Michael Obersteiner

47.9k total citations · 12 hit papers
336 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

Michael Obersteiner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Obersteiner has authored 336 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 117 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 71 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Obersteiner's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (77 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (52 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (44 papers). Michael Obersteiner is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (77 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (52 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (44 papers). Michael Obersteiner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Obersteiner's co-authors include Peter Havlík, Josep Peñuelas, Ivan A. Janssens, Ian McCallum, Philippe Ciais, Steffen Fritz, Jordi Sardans, Sabine Fuss, Mario Herrero and Florian Kraxner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Obersteiner

321 papers receiving 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natura... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2013 2013 2021 2010 2014 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe
    2013 1.1k citations Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans et al. profile →
  2. Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems
    2013 817 citations Mario Herrero, Peter Havlík et al. profile →
  3. The meaning of net zero and how to get it right
    2021 530 citations Michael Obersteiner et al. profile →
  4. A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland
    2010 446 citations Junguo Liu, Liangzhi You et al. profile →
  5. Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions
    2014 405 citations Peter Havlík, Hugo Valin et al. profile →
  6. Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world
    2019 403 citations Michael Obersteiner, Mykola Gusti et al. profile →
  7. Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance
    2014 374 citations Jordi Sardans, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  8. Global patterns of phosphatase activity in natural soils
    2017 354 citations Jordi Sardans, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  9. China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment
    2021 218 citations Hao Zhao, Jinfeng Chang et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  10. Anthropogenic global shifts in biospheric N and P concentrations and ratios and their impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem productivity, food security, and human health
    2020 205 citations Josep Peñuelas, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  11. Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands
    2021 200 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  12. The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming
    2020 175 citations Christian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Obersteiner Austria 83 6.9k 5.0k 4.1k 3.6k 2.9k 336 20.9k
Dieter Gerten Germany 67 8.8k 1.3× 3.7k 0.7× 1.6k 0.4× 3.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.5× 154 21.9k
Elena M. Bennett Canada 58 11.4k 1.7× 5.0k 1.0× 2.6k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 1.8k 0.6× 171 24.8k
Elke Stehfest Netherlands 53 4.5k 0.7× 3.6k 0.7× 2.3k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 125 14.2k
Allison M. Thomson United States 38 13.0k 1.9× 3.2k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 79 22.3k
Jianguo Liu United States 83 13.8k 2.0× 8.7k 1.7× 4.2k 1.0× 3.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 525 32.5k
Peter Havlík Austria 64 3.8k 0.6× 5.0k 1.0× 2.7k 0.7× 2.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 250 14.7k
Karl‐Heinz Erb Austria 66 7.6k 1.1× 4.6k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 3.9k 1.1× 984 0.3× 164 15.9k
Wolfgang Lucht Germany 57 11.2k 1.6× 5.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.4× 3.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.4× 144 19.9k
Josep G. Canadell Australia 83 19.0k 2.8× 8.2k 1.6× 3.8k 0.9× 5.1k 1.4× 4.6k 1.6× 210 37.2k
Bruce A. McCarl United States 58 4.2k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 3.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 3.6k 1.2× 371 15.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Obersteiner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Frank, Federico, et al.. (2025). Short-Term Forecasting Arabica Coffee Cherry Yields by Seq2Seq over LSTM for Smallholder Farmers. Sustainability. 17(9). 3888–3888.
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Zhang, Haoran, Pengjun Zhao, Wenqian Zhang, et al.. (2024). Promoting sustainable solar-energy development in harmony with global threatened bird ranges. 1(2). 100017–100017. 9 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hao, Jinfeng Chang, Peter Havlík, et al.. (2021). China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment. Nature Sustainability. 4(12). 1042–1051. 218 indexed citations breakdown →
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Khabarov, Nikolay, Juraj Balkovič, Rastislav Skalský, et al.. (2020). Heterogeneous Compute Clusters and Massive Environmental Simulations Based on the EPIC Model. Modelling—International Open Access Journal of Modelling in Engineering Science. 1(2). 215–224. 4 indexed citations
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Gasser, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Historical CO 2 emissions from land use and land cover change and their uncertainty. Biogeosciences. 17(15). 4075–4101. 143 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Elke Stehfest, et al.. (2020). Mapping the yields of lignocellulosic bioenergy crops from observations at the global scale. Earth system science data. 12(2). 789–804. 40 indexed citations
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Soterroni, Aline C., Fernando M. Ramos, Aline Mosnier, et al.. (2019). Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil’s Cerrado. Science Advances. 5(7). eaav7336–eaav7336. 120 indexed citations
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Eker, Sibel, E. Rovenskaya, Simon Langan, & Michael Obersteiner. (2019). Model validation: A bibliometric analysis of the literature. Environmental Modelling & Software. 117. 43–54. 36 indexed citations
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Bleischwitz, Raimund, Catalina Spataru, Stacy D. VanDeveer, et al.. (2018). Resource nexus perspectives towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability. 1(12). 737–743. 272 indexed citations
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Lun, Fei, Junguo Liu, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Global and regional phosphorus budgets in agricultural systems and their implications for phosphorus-use efficiency. Earth system science data. 10(1). 1–18. 136 indexed citations
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Soterroni, Aline C., Aline Mosnier, Alexandre Xavier Ywata de Carvalho, et al.. (2018). Future environmental and agricultural impacts of Brazil’s Forest Code. Environmental Research Letters. 13(7). 74021–74021. 64 indexed citations
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Fritz, Steffen, Linda See, Christoph Perger, et al.. (2017). A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data. Scientific Data. 4(1). 170075–170075. 130 indexed citations
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Lun, Fei, Junguo Liu, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2017). Global and regional phosphorus budgets in agricultural systems and their implications for phosphorus-use efficiency. Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). 4 indexed citations
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Forsell, Nicklas, Olga Turkovska, Mykola Gusti, et al.. (2016). MOESM1 of Assessing the INDCsâ land use, land use change, and forest emission projections. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Böttcher, Hannes, Mykola Gusti, Peter Havlík, Aline Mosnier, & Michael Obersteiner. (2012). Global forestry emission projections and abatement costs. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 7062. 1 indexed citations
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Limaei, Soleiman Mohammadi, Peter Lohmander, & Michael Obersteiner. (2010). Decision making in forest management with consideration of stochastic prices. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 2(1). 32–40. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Shifeng, et al.. (2009). A new thinking for renewable energy model: Remote sensing-based renewable energy model. International Journal of Energy Research. 33(8). 778–786. 15 indexed citations
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Obersteiner, Michael. (2001). An institutional analysis of the Russian economy. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 1 indexed citations
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Obersteiner, Michael, et al.. (2001). US Newsprint Demand Forecasts to 2020. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 12 indexed citations
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Obersteiner, Michael. (1999). What makes economically successful regions in Europe successful? Implications for transferring success from West to East. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 31 indexed citations

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