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48
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10420
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5470
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366

Jan Börner 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 Jan Börner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 122 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Jan Börner 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 Jan Börner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jan Börner is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and has produced significant research primarily in environmental science and economics. Their work extensively covers topics such as conservation, biodiversity, resource management, and economic and environmental valuation.

Börner's main fields of study include Environmental Science with 72 publications and Economics, Econometrics and Finance with 43 publications. The subfields of research span Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management, and Plant Science. They focus on core topics including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Economic and Environmental Valuation; Forest Management and Policy; Agricultural Innovations and Practices; Climate Change Policy and Economics; Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development; and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact.

Their recent papers include:

  • The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness, 2020, Science
  • Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation, 2023, Science
  • Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction, 2021, Agricultural Systems

Börner frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable co-authors including Gabriel Frey, James M. Henderson, Javier Miranda, Johannes Schielein, and Sven Wunder. These professional relationships underscore Börner's engagement in collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects.

The scientist has published across a variety of platforms, with the majority of their work appearing in Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biological Conservation, and Ecological Economics.

Best Publications

  • Environmental income and rural livelihoods: a global-comparative analysis.

    Arild Angelsen;Pamela Jagger;Ronnie Babigumira;Brian Belcher

  • The effectiveness of payments for environmental services

    Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

  • Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains

    T. A. Gardner;M. Benzie;Jan Börner;E. Dawkins

  • Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions

    Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin;Patrick Meyfroidt;Ximena Rueda;Ximena Rueda;Allen Blackman

  • Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

    Kathy Baylis;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Jan Börner;Esteve Corbera

  • The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness

    Raoni Rajão;Britaldo Soares-Filho;Felipe Nunes;Jan Börner

  • Direct conservation payments in the Brazilian Amazon: Scope and equity implications

    Jan Börner;Sven Wunder;Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff;Marcos Rügnitz Tito

  • Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation

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  • Governance of the bioeconomy: A global comparative study of national bioeconomy strategies

    Thomas Dietz;Jan Börner;Jan Janosch Förster;Joachim von Braun

  • Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Thales A. P. West;Thales A. P. West;Thales A. P. West;Jan Börner;Erin O. Sills;Andreas Kontoleon

  • Deforestation reduces rainfall and agricultural revenues in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Argemiro Teixeira Leite-Filho;Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho;Juliana Leroy Davis;Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão

  • Safety Nets, Gap Filling and Forests: A Global-Comparative Perspective

    Sven Wunder;Jan Borner;Gerald E Shively;Gerald E Shively;Miriam Wyman

  • Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies - integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction

    Linmei Shang;Thomas Heckelei;Maria K. Gerullis;Jan Börner

  • Linking forest tenure reform, environmental compliance, and incentives: lessons from REDD+ initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon

    Amy E. Duchelle;Marina Cromberg;Maria Fernanda Gebara;Raissa Guerra

  • The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs

    Jan Börner;Dario Schulz;Sven Wunder;Sven Wunder;Alexander Pfaff

  • Paying for avoided deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: from cost assessment to scheme design

    J. Borner;J. Borner;Sven Wunder;Sven Wunder

  • Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials

    Sven Wunder;Sven Wunder;Jan Börner;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas;Sarah Feder

  • Ecosystem services, agriculture, and rural poverty in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon: Interrelationships and policy prescriptions

    Jan Börner;Arisbe Mendoza;Stephen A. Vosti

  • Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil’s soy exports

    Neus Escobar;E. Jorge Tizado;Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen;Pernilla Löfgren

  • Naming and Shaming for Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon.

    Elías Cisneros;Sophie Lian Zhou;Jan Börner

  • Landscape Transformation in Tropical Latin America: Assessing Trends and Policy Implications for REDD+

    Pablo Pacheco;Mariel Aguilar-Støen;Jan Börner;Andres Etter

  • Forest law enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon: costs and income effects

    J. Börner;J. Börner;Sven Wunder;S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff;Glenn Hyman

  • Post-Crackdown Effectiveness of Field-Based Forest Law Enforcement in the Brazilian Amazon

    Jan Börner;Krisztina Kis-Katos;Jorge Hargrave;Konstantin König

  • Recent transformations of land-use and land-cover dynamics across different deforestation frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon

    Johannes Schielein;Jan Börner

  • Emerging Evidence on the Effectiveness of Tropical Forest Conservation.

    Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

  • Mixing carrots and sticks to conserve forests in the Brazilian Amazon: a spatial probabilistic modeling approach.

    Jan Börner;Eduardo Marinho;Sven Wunder

  • FABIO - The Construction of the Food and Agriculture Biomass Input-Output Model

    Martin Bruckner;Richard Wood;Daniel Moran;Nikolas Kuschnig

  • Focus on leakage and spillovers: Informing land-use governance in a tele-coupled world

    P Meyfroidt;J Börner;R Garrett;T Gardner

Frequent Co-Authors

Sven Wunder
Sven Wunder European Forest Institute
Joachim von Braun
Joachim von Braun University of Bonn
Britaldo Soares-Filho
Britaldo Soares-Filho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Wolfgang Britz
Wolfgang Britz University of Bonn
Steven I. Higgins
Steven I. Higgins University of Bayreuth
Manfred Denich
Manfred Denich University of Bonn
Gerald Shively
Gerald Shively Purdue University West Lafayette
Pablo Pacheco
Pablo Pacheco World Wildlife Fund
Günther Fischer
Günther Fischer International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Patrick Meyfroidt
Patrick Meyfroidt Université Catholique de Louvain

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