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Kees Klein Goldewijk

Kees Klein Goldewijk

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
40770
World Ranking
4843
National Ranking
128

Kees Klein Goldewijk 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 Kees Klein Goldewijk sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 94 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kees Klein Goldewijk 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 Kees Klein Goldewijk sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kees Klein Goldewijk is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable work in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and Science and Climate Studies.

Goldewijk has contributed to a series of influential papers, including:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2022, published in Earth system science data (2022)
  • Global Carbon Budget 2021, published in Earth system science data (2022)
  • Global Carbon Budget 2023, published in Earth system science data (2023)
  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, published in Geoscientific model development (2020)
  • People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Goldewijk include Julia Pongratz, Benjamin Poulter, Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt, and Erle C. Ellis.

Goldewijk's publications are most commonly found in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Earth system science data, Geoscientific model development, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

    Erle C. Ellis;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Stefan Siebert;Deborah Lightman

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human‐induced global land‐use change over the past 12,000 years

    Kees Klein Goldewijk;Arthur Beusen;Gerard van Drecht;Martine de Vos

  • Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

    G. C. Hurtt;G. C. Hurtt;L. P. Chini;S. Frolking;R. A. Betts

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Estimating global land use change over the past 300 years: The HYDE Database

    Kees Klein Goldewijk

  • Exploring global changes in nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agriculture induced by livestock production over the 1900–2050 period

    Lex Bouwman;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Klaas W. Van Der Hoek;Arthur H. W. Beusen

  • RCP2.6: exploring the possibility to keep global mean temperature increase below 2°C

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elke Stehfest;Michel G. J. den Elzen;Tom Kram

  • Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2

    Kees Klein Goldewijk;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Arthur Beusen;Arthur Beusen;Jonathan Doelman;Elke Stehfest

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

  • Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

    Roger A. Pielke Sr.;Andy Pitman;Dev Niyogi;Rezaul Mahmood

  • Used planet: a global history.

    Erle C. Ellis;Jed O. Kaplan;Dorian Q. Fuller;Steve Vavrus

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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  • Long-term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way: HYDE 3.1

    Kees Klein Goldewijk;Arthur Beusen;Peter Janssen

  • Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

    Jed Oliver Kaplan;Kristen Krumhardt;Erle C. Ellis;William F. Ruddiman

  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise Chini
Louise Chini University of Maryland, College Park
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Elke Stehfest
Elke Stehfest Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter

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