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D-Index
63
Citations
22895
World Ranking
2409
National Ranking
38

Patrick Meyfroidt 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 Patrick Meyfroidt sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 199 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrick Meyfroidt 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 Patrick Meyfroidt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Patrick Meyfroidt is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and specializes in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research encompasses various subfields, including global and planetary change, general agricultural and biological sciences, ecology, strategy and management, and economics and econometrics.

Their primary research topics cover conservation, biodiversity, and resource management; land use and ecosystem services; forest management and policy; agriculture, land use, and rural development; global trade, sustainability, and social impact; land rights and reforms; and African botany and ecology studies.

Recent publications authored by Patrick Meyfroidt include:

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Other notable papers from the recent literature list, though authored by coauthors, include:

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation, 2022, Science
  • Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative, 2020, Environmental Policy and Governance
  • How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration, 2022, BioScience
  • The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil's beef exports, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Tobias Kuemmerle, Ana Buchadas, Matthias Baumann, Philippe Rufin, and Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen.

Patrick Meyfroidt's work has been published in a range of venues. Among the most common are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • One Earth
  • Journal of Land Use Science
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to journal publications, Patrick Meyfroidt has authored books, including one published by Frontiers Media titled Enhancing Food Production System Resilience for Food Security Facing a Changing Environment (2023).

Best Publications

  • Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

    Eric F. Lambin;Patrick Meyfroidt

  • Land use transitions: Socio-ecological feedback versus socio-economic change

    Eric F. Lambin;Patrick Meyfroidt

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F Lambin;Eric F Lambin;Karl-Heinz Erb;Thomas W Hertel

  • Global Forest Transition: Prospects for an End to Deforestation

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F. Lambin

  • Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Thomas K. Rudel;Eric F. Lambin

  • A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use mapping and monitoring

    Neha P. Joshi;Matthias Baumann;Andrea Ehammer;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective

    Peter H. Verburg;Neville Crossman;Erle C. Ellis;Andreas Heinimann

  • Middle-range theories of land system change

    P. Meyfroidt;R. Roy Chowdhury;A. de Bremond;A. de Bremond;E.C. Ellis

  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

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  • Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains

    T. A. Gardner;M. Benzie;Jan Börner;E. Dawkins

  • Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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  • Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions

    Eric F. Lambin;Eric F. Lambin;Patrick Meyfroidt;Ximena Rueda;Ximena Rueda;Allen Blackman

  • Forest transition in Vietnam and displacement of deforestation abroad

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F. Lambin

  • Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Karlheinz Erb;Patrick Meyfroidt;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller

  • Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

    Eric Lambin;Eric Lambin;H.K. Gibbs;L. Ferreira;R. Grau

  • The causes of the reforestation in Vietnam

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F. Lambin

  • Forest transition in Vietnam and its environmental impacts

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Eric F. Lambin

  • Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe

    Christian Levers;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Helmut Haberl

  • Drivers, Constraints and Trade-Offs Associated with Recultivating Abandoned Cropland in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

    Patrick Meyfroidt;Florian Schierhorn;Alexander Prishchepov;Daniel Muller

  • Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies.

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Patrick Meyfroidt;Julia Pongratz

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Toby A. Gardner
Toby A. Gardner Stockholm Environment Institute
Alexander V. Prishchepov
Alexander V. Prishchepov University of Copenhagen
Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Thomas Rudel
Thomas Rudel Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research

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