et al.. (2017). Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. 12(3). 35010–35010. 31 indexed citations

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Hermans, Kathleen, Joerg A. Priess, & Martin Herold. (2017). Human migration, climate variability, and land degradation: hotspots of socio-ecological pressure in Ethiopia. Regional Environmental Change. 17(5). 1479–1492. 42 indexed citations

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Doelman, Jonathan, Elke Stehfest, Andrzej Tabeau, et al.. (2017). Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the IMAGE model: Regional and gridded scenarios of land-use change and land-based climate change mitigation. Global Environmental Change. 48. 119–135. 244 indexed citations

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Hermans, Kathleen, Katharina Gerstner, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, et al.. (2016). Why do forest products become less available?A pan-tropical comparison of drivers of forest-resource degradation. Environmental Research Letters. 11(12). 125010–125010. 29 indexed citations

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