Peter Messerli

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Messerli is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Messerli has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 15 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Messerli's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (20 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). Peter Messerli is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (20 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). Peter Messerli collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Madagascar. Peter Messerli's co-authors include Andreas Heinimann, Markus Giger, Thomas Breu, Michael Epprecht, Cornelia Hett, Julie G. Zaehringer, Christoph Oberlack, Sandra Eckert, Stephan Rist and Ward Anseeuw and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Peter Messerli

74 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward

2018 399 citations Måns Nilsson, Elinor Chisholm et al. Sustainability Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Messerli	1.4k	810	517	491	466	80	3.0k
Shuangshuang Tu	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	361 0.7×	495 1.0×	394 0.8×	42	3.4k
Dazhuan Ge	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	296 0.6×	337 0.7×	327 0.7×	43	2.6k
Tom Evans	2.1k 1.5×	645 0.8×	381 0.7×	364 0.7×	469 1.0×	105	4.3k
Héléna Posthumus	1.2k 0.8×	543 0.7×	482 0.9×	396 0.8×	448 1.0×	35	2.9k
Thomas Sikor	2.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	593 1.1×	738 1.5×	960 2.1×	66	3.9k
Jean‐Christophe Castella	2.7k 1.9×	825 1.0×	535 1.0×	554 1.1×	594 1.3×	134	4.8k
Stephen G. Perz	2.8k 1.9×	889 1.1×	454 0.9×	561 1.1×	521 1.1×	110	4.0k
Ganesh P. Shivakoti	1.1k 0.7×	572 0.7×	341 0.7×	463 0.9×	403 0.9×	101	2.6k
Stephan Rist	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	552 1.1×	377 0.8×	801 1.7×	118	4.2k
Ashwini Chhatre	3.1k 2.1×	622 0.8×	583 1.1×	392 0.8×	646 1.4×	68	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Messerli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Messerli

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Messerli

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

Martin, Dominic A., Elke Kellner, Jorge C. Llopis, et al.. (2024). Interactive visual syntheses for social-ecological systems understanding. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 6. 18637–18637.

Llopis, Jorge C., Andreas Heinimann, Sithong Thongmanivong, et al.. (2023). Agricultural commercialization in borderlands: Capturing the transformation of a tropical forest frontier through participatory mapping. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 6. 5 indexed citations

Schaepman, Michael E., Nikola Biller‐Andorno, Giacomo De Giorgi, et al.. (2022). Are our data ready for the next global challenges? Resilient data for resilient societies and economies. Environmental Science & Policy. 138. 146–148. 1 indexed citations

Breu, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Where to begin? Defining national strategies for implementing the 2030 Agenda: the case of Switzerland. Sustainability Science. 16(1). 183–201. 39 indexed citations

Rueff, Henri, et al.. (2019). Knowledge for Sustainable Development: Interactive repository of SDG interactions. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 4 indexed citations

Oberlack, Christoph, Diana Sietz, Ariane de Bremond, et al.. (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making. Ecology and Society. 24(2). 141 indexed citations

Nilsson, Måns, Elinor Chisholm, David Griggs, et al.. (2018). Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward. Sustainability Science. 13(6). 1489–1503. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

Oberlack, Christoph, Sébastien Boillat, Stefan Brönnimann, et al.. (2017). Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems: Is the tragedy of the grabbed commons unavoidable?. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations

Messerli, Peter, et al.. (2017). Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation.. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations

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Breu, Thomas, Christoph Bader, Peter Messerli, et al.. (2016). Large-Scale Land Acquisition and Its Effects on the Water Balance in Investor and Host Countries. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0150901–e0150901. 42 indexed citations

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Golay, Christophe, et al.. (2015). Large-scale land acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia. Econstor (Econstor). 14 indexed citations

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Messerli, Peter, Christoph Bader, Cornelia Hett, Michael Epprecht, & Andreas Heinimann. (2015). Towards a Spatial Understanding of Trade-Offs in Sustainable Development: A Meso-Scale Analysis of the Nexus between Land Use, Poverty, and Environment in the Lao PDR. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0133418–e0133418. 22 indexed citations

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Hurni, Hans, Markus Giger, Hanspeter Liniger, et al.. (2015). Soils, agriculture and food security: the interplay between ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 15. 25–34. 62 indexed citations

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Golay, Christophe, et al.. (2015). Large-Scale Land Acquisitions. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 1 indexed citations

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Schmidt‐Vogt, Dietrich, et al.. (2013). Secondary Forests and Local Livelihoods along a Gradient of Accessibility: A Case Study in Northern Laos. Society & Natural Resources. 26(11). 1283–1299. 10 indexed citations

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Hurni, Kaspar, Cornelia Hett, Andreas Heinimann, Peter Messerli, & Urs Wiesmann. (2012). Dynamics of Shifting Cultivation Landscapes in Northern Lao PDR Between 2000 and 2009 Based on an Analysis of MODIS Time Series and Landsat Images. Human Ecology. 41(1). 21–36. 54 indexed citations

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Messerli, Peter, Andreas Heinimann, & Michael Epprecht. (2009). Finding Homogeneity in Heterogeneity—A New Approach to Quantifying Landscape Mosaics Developed for the Lao PDR. Human Ecology. 37(3). 291–304. 80 indexed citations

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Messerli, Peter. (2007). Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. Mountain Research and Development. 27(1). 92–93. 2 indexed citations

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Heinimann, Andreas, Peter Messerli, Dietrich Schmidt‐Vogt, & Urs Wiesmann. (2007). The Dynamics of Secondary Forest Landscapes in the Lower Mekong Basin. Mountain Research and Development. 27(3). 232–241. 18 indexed citations

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Hurni, Hans, et al.. (2004). Forschungspartnerschaften mit dem Süden: die Schweiz etabliert ein neuartiges Instrument der Entwickungszusammenarbeit. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 2 indexed citations

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