Stephan Estel

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Stephan Estel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Estel has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Stephan Estel's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). Stephan Estel is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). Stephan Estel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and United States. Stephan Estel's co-authors include Tobias Kuemmerle, Christian Levers, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Patrick Hostert, Camilo Alcántara, Peter H. Verburg, Max Schneider, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, Pieter Johannes Verkerk and Karl‐Heinz Erb and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Estel

9 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series

2015 443 citations Stephan Estel, Tobias Kuemmerle et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Estel Germany	8	1.0k	649	256	234	177	9	1.5k
Camilo Alcántara Mexico	12	1.0k 1.0×	677 1.0×	268 1.0×	245 1.0×	190 1.1×	17	1.5k
Basanta Paudel China	21	825 0.8×	471 0.7×	268 1.0×	142 0.6×	106 0.6×	58	1.3k
Ivan Kruhlov Ukraine	11	895 0.9×	417 0.6×	234 0.9×	217 0.9×	138 0.8×	16	1.3k
Maxim Dubinin United States	12	842 0.8×	666 1.0×	219 0.9×	204 0.9×	156 0.9×	20	1.4k
Ján Feranec Slovakia	14	1.0k 1.0×	597 0.9×	188 0.7×	169 0.7×	301 1.7×	43	1.6k
Manoel Cardoso Brazil	19	1.5k 1.5×	639 1.0×	172 0.7×	174 0.7×	175 1.0×	33	2.2k
Florian Schierhorn Germany	15	622 0.6×	356 0.5×	242 0.9×	237 1.0×	69 0.4×	21	1.1k
G.H.J. de Koning Netherlands	20	1.0k 1.0×	345 0.5×	194 0.8×	293 1.3×	167 0.9×	32	1.7k
G. Gray Tappan United States	18	610 0.6×	481 0.7×	228 0.9×	177 0.8×	129 0.7×	24	1.3k
Martha B. Dunbar Italy	10	1.6k 1.5×	360 0.6×	260 1.0×	154 0.7×	219 1.2×	12	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Estel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Estel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Stephan Estel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Stephan Estel. The network helps show where Stephan Estel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Estel

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Tang, Xiaojing, Eric L. Bullock, Pontus Olofsson, Stephan Estel, & Curtis E. Woodcock. (2019). Near real-time monitoring of tropical forest disturbance: New algorithms and assessment framework. Remote Sensing of Environment. 224. 202–218. 75 indexed citations

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Lesiv, Myroslava, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Elena Moltchanova, et al.. (2018). Spatial distribution of arable and abandoned land across former Soviet Union countries. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180056–180056. 90 indexed citations

3.

Levers, Christian, Max Schneider, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Stephan Estel, & Tobias Kuemmerle. (2018). Spatial variation in determinants of agricultural land abandonment in Europe. The Science of The Total Environment. 644. 95–111. 215 indexed citations

4.

Estel, Stephan, Sebastian Mäder, Christian Levers, et al.. (2018). Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe. Environmental Research Letters. 13(7). 74020–74020. 52 indexed citations

5.

Kuemmerle, Tobias, Christian Levers, Karl‐Heinz Erb, et al.. (2016). Hotspots of land use change in Europe. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1–14. 1 indexed citations

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Estel, Stephan, Tobias Kuemmerle, Christian Levers, Matthias Baumann, & Patrick Hostert. (2016). Mapping cropland-use intensity across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series. Environmental Research Letters. 11(2). 24015–24015. 125 indexed citations

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Kuemmerle, Tobias, Christian Levers, Karl‐Heinz Erb, et al.. (2016). Hotspots of land use change in Europe. Environmental Research Letters. 11(6). 64020–64020. 217 indexed citations

8.

Estel, Stephan, Tobias Kuemmerle, Camilo Alcántara, et al.. (2015). Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 163. 312–325. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

9.

Kuemmerle, Tobias, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Patrick Meyfroidt, et al.. (2013). Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 5(5). 484–493. 298 indexed citations

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