Vijay Ramprasad

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Vijay Ramprasad is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vijay Ramprasad has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Vijay Ramprasad's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers), Forest Management and Policy (7 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers). Vijay Ramprasad is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers), Forest Management and Policy (7 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers). Vijay Ramprasad collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Sweden. Vijay Ramprasad's co-authors include Christine Kirchhoff, Maria Carmen Lemos, Forrest Fleischman, Pushpendra Rana, Harry W. Fischer, Claudia Rodriguez Solorzano, Eric A. Coleman, Burak Güneralp, Prakash Kashwan and Jennifer S. Powers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Climate Change, BioScience and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Vijay Ramprasad

16 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.

  1. Narrowing the climate information usability gap
    2012 674 citations Maria Carmen Lemos, Christine Kirchhoff et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vijay Ramprasad United States 9 717 310 207 142 127 19 1.1k
Elizabeth McNie United States 9 829 1.2× 498 1.6× 127 0.6× 259 1.8× 111 0.9× 10 1.5k
Katharine L. Jacobs United States 17 632 0.9× 302 1.0× 125 0.6× 159 1.1× 95 0.7× 49 1.2k
Barbara J. Morehouse United States 15 707 1.0× 424 1.4× 129 0.6× 144 1.0× 78 0.6× 62 1.1k
Dil Khatri Sweden 15 767 1.1× 462 1.5× 210 1.0× 130 0.9× 169 1.3× 48 1.3k
Timothy Karpouzoglou Netherlands 18 547 0.8× 223 0.7× 73 0.4× 172 1.2× 97 0.8× 38 1.2k
Helen E. Allison Australia 6 390 0.5× 289 0.9× 104 0.5× 118 0.8× 99 0.8× 9 893
Grace B. Villamor Germany 25 826 1.2× 195 0.6× 302 1.5× 242 1.7× 196 1.5× 82 1.6k
Elin Enfors Sweden 13 527 0.7× 165 0.5× 177 0.9× 154 1.1× 53 0.4× 16 992
Martin Welp Germany 17 591 0.8× 156 0.5× 74 0.4× 148 1.0× 89 0.7× 38 966
Marc Gramberger Netherlands 10 550 0.8× 132 0.4× 104 0.5× 111 0.8× 128 1.0× 10 920

Countries citing papers authored by Vijay Ramprasad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vijay Ramprasad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Vijay Ramprasad. 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 Vijay Ramprasad. The network helps show where Vijay Ramprasad may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vijay Ramprasad

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vijay Ramprasad. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vijay Ramprasad 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 Vijay Ramprasad. Vijay Ramprasad is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Fleischman, Forrest, et al.. (2025). Planting and replanting: Continuity and change over four decades of forest restoration in Himachal Pradesh, India. Plants People Planet. 7(5). 1372–1387. 1 indexed citations
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Fischer, Harry W., Eric A. Coleman, Anthony M. Filippi, et al.. (2025). Forest restoration for environment and well-being is associated with empowered local governance over long time horizons. Environmental Research Letters. 20(9). 94022–94022.
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Roy, Anirban, Vijay Ramprasad, G. Ravikanth, et al.. (2025). How do trees outside forests contribute to human wellbeing? A systematic review from South Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 20(3). 34040–34040. 3 indexed citations
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Brockington, Dan, Eric A. Coleman, Ida N.S. Djenontin, et al.. (2022). Recognizing the equity implications of restoration priority maps. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). 114019–114019. 30 indexed citations
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Rana, Pushpendra, Forrest Fleischman, Vijay Ramprasad, & Kangjae Lee. (2022). Predicting wasteful spending in tree planting programs in Indian Himalaya. World Development. 154. 105864–105864. 21 indexed citations
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Ramprasad, Vijay. (2021). Institutional benefit pathways in development. World Development. 142. 105453–105453. 5 indexed citations
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Fleischman, Forrest, Harry W. Fischer, Divya Gupta, et al.. (2021). How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 51. 7–14. 35 indexed citations
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Coleman, Eric A., Vijay Ramprasad, Harry W. Fischer, et al.. (2021). Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India. Nature Sustainability. 4(11). 997–1004. 95 indexed citations
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Fleischman, Forrest, Ashwini Chhatre, Eric A. Coleman, et al.. (2020). Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions. BioScience. 141 indexed citations
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Ramprasad, Vijay, et al.. (2020). Plantations and pastoralists: afforestation activities make pastoralists in the Indian Himalaya vulnerable. Ecology and Society. 25(4). 32 indexed citations
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Ramprasad, Vijay. (2018). Debt and vulnerability: indebtedness, institutions and smallholder agriculture in South India. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 46(6). 1286–1307. 42 indexed citations
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Ramprasad, Vijay. (2017). Institutions and social-ecological synergies in Indian agriculture. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 1 indexed citations
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Lemos, Maria Carmen, Christine Kirchhoff, & Vijay Ramprasad. (2012). Narrowing the climate information usability gap. Nature Climate Change. 2(11). 789–794. 674 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ramprasad, Vijay, et al.. (2009). How sustainable is organic farming. 25(1). 30–31.
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Sudha, P.N., et al.. (2007). Development Of An Agroforestry Sequestration Project In KhammamDistrict Of India. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 12(6). 2 indexed citations
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Sudha, P., et al.. (2007). Development of an agroforestry carbon sequestration project in Khammam district, India. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 12(6). 1131–1152. 9 indexed citations
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Sudha, P.N., et al.. (2006). Forest protection and regeneration under joint forest planning and management in Eastern Plains and Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. 5(1). 70–70. 6 indexed citations
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Ravindranath, N. H., et al.. (2006). Methodological issues in forestry mitigation projects: a case study of Kolar district. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 12(6). 1077–1098. 2 indexed citations
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Ramprasad, Vijay, et al.. (1985). Determinants of Child Health Status--A Study in Rural Karnataka (India). Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 31(5). 276–281. 1 indexed citations

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