2026 Billie Turner: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	78	892	850	331	310	180	43555

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1969 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Billie Turner is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Global and Planetary Change. Their research spans topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as urban-related themes including Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Urban Green Space and Health, and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability.

The scientist has contributed extensively to these fields through multiple recent publications. Notable papers include:

"Ten facts about land systems for sustainability" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems" (2021) published in Ecological Modelling
"From land-use/land-cover to land system science" (2021) published in AMBIO
"Demystifying Collapse: Climate, environment, and social agency in pre-modern societies" (2020) published in Millennium
"More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China" (2024) published in npj Urban Sustainability

Key frequent co-authors include:

Volker Grimm
Jianguo Liu
Li An
Michelle Stuhlmacher
Yujia Zhang

Turner regularly publishes in venues such as Ecological Modelling, World Development, and the Journal of Land Use Science, with multiple papers appearing in each, as well as contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their book publications include titles from Agenda Publishing eBooks and Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, with works such as "The Anthropocene" (2022) and "Guide to Mobility for Livable Pacific Cities: Part 1" (2024).

Billie Turner's work also intersects with subfields like Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Economics and Econometrics.

Awards recognizing their career achievements include:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1969 and again in 2002
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, awarded in 1998

Best Publications

A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

B. L. Turner;Roger E. Kasperson;Roger E. Kasperson;Pamela A. Matson;James J. McCarthy

5511
Citations
The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

Eric F. Lambin;B.L. Turner;Helmut J. Geist;Samuel B. Agbola

5057
Citations
Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development

James F. Reynolds;D. Mark Stafford Smith;Eric F. Lambin;B. L. Turner

3123
Citations
The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability

B. L. Turner;Eric F. Lambin;Anette Reenberg

2712
Citations
Land-use and land-cover change. Science/research plan

B.L. Turner;D.L. Skole;S. Sanderson;G. Fischer

1291
Citations
The Earth as transformed by human action : global and regional changes in the biosphere over the past 300 years

Billie Turner;W. C. Clark;R. W. Kates;J. F. Richards

1064
Citations
HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH AND GLOBAL LAND-USE/COVER CHANGE

William B. Meyer;B. L. Turner

996
Citations
Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues.

Ronald R. Rindfuss;Stephen J. Walsh;B. L. Turner;Jefferson Fox

936
Citations
Changes in land use and land cover: a global perspective

Williams Meyer;B. L. Turner

903
Citations
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

902
Citations
Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability analysis: three case studies.

B. L. Turner;Pamela A. Matson;James J. McCarthy;Robert W. Corell

810
Citations
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

Thomas K. Rudel;Laura Schneider;Maria Uriarte;Billie Turner

749
Citations
LAND USE CHANGE AROUND PROTECTED AREAS: MANAGEMENT TO BALANCE HUMAN NEEDS AND ECOLOGICAL FUNCTION

Ruth DeFries;Andrew Hansen;B. L. Turner;Robin Reid

668
Citations
Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]

David R. Yesner;William S. Ayres;David L. Carlson;Richard S. Davis

614
Citations
Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?

Billie Turner

612
Citations
The global impact of land-use change

D. S. Ojima;K. A. Galvin;B. L.I.I. Turner

573
Citations
Middle-range theories of land system change

P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

555
Citations
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Unknown

522
Citations
Global land-use/land-cover change: towards an integrated study

Billie Turner;W. B. Meyer;D. L. Skole

494
Citations
Relating land use and global land-cover change

Billie Turner;R. H. Moss;D. L. Skole

461
Citations
Paying for Ecosystem Services—Promise and Peril

A. P. Kinzig;C. Perrings;F. S. Chapin;Stephen Polasky

442
Citations
Two types of global environmental change: Definitional and spatial-scale issues in their human dimensions

B.L. Turner;Roger E. Kasperson;William B. Meyer;Kirstin M. Dow

426
Citations
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.@@@The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years.

A. Mowle;Steve Jones;Robert Martin;David Pilbeam

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Lambin Stanford University

Robert W. Kates Clark University

Rinku Roy Chowdhury Clark University

Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

David L. Skole Michigan State University

Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University

Rik Leemans Wageningen University & Research

Deborah Lawrence University of Virginia

Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

David R. Foster Harvard University

External Links

Wikipedia of Billie Turner Personal website of Billie Turner Google Scholar page

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