Leah Samberg

2.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
25 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Leah Samberg is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Leah Samberg has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Leah Samberg's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers). Leah Samberg is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (6 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers). Leah Samberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Leah Samberg's co-authors include Paul West, James Gerber, Mario Herrero, Navin Ramankutty, Lindsey Sloat, Cécile Godde, Erika S. Zavaleta, Laerte Guimarães Ferreira, William K. Smith and Carol Shennan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Leah Samberg

24 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production

2016 296 citations Leah Samberg, James Gerber et al. profile →
Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis

2017 278 citations Mario Herrero, Philip K. Thornton et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →
Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands

2018 191 citations Lindsey Sloat, James Gerber et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation

2024 52 citations James Gerber, D. K. Ray et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leah Samberg United States	16	401	372	335	300	274	25	1.4k
Jonathan Salerno United States	21	474 1.2×	426 1.1×	194 0.6×	183 0.6×	164 0.6×	60	1.4k
Laura Vang Rasmussen Denmark	23	863 2.2×	388 1.0×	284 0.8×	232 0.8×	228 0.8×	68	1.7k
Steven Crimp Australia	22	482 1.2×	240 0.6×	171 0.5×	289 1.0×	519 1.9×	58	1.4k
Stefan Schwarze Germany	16	467 1.2×	460 1.2×	458 1.4×	198 0.7×	216 0.8×	30	1.3k
Jeannette van de Steeg Kenya	9	491 1.2×	278 0.7×	221 0.7×	134 0.4×	191 0.7×	14	1.0k
Zareen Pervez Bharucha United Kingdom	13	308 0.8×	349 0.9×	540 1.6×	870 2.9×	368 1.3×	17	2.2k
Mats Lannerstad Sweden	18	328 0.8×	330 0.9×	168 0.5×	139 0.5×	224 0.8×	33	1.5k
Diego Valbuena Netherlands	17	500 1.2×	200 0.5×	569 1.7×	211 0.7×	432 1.6×	28	1.5k
Cécile Godde Australia	17	286 0.7×	551 1.5×	138 0.4×	167 0.6×	307 1.1×	24	1.6k
Raffaele Vignola Costa Rica	19	617 1.5×	159 0.4×	290 0.9×	191 0.6×	400 1.5×	53	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Leah Samberg

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Leah Samberg's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Leah Samberg with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Leah Samberg more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Leah Samberg

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Leah Samberg. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Leah Samberg. The network helps show where Leah Samberg may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leah Samberg

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kan, Siyi, Jing Meng, U. Martin Persson, et al.. (2025). Identifying global hotspots of agricultural expansion into non-forest ecosystems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10739–10739.

Gerber, James, D. K. Ray, David Makowski, et al.. (2024). Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation. Nature Food. 5(2). 125–135. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Aslan, Clare E., Manette E. Sandor, Sara Souther, et al.. (2021). Estimating social‐ecological resilience: fire management futures in the Sonoran Desert. Ecological Applications. 31(4). e02303–e02303. 5 indexed citations

Aslan, Clare E., Sara Souther, Manette E. Sandor, et al.. (2020). Land management objectives and activities in the face of projected fire regime change in the Sonoran desert. Journal of Environmental Management. 280. 111644–111644. 7 indexed citations

Zheng, Hua, Cuiping Zhang, Bonnie Keeler, et al.. (2020). Rural Household Livelihood and Tree Plantation Dependence in the Central Mountainous Region of Hainan Island, China: Implications for Poverty Alleviation. Forests. 11(2). 248–248. 27 indexed citations

MacDonald, Graham K., et al.. (2019). Rural-urban connectivity and agricultural land management across the Global South. Global Environmental Change. 60. 101982–101982. 38 indexed citations

Sloat, Lindsey, James Gerber, Leah Samberg, et al.. (2018). Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands. Nature Climate Change. 8(3). 214–218. 191 indexed citations breakdown →

Aslan, Clare E., Leah Samberg, Brett G. Dickson, & Miranda Gray. (2018). Management thresholds stemming from altered fire dynamics in present-day arid and semi-arid environments. Journal of Environmental Management. 227. 87–94. 6 indexed citations

Herrero, Mario, Philip K. Thornton, Brendan Power, et al.. (2017). Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health. 1(1). e33–e42. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Yeh, Emily T., et al.. (2017). Pastoralist Decision-Making on the Tibetan Plateau. Human Ecology. 45(3). 333–343. 36 indexed citations

11.

Sloat, Lindsey, James Gerber, Leah Samberg, et al.. (2016). Precipitation variability on global pasturelands may affect food security in livestock-dependent regions. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

12.

Harris, Richard B., et al.. (2016). Rangeland responses to pastoralists’ grazing management on a Tibetan steppe grassland, Qinghai Province, China. The Rangeland Journal. 38(1). 1–15. 29 indexed citations

13.

Jia, Xiaowei, Ankush Khandelwal, James Gerber, et al.. (2016). Automated Plantation Mapping in Southeast Asia Using Remote Sensing Data. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota). 4 indexed citations

14.

Leisher, Craig, Gheda Temsah, Francesca Booker, et al.. (2016). Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes? A systematic map. Environmental Evidence. 5(1). 98 indexed citations

15.

Leisher, Craig, Gheda Temsah, Francesca Booker, et al.. (2015). Does the gender composition of forest and fishery management groups affect resource governance and conservation outcomes: a systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 4(1). 44 indexed citations

16.

Samberg, Leah, Carol Shennan, & Erika S. Zavaleta. (2013). Farmer Seed Exchange and Crop Diversity in a Changing Agricultural Landscape in the Southern Highlands of Ethiopia. Human Ecology. 41(3). 477–485. 42 indexed citations

17.

Samberg, Leah, Lila Fishman, & Fred W. Allendorf. (2013). Population genetic structure in a social landscape: barley in a traditional Ethiopian agricultural system. Evolutionary Applications. 6(8). 1133–1145. 31 indexed citations

18.

Sanjayan, M., Leah Samberg, Timothy Boucher, & Jesse R. Newby. (2012). Intact Faunal Assemblages in the Modern Era. Conservation Biology. 26(4). 724–730. 2 indexed citations

19.

Samberg, Leah, Carol Shennan, & Erika S. Zavaleta. (2010). Human and Environmental Factors Affect Patterns of Crop Diversity in an Ethiopian Highland Agroecosystem. The Professional Geographer. 62(3). 395–408. 29 indexed citations

20.

Samberg, Leah, et al.. (1999). Case Management Models for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill: The ACCESS Demonstration Project. Community Mental Health Journal. 35(4). 325–346. 51 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact