Sebastian Lakner

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Lakner is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Lakner has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 13 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Lakner's work include Agricultural Economics and Policy (24 papers), Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis (13 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (10 papers). Sebastian Lakner is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Economics and Policy (24 papers), Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis (13 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (10 papers). Sebastian Lakner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Ireland and Austria. Sebastian Lakner's co-authors include Guy Pe’er, Yves Zinngrebe, Jenny Schmidt, Stefan Schindler, Christian Schleyer, Clélia Sirami, Peter Bezák, Bernhard Brümmer, Aletta Bonn and Gioele Passoni and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Lakner

36 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A greener path for the EU Common Agricultural Policy

2019 333 citations Guy Pe’er, Yves Zinngrebe et al. Science profile →
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts

2022 111 citations Guy Pe’er, John A. Finn et al. Conservation Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Lakner Germany	14	359	320	314	230	185	41	1.1k
Yves Zinngrebe Germany	12	424 1.2×	288 0.9×	225 0.7×	224 1.0×	169 0.9×	29	1.0k
Jochen Kantelhardt Austria	17	451 1.3×	305 1.0×	169 0.5×	188 0.8×	195 1.1×	66	1.1k
Mark Brady Sweden	21	514 1.4×	310 1.0×	225 0.7×	118 0.5×	291 1.6×	51	1.3k
Heikki Lehtonen Finland	20	269 0.7×	258 0.8×	323 1.0×	133 0.6×	179 1.0×	105	1.2k
Peter Bezák Slovakia	13	938 2.6×	290 0.9×	265 0.8×	237 1.0×	182 1.0×	17	1.5k
Natalia Estrada-Carmona France	17	460 1.3×	210 0.7×	214 0.7×	192 0.8×	80 0.4×	39	965
Ulrich Stachow Germany	12	449 1.3×	141 0.4×	290 0.9×	222 1.0×	95 0.5×	24	1.1k
María Piquer‐Rodríguez Germany	17	647 1.8×	236 0.7×	382 1.2×	107 0.5×	147 0.8×	28	1.2k
Glenn Hyman Colombia	19	525 1.5×	250 0.8×	267 0.9×	394 1.7×	212 1.1×	41	1.5k
Paola Gatto Italy	18	501 1.4×	391 1.2×	147 0.5×	189 0.8×	262 1.4×	45	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Lakner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Lakner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Lakner

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schüler, S., et al.. (2025). Farmer motivation to participate in cooperative agri‐environmental and climate measures. GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). 2(2). 1 indexed citations

Lakner, Sebastian & Norbert Röder. (2024). Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der EU: Flaggschiff-Politik oder ewige Reformruine?. Wirtschaftsdienst. 104(3). 159–164.

Lakner, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Deriving a justified budget for peatland rewetting – Applying the German coal phase-out as a blueprint. Land Use Policy. 147. 107363–107363. 2 indexed citations

Röder, Norbert, et al.. (2024). What is the environmental potential of the post-2022 common agricultural policy?. Land Use Policy. 144. 107219–107219. 11 indexed citations

Lakner, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Farmers’ Attitudes toward the Future of Direct Payments: An Empirical Study from Germany. German Journal of Agricultural Economics. 72(1). 3 indexed citations

Lakner, Sebastian. (2023). Auswirkungen des Ukrainekrieges auf die EU-Agrarpolitik. Wirtschaftsdienst. 103(13). 42–49. 3 indexed citations

Hering, Daniel, Christian Schürings, Kirsty Blackstock, et al.. (2023). Securing success for the Nature Restoration Law. Science. 382(6676). 1248–1250. 56 indexed citations

Pe’er, Guy, John A. Finn, Mario Dı́az, et al.. (2022). How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts. Conservation Letters. 15(6). 111 indexed citations breakdown →

Mupepele, Anne‐Christine, Helge Bruelheide, Carsten A. Brühl, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(12). 1067–1070. 41 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian, Yves Zinngrebe, & Dieter Koemle. (2020). Combining management plans and payment schemes for targeted grassland conservation within the Habitats Directive in Saxony, Eastern Germany. Land Use Policy. 97. 104642–104642. 23 indexed citations

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Pe’er, Guy & Sebastian Lakner. (2020). The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy Could Be Spent Much More Efficiently to Address Challenges for Farmers, Climate, and Biodiversity. One Earth. 3(2). 173–175. 26 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian, et al.. (2019). Ecological impacts of Greening versus Agri-Environmental and Climate Measures (AECM): An ecological-economic evaluation for Lower Saxony, Germany. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 1 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian & Gunnar Breustedt. (2017). Efficiency Analysis of Organic Farming Systems – A Review of Concepts, Topics, Results and Conclusions. German Journal of Agricultural Economics. 66(2). 18 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian, et al.. (2017). Technical Efficiency in Chilean Agribusiness Industry: A Metafrontier Approach. Agribusiness. 33(3). 302–323. 14 indexed citations

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Zinngrebe, Yves, et al.. (2017). The EU’s ecological focus areas – How experts explain farmers’ choices in Germany. Land Use Policy. 65. 93–108. 62 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian, et al.. (2016). What Influences the Growth of Organic Farms? Evidence from a Panel of Organic Farms in Germany. German Journal of Agricultural Economics. 65(1). 10 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian & Gunnar Breustedt. (2015). Efficiency analysis of organic farming systems- a review of methods, topics, results, and conclusions. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Ihle, Rico, et al.. (2015). Price relationships between qualitatively differentiated agricultural products: organic and conventional wheat in Germany. Agricultural Economics. 46(2). 195–209. 17 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian & Gunnar Breustedt. (2015). Productivity and technical efficiency of organic farming – A literature survey. Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica. 18(Special Issue). 74–77. 4 indexed citations

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Lakner, Sebastian, et al.. (2013). Die Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik: Wird alles grüner und gerechter?The Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy: On the Right Track to Become Greener and Fairer?. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 22(1). 20–24. 1 indexed citations

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