Vera Heck

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Vera Heck is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vera Heck has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Water Science and Technology and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Vera Heck's work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (3 papers). Vera Heck is often cited by papers focused on Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (3 papers). Vera Heck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Finland and Sweden. Vera Heck's co-authors include Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, Alexander Popp, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Matti Kummu, Sibyll Schaphoff, Jonas Jägermeyr, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Johan Rockström and Mika Jalava and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Vera Heck

13 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

2020 397 citations Dieter Gerten, Vera Heck et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vera Heck Germany	10	354	223	223	208	126	14	1.1k
Markus Bonsch Germany	10	318 0.9×	289 1.3×	232 1.0×	238 1.1×	217 1.7×	13	1.2k
Zhangcai Qin China	26	518 1.5×	531 2.4×	371 1.7×	104 0.5×	97 0.8×	69	2.1k
Miodrag Stevanović Germany	19	487 1.4×	474 2.1×	379 1.7×	456 2.2×	244 1.9×	39	1.8k
Sietske van der Sluis Netherlands	4	368 1.0×	145 0.7×	224 1.0×	267 1.3×	64 0.5×	5	932
James E. Edmonds United States	6	499 1.4×	107 0.5×	280 1.3×	332 1.6×	190 1.5×	13	1.2k
Mingxi Du China	19	309 0.9×	162 0.7×	338 1.5×	199 1.0×	80 0.6×	43	1.1k
Suren Kulshreshtha Canada	23	388 1.1×	229 1.0×	213 1.0×	269 1.3×	196 1.6×	143	1.5k
Mark van Oorschot Netherlands	15	405 1.1×	383 1.7×	178 0.8×	177 0.9×	96 0.8×	33	1.1k
Timm Sauer Austria	3	236 0.7×	152 0.7×	222 1.0×	178 0.9×	114 0.9×	3	928
Justin S. Baker United States	22	745 2.1×	205 0.9×	354 1.6×	526 2.5×	135 1.1×	80	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Vera Heck

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vera Heck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Vera Heck. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Vera Heck. The network helps show where Vera Heck may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vera Heck

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vera Heck. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vera Heck based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Vera Heck. Vera Heck is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

Ai, Zhipin, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa, & Shinichiro Fujimori. (2021). Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation. Nature Sustainability. 4(10). 884–891. 45 indexed citations

Ai, Zhipin, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa, & Shinichiro Fujimori. (2020). Simulating second-generation herbaceous bioenergy crop yield using the global hydrological model H08 (v.bio1). Geoscientific model development. 13(12). 6077–6092. 12 indexed citations

Gerten, Dieter, Vera Heck, Jonas Jägermeyr, et al.. (2020). Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries. Nature Sustainability. 3(3). 200–208. 397 indexed citations breakdown →

Ai, Zhipin, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa, & Shinichiro Fujimori. (2019). Enhancement and validation of a state-of-the-art global hydrological model H08 (v.bio1) to simulate second-generation herbaceous bioenergy crop yield. 1 indexed citations

Heino, Matias, Michael J. Puma, Philip J. Ward, et al.. (2018). Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1257–1257. 77 indexed citations

Heck, Vera, Holger Hoff, Stefan Wirsenius, Carsten Meyer, & Holger Kreft. (2018). Land use options for staying within the Planetary Boundaries – Synergies and trade-offs between global and local sustainability goals. Global Environmental Change. 49. 73–84. 100 indexed citations

Heck, Vera, Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, & Alexander Popp. (2018). Author Correction: Biomass-based negative emissions difficult to reconcile with planetary boundaries. Nature Climate Change. 8(4). 345–345. 6 indexed citations

Heck, Vera, Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, & Alexander Popp. (2018). Biomass-based negative emissions difficult to reconcile with planetary boundaries. Nature Climate Change. 8(2). 151–155. 233 indexed citations

Heino, Matias, Michael J. Puma, Philip J. Ward, et al.. (2017). Data from: Two-thirds of global cropland area impacted by climate oscillations. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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Boysen, Lena, Wolfgang Lucht, Dieter Gerten, et al.. (2017). The limits to global‐warming mitigation by terrestrial carbon removal. Earth s Future. 5(5). 463–474. 92 indexed citations

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Heck, Vera, Jonathan F. Donges, & Wolfgang Lucht. (2016). Collateral transgression of planetary boundaries due to climate engineering by terrestrial carbon dioxide removal. Earth System Dynamics. 7(4). 783–796. 19 indexed citations

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Boysen, Lena, Wolfgang Lucht, Dieter Gerten, & Vera Heck. (2016). Impacts devalue the potential of large-scale terrestrial CO ₂ removal through biomass plantations. Environmental Research Letters. 11(9). 95010–95010. 22 indexed citations

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Heck, Vera, Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, & Lena Boysen. (2015). Is extensive terrestrial carbon dioxide removal a ‘green’ form of geoengineering? A global modelling study. Global and Planetary Change. 137. 123–130. 48 indexed citations

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Grundmann, Jens, Niels Schütze, & Vera Heck. (2014). Optimal integrated management of groundwater resources and irrigated agriculture in arid coastal regions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 364. 216–221. 1 indexed citations

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