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47
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3425
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1647

Karl S. Zimmerer publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karl S. Zimmerer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 123 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Karl S. Zimmerer D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karl S. Zimmerer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Karl S. Zimmerer is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and specializes in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields including Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, Organic Food and Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Rural Development and Sustainability, and Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture.

Recent publications by Karl S. Zimmerer include:

  • "Who is resilient in Africa's Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda" (2020) published in Land Use Policy
  • "Land use change dynamics in Euro-mediterranean mountain regions: Driving forces and consequences for the landscape" (2021) published in Land Use Policy
  • "Informal food chains and agrobiodiversity need strengthening-not weakening-to address food security amidst the COVID-19 crisis in South America" (2020) published in Food Security
  • "Indigenous Smallholder Struggles in Peru: Nutrition Security, Agrobiodiversity, and Food Sovereignty amid Transforming Global Systems and Climate Change" (2020) published in Journal of Latin American Geography
  • "What's the market got to do with it? Social-ecological embeddedness and environmental practices in a local food system initiative" (2020) published in Geoforum

Karl S. Zimmerer frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Latin American Geography
  • Land Use Policy
  • Geoforum
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene

Collaborations have often involved co-authors such as Yolanda Jiménez Olivencia, Laura Porcel Rodríguez, Carolynne Hultquist, Martha G. Bell, and Stef de Haan.

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships including the Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2012, and a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Political ecology : an integrative approach to geography and environment-development studies

    Karl S. Zimmerer;Thomas J. Bassett

  • The Reworking of Conservation Geographies: Nonequilibrium Landscapes and Nature-Society Hybrids

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Human Geography and the “New Ecology”: The Prospect and Promise of Integration

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Cultural ecology: at the interface with political ecology - the new geographies of environmental conservation and globalization

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Soil erosion and labor shortages in the Andes with special reference to Bolivia, 1953ndash;1991: Implications for “conservation-with-development”

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Globalization and multi-spatial trends in the coverage of protected-area conservation (1980-2000)

    Karl S. Zimmerer;Ryan E. Galt;Margaret V. Buck

  • Nature's Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries

    Karl S. Zimmerer;Kenneth R. Young

  • Spillover systems in a telecoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability

    Jianguo Liu;Yue Dou;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella;Edward Challies;Edward Challies

  • Significance of telecoupling for exploration of land-use change

    Hallie Eakin;Ruth DeFries;Suzi Kerr;Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin

  • Biological Diversity in Agriculture and Global Change

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • New geographies of energy: Introduction to the special issue

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Overlapping Patchworks of Mountain Agriculture in Peru and Bolivia: Toward a Regional-Global Landscape Model

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • RESCALING IRRIGATION IN LATIN AMERICA: THE CULTURAL IMAGES AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF WATER RESOURCES

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Geographies of Seed Networks for Food Plants (Potato, Ulluco) and Approaches to Agrobiodiversity Conservation in the Andean Countries

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Soil erosion and social (dis)courses in Cochabamba, Bolivia: perceiving the nature of environmental degradation

    Karl S. Zimmerer

  • Potato Diversity in the Andean Center of Crop Domestication

    Stephen Brush;Rick Kesseli;Ramiro Ortega;Pedro Cisneros

  • Geographical approaches to crop conservation: The partitioning of genetic diversity in andean potatoes

    Karl S. Zimmerer;David S. Douches

  • The biodiversity of food and agriculture (Agrobiodiversity) in the anthropocene: Research advances and conceptual framework

    Karl S. Zimmerer;Stef de Haan;Andrew D. Jones;Hilary Creed-Kanashiro

  • Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes

    Daniel W. Gade;Karl S. Zimmerer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Carlos F. Quiros
Carlos F. Quiros University of California, Davis
Bradford L. Barham
Bradford L. Barham University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mateus Batistella
Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
David S. Douches
David S. Douches Michigan State University
Jianguo Liu
Jianguo Liu Michigan State University
Anette Reenberg
Anette Reenberg University of Copenhagen
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Ana P. Barros
Ana P. Barros University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hallie Eakin
Hallie Eakin Arizona State University

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