Kathrin Specht

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kathrin Specht is a scholar working on Plant Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathrin Specht has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Plant Science, 21 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kathrin Specht's work include Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (36 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (21 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (21 papers). Kathrin Specht is often cited by papers focused on Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (36 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (21 papers) and Urban Green Space and Health (21 papers). Kathrin Specht collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and France. Kathrin Specht's co-authors include Rosemarie Siebert, Susanne Thomaier, Dietrich Henckel, Magdalena Sawicka, Axel Dierich, Esther Sanyé‐Mengual, Felix Zoll, Heike Walk, Armin Werner and Francesco Orsini and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Kathrin Specht

41 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Urban agriculture of the future: an overview of sustainability aspects of food production in and on buildings

2013 456 citations Kathrin Specht, Rosemarie Siebert et al. Agriculture and Human Values profile →
Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture

2024 49 citations Jason K. Hawes, Benjamin Goldstein et al. Nature Cities profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathrin Specht Germany	24	1.5k	768	427	219	210	43	2.1k
Marielle Dubbeling Argentina	20	1.4k 0.9×	501 0.7×	418 1.0×	122 0.6×	200 1.0×	52	2.0k
Benjamin Goldstein United States	21	558 0.4×	346 0.5×	311 0.7×	517 2.4×	157 0.7×	45	1.7k
Christine Aubry France	19	924 0.6×	346 0.5×	404 0.9×	80 0.4×	136 0.6×	84	1.7k
Susanne Thomaier Germany	6	715 0.5×	389 0.5×	207 0.5×	152 0.7×	52 0.2×	7	945
Magdalena Sawicka Poland	7	618 0.4×	314 0.4×	156 0.4×	119 0.5×	50 0.2×	12	858
Tiziano Tempesta Italy	20	382 0.3×	229 0.3×	323 0.8×	80 0.4×	230 1.1×	71	1.3k
Marta G. Rivera‐Ferre Spain	25	534 0.3×	89 0.1×	191 0.4×	122 0.6×	269 1.3×	79	1.8k
Bill Bellotti Australia	30	945 0.6×	49 0.1×	433 1.0×	240 1.1×	97 0.5×	91	2.2k
Avinash Kishore India	17	237 0.2×	61 0.1×	173 0.4×	44 0.2×	91 0.4×	79	1.5k
Alon Shepon Israel	17	138 0.1×	63 0.1×	285 0.7×	187 0.9×	396 1.9×	30	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kathrin Specht

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathrin Specht

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

Specht, Kathrin, Francesco Monticone, Michele Petruzzelli, et al.. (2025). Measuring the social impact of City-region food system initiatives (CRFSIs): A systematic review of indicators and metrics. Sustainable Cities and Society. 128. 106462–106462.

Specht, Kathrin, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Francesco Monticone, et al.. (2024). Cultivating change: Exploring policies, challenges, and solutions to support city region food systems development in six European countries. Cities. 155. 105498–105498.

Hawes, Jason K., Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua Newell, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture. Nature Cities. 1(5). 390–390. 1 indexed citations

Hawes, Jason K., Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua Newell, et al.. (2024). Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture. Nature Cities. 1(2). 164–173. 49 indexed citations breakdown →

Specht, Kathrin, Barbara Schröter, Runrid Fox-Kämper, et al.. (2024). Using the Net-Map tool to analyze stakeholder networks in the city region food systems of seven European cities. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 8. 1 indexed citations

Specht, Kathrin, et al.. (2024). Disentangling cultural ecosystem services co-production in urban green spaces through social media reviews. Ecosystem Services. 70. 101675–101675. 7 indexed citations

Dorr, Erica, Jason K. Hawes, Benjamin Goldstein, et al.. (2023). Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 43(1). 18–18. 21 indexed citations

Specht, Kathrin, et al.. (2023). Transformative Potential of Vertical Farming—An Urban Planning Investigation Using Multi-Level Perspective. Sustainability. 15(22). 15861–15861. 3 indexed citations

Cirone, Francesco, Fabio De Menna, Antonella Samoggia, et al.. (2022). A sustainability scoring system to assess food initiatives in city regions. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 36. 88–99. 24 indexed citations

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Specht, Kathrin, et al.. (2022). Consumers’ and Stakeholders’ Acceptance of Indoor Agritecture in Shanghai (China). Sustainability. 14(5). 2771–2771. 15 indexed citations

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Zoll, Felix, Caitlin K. Kirby, Kathrin Specht, & Rosemarie Siebert. (2022). Exploring member trust in German community-supported agriculture: a multiple regression analysis. Agriculture and Human Values. 40(2). 709–724. 8 indexed citations

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Ilieva, Rositsa T., Nevin Cohen, Kathrin Specht, et al.. (2022). The Socio-Cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture: A Review of the Literature. Land. 11(5). 622–622. 75 indexed citations

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Kirby, Caitlin K., Kathrin Specht, Runrid Fox-Kämper, et al.. (2021). Differences in motivations and social impacts across urban agriculture types: Case studies in Europe and the US. Landscape and Urban Planning. 212. 104110–104110. 69 indexed citations

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Appolloni, Elisa, Francesco Orsini, Kathrin Specht, et al.. (2021). The global rise of urban rooftop agriculture: A review of worldwide cases. Journal of Cleaner Production. 296. 126556–126556. 80 indexed citations

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Sanyé‐Mengual, Esther, Kathrin Specht, Thomas Krikser, et al.. (2018). Social acceptance and perceived ecosystem services of urban agriculture in Southern Europe: The case of Bologna, Italy. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0200993–e0200993. 71 indexed citations

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Specht, Kathrin, et al.. (2018). The FEW-meter: An integrative model to measure and improve urban agriculture, shifting it towards circular urban metabolism.. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations

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Specht, Kathrin & Esther Sanyé‐Mengual. (2016). Risks in urban rooftop agriculture: Assessing stakeholders’ perceptions to ensure efficient policymaking. Environmental Science & Policy. 69. 13–21. 60 indexed citations

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Specht, Kathrin, Felix Zoll, & Rosemarie Siebert. (2016). Application and evaluation of a participatory “open innovation” approach (ROIR): The case of introducing zero-acreage farming in Berlin. Landscape and Urban Planning. 151. 45–54. 28 indexed citations

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Specht, Kathrin, et al.. (2016). Socially acceptable urban agriculture businesses. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 36(1). 109 indexed citations

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Zoll, Felix, Kathrin Specht, & Rosemarie Siebert. (2016). Innovation in urban agriculture: Evaluation data of a participatory approach (ROIR). Data in Brief. 7. 1473–1476. 2 indexed citations

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