Volker C. Radeloff

31.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
374 papers, 22.6k citations indexed

About

Volker C. Radeloff is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker C. Radeloff has authored 374 papers receiving a total of 22.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 190 papers in Ecology and 101 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Volker C. Radeloff's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (132 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (101 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (88 papers). Volker C. Radeloff is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (132 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (101 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (88 papers). Volker C. Radeloff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Poland. Volker C. Radeloff's co-authors include Susan I. Stewart, Tobias Kuemmerle, Roger B. Hammer, Todd J. Hawbaker, Anna M. Pidgeon, Patrick Hostert, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Matthias Baumann, Alexandra D. Syphard and Murray K. Clayton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Volker C. Radeloff

366 papers receiving 21.8k 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. THE WILDLAND–URBAN INTERFACE IN THE UNITED STATES
    2005 866 citations Volker C. Radeloff, Roger B. Hammer et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  2. Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk
    2018 730 citations Volker C. Radeloff, David P. Helmers et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States
    2014 631 citations David P. Helmers, Sebastián Martinuzzi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. HUMAN INFLUENCE ON CALIFORNIA FIRE REGIMES
    2007 511 citations Volker C. Radeloff, Todd J. Hawbaker et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  5. Determinants of agricultural land abandonment in post-Soviet European Russia
    2012 372 citations Volker C. Radeloff et al. profile →
  6. Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy
    2019 327 citations Volker C. Radeloff, Patrick Hostert et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  7. The global wildland–urban interface
    2023 88 citations Franz Schug, Avi Bar‐Massada et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Volker C. Radeloff United States 83 14.5k 9.9k 4.6k 3.3k 2.7k 374 22.6k
José M. Paruelo Argentina 66 16.7k 1.2× 11.5k 1.2× 5.3k 1.2× 1.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.8× 232 30.1k
Rik Leemans Netherlands 55 10.6k 0.7× 7.1k 0.7× 6.2k 1.4× 2.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 206 23.4k
Taylor H. Ricketts United States 57 12.6k 0.9× 8.1k 0.8× 7.4k 1.6× 3.9k 1.2× 1.0k 0.4× 126 27.6k
Tobias Kuemmerle Germany 76 11.0k 0.8× 7.2k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 247 18.2k
Peter Potapov United States 58 14.5k 1.0× 10.9k 1.1× 3.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 4.9k 1.8× 128 23.1k
John T. Abatzoglou United States 75 19.4k 1.3× 6.8k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 2.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.6× 294 25.8k
Stephen V. Stehman United States 66 16.4k 1.1× 14.2k 1.4× 3.5k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 6.7k 2.4× 193 27.3k
Shahid Naeem United States 46 17.2k 1.2× 15.9k 1.6× 11.3k 2.5× 2.7k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 124 41.3k
Jiquan Chen United States 80 15.5k 1.1× 8.6k 0.9× 6.7k 1.5× 1.3k 0.4× 3.5k 1.3× 500 26.3k
Rebecca Moore United States 22 10.5k 0.7× 8.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 4.2k 1.6× 84 19.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Volker C. Radeloff

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Staples, Timothy L., Jessica L. Blois, Katie L. Cramer, et al.. (2025). A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Ecological Novelty. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(2). 1 indexed citations
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Radeloff, Volker C., et al.. (2024). Riparian forest patches are critical for forest affiliated birds in farmlands of temperate Chile. Biological Conservation. 296. 110727–110727. 2 indexed citations
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Ghoddousi, Arash, Katarzyna Ewa Lewińska, Benjamin Bleyhl, et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of protected areas in the Caucasus Mountains in preventing rangeland degradation. Conservation Biology. 39(3). e14415–e14415. 4 indexed citations
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Keyser, Spencer R., et al.. (2024). Seasonality Structures Avian Functional Diversity and Niche Packing Across North America. Ecology Letters. 27(10). e14521–e14521. 1 indexed citations
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Oehri, Jacqueline, et al.. (2024). Artificial light at night reveals hotspots and rapid development of industrial activity in the Arctic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2322269121–e2322269121. 2 indexed citations
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Martinuzzi, Sebastián, Luis Rivera, Natalia Politi, et al.. (2023). Closing the research-implementation gap: Integrating species and human footprint data into Argentina's forest planning. Biological Conservation. 286. 110257–110257. 4 indexed citations
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Schug, Franz, Avi Bar‐Massada, Amanda R. Carlson, et al.. (2023). The global wildland–urban interface. Nature. 621(7977). 94–99. 88 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Jun, et al.. (2023). Semiparametric regression for spatial data via deep learning. Spatial Statistics. 57. 100777–100777. 8 indexed citations
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Silveira, Eduarda Martiniano de Oliveira, Anna M. Pidgeon, Laura S. Farwell, et al.. (2023). Multi-grain habitat models that combine satellite sensors with different resolutions explain bird species richness patterns best. Remote Sensing of Environment. 295. 113661–113661. 8 indexed citations
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Carroll, Kathleen A., Laura S. Farwell, Anna M. Pidgeon, et al.. (2022). Mapping breeding bird species richness at management‐relevant resolutions across the United States. Ecological Applications. 32(6). e2624–e2624. 15 indexed citations
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Elsen, Paul R., Laura S. Farwell, Anna M. Pidgeon, & Volker C. Radeloff. (2021). Contrasting seasonal patterns of relative temperature and thermal heterogeneity and their influence on breeding and winter bird richness patterns across the conterminous United States. Ecography. 44(6). 953–965. 18 indexed citations
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Johnston, Craig & Volker C. Radeloff. (2019). Global mitigation potential of carbon stored in harvested wood products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(29). 14526–14531. 135 indexed citations
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Yin, Hujun, Benkui Tan, David Frantz, & Volker C. Radeloff. (2018). Evaluation of topographic correction on forest mapping using Landsat imagery. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Ramirez‐Reyes, Carlos, Katharine R. E. Sims, Peter Potapov, & Volker C. Radeloff. (2018). Payments for ecosystem services in Mexico reduce forest fragmentation. Ecological Applications. 28(8). 1982–1997. 26 indexed citations
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Ziółkowska, Elżbieta, Katarzyna Ostapowicz, Volker C. Radeloff, et al.. (2016). Assessing differences in connectivity based on habitat versus movement models for brown bears in the Carpathians. Landscape Ecology. 31(8). 1863–1882. 56 indexed citations
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Januchowski‐Hartley, Stephanie, et al.. (2016). Future land use threats to range‐restricted fish species in the United States. Diversity and Distributions. 22(6). 663–671. 12 indexed citations
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Radeloff, Volker C., et al.. (2004). Forest Visualization for Management and Planning in Wisconsin. Journal of Forestry. 102(4). 7–13. 15 indexed citations
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Haight, Robert G., David T. Cleland, Roger B. Hammer, Volker C. Radeloff, & T. Scott Rupp. (2004). Assessing Fire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Journal of Forestry. 102(7). 41–48. 85 indexed citations
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Radeloff, Volker C., et al.. (2001). Human Demographic Trends and Landscape Level Forest Management in the Northwest Wisconsin Pine Barrens. Forest Science. 47(2). 229–241. 93 indexed citations
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Radeloff, Volker C.. (1998). Analyzing forest landscape restoration potential: pre-settlement and current distribution of oak in the northwest Wisconsin pine barrens. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 86. 23 indexed citations

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