2026 Adrian Leip: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	60	2873	2746	191	188	201	17679

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

2607
Citations
Too much of a good thing

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

1133
Citations
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

975
Citations
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

535
Citations
Meeting future food demand with current agricultural resources

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

481
Citations
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being

Felix Creutzig;Leila Niamir;Xuemei Bai;Max Callaghan

435
Citations
The European Nitrogen Assessment

Adrian Leip;Beat Achermann;Gilles Billen;Albert Bleeker

391
Citations
Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs

Davy Vanham;Adrian Leip;Alessandro Galli;Thomas Kastner

377
Citations
Recycling of livestock manure in a whole-farm perspective

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

356
Citations
The potential of future foods for sustainable and healthy diets

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

355
Citations
Nitrogen footprints: past, present and future

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

324
Citations
Livestock greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potential in Europe

Jessica Bellarby;Reyes Tirado;Adrian Leip;Franz Weiss

324
Citations
Greenhouse gas emissions from the EU livestock sector: A life cycle assessment carried out with the CAPRI model

Franz Weiss;Adrian Leip

320
Citations
Nitrogen emissions along global livestock supply chains

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

296
Citations
The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands

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

276
Citations
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

270
Citations
Mitigation potential of soil carbon management overestimated by neglecting N 2 O emissions

Emanuele Lugato;Adrian Leip;Arwyn Jones

267
Citations
Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N 2 O)

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

248
Citations
Inventories of N2O and NO Emissions from European Forest Soils

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

238
Citations
Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting the numbers right

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

232
Citations
The nitrogen footprint of food products in the European Union

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

207
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Winiwarter International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council

Wim de Vries Wageningen University & Research

Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Albert Bleeker Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Thomas Heckelei University of Bonn

Peter Smith University of Aberdeen

Gerhard Lammel Masaryk University

Gilles Billen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

External Links

Personal website of Adrian Leip Google Scholar page

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