Thales A. P. West

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Thales A. P. West is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thales A. P. West has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Thales A. P. West's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (25 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (17 papers). Thales A. P. West is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (25 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (17 papers). Thales A. P. West collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Thales A. P. West's co-authors include Jan Börner, Andreas Kontoleon, Erin O. Sills, Philip M. Fearnside, Francis E. Putz, Edson Vidal, Sami W. Rifai, Alex Neidermeier, Gabriel Frey and Sven Wunder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thales A. P. West

36 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation

2023 172 citations Thales A. P. West, Sven Wunder et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thales A. P. West United States	18	733	387	158	145	93	40	1.1k
Omkar Joshi United States	18	540 0.7×	283 0.7×	147 0.9×	184 1.3×	59 0.6×	100	1.0k
Douglas R. Carter United States	20	717 1.0×	327 0.8×	269 1.7×	118 0.8×	77 0.8×	54	1.1k
Michael Jacobson United States	20	708 1.0×	307 0.8×	142 0.9×	130 0.9×	111 1.2×	75	1.3k
Jussi Uusivuori Finland	20	697 1.0×	323 0.8×	140 0.9×	79 0.5×	71 0.8×	68	1.0k
Christian Langpap United States	19	447 0.6×	584 1.5×	106 0.7×	146 1.0×	142 1.5×	40	1.1k
Philippe Delacote France	19	608 0.8×	451 1.2×	83 0.5×	82 0.6×	82 0.9×	62	1.1k
Till Pistorius Germany	16	714 1.0×	183 0.5×	98 0.6×	147 1.0×	107 1.2×	25	976
Johannes Ebeling United Kingdom	9	530 0.7×	293 0.8×	189 1.2×	98 0.7×	118 1.3×	11	882
Eva‐Maria Nordström Sweden	23	903 1.2×	176 0.5×	210 1.3×	102 0.7×	135 1.5×	44	1.2k
Christopher S. Galik United States	20	760 1.0×	291 0.8×	189 1.2×	91 0.6×	71 0.8×	47	1.2k

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Delacote, Philippe, Sylvain Chabé‐Ferret, Anna Cretì, et al.. (2025). Restoring credibility in carbon offsets through systematic ex post evaluation. Nature Sustainability. 8(7). 733–740. 5 indexed citations

Neidermeier, Alex, Thales A. P. West, & Peter H. Verburg. (2025). Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management. Ecosystem Services. 74. 101751–101751.

Swinfield, Tom, David A. Coomes, Patrick Ferris, et al.. (2025). Learning lessons from over-crediting to ensure additionality in forest carbon credits. 1 indexed citations

Sarabi, Shahryar, et al.. (2025). Exploring spatial dependency and heterogeneity in forest land dynamics in the randstad metropolitan region: A combined spatial nonlinear modeling approach. Urban forestry & urban greening. 112. 128976–128976. 1 indexed citations

West, Thales A. P., et al.. (2025). Mapping forest management regimes in Europe. Forest Ecology and Management. 594. 122940–122940. 2 indexed citations

West, Thales A. P., et al.. (2024). Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+. Global Environmental Change. 87. 102863–102863. 12 indexed citations

Probst, Benedict, Andreas Kontoleon, Laura Díaz Anadón, et al.. (2024). Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9562–9562. 31 indexed citations

West, Thales A. P., et al.. (2024). Forest biomass recovery twenty-four years after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Eastern Amazon. Trees Forests and People. 18. 100717–100717. 3 indexed citations

Mullan, Katrina, et al.. (2023). Protecting Life and Lung: Protected Areas Affect Fine Particulate Matter and Respiratory Hospitalizations in the Brazilian Amazon Biome. Environmental and Resource Economics. 87(1). 45–87. 4 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P., Sven Wunder, Erin O. Sills, et al.. (2023). Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation. Science. 381(6660). 873–877. 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Biggs, Trent, et al.. (2023). Transformation of Brazil's biomes: The dynamics and fate of agriculture and pasture expansion into native vegetation. The Science of The Total Environment. 896. 166323–166323. 26 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P., Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, & Holly K. Gibbs. (2022). Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle. Conservation Letters. 15(6). 13 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P., Jan Börner, Erin O. Sills, & Andreas Kontoleon. (2020). Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24188–24194. 200 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P., et al.. (2020). Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand’s marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services. Ecosystem Services. 46. 101212–101212. 17 indexed citations

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Piponiot, Camille, Ervan Rutishauser, Géraldine Derroire, et al.. (2019). Optimal strategies for ecosystem services provision in Amazonian production forests. Environmental Research Letters. 14(12). 124090–124090. 20 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P., Chris Wilson, Maria Vrachioli, & Kelly A. Grogan. (2019). Carbon payments for extended rotations in forest plantations: Conflicting insights from a theoretical model. Ecological Economics. 163. 70–76. 27 indexed citations

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Nascimento, Nathália, Thales A. P. West, Lisa Biber‐Freudenberger, et al.. (2019). A Bayesian network approach to modelling land-use decisions under environmental policy incentives in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Land Use Science. 15(2-3). 127–141. 18 indexed citations

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Frey, Gabriel, Thales A. P. West, Thomas Hickler, et al.. (2018). Simulated Impacts of Soy and Infrastructure Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Maximum Entropy Approach. Forests. 9(10). 600–600. 17 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P., Edson Vidal, & Francis E. Putz. (2013). Forest biomass recovery after conventional and reduced-impact logging in Amazonian Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management. 314. 59–63. 79 indexed citations

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West, Thales A. P.. (1992). Forest reserves and forest rangers.. Journal of Forestry. 90(3). 22–22. 1 indexed citations

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