Sven Lautenbach

17.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
101 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Sven Lautenbach is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Sven Lautenbach has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Sven Lautenbach's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (41 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (15 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Sven Lautenbach is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (41 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (15 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Sven Lautenbach collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Sven Lautenbach's co-authors include Carsten F. Dormann, Ralf Seppelt, Boris Schröder, Jaime Márquez, Bernd Gruber, Damaris Zurell, Andrew K. Skidmore, Jane Elith, Björn Reineking and Gabriel Carré and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sven Lautenbach

96 papers receiving 12.5k 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.

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

2012 7.5k citations Sven Lautenbach et al. profile →
A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

2011 789 citations Ralf Seppelt, Sven Lautenbach et al. profile →
A quantitative review of relationships between ecosystem services

2016 273 citations Heera Lee, Sven Lautenbach Ecological Indicators profile →
A spatio-temporal analysis investigating completeness and inequalities of global urban building data in OpenStreetMap

2023 123 citations Benjamin Herfort, Sven Lautenbach et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sven Lautenbach Germany	33	4.9k	3.8k	2.7k	2.5k	1.8k	101	12.7k
Pam Berry United Kingdom	37	4.2k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	3.1k 1.2×	3.6k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	89	10.0k
Henrique M. Pereira Portugal	51	5.0k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	142	10.7k
Clive McAlpine Australia	59	6.3k 1.3×	5.8k 1.5×	2.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	242	13.0k
Joshua J. Lawler United States	53	5.4k 1.1×	6.7k 1.8×	4.8k 1.8×	4.8k 1.9×	2.1k 1.2×	134	15.0k
Andrew S. Pullin United Kingdom	50	5.0k 1.0×	4.4k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	165	14.0k
Simon N. Wood United Kingdom	46	5.9k 1.2×	7.4k 1.9×	4.8k 1.8×	2.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.4×	122	22.3k
Graeme S. Cumming South Africa	60	7.9k 1.6×	5.9k 1.5×	2.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.2k 1.2×	243	16.1k
Stephen T. Garnett Australia	52	3.3k 0.7×	4.7k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	336	11.0k
Volker Grimm Germany	61	6.0k 1.2×	7.1k 1.9×	6.2k 2.3×	2.8k 1.1×	3.9k 2.2×	260	20.3k
Harini Nagendra India	53	6.4k 1.3×	3.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	535 0.3×	191	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sven Lautenbach

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Lautenbach, Sven, et al.. (2025). Predisposing factors of sugarcane abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Exploring policy implications. Land Use Policy. 160. 107845–107845.

Resch, Bernd, Mauricio Santillana, Weihe Wendy Guan, et al.. (2025). Geosocial Media’s Early Warning Capabilities Across US County-Level Political Clusters: Observational Study. PubMed. 5. e58539–e58539. 1 indexed citations

Moritz, Mark, Yuhao Kang, Sven Lautenbach, et al.. (2025). Crime-associated inequality in geographical access to education: Insights from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Cities. 160. 105818–105818. 2 indexed citations

Herfort, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Paved or unpaved? A deep learning derived road surface global dataset from mapillary street-view imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 223. 362–374. 1 indexed citations

Lautenbach, Sven, et al.. (2025). Mitigating Heat Stress by Reducing Solar Exposure in Pedestrian Routing. Transactions in GIS. 29(6).

Marx, Sabrina, et al.. (2024). Data Quality of OpenStreetMap for Industrial Sites in the Arctic. 5. 1–7.

Schultz, Michael, et al.. (2023). Private Vehicles Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation at Street Level for Berlin Based on Open Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 12(4). 138–138. 5 indexed citations

Lautenbach, Sven, et al.. (2023). Assessing Completeness of OpenStreetMap Building Footprints Using MapSwipe. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 12(4). 143–143. 8 indexed citations

Reichert, Markus, Iris Reinhard, Kristina Schwarz, et al.. (2023). Initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic on real-life well-being, social contact and roaming behavior in patients with schizophrenia, major depression and healthy controls: A longitudinal ecological momentary assessment study. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 69. 79–83. 2 indexed citations

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Herfort, Benjamin, Sven Lautenbach, João Porto de Albuquerque, Jennings Anderson, & Alexander Zipf. (2023). A spatio-temporal analysis investigating completeness and inequalities of global urban building data in OpenStreetMap. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3985–3985. 123 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tost, Heike, Markus Reichert, Urs Braun, et al.. (2019). Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure. Nature Neuroscience. 22(9). 1389–1393. 151 indexed citations

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Schwaab, Jonas, Kalyanmoy Deb, Erik D. Goodman, et al.. (2018). Using multi-objective optimization to secure fertile soils across municipalities. Applied Geography. 97. 75–84. 16 indexed citations

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Lautenbach, Sven, et al.. (2018). A Network Flow Model for the Analysis of Green Spaces in Urban Areas. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 16. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Heera, Bumsuk Seo, Thomas Koellner, & Sven Lautenbach. (2018). Mapping cultural ecosystem services 2.0 – Potential and shortcomings from unlabeled crowd sourced images. Ecological Indicators. 96. 505–515. 86 indexed citations

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Schwaab, Jonas, et al.. (2017). How to choose the right planning horizon? Using multi-objective optimization to support urban planning. 1 indexed citations

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Kleemann, Janina, et al.. (2017). Peri-urban land use pattern and its relation to land use planning in Ghana, West Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning. 165. 280–294. 140 indexed citations

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Völk, Martin, Sven Lautenbach, Michael Strauch, & Gerald Whittaker. (2012). Quantifying tradeoffs between water availability, water quality, food production and bioenergy production in a Central German Catchment. EGUGA. 3364. 1 indexed citations

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Whittaker, Gerald, Sven Lautenbach, & Martin Völk. (2012). What is a good index? Problems with statistically based indicators and the Malmquist index as alternative.. ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University). 4 indexed citations

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Gruebner, Oliver, M. M. H. Khan, Sven Lautenbach, et al.. (2011). A spatial epidemiological analysis of self-rated mental health in the slums of Dhaka. International Journal of Health Geographics. 10(1). 36–36. 34 indexed citations

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Völk, Martin, Sven Lautenbach, Hedwig van Delden, Lachlan Newham, & Ralf Seppelt. (2009). How Can We Make Progress with Decision Support Systems in Landscape and River Basin Management? Lessons Learned from a Comparative Analysis of Four Different Decision Support Systems. Environmental Management. 46(6). 834–849. 76 indexed citations

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