2026 Lucas Joppa: 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	51	3540	3409	1240	1181	125	18825

Overview

Lucas Joppa is a researcher affiliated with Microsoft in the United States, focusing primarily on environmental science. Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, epidemiology, ecological modeling, and social psychology. The research portfolio centers on topics such as conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; land use and ecosystem services; climate change policy and economics; data-driven disease surveillance; sustainability and climate change governance; species distribution and climate change; and animal and plant science education.

Joppa's recent publications reflect contributions across various high-impact venues. Notable works include:

The IPBES Global Assessment: Pathways to Action (2020) published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
A metric for spatially explicit contributions to science-based species targets (2021) published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications (2020) published by the Spanish National Research Council (DIGITAL.CSIC)
Microsoft's million-tonne CO2-removal purchase - lessons for net zero (2021) published in Nature
Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable - build interoperable systems (2022) published in Nature

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lucas Joppa include Debra P. C. Peters, David D. Breshears, Laurel Hartley, Shannon L. LaDeau, and Robert Parmenter Board. Each of these researchers has contributed extensively to joint publications.

The primary journals and publication venues where Joppa's research appears repeatedly include:

Ecosphere
Nature
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Best Publications

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

S. L. Pimm;C. N. Jenkins;R. Abell;T. M. Brooks

3959
Citations
Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation.

Clinton N. Jenkins;Stuart L. Pimm;Lucas N. Joppa

1183
Citations
High and far: biases in the location of protected areas.

Lucas N. Joppa;Alexander Pfaff

1135
Citations
Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction.

Jurriaan M. De Vos;Jurriaan M. De Vos;Lucas N. Joppa;John L. Gittleman;Patrick R. Stephens

762
Citations
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets

E. Dinerstein;C. Vynne;E. Sala;A. R. Joshi

744
Citations
Expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system.

Clinton N. Jenkins;Lucas Joppa

731
Citations
On the protection of "protected areas".

Lucas N. Joppa;Scott R. Loarie;Stuart L. Pimm

632
Citations
Global protected area impacts

Lucas N. Joppa;Alexander Pfaff

568
Citations
Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets

Stuart H.M. Butchart;Martin Clarke;Robert J. Smith;Rachel E. Sykes

543
Citations
What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity.

Brett R. Scheffers;Lucas N. Joppa;Stuart L. Pimm;William F. Laurance

527
Citations
Understanding movement data and movement processes: current and emerging directions

Robert S. Schick;Scott R. Loarie;Fernando Colchero;Benjamin D. Best

490
Citations
More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs.

Sonia Kéfi;Sonia Kéfi;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Evie A. Wieters;Evie A. Wieters;Sergio A. Navarrete

447
Citations
Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity.

Stuart L. Pimm;Sky Alibhai;Richard Bergl;Alex Dehgan

373
Citations
How many species of flowering plants are there

Lucas N. Joppa;David L. Roberts;David L. Roberts;Stuart L. Pimm

332
Citations
Measuring Terrestrial Area of Habitat (AOH) and Its Utility for the IUCN Red List.

Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Stuart L. Pimm;H. Resit Akçakaya;Graeme M. Buchanan

320
Citations
Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species

Lucas N. Joppa;Lucas N. Joppa;Lucas N. Joppa;David L. Roberts;David L. Roberts;Norman Myers;Stuart L. Pimm

307
Citations
Reassessing the forest impacts of protection: the challenge of nonrandom location and a corrective method.

Lucas Joppa;Alexander Pfaff

302
Citations
Projecting Global Biodiversity Indicators under Future Development Scenarios

Piero Visconti;Piero Visconti;Michel Bakkenes;Daniele Baisero;Thomas Brooks;Thomas Brooks;Thomas Brooks

297
Citations
Filling in biodiversity threat gaps

L. N. Joppa;B. O'Connor;P. Visconti;C. Smith

289
Citations
Mapping change in human pressure globally on land and within protected areas.

Jonas Geldmann;Jonas Geldmann;Lucas N. Joppa;Lucas N. Joppa;Neil David Burgess;Neil David Burgess;Neil David Burgess

281
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart L. Pimm Duke University

Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature

James E. M. Watson University of Queensland

Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK

Piero Visconti International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Michael R. Hoffmann California Institute of Technology

Clinton N. Jenkins Florida International University

David L. Roberts University of Kent

Alexander Pfaff Duke University

Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland

External Links

Personal website of Lucas Joppa

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