2026 Line Gordon: 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	53	4129	3951	77	76	124	29489

Overview

Line Gordon is affiliated with the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden. Their research spans several fields, predominantly focusing on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist's main contributions are within multiple subfields, including ecology, food science, plant science, global and planetary change, and sociology and political science.

Their work centers on key topics such as agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, food waste reduction and sustainability, organic food and agriculture, water-energy-food nexus studies, agriculture, land use, rural development, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, and climate variability and models.

Line Gordon has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, published in AMBIO
Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene, 2020, published in Water Resources Research
The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision, 2020, published in One Earth
Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales, 2020, published in Earth's Future
Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations, 2023, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, with the most common collaborators including Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Johan Rockström, Ingo Fetzer, and Carl Folke.

Line Gordon has contributed to various publication venues, primarily:

Nature Food
One Earth
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Global Food Security
SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Walter Willett;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Brent Loken;Marco Springmann

10402
Citations
Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

Marco Springmann;Michael Clark;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Keith Wiebe

3293
Citations
Understanding relationships among multiple ecosystem services.

Elena M. Bennett;Garry D. Peterson;Garry D. Peterson;Line J. Gordon

2920
Citations
The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Asa Persson;Asa Persson;Lisa Deutsch;J Zalasiewicz

2224
Citations
Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture for Human Prosperity and Global Sustainability

Johan Rockström;John Williams;Gretchen Daily;Andrew Noble

1222
Citations
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere.

Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Stephen Polasky;Johan Rockström;Victor Galaz

617
Citations
Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals

Sylvia L.R. Wood;Sylvia L.R. Wood;Sarah K. Jones;Sarah K. Jones;Justin A. Johnson;Kate A. Brauman

526
Citations
Managing water in agriculture for food production and other ecosystem services

Line J. Gordon;C. Max Finlayson;Malin Falkenmark

521
Citations
Agricultural modifications of hydrological flows create ecological surprises

Line J. Gordon;Garry D. Peterson;Elena M. Bennett

466
Citations
Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface

Line J. Gordon;Will Steffen;Bror F. Jönsson;Carl Folke

434
Citations
The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience-based perspective on water for global sustainability

Johan Rockström;Malin Falkenmark;T. Allan;Carl Folke

295
Citations
Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Henrik Österblom;Jean Baptiste Jouffray;Jean Baptiste Jouffray;Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin

290
Citations
Greening the global water system

Holger Hoff;Holger Hoff;Malin Falkenmark;D. Gerten;Line Gordon

281
Citations
Linkages Among Water Vapor Flows, Food Production, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Services

Johan Rockström;Line Gordon;Carl Folke;Malin Falkenmark

268
Citations
Mapping ecosystem services across scales and continents – A review

Rebecka Malinga;Line J. Gordon;Graham Jewitt;Regina Lindborg

257
Citations
Global root zone storage capacity from satellite-based evaporation

Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Lan Wang-Erlandsson;Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen;Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen;Hongkai Gao;Hongkai Gao;Jonas Jägermeyr

232
Citations
Analyzing precipitationsheds to understand the vulnerability of rainfall dependent regions

Patrick W. Keys;R. J. van der Ent;Line J. Gordon;Holger Hoff;Holger Hoff

218
Citations
Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship.

Line J Gordon;Victoria Bignet;Beatrice Crona;Beatrice Crona;Patrik J G Henriksson;Patrik J G Henriksson

215
Citations
Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene

Tom Gleeson;Lan Wang‐Erlandsson;Lan Wang‐Erlandsson;Miina Porkka;Miina Porkka;Samuel C. Zipper;Samuel C. Zipper

193
Citations
Dealing with drought : The challenge of using water system technologies to break dryland poverty traps

Elin I. Enfors;Line J. Gordon

188
Citations
Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation

Joern Fischer;Garry D. Peterson;Garry D. Peterson;Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Line J. Gordon

185
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Carl Folke Stockholm University

Jennie Barron Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Garry D. Peterson Stockholm Resilience Centre

Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology

Ingo Fetzer Stockholm Resilience Centre

Fabrice DeClerck Bioversity International

Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University

Holger Hoff University of Graz

Malin Falkenmark Stockholm University

External Links

Personal website of Line Gordon Google Scholar page

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