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Adrian Leip publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrian Leip sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 201 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Adrian Leip D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adrian Leip sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Adrian Leip is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Food Science.

Their research covers a range of topics centered on sustainability and environmental impact, specifically:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Adrian Leip has contributed to multiple recent papers addressing environmental challenges related to food systems, climate change, and nutrient pollution. Some of these publications include:

  • Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions, 2021, Nature Food
  • Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains, 2020, Nature Food
  • Co-benefits and trade-offs of climate change mitigation actions and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters, 2021, Global Environmental Change

Their research is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Nature Food
  • Global Food Security
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Earth system science data

Adrian Leip has collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Efisio Solazzo
  • Francesco N. Tubiello
  • Wilfried Winiwarter
  • Monica Crippa
  • Pete Smith

Best Publications

  • Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions

    M. Crippa;E. Solazzo;D. Guizzardi;F. Monforti-Ferrario

  • Too much of a good thing

    Mark A. Sutton;Oene Oenema;Jan Willem Erisman;Adrian Leip

  • Food choices, health and environment: Effects of cutting Europe's meat and dairy intake

    Henk Westhoek;Jan Peter Lesschen;Trudy Rood;Susanne Wagner;Susanne Wagner

  • Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity

    Adrian Leip;Gilles Billen;Josette Garnier;Bruna Grizzetti

  • Meeting future food demand with current agricultural resources

    Kyle F. Davis;Jessica A. Gephart;Kyle A. Emery;Allison M. Leach

  • Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being

    Felix Creutzig;Leila Niamir;Xuemei Bai;Max Callaghan

  • The European Nitrogen Assessment

    Adrian Leip;Beat Achermann;Gilles Billen;Albert Bleeker

  • Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs

    Davy Vanham;Adrian Leip;Alessandro Galli;Thomas Kastner

  • Recycling of livestock manure in a whole-farm perspective

    S. O. Petersen;S. G. Sommer;F. Beline;C. Burton

  • The potential of future foods for sustainable and healthy diets

    Alejandro Parodi;Adrian Leip;I.J.M. de Boer;P.M. Slegers

  • Nitrogen footprints: past, present and future

    James N Galloway;Wilfried Winiwarter;Adrian Leip;Allison M Leach

  • Livestock greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potential in Europe

    Jessica Bellarby;Reyes Tirado;Adrian Leip;Franz Weiss

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from the EU livestock sector: A life cycle assessment carried out with the CAPRI model

    Franz Weiss;Adrian Leip

  • Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains

    Aimable Uwizeye;Aimable Uwizeye;I.J.M. de Boer;Carolyn Opio;R.P.O. Schulte

  • The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands

    P. Ciais;M. Wattenbach;N. Vuichard;P. Smith

  • Linking an economic model for European agriculture with a mechanistic model to estimate nitrogen and carbon losses from arable soils in Europe

    A. Leip;G. Marchi;R. Koeble;M. Kempen

  • Mitigation potential of soil carbon management overestimated by neglecting N 2 O emissions

    Emanuele Lugato;Adrian Leip;Arwyn Jones

  • Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N 2 O)

    K. Pilegaard;U. Skiba;P. Ambus;C. Beier

  • Inventories of N2O and NO Emissions from European Forest Soils

    M. Kesik;P. Ambus;R. Baritz;N. Brüggemann

  • Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting the numbers right

    Mario T. Herrero;Pierre J. Gerber;T. Vellinga;Tara Garnett

  • The nitrogen footprint of food products in the European Union

    A. Leip;F. Weiss;J.P. Lesschen;H. Westhoek

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Winiwarter
Wilfried Winiwarter International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Mark A. Sutton
Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council
Wim de Vries
Wim de Vries Wageningen University & Research
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Albert Bleeker
Albert Bleeker Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas Heckelei
Thomas Heckelei University of Bonn
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Gerhard Lammel
Gerhard Lammel Masaryk University
Gilles Billen
Gilles Billen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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