Will Steffen
Impact in
- Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.01%
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Papers in
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- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 33
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 29
- Climate Change and Environmental Impact 27
- Climate variability and models 27
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience 15
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- Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution 44
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 29
- Co-authors
- Paul J. Crutzen (13 shared papers)Johan Rockström (20 shared papers)John Robert McNeill (9 shared papers)Katherine Anne Koren Richardson (16 shared papers)Owen Gaffney (6 shared papers)Carl Folke (11 shared papers)Sarah Cornell (9 shared papers)Ingo Fetzer (5 shared papers)
- Journals
- AMBIO (11 papers)The Anthropocene Review (7 papers)Global Environmental Change (6 papers)Science (5 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaSwedenUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Will Steffen
168 papers receiving 52.7k citations
Will Steffen's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 225
- Global and Planetary Change 14.9k
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 8.5k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 3.3k
- Environmental Engineering 3.6k
- Atmospheric Science 3.9k
Countries citing papers authored by Will Steffen
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Fields of papers citing papers by Will Steffen
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Will Steffen, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 175 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A safe operating space for humanity Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 9084 |
| 2 | Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 8588 |
| 3 | Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 4713 |
| 4 | The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 2941 |
| 5 | The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 2376 |
| 6 | The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 2226 |
| 7 | Sustainable development goals for people and planet Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 2202 |
| 8 | Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 1973 |
| 9 | Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries Hit paper breakdown → | 2023 | 1716 |
| 10 | The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 1656 |
| 11 | The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 1566 |
| 12 | The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1492 |
| 13 | Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 1364 |
| 14 | Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 1234 |
| 15 | The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1175 |
| 16 | Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 766 |
| 17 | The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 684 |
| 18 | Reconnecting to the Biosphere Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 491 |
| 19 | When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 486 |
| 20 | Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 425 |
About Will Steffen
Will Steffen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Paleontology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 175 papers that have together received 57.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution (44 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (33 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers), Climate Change and Environmental Impact (27 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (16 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (14.9k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (8.5k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.3k citations), Environmental Engineering (3.6k citations) and Atmospheric Science (3.9k citations). Will Steffen has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Paul J. Crutzen, Johan Rockström, John Robert McNeill, Katherine Anne Koren Richardson, Owen Gaffney, Carl Folke, Sarah Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Stephen R. Carpenter and Reinette Biggs. Their work appears in journals such as AMBIO, The Anthropocene Review, Global Environmental Change, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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