Thomas Kästner

11.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
96 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Kästner is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Kästner has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Environmental Engineering and 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thomas Kästner's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (43 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (20 papers). Thomas Kästner is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (43 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (20 papers). Thomas Kästner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Netherlands. Thomas Kästner's co-authors include Karl‐Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Sanderine Nonhebel, U. Martin Persson, Carole Dalin, Michael J. Puma, Yoshihide Wada, Christian Lauk, Abhishek Chaudhary and María‐José Ibarrola‐Rivas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Kästner

94 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade 2012 2026 2016 2021 2017 2017 2012 2019 2019 200 400 600
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. Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade
    2017 626 citations Thomas Kästner et al. profile →
  2. Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass
    2017 437 citations Karl‐Heinz Erb, Thomas Kästner et al. profile →
  3. Global changes in diets and the consequences for land requirements for food
    2012 425 citations Thomas Kästner et al. profile →
  4. Agricultural and forestry trade drives large share of tropical deforestation emissions
    2019 369 citations U. Martin Persson, Thomas Kästner et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  5. Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth
    2019 354 citations Alexandra Marques, Inês S. Martins et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  6. Deforestation displaced: trade in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition
    2019 235 citations U. Martin Persson, Thomas Kästner et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Kästner Germany 42 2.9k 2.5k 1.9k 1.2k 692 96 7.0k
Hugo Valin Austria 43 1.5k 0.5× 2.8k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.5k 1.3× 720 1.0× 94 7.2k
Hermann Lotze‐Campen Germany 48 2.8k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 1.6k 1.3× 857 1.2× 144 8.5k
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Germany 44 1.3k 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 478 0.7× 98 6.9k
Tek Maraseni Australia 45 2.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 363 0.5× 304 6.8k
Hans van Meijl Netherlands 41 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 2.0k 1.7× 1.1k 1.6× 170 6.7k
Elke Stehfest Netherlands 53 4.5k 1.6× 3.6k 1.4× 2.5k 1.3× 2.3k 1.9× 761 1.1× 125 14.2k
Joseph Fargione United States 42 4.3k 1.5× 4.3k 1.7× 1.5k 0.8× 859 0.7× 648 0.9× 89 14.0k
Uwe A. Schneider Germany 34 2.3k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 870 1.3× 124 7.5k
Louis Verchot Indonesia 58 6.4k 2.2× 4.5k 1.8× 1.3k 0.7× 780 0.6× 727 1.1× 184 15.0k
Thomas Koellner Germany 39 2.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 347 0.5× 107 4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Kästner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Kästner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Kästner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kan, Siyi, Jing Meng, U. Martin Persson, et al.. (2025). Identifying global hotspots of agricultural expansion into non-forest ecosystems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10739–10739.
2.
West, Chris, Chandrakant Singh, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2025). The global deforestation footprint of agriculture and forestry. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(5). 325–341. 2 indexed citations
3.
Schwarzmueller, Florian, et al.. (2024). A global multi-indicator assessment of the environmental impact of livestock products. Global Environmental Change. 87. 102853–102853. 13 indexed citations
4.
Schulp, Catharina J.E., et al.. (2022). The role of holiday styles in shaping the carbon footprint of leisure travel within the European Union. Tourism Management. 94. 104630–104630. 20 indexed citations
5.
Semenchuk, Philipp, Christoph Plutzar, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2022). Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 615–615. 83 indexed citations
6.
Semenchuk, Philipp, Gerald Kalt, Lisa Kaufmann, et al.. (2022). The global biodiversity footprint of urban consumption: A spatially explicit assessment for the city of Vienna. The Science of The Total Environment. 861. 160576–160576. 7 indexed citations
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Kästner, Thomas, Abhishek Chaudhary, Simone Gingrich, et al.. (2021). Global agricultural trade and land system sustainability: Implications for ecosystem carbon storage, biodiversity, and human nutrition. One Earth. 4(10). 1425–1443. 78 indexed citations
8.
Colombo, Patricia Eustachio, James Milner, Pauline Scheelbeek, et al.. (2021). Pathways to “5-a-day”: modeling the health impacts and environmental footprints of meeting the target for fruit and vegetable intake in the United Kingdom. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 114(2). 530–539. 18 indexed citations
9.
García, Virginia Rodriguez, Frédéric Gaspart, Thomas Kästner, & Patrick Meyfroidt. (2020). Agricultural intensification and land use change: assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect. Environmental Research Letters. 15(8). 85007–85007. 70 indexed citations
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Scheelbeek, Pauline, Cami Moss, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2020). United Kingdom’s fruit and vegetable supply is increasingly dependent on imports from climate-vulnerable producing countries. Nature Food. 1(11). 705–712. 41 indexed citations
11.
Marques, Alexandra, Inês S. Martins, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2019). Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 628–637. 354 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schierhorn, Florian, Thomas Kästner, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al.. (2019). Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems. Environmental Research Letters. 14(6). 65009–65009. 43 indexed citations
13.
Schröter, Matthias, Thomas Koellner, Rob Alkemade, et al.. (2018). Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases. Ecosystem Services. 31. 231–241. 179 indexed citations
14.
Sandström, Vilma, Hugo Valin, Tamás Krisztin, et al.. (2018). The role of trade in the greenhouse gas footprints of EU diets. Global Food Security. 19. 48–55. 116 indexed citations
15.
Sandström, Vilma, Pekka E. Kauppi, Laura Scherer, & Thomas Kästner. (2016). Linking country level food supply to global land and water use and biodiversity impacts: The case of Finland. The Science of The Total Environment. 575. 33–40. 26 indexed citations
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Ruiter, Henri de, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Robin Matthews, Thomas Kästner, & Pete Smith. (2016). Global cropland and greenhouse gas impacts of UK food supply are increasingly located overseas. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 13(114). 20151001–20151001. 48 indexed citations
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Kästner, Thomas, Karl‐Heinz Erb, & Helmut Haberl. (2015). Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production for Biomass Consumption in the European Union, 1986–2007. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(5). 825–836. 45 indexed citations
18.
Furukawa, Takuya, Chihiro Kayo, Taku Kadoya, et al.. (2015). Forest harvest index: Accounting for global gross forest cover loss of wood production and an application of trade analysis. Global Ecology and Conservation. 4. 150–159. 21 indexed citations
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Kästner, Thomas, Anke Schaffartzik, Nina Eisenmenger, et al.. (2014). Cropland area embodied in international trade: Contradictory results from different approaches. Ecological Economics. 104. 140–144. 101 indexed citations
20.
Kästner, Thomas, Karl‐Heinz Erb, & Helmut Haberl. (2014). Rapid growth in agricultural trade: effects on global area efficiency and the role of management. Environmental Research Letters. 9(3). 34015–34015. 194 indexed citations

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