Reinette Biggs

25.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
58 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Reinette Biggs is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Reinette Biggs has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Reinette Biggs's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (9 papers). Reinette Biggs is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 papers) and Complex Systems and Decision Making (9 papers). Reinette Biggs collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, South Africa and United States. Reinette Biggs's co-authors include Carl Folke, Belinda Reyers, Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Stephen R. Carpenter, Elena M. Bennett, Georgina M. Mace, Sarah Cornell, Dieter Gerten and Katherine Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Reinette Biggs

57 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

2015 7.1k citations Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson et al. Science profile →
Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services

2012 831 citations Reinette Biggs, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne et al. profile →
Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

2016 729 citations Carl Folke, Reinette Biggs et al. Ecology and Society profile →
Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

2009 629 citations F. Stuart Chapin, Stephen R. Carpenter et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches

2018 331 citations Rika Preiser, Reinette Biggs et al. Ecology and Society profile →
Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

2015 324 citations Joern Fischer, Elena M. Bennett et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reinette Biggs Sweden	31	4.5k	2.2k	2.2k	1.9k	1.4k	58	12.7k
Sarah Cornell Sweden	38	4.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	101	15.9k
Ingo Fetzer Germany	34	3.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	83	13.1k
Jens Heinke Germany	34	4.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.3×	69	13.0k
Katherine Richardson Denmark	45	5.4k 1.2×	2.1k 0.9×	3.8k 1.7×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	148	17.6k
Lindsay C. Stringer United Kingdom	58	6.5k 1.4×	2.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	685 0.5×	266	15.0k
Belinda Reyers South Africa	50	7.6k 1.7×	3.0k 1.3×	3.3k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	109	16.7k
Sverker Sörlin Sweden	24	2.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	159	9.4k
Patrick Meyfroidt Belgium	51	7.9k 1.8×	1.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	778 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	133	12.0k
Ida Kubiszewski Australia	35	6.4k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	921 0.7×	106	11.2k
Dieter Gerten Germany	67	8.8k 2.0×	1.7k 0.7×	3.7k 1.7×	1.5k 0.8×	3.3k 2.4×	154	21.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reinette Biggs

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Clements, Hayley S., Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos, et al.. (2025). A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature. 649(8095). 113–121.

Biggs, Reinette, et al.. (2025). Democratic governance and palliative care: Examining the interplay of political systems, economic status, and end-of-life care quality. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. 12. 101800–101800. 1 indexed citations

Biggs, Reinette, et al.. (2024). The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis. Ecology and Society. 29(1). 11 indexed citations

Biggs, Reinette, et al.. (2024). Comparing apples and pears: Linking capitals and capacities to assess the resilience of commercial farming operations. Agricultural Systems. 217. 103934–103934. 2 indexed citations

Rockström, Johan, Albert V. Norström, Nathanial Matthews, et al.. (2023). Shaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19. Nature Sustainability. 6(8). 897–907. 30 indexed citations

Velden, Julia van, Reinette Biggs, Tanja Hichert, et al.. (2023). Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change. Sustainability Science. 18(6). 2567–2587. 2 indexed citations

Meacham, Megan, Albert V. Norström, Garry Peterson, et al.. (2022). Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis. Ecosystems and People. 18(1). 99–111. 42 indexed citations

Vos, Alta De, et al.. (2021). The influence of biophysical and socio-economic factors on the effectiveness of private land conservation areas in preventing natural land cover loss across South Africa. Global Ecology and Conservation. 28. e01670–e01670. 5 indexed citations

Bennett, Elena M., Reinette Biggs, Garry Peterson, & Line Gordon. (2021). Patchwork Earth: navigating pathways to just, thriving, and sustainable futures. One Earth. 4(2). 172–176. 43 indexed citations

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Biggs, Reinette, et al.. (2020). Learning for transitions: a niche perspective. Ecology and Society. 25(1). 11 indexed citations

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Raudsepp‐Hearne, Ciara, Garry Peterson, Elena M. Bennett, et al.. (2019). Seeds of good anthropocenes: developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe. Sustainability Science. 15(2). 605–617. 67 indexed citations

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Drimie, Scott, et al.. (2019). We’re ready, the system’s not – youth perspectives on agricultural careers in South Africa. Agrekon. 58(2). 154–179. 40 indexed citations

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Selomane, Odirilwe, Belinda Reyers, Reinette Biggs, & Maike Hamann. (2019). Harnessing Insights from Social-Ecological Systems Research for Monitoring Sustainable Development. Sustainability. 11(4). 1190–1190. 31 indexed citations

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Biggs, Reinette, et al.. (2018). A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems. Ecology and Society. 23(2). 50 indexed citations

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Shackleton, Ross T., Reinette Biggs, David M. Richardson, & Brendon M. H. Larson. (2018). Social-ecological drivers and impacts of invasion-related regime shifts: consequences for ecosystem services and human wellbeing. Environmental Science & Policy. 89. 300–314. 54 indexed citations

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Preiser, Rika, Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos, & Carl Folke. (2018). Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches. Ecology and Society. 23(4). 331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Steffen, Will, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, et al.. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science. 347(6223). 1259855–1259855. 7139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Homer‐Dixon, Thomas, Brian Walker, Reinette Biggs, et al.. (2015). Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis. Ecology and Society. 20(3). 136 indexed citations

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Gaertner, Mirijam, Reinette Biggs, Mariska te Beest, et al.. (2014). Invasive plants as drivers of regime shifts: identifying high‐priority invaders that alter feedback relationships. Diversity and Distributions. 20(7). 733–744. 203 indexed citations

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Chapin, F. Stuart, Stephen R. Carpenter, Gary P. Kofinas, et al.. (2009). Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25(4). 241–249. 629 indexed citations breakdown →

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