Steven J. Lade

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Steven J. Lade is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven J. Lade has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Steven J. Lade's work include Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (12 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (6 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (5 papers). Steven J. Lade is often cited by papers focused on Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (12 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (6 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (5 papers). Steven J. Lade collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and Germany. Steven J. Lade's co-authors include Jonathan F. Donges, Carl Folke, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Sarah Cornell, Maja Schlüter‬, Ingo Fetzer, Ricarda Winkelmann and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Steven J. Lade

47 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

2018 1.6k citations Will Steffen, Johan Rockström et al. profile →
Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions

2019 249 citations Steven J. Lade, Will Steffen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven J. Lade Australia	21	1.3k	634	477	382	355	49	3.1k
Ilona M. Otto Germany	18	1.1k 0.9×	856 1.4×	392 0.8×	310 0.8×	200 0.6×	47	2.7k
Sander van der Leeuw United States	24	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	643 1.3×	405 1.1×	232 0.7×	65	4.1k
Jeff Tollefson Denmark	34	1.1k 0.8×	506 0.8×	227 0.5×	531 1.4×	385 1.1×	433	4.9k
Jonathan M. Gilligan United States	29	816 0.6×	760 1.2×	984 2.1×	271 0.7×	219 0.6×	97	4.1k
Frances C. Moore United States	28	880 0.7×	531 0.8×	194 0.4×	895 2.3×	364 1.0×	78	3.6k
Wendy Broadgate United Kingdom	11	834 0.7×	522 0.8×	315 0.7×	164 0.4×	234 0.7×	17	2.7k
Anne‐Sophie Crépin Sweden	20	1.1k 0.9×	504 0.8×	317 0.7×	280 0.7×	174 0.5×	44	2.5k
Carlo Jaeger Germany	26	952 0.7×	821 1.3×	523 1.1×	691 1.8×	199 0.6×	92	2.8k
Arthur C. Petersen Netherlands	29	1.5k 1.2×	984 1.6×	534 1.1×	253 0.7×	194 0.5×	83	3.0k
William R. Moomaw United States	28	861 0.7×	314 0.5×	322 0.7×	748 2.0×	572 1.6×	100	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven J. Lade

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven J. Lade

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven J. Lade

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All Works

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Crona, Beatrice, Garry Peterson, Megan Meacham, et al.. (2025). A systems approach to sustainable finance: Actors, influence mechanisms, and potentially virtuous cycles of sustainability. iScience. 28(7). 112785–112785. 1 indexed citations

Gupta, Joyeeta, et al.. (2024). Applying earth system justice to phase out fossil fuels: learning from the injustice of adopting 1.5 °C over 1 °C. International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics. 24(1). 233–255. 5 indexed citations

Sellberg, My M., et al.. (2024). Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape. Ecology and Society. 29(3). 1 indexed citations

Moore, Michele‐Lee, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Örjan Bodin, et al.. (2024). Moving from fit to fitness for governing water in the Anthropocene. Nature Water. 2(6). 511–520. 7 indexed citations

Neubauer, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 67. 101429–101429. 5 indexed citations

Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.. (2023). Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 20220261–20220261. 37 indexed citations

Crona, Beatrice, et al.. (2023). Going beyond carbon: An "Earth System Impact" score to better capture corporate and investment impacts on the Earth system. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Meacham, Megan, et al.. (2023). Global analysis of reef ecosystem services reveals synergies, trade-offs and bundles. Ecosystem Services. 63. 101545–101545. 22 indexed citations

Yamaura, Yuichi, Robert J. Fletcher, Steven J. Lade, Motoki Higa, & David B. Lindenmayer. (2022). From nature reserve to mosaic management: Improving matrix survival, not permeability, benefits regional populations under habitat loss and fragmentation. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(6). 1472–1483. 11 indexed citations

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Scherbaum, Stefan, Steven J. Lade, Stefan Siegmund, Thomas Goschke, & Maja Dshemuchadse. (2022). From single decisions to sequential choice patterns: Extending the dynamics of value-based decision-making. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0267249–e0267249. 1 indexed citations

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Donges, Jonathan F., Wolfgang Lucht, Sarah Cornell, et al.. (2021). Taxonomies for structuring models for World–Earth systems analysis of the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions and social–ecological feedback loops. Earth System Dynamics. 12(4). 1115–1137. 24 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., et al.. (2020). Opinions of 12 to 13-year-olds in Austria and Australia on the concern, cause and imminence of climate change. AMBIO. 50(3). 644–660. 19 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., Jon Norberg, John M. Anderies, et al.. (2019). Potential feedbacks between loss of biosphere integrity and climate change. Global Sustainability. 2. 12 indexed citations

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Donges, Jonathan F., Wolfgang Lucht, Jobst Heitzig, et al.. (2018). Taxonomies for structuring models for World-Earth system analysisof the Anthropocene: subsystems, their interactions andsocial-ecological feedback loops. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 8 indexed citations

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Barfuß, Wolfram, Jonathan F. Donges, Steven J. Lade, & Jürgen Kurths. (2018). When optimization for governing human-environment tipping elements is neither sustainable nor safe. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2354–2354. 33 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2018). Analytically tractable climate–carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 507–523. 5 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., et al.. (2015). Fusion leads to effective segregation of damage during cell division: An analytical treatment. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 378. 47–55. 8 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., et al.. (2014). Fusion of Protein Aggregates Facilitates Asymmetric Damage Segregation. PLoS Biology. 12(6). e1001886–e1001886. 46 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J. & Thilo Groß. (2012). Early Warning Signals for Critical Transitions: A Generalized Modeling Approach. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(2). e1002360–e1002360. 87 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J.. (2009). Geometric and projection effects in Kramers-Moyal analysis. Physical Review E. 80(3). 31137–31137. 7 indexed citations

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