Kemen Austin

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kemen Austin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kemen Austin has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Kemen Austin's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 papers), Forest Management and Policy (11 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (10 papers). Kemen Austin is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (17 papers), Forest Management and Policy (11 papers) and Oil Palm Production and Sustainability (10 papers). Kemen Austin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Indonesia. Kemen Austin's co-authors include P. S. Kasibhatla, Amanda M. Schwantes, J. Pirker, Steffen Fritz, Aline Mosnier, Ian McCallum, Jonah Busch, Christopher M. Wade, Fred Stolle and Justin S. Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Kemen Austin

31 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.

What causes deforestation in Indonesia?

2018 300 citations Kemen Austin, Amanda M. Schwantes et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kemen Austin United States	15	915	628	220	138	101	38	1.4k
Robert Heilmayr United States	17	1.0k 1.1×	481 0.8×	371 1.7×	142 1.0×	50 0.5×	34	1.7k
J. Pirker Austria	10	482 0.5×	543 0.9×	94 0.4×	145 1.1×	152 1.5×	20	939
Sugeng Budiharta Indonesia	17	611 0.7×	619 1.0×	118 0.5×	33 0.2×	57 0.6×	49	1.2k
Nathalie F. Walker United States	10	1.2k 1.3×	502 0.8×	400 1.8×	92 0.7×	49 0.5×	12	1.8k
Truly Santika United Kingdom	18	504 0.6×	684 1.1×	112 0.5×	29 0.2×	54 0.5×	43	1.1k
Lucy Rist Sweden	17	736 0.8×	489 0.8×	76 0.3×	34 0.2×	79 0.8×	21	1.3k
Víctor Hugo Gutiérrez-Vélez United States	18	685 0.7×	391 0.6×	85 0.4×	118 0.9×	22 0.2×	33	1.1k
André Lima Brazil	11	944 1.0×	400 0.6×	169 0.8×	120 0.9×	33 0.3×	20	1.4k
Michael Jacobson United States	20	708 0.8×	130 0.2×	307 1.4×	84 0.6×	44 0.4×	75	1.3k
Sonya Dewi Indonesia	18	801 0.9×	342 0.5×	197 0.9×	40 0.3×	10 0.1×	47	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kemen Austin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kemen Austin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kemen Austin

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

Austin, Kemen, Alice Favero, Nicklas Forsell, et al.. (2025). Targeting climate finance for global forests. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6443–6443.

Austin, Kemen, et al.. (2025). Does societal engagement impact CO2 emissions? A cross-national analysis. Environmental Sociology. 1–14.

Austin, Kemen, Paul R. Elsen, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, et al.. (2025). Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection. Conservation Letters. 18(1). 1 indexed citations

Austin, Kemen, et al.. (2025). Tracking cropland transitions: A comparative analysis of U.S. land cover change data. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0313880–e0313880.

Dalton, Rebecca, Tara L. Greaver, Robert D. Sabo, et al.. (2024). Regional variation in growth and survival responses to atmospheric nitrogen and sulfur deposition for 140 tree species across the United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 7. 1–18. 3 indexed citations

Irvin, Jeremy, et al.. (2024). Automatic deforestation driver attribution using deep learning on satellite imagery. Global Environmental Change. 86. 102843–102843. 5 indexed citations

Clark, Christopher M., Jennifer Phelan, Kemen Austin, et al.. (2024). Winners and Losers From Climate Change: An Analysis of Climate Thresholds for Tree Growth and Survival for Roughly 150 Species Across the Contiguous United States. Global Change Biology. 30(12). e17597–e17597.

Jones, Kendall R., et al.. (2023). Improving climate and biodiversity outcomes through restoration of forest integrity. Conservation Biology. 37(6). e14163–e14163. 10 indexed citations

Baker, Justin S., George Van Houtven, Jennifer Phelan, et al.. (2022). Projecting U.S. forest management, market, and carbon sequestration responses to a high-impact climate scenario. Forest Policy and Economics. 147. 102898–102898. 11 indexed citations

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Austin, Kemen, Jason Jones, & Christopher M. Clark. (2022). A review of domestic land use change attributable to U.S. biofuel policy. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 159. 112181–112181. 32 indexed citations

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Busch, Jonah, et al.. (2021). Effects of demand-side restrictions on high-deforestation palm oil in Europe on deforestation and emissions in Indonesia. Environmental Research Letters. 17(1). 14035–14035. 31 indexed citations

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Wade, Christopher M., Justin S. Baker, Jason Jones, et al.. (2021). Projecting the Impact of Socioeconomic and Policy Factors on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in U.S. Forestry and Agriculture. Journal of Forest Economics. 37(1). 127–161. 20 indexed citations

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Austin, Kemen, Justin S. Baker, Brent Sohngen, et al.. (2020). The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world’s forests to mitigate climate change. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5946–5946. 122 indexed citations

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Jones, Jason, Justin S. Baker, Kemen Austin, et al.. (2019). Importance of Cross-Sector Interactions When Projecting Forest Carbon across Alternative Socioeconomic Futures. Journal of Forest Economics. 34(3-4). 205–231. 10 indexed citations

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Austin, Kemen, et al.. (2018). What causes deforestation in Indonesia?. Environmental Research Letters. 14(2). 24007–24007. 300 indexed citations breakdown →

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Austin, Kemen, Aline Mosnier, J. Pirker, et al.. (2017). Shifting patterns of oil palm driven deforestation in Indonesia and implications for zero-deforestation commitments. Land Use Policy. 69. 41–48. 232 indexed citations

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Silva, Sam J., Colette L. Heald, Jeffrey A. Geddes, et al.. (2016). Impacts of current and projected oil palm plantation expansion on airquality over Southeast Asia. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(16). 10621–10635. 12 indexed citations

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Austin, Kemen, P. S. Kasibhatla, Dean L. Urban, Fred Stolle, & Jeffrey R. Vincent. (2015). Reconciling Oil Palm Expansion and Climate Change Mitigation in Kalimantan, Indonesia. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127963–e0127963. 52 indexed citations

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Austin, Kemen, et al.. (2013). Indonesia’s forest moratorium: Impacts and next steps. 20 indexed citations

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Austin, Kemen, et al.. (2012). Indonesia's Moratorium on New Forest Concessions. 2 indexed citations

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