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Michael Obersteiner

Michael Obersteiner

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Ecology and Evolution
Austria
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
116
Citations
51277
World Ranking
125
National Ranking
16

Michael Obersteiner publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Obersteiner sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 567 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michael Obersteiner D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Obersteiner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Michael Obersteiner is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research portfolio includes significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Selected recent papers authored by Michael Obersteiner include:

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration, 2020, Nature
  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy, 2020, Nature
  • The meaning of net zero and how to get it right, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system, 2020, Nature Food
  • Can N2O emissions offset the benefits from soil organic carbon storage?, 2020, Global Change Biology

Obersteiner frequently publishes in venues including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis), Nature, Nature Food, and Sustainability.

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers such as Philippe Ciais, Peter Havlík, Josep Peñuelas, Ivan A. Janssens, and Piero Visconti.

Best Publications

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

    Pete Smith;Steven J. Davis;Felix Creutzig;Sabine Fuss

  • Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

    Josep Peñuelas;Benjamin Poulter;Jordi Sardans;Philippe Ciais

  • Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

    Mario T. Herrero;Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin;An Maria Omer Notenbaert

  • Land-use futures in the shared socio-economic pathways

    Alexander Popp;Katherine Calvin;Shinichiro Fujimori;Petr Havlik

  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

    Oliver Fricko;Petr Havlik;Joeri Rogelj;Zbigniew Klimont

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro

  • Global land-use implications of first and second generation biofuel targets

    Petr Havlík;Uwe A. Schneider;Erwin Schmid;Hannes Böttcher

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    David Leclère;Michael Obersteiner;Michael Obersteiner;Mike Barrett;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart

  • Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions

    Petr Havlík;Hugo Valin;Mario T. Herrero;Mario T. Herrero;Michael Obersteiner

  • Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

    Georg Kindermann;Michael Obersteiner;Brent Sohngen;Jayant Sathaye

  • A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

    Junguo Liu;Liangzhi You;Manouchehr Amini;Michael Obersteiner

  • Fixing a critical climate accounting error

    Timothy D. Searchinger;Steven P. Hamburg;Jerry Melillo;William Chameides

  • Competition for land

    Pete Smith;Peter J. Gregory;Detlef van Vuuren;Michael Obersteiner

  • Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Michael Obersteiner;Stefan Frank

  • Mapping global cropland and field size

    Steffen Fritz;Linda See;Ian McCallum;Liangzhi You

  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance

    M. Fernandez-Martinez;S. Vicca;I. A. Janssens;J. Sardans

  • Global patterns of phosphatase activity in natural soils.

    O. Margalef;J. Sardans;M. Fernández-Martínez;R. Molowny-Horas

  • A Global Forest Growing Stock, Biomass and Carbon Map Based on FAO Statistics

    Georg E. Kindermann;Ian McCallum;Steffen Fritz;Michael Obersteiner

  • Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover

    Steffen Fritz;Ian McCallum;Christian Schill;Christoph Perger

  • EU Reference Scenario 2016 - Energy, transport and GHG emissions Trends to 2050.

    P. Capros;A. De Vita;N. Tasios;P. Siskos

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Steffen Fritz
Steffen Fritz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Florian Kraxner
Florian Kraxner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Nikolay Khabarov
Nikolay Khabarov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sabine Fuss
Sabine Fuss International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Hugo Valin
Hugo Valin International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Erwin Schmid
Erwin Schmid BOKU University
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero Cornell University

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