Kent Kovacs

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kent Kovacs is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kent Kovacs has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 24 papers in Ocean Engineering and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kent Kovacs's work include Economic and Environmental Valuation (26 papers), Water resources management and optimization (24 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Kent Kovacs is often cited by papers focused on Economic and Environmental Valuation (26 papers), Water resources management and optimization (24 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Kent Kovacs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Kent Kovacs's co-authors include Robert G. Haight, Deborah G. McCullough, Andrew M. Liebhold, Rodrigo J. Mercader, Nathan W. Siegert, Stephen Polasky, Bonnie Keeler, Kris Johnson, Thomas P. Holmes and Kate A. Brauman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kent Kovacs

50 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States

2011 478 citations Juliann E. Aukema, Brian Leung et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services

2012 376 citations Bonnie Keeler, Stephen Polasky et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kent Kovacs United States	19	1.1k	756	729	369	259	51	2.1k
John W. Redhead United Kingdom	25	621 0.6×	983 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	154 0.4×	609 2.4×	60	3.0k
Naeem China	6	686 0.6×	966 1.3×	153 0.2×	285 0.8×	277 1.1×	17	2.1k
Matthew G. E. Mitchell Canada	20	617 0.6×	1.8k 2.4×	185 0.3×	262 0.7×	284 1.1×	38	2.5k
Zhenrong Yu China	26	420 0.4×	714 0.9×	245 0.3×	72 0.2×	366 1.4×	80	1.8k
Lisa Norton United Kingdom	22	625 0.6×	853 1.1×	202 0.3×	173 0.5×	585 2.3×	72	2.3k
J.H. Faber Netherlands	28	995 0.9×	733 1.0×	271 0.4×	93 0.3×	519 2.0×	68	3.1k
Rasoul Yousefpour Germany	26	262 0.2×	1.6k 2.1×	276 0.4×	191 0.5×	140 0.5×	104	2.1k
Christo Marais South Africa	15	289 0.3×	608 0.8×	144 0.2×	209 0.6×	133 0.5×	23	1.1k
Stefan Fronzek Finland	29	579 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	108 0.1×	91 0.2×	549 2.1×	51	2.6k
Bálint Czúcz Hungary	25	486 0.5×	899 1.2×	125 0.2×	147 0.4×	492 1.9×	68	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Kent Kovacs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kent Kovacs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kent Kovacs

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

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2023). Positive and negative information effects on consumer preferences for lab grown meat. 4(1). 3 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2023). Peers and the choice of irrigation practices in the Arkansas Delta. Agronomy Journal. 115(4). 1927–1937.

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2023). Hydro‐economic modeling of managed aquifer recharge in the lower Mississippi. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 59(6). 1413–1434. 5 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2023). Estimating the Demand for Groundwater: A Second-stage Hedonic Land Price Analysis for the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, Arkansas. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 55(1). 194–216. 2 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2022). Tree cover and property values in the United States: A national meta-analysis. Ecological Economics. 197. 107424–107424. 18 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2021). The Influence of a Climate Change Narrative on the Stated Preferences for Long-term Groundwater Management. Environmental Management. 69(1). 61–74. 1 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2020). Water Conservation with Managed Aquifer Recharge under Increased Drought Risk. Environmental Management. 66(4). 664–682. 10 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent & Alvaro Durand‐Morat. (2020). The influence of lateral flows in an aquifer on the agricultural value of groundwater. Natural Resource Modeling. 33(2). 11 indexed citations

Kovacs, Kent & Alvaro Durand‐Morat. (2017). THE INFLUENCE OF ON- AND OFF-FARM SURFACE WATER INVESTMENT ON GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION FROM AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 49(3). 323–346. 4 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent & Marco Mancini. (2017). Conjunctive water management to sustain agricultural economic returns and a shallow aquifer at the landscape level. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 72(2). 158–167. 5 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2016). Addressing the Externalities from Genetically Modified Pollen Drift on a Heterogeneous Landscape. Land. 5(4). 33–33. 2 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2016). The Influence of Groundwater Depletion from Irrigated Agriculture on the Tradeoffs between Ecosystem Services and Economic Returns. PLoS ONE. 11(12). e0168681–e0168681. 9 indexed citations

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Nalley, Lawton Lanier, Bruce A. Linquist, Kent Kovacs, & Merle M. Anders. (2015). The Economic Viability of Alternative Wetting and Drying Irrigation in Arkansas Rice Production. Agronomy Journal. 107(2). 579–587. 55 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent, et al.. (2015). Landscape irrigation management for maintaining an aquifer and economic returns. Journal of Environmental Management. 160. 271–282. 6 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent, Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson, et al.. (2013). Evaluating the Return in Ecosystem Services from Investment in Public Land Acquisitions. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e62202–e62202. 47 indexed citations

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Aukema, Juliann E., Brian Leung, Kent Kovacs, et al.. (2011). Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24587–e24587. 478 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kovacs, Kent, Rodrigo J. Mercader, Robert G. Haight, et al.. (2011). The influence of satellite populations of emerald ash borer on projected economic costs in U.S. communities, 2010–2020. Journal of Environmental Management. 92(9). 2170–2181. 71 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent, Tomáš Václavík, Robert G. Haight, et al.. (2011). Predicting the economic costs and property value losses attributed to sudden oak death damage in California (2010–2020). Journal of Environmental Management. 92(4). 1292–1302. 48 indexed citations

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Goldsmith, Scott, et al.. (2009). Economic Analysis of Future Offshore Oil & Gas Development: Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, and North Aleutian Basin. ScholarWorks - UA (University of Alaska System). 1 indexed citations

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Kovacs, Kent & Douglas M. Larson. (2008). Identifying Individual Discount Rates and Valuing Public Open Space with Stated-Preference Models. Land Economics. 84(2). 209–224. 30 indexed citations

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