Ole Mertz

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Ole Mertz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Ole Mertz has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 22 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Ole Mertz's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (63 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (24 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (16 papers). Ole Mertz is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (63 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (24 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (16 papers). Ole Mertz collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Ole Mertz's co-authors include Anette Reenberg, Awa Diouf, Cheikh Mbow, Kjeld Rasmussen, Peter H. Verburg, Rasmus Fensholt, Thilde Bech Bruun, Erle C. Ellis, Karl‐Heinz Erb and Andreas Heinimann and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ole Mertz

121 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation Strategies in Rural Sahel

2008 685 citations Ole Mertz, Anette Reenberg et al. Environmental Management profile →
Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

2015 415 citations Andreas Heinimann, Ole Mertz et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ole Mertz

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Why Target Communities Remain Subjects Rather than Partners of Development Agencies in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects in Latin America 2024 ·European Journal of Development Research ·(unknown), Esteve Corbera, Ole Mertz	2
2	Codesigning sustainable land uses: framing participatory methods for research and development projects 2023 ·Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems ·(unknown), Ole Mertz, (unknown), Gisella S. Cruz García, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Patrick Lavelle, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Marcela Quintero	5
3	Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions 2023 ·People and Nature ·Dominic A. Martin, Jorge C. Llopis, (unknown), Oliver T. Coomes, (unknown), Thilde Bech Bruun, Andreas Heinimann, Ole Mertz, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Julie G. Zaehringer	13
4	What makes a national park? Multiple environmentalities and politics of scale in governing Laos’ protected areas 2022 ·Regional Environmental Change ·(unknown), Ole Mertz, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen	3
5	Telecoupling as a framework to support a more nuanced understanding of causality in land system science 2022 ·Journal of Land Use Science ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ole Mertz, Esteve Corbera	10
6	Large Differences in Livelihood Responses and Outcomes to Increased Conservation Enforcement in a Protected Area 2021 ·Human Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ole Mertz, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Thoumthone Vongvisouk, (unknown)	12
7	A Nested Land Uses–Landscapes–Livelihoods Approach to Assess the Real Costs of Land-Use Transitions: Insights from Southeast Asia 2019 ·Land ·Guillaume Lestrelin, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Qiaohong Li, Thoumthone Vongvisouk, Nguyễn Đình Tiến, Ole Mertz	16
8	Publisher Correction: Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification 2018 ·Nature Sustainability ·Laura Vang Rasmussen, Brendan Coolsaet, Adrian Martin, Ole Mertz, Unai Pascual, Esteve Corbera, Neil Dawson, Janet Fisher, Phil Franks, Casey M. Ryan	1
9	Land use intensification : The promise of sustainability and the reality of trade-offs 2018 ·UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·Adrian Martin, Brendan Coolsaet, (unknown), Neil Dawson, Janet Fisher, Phil Franks, Ole Mertz, Unai Pascual, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Casey M. Ryan	14
10	The effect of shortening fallow length on recovery of plant species richness, composition and growth in shifting cultivation landscapes of Kilosa District, Tanzania 2018 ·Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·(unknown), Dos Santos Silayo, (unknown), Torben Birch‐Thomsen, Ole Mertz	0
11	Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification 2018 ·Nature Sustainability ·Laura Vang Rasmussen, Brendan Coolsaet, Adrian Martin, Ole Mertz, Unai Pascual, Esteve Corbera, Neil Dawson, Janet Fisher, Phil Franks, Casey M. Ryan	230
12	Uncertainty in establishing forest reference levels and predicting future forest-based carbon stocks for REDD+ 2017 ·Journal of Land Use Science ·Ole Mertz, Kenneth Grogan, Dirk Pflugmacher, Guillaume Lestrelin, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Thoumthone Vongvisouk, Cornelia Hett, Rasmus Fensholt, Zhanli Sun, Nicholas Berry, Daniel Müller	26
13	A global view of shifting cultivation: Recent, current, and future extent 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Andreas Heinimann, Ole Mertz, Steve Frolking, Andreas Egelund Christensen, Kaspar Hurni, Fernando Sedano, Louise Chini, Ritvik Sahajpal, Matthew C. Hansen, G. C. Hurtt	183
14	Vietnam’s Forest Transition in Retrospect: Demonstrating Weaknesses in Business-as-Usual Scenarios for REDD+ 2015 ·Environmental Management ·(unknown), Kenneth Grogan, Ole Mertz, Rasmus Fensholt, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Guillaume Lestrelin, Nguyễn Đình Tiến, Finn Danielsen, (unknown), Kjeld Rasmussen	18
15	Carbon outcomes of major land‐cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications 2012 ·Global Change Biology ·Alan D. Ziegler, Jacob Phelps, Kai Wan Yuen, Edward L. Webb, Deborah Lawrence, Jefferson Fox, Thilde Bech Bruun, Stephen J. Leisz, Casey M. Ryan, Wolfram Dressler, Ole Mertz, Unai Pascual, Christine Padoch, Lian Pin Koh	158
16	Sustainable land use in Tikopia: Food production and consumption in an isolated agricultural system 2010 ·Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography ·Ole Mertz, Thilde Bech Bruun, Bjarne Fog, Kjeld Rasmussen, Jytte Agergaard	29
17	Rainforest ecosystems of East Kalimantan - El Nino, drought, fire, and human impacts. E. Guhardja et al., red. Tokyo/New York, Springer 2000. (Ecological Studies, 140). XXVIII, 330 s., ill., maps, 25 cm. GBP 72,50. 2001 ·Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography ·Ole Mertz	2
18	Collaboration on environmental research and education between universities in Denmark, Malaysia, Thailand and Southern Africa 2000 ·Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·Ole Mertz, (unknown), Jakob Magid, Torben Birch‐Thomsen, (unknown)	1
19	Building on diversity:Pathways to agricultural intensification in Burkina Faso 1999 ·Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·Ole Mertz, Anette Reenberg	5
20	Subsistence or cash: strategies for change in shifting cultivation 1999 ·Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography ·Ole Mertz, Andreas Egelund Christensen, (unknown), Torben Birch‐Thomsen	13

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