Saskia Keesstra

19.2k citations

217 papers · 14.7k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.02%
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Water Science and Technology top 0.1%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Papers in

Soil Science 120
- Soil erosion and sediment transport 101
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 18
Earth-Surface Processes 29
- Aeolian processes and effects 27

Co-authors: Artemi Cerdà Agata Novara Jesús Rodrigo‐Comino L. Stroosnijder G. Mol Eric C. Brevik João Pedro Nunes Jantiene Baartman
Journals: The Science of The Total Environment (17 papers)Land Degradation and Development (13 papers)CATENA (12 papers)Journal of Environmental Management (9 papers)Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (8 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands Australia Spain

In The Last Decade

Saskia Keesstra

211 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Land-Management Options for Greenhouse Gas Removal and Their Impacts on Ecosystem Services and the Sustainable Development Goals 2019 · 238 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.

2019 Annual Review of Environment and Resources
2018 Land
2017 The Science of The Total Environment
2017 The Science of The Total Environment
2016 The Science of The Total Environment
2016 The Science of The Total Environment
2016 SOIL

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Citations

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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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1	Four approaches to setting soil health targets and thresholds in agricultural soils Journal of Environmental Management ·Amanda Matson, Maria Fantappiè, Raisa Cristina Moraes Cattaneo, V Sheeba, J.H. Faber, Lucas Carvalho Gomes, Rudi Hessel, Marcos Lana, Stéfano Mocali, Pete Smith, David A. Robinson, Antonio Bispo, Fenny van Egmond, Saskia Keesstra, Nicolas Saby, Bożena Smreczak, 刘永旭, Azamat Suleymanov, Claire Chenu	2024	4
2	Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to prevent soil erosion Repositorio Universidade de Évora (Universidade de Évora) ·Maria Helena Guimarães, Martinho Martins, Diana Vieira, Isabel Brito, Claire Kelly, Nuno Guiomar, Kantor J.R., 张宝旭, digventures, Artemi Cerdà, Rosnida Siregar, 최미숙, 肖锐, Panos Panagos, Pandi Zdruli, Saskia Keesstra, Sérgio Prats, M. Maljaars, Endre Dobos	2024	1
3	Long-term effects of vegetation restoration on hydrological regulation functions and the implications to afforestation on the Loess Plateau Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Adison A. Kleinsasser, S. B. Lathiya, Saskia Keesstra, Jianjun Zhang, Huaxing Bi, Ruoshui Wang, Dan Spagna	2023	42
4	European agricultural soil management: Towards climate‐smart and sustainability, knowledge needs and research approaches European Journal of Soil Science ·Saskia Keesstra, Claire Chenu, Lars Juhl Munkholm, Sophie Cornu, P.J. Kuikman, Martin Hvarregaard Thorsøe, A.A. Lototskaya, Saskia Visser	2023	14
5	Soil-derived Nature's Contributions to People and their contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Pete Smith, Saskia Keesstra, Whendee L. Silver, Tapan Kumar Adhya, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Donna Giltrap, Phil Renforth, Kun Cheng, Binoy Sarkar, Patricia Saco, Kate M. Scow, Jo Smith, Jean‐Claude Morel, Sören Thiele‐Bruhn, Rattan Lal, Pamela McElwee	2021	39
6	Introducing ‘Anthropocene Science’: A New International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of Planet Earth CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) ·P.C. Abhilash, Simone Bastianoni, Wei‐Qiang Chen, Ruth DeFries, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto, Neven S. Fučkar, Shizuka Hashimoto, Danny Hunter, Saskia Keesstra, Othmane Merah, Patrick O’Farrell, Prajal Pradhan, Simron Jit Singh, Pete Smith, Lindsay C. Stringer, B. L. Turner	2021	6
7	Susceptibility to Gully Erosion: Applying Random Forest (RF) and Frequency Ratio (FR) Approaches to a Small Catchment in Ethiopia Water ·Bailón Quijije, Eddy J. Langendoen, Saskia Keesstra, Martine van der Ploeg, Habtamu Sewnet Gelagay, 麻紀俵, S.E.A.T.M. van der Zee	2021	50
8	Connectivity in hydrology and sediment dynamics Land Degradation and Development ·Saskia Keesstra, Vincenzo Bagarello, Vito Ferro, David C. Finger, Anthony J. Parsons	2020	13
9	Comparative Analysis of Splash Erosion Devices for Rainfall Simulation Experiments: A Laboratory Study Water ·María Fernández‐Raga, Julián Campo, Jesús Rodrigo‐Comino, Saskia Keesstra	2019	27
10	Uncertainties of prediction accuracy in shallow landslide modeling: Sample size and raster resolution CATENA ·Ataollah Shirzadi, Karim Solaimani, Pooja Sauhta Siwach, Ataollah Kavian, Kamran Chapi, Himan Shahabi, Saskia Keesstra, Baharin Bin Ahmad, Dieu Tien Bui	2019	127
11	Evaluating landscape capacity to provide spatially explicit valued ecosystem services for sustainable coastal resource management Ocean & Coastal Management ·Srikanta Sannigrahi, P. K. Joshi, Saskia Keesstra, Saikat Kumar Paul, Somnath Sen, Priyom Roy, Suman Chakraborti, Sandeep Bhatt	2019	25
12	The way forward: Can connectivity be useful to design better measuring and modelling schemes for water and sediment dynamics? The Science of The Total Environment ·Saskia Keesstra, João Pedro Nunes, Patricia Saco, Tony Parsons, Ronald E. Poeppl, Rens Masselink, Artemi Cerdà	2018	212
13	Stakeholders' perception of the relevance of water and sediment connectivity in water and land management Land Degradation and Development ·Anna Smetanová, Eva Nora Paton, Brittany Root, Maohua Ju, Zhengyao Wen, G. Nedellec, Louise J. Bracken, Yves Le Bissonnais, Saskia Keesstra	2018	17
14	Testing simple scaling in soil erosion processes at plot scale CATENA ·Vincenzo Bagarello, Vito Ferro, Saskia Keesstra, Jesús Rodrigo‐Comino, Manuel Pulido Fernández, Artemi Cerdà	2018	33
15	The importance of Soil Science to understand and remediate Land Degradation and Desertification processes EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·J. Bouma, Saskia Keesstra, Artemi Cerdà	2017	1
16	Afforestation, Subsequent Forest Fires and Provision of Hydrological Services: A Model‐Based Analysis for a Mediterranean Mountainous Catchment Land Degradation and Development ·João Pedro Nunes, Shey Taw, Trinity Lowthian, Dalila Serpa, Cláudia Carvalho‐Santos, João Rocha, Jan Jacob Keizer, Saskia Keesstra	2017	51
17	Long-term citrus organic farming strategy results in soil organic matter recovery EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Agata Novara, Paulo Pereira, Ettore Barone, Honoré Papalia, Saskia Keesstra, Luciano Gristina, António Jordán, Luis Parras‐Alcántara, Artemi Cerdà	2017	2
18	Integrating structural and functional connectivity to characterize sediment dynamics in a small Alpine catchment EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Marco Cavalli, Stefano Crema, 正人神崎, Ana Lúcia, Francesco Comiti, Lorenzo Marchi, Saskia Keesstra	2016	2
19	Physically‐Based Modelling of the Post‐Fire Runoff Response of a Forest Catchment in Central Portugal: Using Field versus Remote Sensing Based Estimates of Vegetation Recovery Land Degradation and Development ·PURBITA DAS, João Pedro Nunes, Diana Vieira, Saskia Keesstra, Jan Jacob Keizer	2016	69
20	Evaluating RGB photogrammetry and multi-temporal digital surface models for detecting soil erosion EGUGA ·Niels Anders, Saskia Keesstra, Manuel Seeger	2013	1

About Saskia Keesstra

Saskia Keesstra is a scholar working on Soil Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology, having authored 217 papers that have together received 14.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (101 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (60 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (46 papers), Aeolian processes and effects (27 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (22 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (19 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (7.3k citations), Water Science and Technology (3.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.2k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (1.5k citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (2.2k citations). Saskia Keesstra has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Australia and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Artemi Cerdà, Agata Novara, Jesús Rodrigo‐Comino, L. Stroosnijder, G. Mol, Eric C. Brevik, João Pedro Nunes, Jantiene Baartman, Hamid Reza Pourghasemi and António Jordán. Their work appears in journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Land Degradation and Development, CATENA, Journal of Environmental Management and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

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