Kees Klein Goldewijk

33.5k citations

59 papers · 11.0k · 12 hit papers · h-index 34

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Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Ecological Modeling top 0.5%

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 36
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 20
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 13
- Climate variability and models 10
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 7
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 7
Atmospheric Science 21
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 13
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 5

Co-authors: Arthur Beusen (5 shared papers)Erle C. Ellis (7 shared papers)Navin Ramankutty (4 shared papers)Elke Stehfest (9 shared papers)G. Van Drecht (3 shared papers)Martine De Vos (1 shared paper)Stefan Siebert (1 shared paper)Jed O. Kaplan (7 shared papers)
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (3 papers)Journal of Land Use Science (2 papers)The Holocene (2 papers)Water Air & Soil Pollution (2 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Kees Klein Goldewijk

57 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Kees Klein Goldewijk's Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years 2021 · 526 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019 Science
2017 Earth system science data
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 The Holocene
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 The Holocene
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2001 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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1	Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000 Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Erle C. Ellis, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stefan Siebert, Deborah Lightman, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1134
2	The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human‐induced global land‐use change over the past 12,000 years Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Arthur Beusen, G. Van Drecht, Martine De Vos Hit paper breakdown →	2010	956
3	Exploring global changes in nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture induced by livestock production over the 1900–2050 period Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lex Bouwman, Kees Klein Goldewijk, K.W. van der Hoek, Arthur Beusen, Detlef P. van Vuuren, J. Willems, Mariana C. Rufino, Elke Stehfest Hit paper breakdown →	2011	831
4	Estimating global land use change over the past 300 years: The HYDE Database Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Kees Klein Goldewijk Hit paper breakdown →	2001	791
5	RCP2.6: exploring the possibility to keep global mean temperature increase below 2°C Climatic Change ·Detlef P. van Vuuren, Elke Stehfest, Michel den Elzen, Tom Kram, Jasper van Vliet, Sebastiaan Deetman, Morna Isaac, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Andries F. Hof, Angelica Mendoza Beltrán, Rineke Oostenrijk, Bas van Ruijven Hit paper breakdown →	2011	790
6	Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2 Earth system science data ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Arthur Beusen, Jonathan Doelman, Elke Stehfest Hit paper breakdown →	2017	729
7	Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change ·Roger A. Pielke, A. J. Pitman, Dev Niyogi, Rezaul Mahmood, Clive McAlpine, Faisal Hossain, Kees Klein Goldewijk, U. S. Nair, Richard Betts, Souleymane Fall, Markus Reichstein, P. Kabat, Nathalie de Noblet Hit paper breakdown →	2011	710
8	Used planet: A global history Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Erle C. Ellis, Jed O. Kaplan, Dorian Q. Fuller, Steve Vavrus, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Peter H. Verburg Hit paper breakdown →	2013	627
9	People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin, Sandra Dı́az, Dorian Q. Fuller, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jed O. Kaplan, Naomi Kingston, Harvey Locke, Crystal N. H. McMichael, Darren Ranco, Torben C. Rick, M. Rebecca Shaw, Lucas Stephens, Jens‐Christian Svenning, James Watson Hit paper breakdown →	2021	526
10	Long-term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way: HYDE 3.1 The Holocene ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Arthur Beusen, Peter H. Janssen Hit paper breakdown →	2010	479
11	Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change The Holocene ·Jed O. Kaplan, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Erle C. Ellis, William F Ruddiman, Carsten Lemmen, Kees Klein Goldewijk Hit paper breakdown →	2010	468
12	Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use Science ·Lucas Stephens, Dorian Q. Fuller, Nicole Boivin, Torben C. Rick, Nicolas Gauthier, Andrea Kay, Ben Marwick, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, C. Michael Barton, Tim Denham, Kristina Douglass, Jonathan C. Driver, Lisa Janz, Patrick Roberts, J. Daniel Rogers, Heather B. Thakar, Mark Altaweel, Amber Johnson, María Marta Sampietro‐Vattuone, Mark Aldenderfer, Sonia Archila, Gilberto Artioli, Martin T. Bale, Timothy Beach, Ferrán Borrell, Todd J. Braje, Philip I. Buckland, Nayeli G. Jiménez Cano, José M. Capriles, Agustín Diez Castillo, Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Michelle Cleary, James Conolly, Peter R. Coutros, R. Alan Covey, Mauro Cremaschi, Alison Crowther, Lindsay Der, Savino di Lernia, John F. Doershuk, William E. Doolittle, Kevin J. Edwards, Jon M. Erlandson, Damian Evans, Andrew Fairbairn, Patrick Faulkner, Gary M. Feinman, Ricardo Fernandes, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Ralph Fyfe, Elena A. A. Garcea, S. L. Goldstein, Reed Charles Goodman, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Jason T. Herrmann, Peter Hiscock, Peter Hommel, K. Ann Horsburgh, Carrie Hritz, John W. Ives, Aripekka Junno, Jennifer G. Kahn, Brett Kaufman, Catherine Kearns, Tristram R. Kidder, François Lanoë, Dan Lawrence, Gyoung‐Ah Lee, Maureece J. Levin, Henrik B. Lindskoug, José Antonio López Sáez, Scott Macrae, Rob Marchant, John M. Marston, Sarah B. McClure, Mark D. McCoy, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Michael Morrison, Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė, Johannes Müller, Ayushi Nayak, Sofwan Noerwidi, Tanya M. Peres, Christian E. Peterson, Lucas Proctor, Asa R. Randall, Steve Renette, Gwen Robbins Schug, Krysta Ryzewski, Rakesh Saini, Vivían Scheinsohn, Peter R. Schmidt, Pauline Sebillaud, Oula Seitsonen, Ian A. Simpson, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Robert J. Speakman, Robert N. Spengler, Martina L. Steffen, Michael Storozum, Keir Strickland, Jessica C. Thompson, T. L. Thurston, Sean Ulm, M. Cemre Üstünkaya, Martin Welker, Catherine F. West, Patrick Ryan Williams, David Wright, Nathan Wright, Muhammad Zahir, Andrea Zerboni, Ella Beaudoin, Santiago Munevar Garcia, J. W. Powell, Alexa Thornton, Jed O. Kaplan, Marie‐José Gaillard, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Erle C. Ellis Hit paper breakdown →	2019	434
13	A 1°×1° resolution data set of historical anthropogenic trace gas emissions for the period 1890–1990 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·J. A. van Aardenne, Frank Dentener, J. G. J. Olivier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Jos Lelieveld	2001	339
14	Biogeophysical effects of land use on climate: Model simulations of radiative forcing and large-scale temperature change Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Richard Betts, Pete Falloon, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Navin Ramankutty	2006	315
15	Habitat conversion and global avian biodiversity loss Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Kevin J. Gaston, Tim M. Blackburn, Kees Klein Goldewijk	2003	263
16	Land cover change over the last three centuries due to human activities: The availability of new global data sets GeoJournal ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Navin Ramankutty	2004	221
17	Global Land-Cover Change: Recent Progress, Remaining Challenges Biblioteca Digital da Memória Científica do INPE (National Institute for Space Research) ·Navin Ramankutty, Lisa J. Graumlich, Frédéric Achard, Diógenes Salas Alves, Abha Chhabra, Ruth DeFries, Jonathan A. Foley, Helmut Geist, R. A. Houghton, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Éric F. Lambin, Andrew Millington, Kjeld Rasmussen, Robin S. Reid, B. L. Turner	2006	147
18	Three Centuries of Global Population Growth: A Spatial Referenced Population (Density) Database for 1700–2000 Population and Environment ·Kees Klein Goldewijk	2005	123
19	Simulated carbon emissions from land-use change are substantially enhanced by accounting for agricultural management Environmental Research Letters ·Thomas A. M. Pugh, Almut Arneth, Stefan Olin, Anders Ahlström, Anita D. Bayer, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Mats Lindeskog, Guy Schurgers	2015	102
20	Uncertainties in global-scale reconstructions of historical land use: an illustration using the HYDE data set Landscape Ecology ·Kees Klein Goldewijk, Peter H. Verburg	2013	93

About Kees Klein Goldewijk

Kees Klein Goldewijk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 59 papers that have together received 11.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (5.6k citations), Ecological Modeling (653 citations), Atmospheric Science (2.6k citations), Ecology (2.8k citations) and Soil Science (1.0k citations). Kees Klein Goldewijk has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Arthur Beusen, Erle C. Ellis, Navin Ramankutty, Elke Stehfest, G. Van Drecht, Martine De Vos, Stefan Siebert, Jed O. Kaplan, Jonathan Doelman and Detlef P. van Vuuren. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Land Use Science, The Holocene and Water Air & Soil Pollution.

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