Maja Schlüter‬

10.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
111 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Maja Schlüter‬ is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Maja Schlüter‬ has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Maja Schlüter‬'s work include Complex Systems and Decision Making (29 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (21 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (19 papers). Maja Schlüter‬ is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Decision Making (29 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (21 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (19 papers). Maja Schlüter‬ collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Maja Schlüter‬'s co-authors include L. Jamila Haider, Claudia Pahl‐Wostl, Birgit Müller, Kirill Orach, Steven J. Lade, Romina Martin, Nanda Wijermans, Simon A. Levin, Emilie Lindkvist and Wiebren J. Boonstra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Maja Schlüter‬

109 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services

2012 831 citations Maja Schlüter‬ et al. profile →
Principles for Building Resilience

2015 379 citations Maja Schlüter‬ et al. profile →
Describing human decisions in agent-based models – ODD + D, an extension of the ODD protocol

2013 359 citations Birgit Müller, Gunnar Dreßler et al. profile →
A framework for mapping and comparing behavioural theories in models of social-ecological systems

2016 311 citations Maja Schlüter‬, Gunnar Dreßler et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maja Schlüter‬ Sweden	43	3.1k	1.3k	926	888	688	111	6.2k
Art Dewulf Netherlands	38	3.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	881 1.0×	404 0.5×	654 1.0×	156	6.4k
Ryan Plummer Canada	37	3.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.7×	1.0k 1.2×	361 0.5×	135	6.8k
Christina Prell United States	27	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	864 1.0×	521 0.8×	49	6.5k
Kasper Kok Netherlands	45	4.9k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	931 1.4×	160	9.1k
David W. Cash United States	13	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	566 0.6×	512 0.7×	18	5.3k
Peter Deadman Canada	18	3.2k 1.0×	663 0.5×	893 1.0×	890 1.0×	359 0.5×	32	5.2k
Alexey Voinov Netherlands	46	3.2k 1.0×	643 0.5×	879 0.9×	883 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	178	8.4k
Steve Carpenter United States	8	3.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	406 0.6×	10	7.2k
John M. Anderies United States	44	4.7k 1.5×	2.4k 1.9×	1.6k 1.8×	1.5k 1.7×	694 1.0×	140	10.2k
Joe Morris United Kingdom	35	2.4k 0.8×	863 0.7×	604 0.7×	687 0.8×	228 0.3×	89	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Maja Schlüter‬

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maja Schlüter‬

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maja Schlüter‬

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

Schlüter‬, Maja, et al.. (2025). Disentangling the entangled in productive ways: modelling social–ecological systems from a process-relational perspective. Sustainability Science. 20(3). 793–815. 1 indexed citations

Banitz, Thomas, Volker Grimm, Tilman Hertz, et al.. (2024). A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 2 indexed citations

Schlüter‬, Maja, Tilman Hertz, María Mancilla García, et al.. (2024). Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science. AMBIO. 53(11). 1618–1631. 6 indexed citations

Schlüter‬, Maja, Juan Rocha, Nico Wunderling, et al.. (2024). Crop booms as regime shifts. Royal Society Open Science. 11(6). 5 indexed citations

Schlüter‬, Maja, et al.. (2024). Navigating simplicity and complexity of social-ecological systems through a dialogue between dynamical systems and agent-based models. Ecological Modelling. 495. 110788–110788. 2 indexed citations

Banitz, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Dynamical systems modeling for structural understanding of social-ecological systems: A primer. Ecological Complexity. 56. 101052–101052. 7 indexed citations

Schlüter‬, Maja, Christa Brelsford, Paul J. Ferraro, et al.. (2023). Unraveling complex causal processes that affect sustainability requires more integration between empirical and modeling approaches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). e2215676120–e2215676120. 26 indexed citations

Schlüter‬, Maja, et al.. (2023). Modelling agricultural innovations as a social-ecological phenomenon. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 5. 18562–18562. 4 indexed citations

Currie, Thomas E., Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Maja Schlüter‬, et al.. (2023). Integrating evolutionary theory and social–ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 20220262–20220262. 16 indexed citations

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Wijermans, Nanda, Caroline Schill, Therese Lindahl, & Maja Schlüter‬. (2022). Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 25(4). 569–581. 5 indexed citations

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Donges, Jonathan F., Wolfgang Lucht, Sarah Cornell, et al.. (2021). Taxonomies for structuring models for World–Earth systems analysis of the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions and social–ecological feedback loops. Earth System Dynamics. 12(4). 1115–1137. 24 indexed citations

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Schwarz, Nina, Gunnar Dreßler, Karin Frank, et al.. (2020). Formalising theories of human decision-making for agent-based modelling of social-ecological systems: practical lessons learned and ways forward. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 2. 16340–16340. 21 indexed citations

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Martin, Romina, Maja Schlüter‬, & Thorsten Blenckner. (2020). The importance of transient social dynamics for restoring ecosystems beyond ecological tipping points. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(5). 2717–2722. 27 indexed citations

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Orach, Kirill, Andreas Duit, & Maja Schlüter‬. (2020). Sustainable natural resource governance under interest group competition in policy-making. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(9). 898–909. 22 indexed citations

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Wijermans, Nanda, Wiebren J. Boonstra, Kirill Orach, Jonas Hentati‐Sundberg, & Maja Schlüter‬. (2020). Behavioural diversity in fishing—Towards a next generation of fishery models. Fish and Fisheries. 21(5). 872–890. 48 indexed citations

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Schlüter‬, Maja, Birgit Müller, & Karin Frank. (2019). The potential of models and modeling for social-ecological systems research: the reference frame ModSES. Ecology and Society. 24(1). 83 indexed citations

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Donges, Jonathan F., Wolfgang Lucht, Jobst Heitzig, et al.. (2018). Taxonomies for structuring models for World-Earth system analysisof the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions andsocial-ecological feedback loops. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 8 indexed citations

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Müller-Hansen, Finn, Maja Schlüter‬, Michael Mäs, et al.. (2017). Towards representing human behavior and decision making in Earth system models – an overview of techniques and approaches. Earth System Dynamics. 8(4). 977–1007. 68 indexed citations

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Müller-Hansen, Finn, Maja Schlüter‬, Michael Mäs, et al.. (2017). How to represent human behavior and decision making in Earthsystem models? A guide to techniques and approaches. 4 indexed citations

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Österblom, Henrik, Andrew Merrie, Marc Métian, et al.. (2013). Modeling Social–Ecological Scenarios in Marine Systems. BioScience. 63(9). 735–744. 42 indexed citations

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