Thomas K. Rudel

10.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
108 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas K. Rudel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas K. Rudel has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas K. Rudel's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (57 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (21 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (20 papers). Thomas K. Rudel is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (57 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (21 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (20 papers). Thomas K. Rudel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Thomas K. Rudel's co-authors include Éric F. Lambin, Ruth DeFries, María Uriarte, Matthew C. Hansen, Patrick Meyfroidt, Arild Angelsen, Gregory P. Asner, Oliver T. Coomes, Frédéric Achard and Emilio F. Morán and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas K. Rudel

105 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

2005 1.0k citations Thomas K. Rudel et al. profile →
Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

2010 996 citations Ruth DeFries, Thomas K. Rudel et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation

2009 450 citations Thomas K. Rudel, Ruth DeFries et al. Conservation Biology profile →
Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use

2010 445 citations Patrick Meyfroidt, Thomas K. Rudel et al. profile →
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

2009 443 citations Thomas K. Rudel, Laura Schneider et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas K. Rudel

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Planted forests and natural regeneration in forest transitions: patterns and implications from the U.S. South 2021 ·Regional Environmental Change ·John Schelhas, Thomas J. Brandeis, Thomas K. Rudel	9
2	Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century 2019 ·AMBIO ·Thomas K. Rudel, Patrick Meyfroidt, Robin L. Chazdon, Frans Bongers, Sean Sloan, H. Ricardo Grau, Tracy Van Holt, Laura Schneider	82
3	LivestockPlus: Forages, sustainable intensification, and food security in the tropics 2015 ·AMBIO ·Thomas K. Rudel, Birthe K. Paul, Douglas White, Idupulapati M. Rao, Rein van der Hoek, (unknown), Maryline Boval, Amy M. Lerner, Laura Schneider, Michael Peters	32
4	Metatheorizing Structural Human Ecology at the Dawn of the Third Millennium 2015 ·ANU Open Research (Australian National University) ·Thomas J. Burns, Thomas K. Rudel	3
5	Dryland Deforestation in the Tropics: Cross-national Patterns 2014 ·2014 AGU Fall Meeting ·Thomas K. Rudel	0
6	Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines 2014 ·Regional Environmental Change ·Nicholas R. Magliocca, Thomas K. Rudel, Peter H. Verburg, William J. McConnell, Ole Mertz, Katharina Gerstner, Andreas Heinimann, Erle C. Ellis	113
7	Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century breakdown → 2010 ·Nature Geoscience ·Ruth DeFries, Thomas K. Rudel, María Uriarte, Matthew C. Hansen	996
8	A Contemporary Assessment of Change in Humid Tropical Forests 2009 ·Conservation Biology ·Gregory P. Asner, Thomas K. Rudel, T. Mitchell Aide, Ruth DeFries, Ruth Emerson	340
9	Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation breakdown → 2009 ·Conservation Biology ·Thomas K. Rudel, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner, William F. Laurance	450
10	How Do People Transform Landscapes? A Sociological Perspective on Suburban Sprawl and Tropical Deforestation 2009 ·American Journal of Sociology ·Thomas K. Rudel	52
11	Succession Theory: Reassessing a Neglected Meta-narrative about Environment and Development 2009 ·Thomas K. Rudel	6
12	MODELING THE FOREST TRANSITION: FOREST SCARCITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICE HYPOTHESES 2007 ·Ecological Applications ·Akiko Satake, Thomas K. Rudel	49
13	Shrinking Tropical Forests, Human Agents of Change, and Conservation Policy 2006 ·Conservation Biology ·Thomas K. Rudel	22
14	Changing agents of deforestation: From state-initiated to enterprise driven processes, 1970–2000 2006 ·Land Use Policy ·Thomas K. Rudel	184
15	Sprawl and forest cover: what is the relationship? 2004 ·Applied Geography ·(unknown), Thomas K. Rudel	57
16	Tropical deforestation literature: geographical and historical patterns. 2000 ·Thomas K. Rudel, Kevin Flesher, Diane C. Bates, Sandra Baptista, Peter Holmgren	17
17	Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology 1999 ·Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews ·Thomas K. Rudel, Michael Micklin, Dudley L. Poston	4
18	A requiem for the southern regionalists : Reforestation in the South and the uses of regional social science 1996 ·Social Science Quarterly ·Thomas K. Rudel, (unknown)	21
19	Did TVA make a difference?: An organizational dilemma and reforestation in the southern appalachians 1995 ·Society & Natural Resources ·Thomas K. Rudel	3
20	Kointegration und Fehlerkorrekturmodelle : mit einer empirischen Untersuchung zur Geldnachfrage in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1989 ·Physica-Verlag eBooks ·Thomas K. Rudel	3

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