Stephen Polasky

84.6k total citations · 30 hit papers
265 papers, 41.8k citations indexed

About

Stephen Polasky is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Polasky has authored 265 papers receiving a total of 41.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 137 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 46 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Stephen Polasky's work include Economic and Environmental Valuation (122 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (87 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (63 papers). Stephen Polasky is often cited by papers focused on Economic and Environmental Valuation (122 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (87 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (63 papers). Stephen Polasky collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Stephen Polasky's co-authors include David Tilman, Rosamond L. Naylor, Pamela A. Matson, Kenneth G. Cassman, Jason Hill, Erik Nelson, Gretchen C. Daily, Peter Hawthorne, Heather Tallis and Joseph Fargione and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Polasky

256 papers receiving 39.4k citations

Hit Papers

Agricultural sustainability and intensive production prac... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2002 2008 2006 2009 2009 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices
    2002 5.5k citations David Tilman, Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  2. Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt
    2008 2.7k citations Joseph Fargione, Jason Hill et al. Science profile →
  3. Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels
    2006 2.0k citations Jason Hill, Erik Nelson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales
    2009 1.8k citations Erik Nelson, Guillermo Mendoza et al. profile →
  5. Ecosystem Services in Decision Making: Time to Deliver
    2009 1.4k citations Gretchen C. Daily, Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  6. Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital
    2016 1.3k citations Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng et al. Science profile →
  7. Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention
    2017 858 citations David Tilman, Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  8. Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values
    2008 792 citations Edward B. Barbier, Evamaria W. Koch et al. Science profile →
  9. Integrating economic costs into conservation planning
    2006 788 citations Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  10. Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States
    2014 631 citations Joshua J. Lawler, David J. Lewis et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection
    2009 603 citations Evamaria W. Koch, Edward B. Barbier et al. profile →
  12. Species Distributions, Land Values, and Efficient Conservation
    1998 589 citations Stephen Polasky et al. Science profile →
  13. Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions
    2012 586 citations Joshua Goldstein, Thomas Kaeo Duarte et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota
    2010 582 citations Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson et al. profile →
  15. Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China
    2017 572 citations Weihua Xu, Yi Xiao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services
    2011 563 citations Gretchen C. Daily, Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  17. Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity
    2013 511 citations Forest Isbell, Peter B. Reich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  18. Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?
    2014 506 citations Carl Folke, Anne‐Sophie Crépin et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  19. Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns
    2008 480 citations Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson et al. profile →
  20. Mapping and Valuing Ecosystem Services as an Approach for Conservation and Natural‐Resource Management
    2009 464 citations Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  21. Notes from the field: Lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions
    2013 444 citations Mary Ruckelshaus, Gretchen C. Daily et al. profile →
  22. Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change
    2011 410 citations Stephen Polasky, Carl Folke et al. profile →
  23. Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure
    2019 382 citations Christopher W. Tessum, Joshua S. Apte et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  24. Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services
    2012 376 citations Stephen Polasky, Kate A. Brauman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  25. Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social–ecological approach
    2013 354 citations Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  26. Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making
    2020 342 citations Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  27. Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions
    2009 255 citations Stephen Polasky, Carl Folke et al. Science profile →
  28. Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities
    2018 248 citations Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  29. Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation
    2024 52 citations Stephen Polasky et al. profile →
  30. Mapping the planet’s critical areas for biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people
    2024 43 citations Stephen Polasky et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen Polasky United States 92 20.8k 9.8k 9.2k 5.7k 4.6k 265 41.8k
Detlef P. van Vuuren Netherlands 108 23.9k 1.2× 13.4k 1.4× 5.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.5× 2.2k 0.5× 485 59.4k
Jonathan A. Foley United States 73 24.4k 1.2× 2.8k 0.3× 13.4k 1.5× 2.9k 0.5× 6.3k 1.4× 134 49.8k
Navin Ramankutty Canada 77 24.5k 1.2× 3.1k 0.3× 14.1k 1.5× 3.1k 0.5× 4.8k 1.0× 166 49.9k
Josep G. Canadell Australia 83 19.0k 0.9× 3.8k 0.4× 8.2k 0.9× 1.2k 0.2× 4.5k 1.0× 210 37.2k
Johan Rockström Sweden 78 12.5k 0.6× 4.2k 0.4× 4.8k 0.5× 5.1k 0.9× 1.4k 0.3× 228 39.2k
Gretchen C. Daily United States 91 26.9k 1.3× 7.5k 0.8× 14.8k 1.6× 7.2k 1.3× 11.4k 2.4× 232 52.4k
Peter H. Verburg Netherlands 108 27.2k 1.3× 4.3k 0.4× 8.4k 0.9× 5.1k 0.9× 3.2k 0.7× 469 37.7k
Pete Smith United Kingdom 135 15.7k 0.8× 5.1k 0.5× 21.2k 2.3× 3.9k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 800 66.9k
Jianguo Liu United States 83 13.8k 0.7× 4.2k 0.4× 8.7k 0.9× 4.3k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 525 32.5k
Keywan Riahi Austria 79 20.4k 1.0× 9.3k 0.9× 3.6k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 269 44.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Polasky

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Polasky, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Using structural equation models (SEM) to link climate change, forest composition, deer, and outdoor recreation. Ecological Modelling. 493. 110731–110731. 7 indexed citations
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Lindahl, Therese, John M. Anderies, Anne‐Sophie Crépin, et al.. (2024). Titanic lessons for Spaceship Earth to account for human behavior in institutional design. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1).
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Sumaila, U. Rashid, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, Louise Teh, et al.. (2024). Utilizing basic income to create a sustainable, poverty-free tomorrow. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(6). 100104–100104. 2 indexed citations
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Polasky, Stephen, et al.. (2024). The effect of forest composition on outdoor recreation. Journal of Environmental Management. 364. 121397–121397. 4 indexed citations
5.
Downing, John, Stephen Polasky, Sheila M. Olmstead, & Stephen C. Newbold. (2021). Protecting local water quality has global benefits. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2709–2709. 88 indexed citations
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Brauman, Kate A., Lucas A. Garibaldi, Stephen Polasky, et al.. (2020). Global trends in nature’s contributions to people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(51). 32799–32805. 144 indexed citations
7.
Soterroni, Aline C., Fernando M. Ramos, Aline Mosnier, et al.. (2019). Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil’s Cerrado. Science Advances. 5(7). eaav7336–eaav7336. 120 indexed citations
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Tessum, Christopher W., Joshua S. Apte, Andrew L. Goodkind, et al.. (2019). Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(13). 6001–6006. 382 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ouyang, Zhiyun, Hua Zheng, Yi Xiao, et al.. (2016). Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital. Science. 352(6292). 1455–1459. 1318 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Hua, et al.. (2013). Benefits, costs, and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(41). 16681–16686. 202 indexed citations
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Isbell, Forest, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, et al.. (2013). Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(29). 11911–11916. 511 indexed citations breakdown →
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Isbell, Forest, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, Seth Binder, & Peter Hawthorne. (2013). Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment. Ecology Letters. 16(4). 454–460. 146 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Joshua, Thomas Kaeo Duarte, Neil Hannahs, et al.. (2012). Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(19). 7565–7570. 586 indexed citations breakdown →
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Polasky, Stephen, Aart de Zeeuw, & Florian Wagener. (2010). Optimal Management with Potential Regime Shifts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Barbier, Edward B., Evamaria W. Koch, Brian R. Silliman, et al.. (2008). Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values. Science. 319(5861). 321–323. 792 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nelson, Erik, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, et al.. (2008). Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(28). 9471–9476. 277 indexed citations
17.
Fargione, Joseph, Jason Hill, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, & Peter Hawthorne. (2008). Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt. Science. 319(5867). 1235–1238. 2746 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hill, Jason, et al.. (2006). ethanol biofuels From the Cover: Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and. 2 indexed citations
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Hill, Jason, Erik Nelson, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, & Douglas G. Tiffany. (2006). Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(30). 11206–11210. 2017 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kling, George W., Katharine Hayhoe, Lucinda B. Johnson, et al.. (2003). Confronting climate change in the Great Lakes region : impacts on our communities and ecosystems. Genomics. 26(1). 130–3. 141 indexed citations

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