Kees Klein Goldewijk

32.7k citations

50 papers · 9.4k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 31

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Ecological Modeling top 1%

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 28
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 17
- Climate variability and models 10
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 9
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 6
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 4
Paleontology 9
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 9

Co-authors: Arthur Beusen Erle C. Ellis Navin Ramankutty Elke Stehfest G. Van Drecht Martine De Vos Stefan Siebert Jed O. Kaplan
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (3 papers)Water Air & Soil Pollution (2 papers)Earth system science data (2 papers)Environmental Research Letters (2 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Kees Klein Goldewijk

48 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years 2021 · 475 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017 Earth system science data
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 The Holocene
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2001 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kees Klein Goldewijk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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1	Uncertainties in carbon emissions from land use and land cover change in Indonesia Biogeosciences ·Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Michael O’Sullivan, Maria Carolina Duran Rojas, Thais M. Rosan, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Julia Pongratz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt	2025	2
2	People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin, Sandra Dı́az, Dorian Q. Fuller, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jed O. Kaplan, Naomi Kingston, Harvey Locke, Crystal N. H. McMichael, Darren Ranco, Torben C. Rick, M. Rebecca Shaw, Lucas Stephens, Jens‐Christian Svenning, James Watson Hit paper breakdown →	2021	475
3	Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets Earth system science data ·Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt, Ritvik Sahajpal, Steve Frolking, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stephen Sitch, Raphael Ganzenmüller, Lei Ma, Lesley Ott, Julia Pongratz, Benjamin Poulter	2021	58
4	Global rules for translating land-use change (LUH2) to land-cover change for CMIP6 using GLM2 Geoscientific model development ·Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Ritvik Sahajpal, Julia Pongratz, Steve Frolking, Elke Stehfest, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Donal O’Leary, Jonathan Doelman	2020	41
5	Global Transition Rules for Translating Land-use Change (LUH2) To Land-cover Change for CMIP6 using GLM2 Open access LMU (Ludwid Maxmilian's Universitat Munchen) ·Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Ritvik Sahajpal, Julia Pongratz, Steve Frolking, Elke Stehfest, Kees Klein Goldewijk, A. Ågren-Crongvist, Jonathan Doelman	2019	9
6	Development and testing of scenarios for implementing Holocene LULC in Earth System Model Experiments OPUS (Augsburg University) ·Sandy P. Harrison, Marie‐José Gaillard, Benjamin D. Stocker, Marc Vander Linden, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Oliver Boles, Pascale Braconnot, Andria Dawson, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard, Jed O. Kaplan, Thomas Kästner, Francesco S. R. Pausata, Erick Robinson, Nicki J. Whitehouse, Marco Madella, Kathleen D. Morrison	2019	4
7	Do we need to include anthropogenic land-use and land-cover changes in paleoclimate simulations? Past Global Change Magazine ·Sandy P. Harrison, Benjamin D. Stocker, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Imane Smouni, Pascale Braconnot	2018	8
8	Per-capita estimations of long-term historical land use and the consequences for global change research Journal of Land Use Science ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stefan C. Dekker, Jan Luiten van Zanden	2017	52
9	Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2 Earth system science data ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Arthur Beusen, Jonathan Doelman, Elke Stehfest Hit paper breakdown →	2017	688
10	A historical land use data set for the Holocene; HYDE 3.2 EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Kees Klein Goldewijk	2016	7
11	How to Quantify Human-environment Interactions in the Past: A Global Historical Land Use Data Set for the Holocene 2015 AGU Fall Meeting ·Kees Klein Goldewijk	2015	4
12	A virtual water network of the Roman world Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Joseph F. Houdek, Rens van Beek, Fred C. Gebhardt, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Walter Scheidel, Ype van der Velde, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Martin J. Wassen, Stefan C. Dekker	2014	37
13	Addressing the pasture anomaly: how uncertainty in historical pasture data leads to divergence of atmospheric CO2 in Earth System Models AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Steve Frolking, Elena Shevliakova, Peter Thornton, J. Fisk	2012	2
14	Exploring global changes in nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture induced by livestock production over the 1900–2050 period Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lex Bouwman, Kees Klein Goldewijk, K.W. van der Hoek, Arthur Beusen, Detlef P. van Vuuren, J. Willems, Mariana C. Rufino, Elke Stehfest Hit paper breakdown →	2011	766
15	The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human‐induced global land‐use change over the past 12,000 years Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Arthur Beusen, G. Van Drecht, Martine De Vos Hit paper breakdown →	2010	898
16	Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000 Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Erle C. Ellis, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stefan Siebert, 姜晓通, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2010	992
17	Land-Use Change and Earth System Dynamics: Advancing the Science University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) ·G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Steve Frolking, Richard Betts, G. Fischer, Kees Klein Goldewijk, K. A. Hibbard, Anthony C. Janetos, Souad Maaroufi, Georg Kindermann, Tsuguki Kinoshita, Keywan Riahi, Elena Shevliakova, Elke Stehfest, Allison M. Thomson, 黄开华, Detlef P. van Vuuren, ANNY AMÉLIA DA SILVA, Steven J. Smith, Maria Vilani de Sousa	2010	1
18	Harmonization of global land-use scenarios for the period 1500-2100 for IPCC 5th assessment University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) ·Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt, Steve Frolking, Richard Betts, Johannes J. Feddema, Pavla Halouzková, Kees Klein Goldewijk, K. A. Hibbard, Anthony C. Janetos, Souad Maaroufi, Georg Kindermann, Tsuguki Kinoshita, Keywan Riahi, Elena Shevliakova, S. E. Smith, Elke Stehfest, Farzonakhon Mirzojonova, Peter Thornton, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Behrouz Golzad Nonakaran	2008	3
19	Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets GeoJournal ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Navin Ramankutty	2004	203
20	A 1°×1° resolution data set of historical anthropogenic trace gas emissions for the period 1890–1990 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·J. A. van Aardenne, Frank Dentener, J. G. J. Olivier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Jos Lelieveld	2001	317

About Kees Klein Goldewijk

Kees Klein Goldewijk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Forestry and Ecology, having authored 50 papers that have together received 9.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (4.9k citations), Ecological Modeling (605 citations), Atmospheric Science (2.2k citations), Ecology (2.5k citations) and Soil Science (865 citations). Kees Klein Goldewijk has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Arthur Beusen, Erle C. Ellis, Navin Ramankutty, Elke Stehfest, G. Van Drecht, Martine De Vos, Stefan Siebert, Jed O. Kaplan, Jonathan Doelman and Detlef P. van Vuuren. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Water Air & Soil Pollution, Earth system science data and Environmental Research Letters.

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