Stefan Baumgärtner

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Stefan Baumgärtner is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Economics and Econometrics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Baumgärtner has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 43 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Stefan Baumgärtner's work include Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (22 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (21 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (14 papers). Stefan Baumgärtner is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (22 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (21 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (14 papers). Stefan Baumgärtner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Stefan Baumgärtner's co-authors include Martin F. Quaas, Sebastian Strunz, Moritz A. Drupp, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Malte Faber, Johannes Schiller, Henrik von Wehrden, David Walmsley, Jan Hanspach and Harald Heinrichs and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Baumgärtner

86 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Ecosystem services as a boundary object for sustainability 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Ecosystem services as a boundary object for sustainability
    2014 304 citations Stefan Baumgärtner et al. Ecological Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefan Baumgärtner Germany 20 621 588 520 186 167 89 1.7k
Joanne C. Burgess United States 17 949 1.5× 768 1.3× 376 0.7× 194 1.0× 154 0.9× 51 2.0k
Richard T. Woodward United States 23 672 1.1× 1.2k 2.0× 497 1.0× 149 0.8× 246 1.5× 74 2.1k
Romy Greiner Australia 19 564 0.9× 559 1.0× 350 0.7× 223 1.2× 211 1.3× 65 1.6k
Ronaldo Serôa da Motta Brazil 14 883 1.4× 549 0.9× 263 0.5× 103 0.6× 225 1.3× 81 1.6k
Manuel Ruíz-Pérez Spain 19 1.3k 2.0× 444 0.8× 351 0.7× 190 1.0× 254 1.5× 23 1.9k
Ben White Australia 21 422 0.7× 908 1.5× 289 0.6× 147 0.8× 153 0.9× 84 2.0k
Klaus Glenk United Kingdom 30 782 1.3× 1.1k 1.8× 547 1.1× 292 1.6× 360 2.2× 93 2.2k
Sharachchandra Lélé India 23 1.2k 1.9× 294 0.5× 345 0.7× 291 1.6× 324 1.9× 64 2.3k
Peter H. May Brazil 20 1.6k 2.5× 808 1.4× 461 0.9× 281 1.5× 292 1.7× 61 2.4k
Marcel Kok Netherlands 26 1.1k 1.8× 448 0.8× 439 0.8× 477 2.6× 204 1.2× 75 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Baumgärtner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Baumgärtner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Baumgärtner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Quaas, Martin F., Stefan Baumgärtner, & Michel De Lara. (2019). Insurance value of natural capital. Ecological Economics. 165. 106388–106388. 19 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan, et al.. (2018). Private-sector investor’s intention and motivation to invest in Land Degradation Neutrality. PLoS ONE. 13(12). e0208813–e0208813. 16 indexed citations
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Drupp, Moritz A., Jasper N. Meya, Stefan Baumgärtner, & Martin F. Quaas. (2018). Economic Inequality and the Value of Nature. Ecological Economics. 150. 340–345. 36 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan, et al.. (2016). Irreversibility and uncertainty cause an intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off. Ecological Economics. 131. 75–86. 5 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan. (2015). Payments for ecosystem services – for efficiency and for equity?. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg).
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Jakoby, Oliver, Martin F. Quaas, Stefan Baumgärtner, & Karin Frank. (2015). Adapting livestock management to spatio-temporal heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Environmental Management. 162. 179–189. 41 indexed citations
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Quaas, Martin F., et al.. (2014). Bush encroachment control and risk management in semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Environmental Management. 145. 24–34. 19 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan & Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach. (2012). The Relationship Between Intra- and Intergenerational Ecological Justice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan, et al.. (2011). Consumer Preferences Determine Resilience of Ecological-Economic Systems. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan & Jennifer B. Zogg. (2010). Das Internet als Instrument politischer Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Schweizer Kantone. Internet Research. 147–163. 1 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan & Martin F. Quaas. (2010). Managing increasing environmental risks through agrobiodiversity and agrienvironmental policies. Agricultural Economics. 41(5). 483–496. 93 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan & Martin F. Quaas. (2010). Sustainability economics — General versus specific, and conceptual versus practical. Ecological Economics. 69(11). 2056–2059. 17 indexed citations
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Quaas, Martin F. & Stefan Baumgärtner. (2009). Ecological-economic viability as a criterion of strong sustainability under uncertainty. Multilingual Matters (Channel View Publications). 104 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan, Christian Becker, Karin Frank, Birgit Müller, & Martin F. Quaas. (2008). Relating the philosophy and practice of ecological economics: The role of concepts, models, and case studies in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. Ecological Economics. 67(3). 384–393. 9 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan, Malte Faber, & Johannes Schiller. (2006). Joint production and responsibility in ecological economics : on the foundations of environmental policy. E. Elgar eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Wätzold, Frank, Martin Drechsler, Claire W. Armstrong, et al.. (2006). Ecological‐Economic Modeling for Biodiversity Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Prospects. Conservation Biology. 20(4). 1034–1041. 71 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan. (2006). Natural Science Constraints in Environmental and Resource Economics. Method and Problem. heiDOK (Heidelberg University). 6 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan & J. de Swaan Arons. (2003). Necessity and Inefficiency in the Generation of Waste. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 7(2). 113–123. 39 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan. (2000). Ambivalent Joint Production and the Natural Environment. Contributions to economics. 14 indexed citations
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Baumgärtner, Stefan, et al.. (2000). Joint Production, Externalities, and the Regulation of Production Networks. Environmental and Resource Economics. 16(2). 229–251. 7 indexed citations

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