Patrick Meyfroidt

20.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
133 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Patrick Meyfroidt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Meyfroidt has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 21 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Patrick Meyfroidt's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (76 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (42 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (28 papers). Patrick Meyfroidt is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (76 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (42 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (28 papers). Patrick Meyfroidt collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Patrick Meyfroidt's co-authors include Éric F. Lambin, Tobias Kuemmerle, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Thomas K. Rudel, Thomas W. Hertel, Javier Godar, Daniel Müller, Peter H. Verburg, Patrick Hostert and Martin Rudbeck Jepsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Meyfroidt

131 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the l... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2009 2013 2016 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity
    2011 2.2k citations Éric F. Lambin, Patrick Meyfroidt Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Land use transitions: Socio-ecological feedback versus socio-economic change
    2009 909 citations Éric F. Lambin, Patrick Meyfroidt profile →
  3. Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use
    2013 501 citations Patrick Meyfroidt, Éric F. Lambin et al. profile →
  4. A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring
    2016 501 citations Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle et al. profile →
  5. Global Forest Transition: Prospects for an End to Deforestation
    2011 484 citations Patrick Meyfroidt, Éric F. Lambin profile →
  6. Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use
    2010 445 citations Patrick Meyfroidt, Éric F. Lambin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective
    2015 415 citations Peter H. Verburg, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. profile →
  8. Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
    2014 350 citations Éric F. Lambin, Patrick Meyfroidt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Meyfroidt Belgium 51 7.9k 2.7k 2.0k 1.7k 1.6k 133 12.0k
Britaldo Soares‐Filho Brazil 50 8.7k 1.1× 3.2k 1.2× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 121 13.2k
Luca Salvati Italy 67 8.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.6× 950 0.5× 2.4k 1.4× 2.4k 1.5× 486 13.0k
Karl‐Heinz Erb Austria 66 7.6k 1.0× 4.6k 1.7× 1.6k 0.8× 2.2k 1.3× 1.9k 1.2× 164 15.9k
Mark Rounsevell United Kingdom 64 7.8k 1.0× 3.6k 1.3× 1.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 239 15.4k
Philip M. Fearnside Brazil 75 10.0k 1.3× 4.0k 1.4× 1.4k 0.7× 2.6k 1.6× 1.6k 1.0× 416 19.0k
Arild Angelsen Norway 46 8.7k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 3.3k 2.0× 1.5k 1.0× 157 11.8k
Tobias Kuemmerle Germany 76 11.0k 1.4× 7.2k 2.6× 1.8k 0.9× 1.0k 0.6× 2.6k 1.7× 247 18.2k
Emilio F. Morán United States 55 8.9k 1.1× 5.6k 2.0× 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 201 16.5k
Ralf Seppelt Germany 53 6.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 598 0.3× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 147 10.1k
Chad Monfreda United States 15 7.2k 0.9× 4.7k 1.7× 870 0.4× 1.5k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 21 15.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Meyfroidt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Meyfroidt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Meyfroidt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Addoah, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Direct and indirect deforestation for cocoa in the tropical moist forests of Ghana. Digital Access to Libraries. 2(2). 25006–25006. 1 indexed citations
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Meyfroidt, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Deforestation and climate risk hotspots in the global cocoa value chain. Environmental Science & Policy. 158. 103796–103796. 6 indexed citations
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Rufin, Philippe, Sherrie Wang, Sá Nogueira Lisboa, et al.. (2024). Taking it further: Leveraging pseudo-labels for field delineation across label-scarce smallholder regions. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 134. 104149–104149. 4 indexed citations
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Qin, Siyu, Patrick Meyfroidt, Arash Ghoddousi, et al.. (2024). Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America. People and Nature. 6(5). 1789–1803. 1 indexed citations
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Schlüter‬, Maja, Juan Rocha, Nico Wunderling, et al.. (2024). Crop booms as regime shifts. Royal Society Open Science. 11(6). 5 indexed citations
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Meyfroidt, Patrick, et al.. (2023). Transparency, traceability and deforestation in the Ivorian cocoa supply chain. Environmental Research Letters. 18(2). 24030–24030. 32 indexed citations
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Qin, Siyu, et al.. (2023). Changing determinants of international conservation funding committed to major deforestation regions in South America. Biological Conservation. 288. 110362–110362. 5 indexed citations
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Jung, Martin, Mercedes Bustamante, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, et al.. (2023). Tropical dry woodland loss occurs disproportionately in areas of highest conservation value. Global Change Biology. 29(17). 4880–4897. 14 indexed citations
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Qin, Siyu, Tobias Kuemmerle, Patrick Meyfroidt, et al.. (2022). The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers. Conservation Letters. 15(1). 13 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Eduardo & Patrick Meyfroidt. (2022). Strategic spatial planning in emerging land-use frontiers: evidence from Mozambique. Ecology and Society. 27(2). 4 indexed citations
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Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Toby Gardner, et al.. (2022). Addressing indirect sourcing in zero deforestation commodity supply chains. Science Advances. 8(17). 42 indexed citations
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Bager, Simon Laursen, et al.. (2020). Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Environmental Policy and Governance. 31(1). 3–17. 126 indexed citations
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Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J. zu, et al.. (2020). The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil’s beef exports. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(50). 31770–31779. 102 indexed citations
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Meyfroidt, Patrick, Jan Börner, Rachael Garrett, et al.. (2020). Focus on leakage and spillovers: informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 90202–90202. 83 indexed citations
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García, Virginia Rodriguez, Frédéric Gaspart, Thomas Kästner, & Patrick Meyfroidt. (2020). Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect. Environmental Research Letters. 15(8). 85007–85007. 70 indexed citations
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Khuc, Quy Van, Tuyet‐Anh T. Le, Trung Hiếu Nguyễn, et al.. (2020). Forest Cover Change, Households’ Livelihoods, Trade-Offs, and Constraints Associated with Plantation Forests in Poor Upland-Rural Landscapes: Evidence from North Central Vietnam. Forests. 11(5). 548–548. 33 indexed citations
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Schierhorn, Florian, Thomas Kästner, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al.. (2019). Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems. Environmental Research Letters. 14(6). 65009–65009. 43 indexed citations
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McGrath, Matthew J., Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Patrick Meyfroidt, et al.. (2015). Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 89 indexed citations
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Meyfroidt, Patrick & Éric F. Lambin. (2009). Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(38). 16139–16144. 289 indexed citations

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