Nils Droste

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Nils Droste is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Droste has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Nils Droste's work include Forest Management and Policy (12 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (11 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers). Nils Droste is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (12 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (11 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (8 papers). Nils Droste collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Finland. Nils Droste's co-authors include Dalia D’Amato, P. Leskinen, Anne Toppinen, Marianne Kettunen, Marianne Thomsen, Brent D. Matthies, Jaana Korhonen, Katja Lähtinen, B. Allen and Riina Antikainen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nils Droste

34 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Green, circular, bio economy: A comparative analysis of sustainability avenues

2017 722 citations Dalia D’Amato, Nils Droste et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Green economy and related concepts: An overview

2016 539 citations Nils Droste, Marianne Thomsen et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Droste Sweden	15	694	599	489	481	347	36	2.2k
Dalia D’Amato Finland	24	1.0k 1.5×	362 0.6×	761 1.6×	884 1.8×	427 1.2×	51	2.8k
Luis Jesús Belmonte Ureña Spain	27	648 0.9×	276 0.5×	248 0.5×	247 0.5×	302 0.9×	91	2.8k
Pekka Leskinen Finland	30	682 1.0×	509 0.8×	276 0.6×	897 1.9×	199 0.6×	79	2.9k
Bernd Hansjürgens Germany	23	316 0.5×	759 1.3×	265 0.5×	840 1.7×	213 0.6×	70	2.3k
Laura Saikku Finland	19	623 0.9×	494 0.8×	171 0.3×	284 0.6×	340 1.0×	35	2.1k
Riina Antikainen Finland	25	790 1.1×	453 0.8×	184 0.4×	300 0.6×	463 1.3×	47	2.6k
Katja Lähtinen Finland	22	795 1.1×	183 0.3×	460 0.9×	358 0.7×	390 1.1×	75	2.2k
José Ángel Aznar Sánchez Spain	27	376 0.5×	250 0.4×	296 0.6×	404 0.8×	158 0.5×	86	2.5k
Teis Hansen Norway	31	818 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	701 1.4×	912 1.9×	200 0.6×	84	4.1k
Mikael Skou Andersen Denmark	24	574 0.8×	508 0.8×	121 0.2×	224 0.5×	263 0.8×	84	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Nils Droste

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nils Droste

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Droste

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

Droste, Nils, et al.. (2025). Evaluating transformative policies in complex land-use systems. Ecological Economics. 238. 108734–108734.

Mao, Jiafu, et al.. (2025). What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 75. 101541–101541.

D’Amato, Dalia, et al.. (2024). Comparing Nordic forest governance: Key informant perspectives. Forest Policy and Economics. 170. 103368–103368. 2 indexed citations

D’Amato, Dalia, et al.. (2024). An outlook on modalities in Nordic forest governance. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1(1). 16–38. 2 indexed citations

Akselsson, Cecilia, et al.. (2024). Riparian buffer zones in production forests create unequal costs among forest owners. European Journal of Forest Research. 143(3). 1035–1046. 2 indexed citations

Droste, Nils, et al.. (2024). A political economy theory of fossil fuel subsidy reforms in OECD countries. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5452–5452. 2 indexed citations

Droste, Nils, et al.. (2024). Modelling forests as social-ecological systems: A systematic comparison of agent-based approaches. Environmental Modelling & Software. 175. 105998–105998. 5 indexed citations

D’Amato, Dalia, et al.. (2024). Mapping two centuries of forest governance in Nordic countries: An open access database. Forest Policy and Economics. 160. 103142–103142. 10 indexed citations

Harring, Niklas, et al.. (2023). Voters Do not Punish Their Government for Climate Policies – Evidence from Swedish Temporal Regression Discontinuities. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Droste, Nils, Johanna Alkan Olsson, Helena I. Hanson, et al.. (2022). A global overview of biodiversity offsetting governance. Journal of Environmental Management. 316. 115231–115231. 31 indexed citations

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Droste, Nils, et al.. (2022). Livelihoods matter – A comparative political ecology of forest use on Hispaniola. Forest Policy and Economics. 141. 102765–102765. 5 indexed citations

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Matzdorf, Bettina, et al.. (2020). Survey data on voluntary nature conservation commitments of German businesses and their perceptions towards conservation credits. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 33. 106625–106625. 2 indexed citations

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D’Amato, Dalia, Bartosz Bartkowski, & Nils Droste. (2020). Reviewing the interface of bioeconomy and ecosystem service research. AMBIO. 49(12). 1878–1896. 36 indexed citations

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Coscieme, Luca, Nils Droste, Sonali Ghosh, et al.. (2020). Assessing Nature’s Contributions to People. Frontiers for Young Minds. 8. 3 indexed citations

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D’Amato, Dalia, Nils Droste, Klara J. Winkler, & Anne Toppinen. (2019). Thinking green, circular or bio: Eliciting researchers' perspectives on a sustainable economy with Q method. Journal of Cleaner Production. 230. 460–476. 74 indexed citations

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Droste, Nils, Irene Ring, Rui Santos, & Marianne Kettunen. (2018). Ecological Fiscal Transfers in Europe – Evidence-Based Design Options for a Transnational Scheme. Ecological Economics. 147. 373–382. 44 indexed citations

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Droste, Nils, et al.. (2018). Where communities intermingle, diversity grows – The evolution of topics in ecosystem service research. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0204749–e0204749. 46 indexed citations

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D’Amato, Dalia, et al.. (2017). The Green Economy: Pragmatism or Revolution? Perceptions of Young Researchers on Social Ecological Transformation. Environmental Values. 26(4). 413–435. 12 indexed citations

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Droste, Nils, Claudia Becker, Irene Ring, & Rui Santos. (2017). Decentralization Effects in Ecological Fiscal Transfers: A Bayesian Structural Time Series Analysis for Portugal. Environmental and Resource Economics. 71(4). 1027–1051. 29 indexed citations

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Droste, Nils, Irene Ring, Christoph Schröter‐Schlaack, & Thomas Lenk. (2017). Integrating Ecological Indicators into Federal‐State Fiscal Relations: A policy design study for Germany. Environmental Policy and Governance. 27(5). 484–499. 12 indexed citations

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