Per Olsson

31.1k citations

88 papers · 18.8k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Marine and fisheries research
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.02%
- Coastal and Marine Management

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 50
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 28
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 16
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 7
- Marine and fisheries research 7
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies 5
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 23
- Coastal and Marine Management 15

Co-authors: Carl Folke Thomas P. Hahn Jon Norberg Fikret Berkes Victor Galaz Louis Lebel Lisen Schultz Lance Gunderson
Journals: Ecology and Society (17 papers)Sustainability Science (5 papers)Marine Policy (4 papers)Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (3 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: Sweden United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Per Olsson

87 papers receiving 17.4k citations

Hit Papers

14 papers align trajectories log scale

Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches 2020 · 413 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
2019 Nature Sustainability
2014 Ecology and Society
2013 Ecology and Society
2012 Ecology and Society
2011 AMBIO
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2006 Ecology and Society
2006 Science
2006 Ecology and Society
2005 Annual Review of Environment and Resources
2004 Environmental Management
2004 Ecology and Society

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Fields of papers citing papers by Per Olsson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	A quest for questions: The JUSTRA as a matrix for navigating just food system transformations in an era of uncertainty One Earth ·Costanza Conti, Andy Hall, Kristiaan P.W. Kok, Per Olsson, Michele‐Lee Moore, Claire Kremen, 康荣平, Line Gordon, Anne Barnhill, John C Gercke, Anna Norberg, Bianca Carducci, Nosipho Monese, Zexiao Lin, Shota Motohashi, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Tim G. Williams, Rachel Mazac, 哲夫曽田, Jessica Fanzo	2025	3
2	Disrupting the opportunity narrative: navigating transformation in times of uncertainty and crisis Sustainability Science ·Michele‐Lee Moore, J. Veitch-Michaelis, Scott Drimie, M. Chiapasco, Laurie K. Vickroy, Syamsul Mursidin, M Koopmanschap, Mohammad H. Akbarizadeh M., Per Olsson	2023	14
3	Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Mingjie Wu, Yvon Cordier, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Jonathan F. Donges, Henrik Österblom, Per Olsson, Magnus Nyström, Steven J. Lade, Thomas P. Hahn, Carl Folke, Garry Peterson, Anne‐Sophie Crépin	2023	37
4	What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking Ecology and Society ·KITENGIE NGOYI Moïse -, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Garry Peterson, Albert V. Norström, Michele‐Lee Moore, Per Olsson, David P. M. Lam, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno	2023	7
5	Disruptive seeds: a scenario approach to explore power shifts in sustainability transformations Sustainability Science ·Lucas Rutting, Joost Vervoort, Heleen Mees, Laura Pereira, Young-Cheol Yoon, Jonald Arceo, Astrid Mangnus, Klara J. Winkler, Per Olsson, Tanja Hichert, Richard Lane, R. Signh, Hans Stützte, Poul B.N, Dave van Dun, Peter Driessen	2022	27
6	The lure of novel biological and chemical entities in food-system transformations One Earth ·Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Yvon Cordier, Robert Blasiak, Sarah Cornell, Line Gordon, Magnus Nyström, Per Olsson	2022	2
7	Seeds of good anthropocenes: developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe Sustainability Science ·Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Garry Peterson, Elena M. Bennett, Reinette Biggs, Albert V. Norström, Laura Pereira, Joost Vervoort, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Per Olsson, Tanja Hichert, Marianne Falardeau, Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno	2019	67
8	Global Governance Dimensions of Globally Networked Risks: The State of the Art in Social Science Research Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy ·Victor Galaz, Jonas Tallberg, Arjen Boin, Claudia Ituarte‐Lima, Ellen Hey, Per Olsson, Frances Westley	2017	49
9	An innovation and agency perspective on the emergence and spread of Marine Spatial Planning Marine Policy ·Andrew Merrie, Per Olsson	2013	45
10	Understanding supportive networks for social-ecological innovation Malmö University Publications (Malmö University) ·ملک خاتون مرادی مرادی, Per Olsson	2013	3
11	Mobility, Expansion and Management of a Multi-Species Scuba Diving Fishery in East Africa PLoS ONE ·Hampus Eriksson, Maricela de la Torre‐Castro, Per Olsson	2012	42
12	Creation of a Gilded Trap by the High Economic Value of the Maine Lobster Fishery Conservation Biology ·Robert S. Steneck, Terry P. Hughes, Joshua E. Cinner, W. Neil Adger, Suzanne N. Arnold, Fikret Berkes, Stephanie A. Boudreau, Katrina Brown, Carl Folke, Lance Gunderson, Per Olsson, Marten Scheffer, J C Stern, Brian Walker, James A. Wilson, Boris Worm	2011	216
13	Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·F. Stuart Chapin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Gary P. Kofinas, Carl Folke, Nick Abel, William C. Clark, Per Olsson, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Brian Walker, Oran R. Young, Fikret Berkes, Reinette Biggs, J. Morgan Grove, Rosamond L. Naylor, Evelyn Pinkerton, Will Steffen, Frederick J. Swanson Hit paper breakdown →	2009	629
14	Fertilization of boreal forest reduces both autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration Global Change Biology ·Per Olsson, Sune Linder, Reiner Giesler, Peter Högberg	2005	246
15	Adaptive Comanagement for Building Resilience in Social?Ecological Systems Environmental Management ·Per Olsson, Carl Folke, Fikret Berkes Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1277
16	Locating Ath8, a locus for murine atherosclerosis susceptibility and testing several of its candidate genes in mice and humans Atherosclerosis ·Ron Korstanje, Per Eriksson, Ann Samnegård, Per Olsson, Kristina Forsman‐Semb, Śaunak Sen, Gary A. Churchill, Jarod Rollins, Stephen Harris, Anders Hamsten, Beverly Paigen	2004	37
17	Abundance of Repetitive Sequence Elements in the Mouse Testis‐Specific Lactate Dehydrogenase‐C Gene1 Journal of Andrology ·Per Olsson, Hiroshi Tsujioka, Sonoko Narisawa, Erwin Goldberg, José Luís Millán	2003	2
18	The Mouse Homologue of the Polycystic Kidney Disease Gene (Pkd1) Is a Single-Copy Gene Genomics ·Per Olsson, Aditya Vakaskar, Sharon W. Horsley, Robert E. Kearney, Peter C. Harris, A.-M. Frischauf	1996	27
19	Expression and differential splicing of the mouse TSC2 homolog Mammalian Genome ·Per Olsson, Julian Schofield, Yvonne H. Edwards, A.-M. Frischauf	1996	22
20	Ig H chain variable and C region genes in common variable immunodeficiency. Characterization of two new deletion haplotypes The Journal of Immunology ·Per Olsson, Marten H. Hofker, Michael A. Walter, S. Smith, Lennart Hammarström, Smith Rjh, D W Cox	1991	14

About Per Olsson

Per Olsson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Management Science and Operations Research, Ecology and Library and Information Sciences, having authored 88 papers that have together received 18.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (28 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (15 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (14 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (13 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers), Marine and fisheries research (7 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (9.8k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (3.9k citations), Business and International Management (365 citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (1.3k citations) and Ecology (3.4k citations). Per Olsson has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Carl Folke, Thomas P. Hahn, Jon Norberg, Fikret Berkes, Victor Galaz, Louis Lebel, Lisen Schultz, Lance Gunderson, Oran R. Young and W. Neil Adger. Their work appears in journals such as Ecology and Society, Sustainability Science, Marine Policy, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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