Sander Jacobs

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sander Jacobs is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Sander Jacobs has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Sander Jacobs's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers) and Environmental Conservation and Management (12 papers). Sander Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers) and Environmental Conservation and Management (12 papers). Sander Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and Netherlands. Sander Jacobs's co-authors include Joachim Maes, Jan Staes, Patrick Meire, Benjamin Burkhard, Toon Van Daele, Anik Schneiders, Nicolas Dendoncker, Hans Keune, Annelies Boerema and María R. Felipe‐Lucia and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Sander Jacobs

64 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Nature‐Based Solutions for Europe's Sustainable Development 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400
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. Nature‐Based Solutions for Europe's Sustainable Development
    2015 403 citations Sander Jacobs 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
Sander Jacobs Belgium 25 1.3k 495 397 338 245 68 2.1k
Marta Pérez‐Soba Netherlands 23 1.7k 1.2× 405 0.8× 427 1.1× 469 1.4× 315 1.3× 58 2.4k
Małgorzata Blicharska Sweden 24 1.4k 1.0× 445 0.9× 429 1.1× 320 0.9× 352 1.4× 68 2.3k
Olaf Bastian Germany 24 1.5k 1.1× 387 0.8× 336 0.8× 494 1.5× 230 0.9× 57 2.0k
Ilse R. Geijzendorffer France 28 1.4k 1.1× 665 1.3× 309 0.8× 261 0.8× 229 0.9× 50 2.4k
Ying Hou China 21 1.9k 1.4× 575 1.2× 360 0.9× 440 1.3× 306 1.2× 63 2.4k
Emma H. van der Zanden Netherlands 19 1.3k 1.0× 448 0.9× 355 0.9× 181 0.5× 261 1.1× 23 2.0k
Himlal Baral Indonesia 31 2.2k 1.6× 694 1.4× 481 1.2× 253 0.7× 414 1.7× 121 3.1k
Mart Külvik Estonia 15 1.1k 0.8× 429 0.9× 297 0.7× 486 1.4× 109 0.4× 43 1.9k
Laura Nahuelhual Chile 27 1.8k 1.3× 621 1.3× 417 1.1× 290 0.9× 459 1.9× 77 2.6k
Beth Turner United Kingdom 10 1.6k 1.2× 561 1.1× 536 1.4× 355 1.1× 289 1.2× 12 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sander Jacobs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sander Jacobs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sander Jacobs

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jacobs, Sander, et al.. (2023). Beyond Biodiversity: Eliciting Diverse Values of Urban Green Spaces in Flanders. Land. 12(6). 1186–1186. 1 indexed citations
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Leone, Michael, Ieva Misiūnė, Luís Valença Pinto, et al.. (2023). Lost in implementation? A field study of the uptake of the ‘green infrastructure’ term and concept in urban policies. Ecosystems and People. 19(1). 4 indexed citations
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Jacobs, Sander, Eszter Kelemen, Patrick O’Farrell, et al.. (2023). The pitfalls of plural valuation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101345–101345. 11 indexed citations
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Schaafsma, Marije, Seongho Ahn, Antonio Arjona Castro, et al.. (2023). Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101350–101350. 15 indexed citations
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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
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Jacobs, Sander, Michael Leone, Julia Palliwoda, et al.. (2020). Keep it real: selecting realistic sets of urban green space indicators. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 95001–95001. 23 indexed citations
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Schröter, Matthias, Mike Christie, Andrew Church, et al.. (2020). Indicators for relational values of nature’s contributions to good quality of life: the IPBES approach for Europe and Central Asia. Ecosystems and People. 16(1). 50–69. 59 indexed citations
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Balvanera, Patricia, Sander Jacobs, Harini Nagendra, et al.. (2020). The science-policy interface on ecosystems and people: challenges and opportunities. Ecosystems and People. 16(1). 345–353. 31 indexed citations
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Harrison, Paula A., Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Armağan Aloe Karabulut, et al.. (2019). Synthesizing plausible futures for biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe and Central Asia using scenario archetypes. Ecology and Society. 24(2). 31 indexed citations
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Martín‐López, Berta, María R. Felipe‐Lucia, Elena M. Bennett, et al.. (2019). A novel telecoupling framework to assess social relations across spatial scales for ecosystem services research. Journal of Environmental Management. 241. 251–263. 77 indexed citations
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Dendoncker, Nicolas, Francis Turkelboom, Fanny Boeraeve, et al.. (2018). Integrating Ecosystem Services values for sustainability? Evidence from the Belgium Ecosystem Services community of practice. Ecosystem Services. 31. 68–76. 17 indexed citations
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Brogna, Delphine, Marc Dufrêne, Adrien Michez, et al.. (2018). Forest cover correlates with good biological water quality. Insights from a regional study (Wallonia, Belgium). Journal of Environmental Management. 211. 9–21. 30 indexed citations
13.
Jacobs, Sander, Wim Verheyden, & Nicolas Dendoncker. (2017). Why to map. 171–175. 5 indexed citations
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Boerema, Annelies, Alain Peeters, Floor Vandevenne, et al.. (2016). Soybean Trade: Balancing Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of an Intercontinental Market. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155222–e0155222. 126 indexed citations
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Jacobs, Sander, Nicolas Dendoncker, & Hans Keune. (2014). Ecosystem Services - Global Issues, Local Practices. Repository of the University of Namur. 69 indexed citations
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Teuchies, Johannes, et al.. (2013). Role of plants in metal cycling in a tidal wetland: Implications for phytoremidiation. The Science of The Total Environment. 445-446. 146–154. 45 indexed citations
17.
Teuchies, Johannes, Olivier Beauchard, Sander Jacobs, & Patrick Meire. (2012). Evolution of sediment metal concentrations in a tidal marsh restoration project. The Science of The Total Environment. 419. 187–195. 13 indexed citations
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Beauchard, Olivier, Aurélie Ciutat, Magali Gérino, et al.. (2011). Spatiotemporal bioturbation patterns in a tidal freshwater marsh. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 96. 159–169. 5 indexed citations
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Struyf, Eric, Sander Jacobs, Patrick Meire, Kai Jensen, & A. Barendregt. (2009). Plant communities of European tidal freshwater wetlands. 59–70. 18 indexed citations
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Jacobs, Sander, Eric Struyf, Tom Maris, & Patrick Meire. (2008). Spatiotemporal aspects of silica buffering in restored tidal marshes. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 80(1). 42–52. 27 indexed citations

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