Louise Willemen

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
59 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Louise Willemen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Louise Willemen has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Louise Willemen's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (36 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (13 papers). Louise Willemen is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (36 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (13 papers). Louise Willemen collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Italy. Louise Willemen's co-authors include Lars Hein, Leon Braat, Rob Alkemade, R.S. de Groot, Peter H. Verburg, Evangelia G. Drakou, Benis N. Egoh, A. Veldkamp, Joachim Maes and Jeannette van de Steeg and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Louise Willemen

56 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making

2009 2.5k citations R.S. de Groot, Leon Braat et al. profile →
Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union

2012 723 citations Joachim Maes, Benis N. Egoh et al. Ecosystem Services profile →
A blueprint for mapping and modelling ecosystem services

2013 566 citations Louise Willemen, Evangelia G. Drakou et al. Ecosystem Services profile →
Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals

2017 384 citations Sarah K. Jones, Louise Willemen et al. Ecosystem Services profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Louise Willemen Netherlands	25	5.3k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	1.2k	59	6.5k
Joshua Goldstein United States	23	5.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	930 0.8×	56	6.6k
Leon Braat Netherlands	10	6.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	13	7.5k
Ignacio Palomo Spain	32	4.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	67	5.6k
Benis N. Egoh United States	28	4.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	775 0.7×	69	6.9k
Benjamin Burkhard Germany	41	7.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.5×	125	8.9k
Roy Haines‐Young United Kingdom	36	4.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	983 0.9×	94	6.1k
Felix Müller Germany	38	4.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	896 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	98	6.5k
Catharina J.E. Schulp Netherlands	38	3.8k 0.7×	689 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	802 0.7×	755 0.7×	71	5.3k
Marina García‐Llorente Spain	40	4.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	88	6.5k
Matthew Wilson United States	20	4.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.9×	899 0.8×	36	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Louise Willemen

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Louise Willemen'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 Louise Willemen with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Louise Willemen more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Louise Willemen

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Louise Willemen. 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 Louise Willemen. The network helps show where Louise Willemen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Louise Willemen

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

Sun, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Forest structural attributes as indicators and mediators of aboveground carbon storage and woody plant species richness in natural forests. Ecological Indicators. 181. 114398–114398.

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2025). Modelling the impact of ecosystem fragmentation on ecosystem services in the degraded Ethiopian highlands. Ecological Informatics. 87. 103100–103100. 2 indexed citations

Marques, Alexandra, Aletta Bonn, Antonio Arjona Castro, et al.. (2024). The role of nature's contributions to people in sustaining international trade of agricultural products. People and Nature. 6(2). 410–421. 2 indexed citations

Winter, Silvia, et al.. (2024). Exploring Winegrowers’ Behaviours and Ecological Impacts Under Climate Change and Policy Scenarios—Examples from Three European Winegrowing Regions. Environmental Management. 73(4). 841–857. 1 indexed citations

Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Rachel Carmenta, James Reed, et al.. (2024). Reconciling conservation and development requires enhanced integration and broader aims: A cross-continental assessment of landscape approaches. One Earth. 7(10). 1858–1873. 3 indexed citations

Sumarga, Elham, et al.. (2024). Water provision benefits from karst ecosystems: An example for Watuputih groundwater basin, North Kendeng Mountain, Indonesia. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. 24. 100518–100518.

Herrera, Rafael Alcalá, Emilio Benítez, Christoph Hoffmann, et al.. (2022). Winegrowers’ decision-making: A pan-European perspective on pesticide use and inter-row management. Journal of Rural Studies. 94. 37–53. 24 indexed citations

Ros-Tonen, Mirjam, Louise Willemen, & Michael K. McCall. (2021). Spatial Tools for Integrated and Inclusive Landscape Governance: Toward a New Research Agenda. Environmental Management. 68(5). 611–618. 19 indexed citations

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2021). Long-term assessment of ecosystem services at ecological restoration sites using Landsat time series. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0243020–e0243020. 7 indexed citations

10.

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2021). The effects of armed conflict on forest cover changes across temporal and spatial scales in the Colombian Amazon. Regional Environmental Change. 21(3). 20 indexed citations

11.

Willemen, Louise, Nichole N. Barger, Ben ten Brink, et al.. (2020). How to halt the global decline of lands. Nature Sustainability. 3(3). 164–166. 44 indexed citations

12.

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2020). Remote sensing for mapping ecosystem services to support evaluation of ecological restoration interventions in an arid landscape. Ecological Indicators. 113. 106182–106182. 55 indexed citations

13.

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2020). Understanding Intra-Annual Dynamics of Ecosystem Services Using Satellite Image Time Series. Remote Sensing. 12(4). 710–710. 14 indexed citations

14.

Willemen, Louise, Evangelia G. Drakou, & Nina Schwarz. (2019). Modelling how people and nature are intertwined. Ecography. 42(11). 1874–1876. 4 indexed citations

15.

Rocha, Alby Duarte, T.A. Groen, Andrew K. Skidmore, Roshanak Darvishzadeh, & Louise Willemen. (2017). The Naïve Overfitting Index Selection (NOIS): A new method to optimize model complexity for hyperspectral data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 133. 61–74. 21 indexed citations

16.

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2015). Using Social Media to Measure the Contribution of Red List Species to the Nature-Based Tourism Potential of African Protected Areas. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0129785–e0129785. 97 indexed citations

17.

Willemen, Louise, et al.. (2013). Taking tree-based ecosystem approaches to scale : evidence of drivers and impacts on food security, climate change resilience and carbon sequestration. 5 indexed citations

18.

Maes, Joachim, Benis N. Egoh, Louise Willemen, et al.. (2012). Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union. Ecosystem Services. 1(1). 31–39. 723 indexed citations breakdown →

19.

Müller, Felix, R.S. de Groot, & Louise Willemen. (2010). Ecosystem Services at the Landscape Scale: the Need for Integrative Approaches. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 1–11. 91 indexed citations

20.

Scheldeman, Xavier, et al.. (2009). Survey on the conservation and use of forest genetic resources in Latin America. Forest Systems. 18(2). 132–139. 2 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