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D-Index
40
Citations
6659
World Ranking
8043
National Ranking
72

Sten Nilsson 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 Sten Nilsson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 270 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sten Nilsson 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 Sten Nilsson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sten Nilsson is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including global and planetary change as well as insect science. Their main topics of study involve forest management and policy, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Sten Nilsson has contributed to scholarly literature with publications in notable venues, particularly the journal Forest Ecology and Management. One of their recent papers is titled Tradition as asset or burden for transitions from forests as cropping systems to multifunctional forest landscapes: Sweden as a case study, published in 2021 by Forest Ecology and Management, which has attracted 25 citations.

Collaboration is a component of their research activities, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Per Angelstam
  • Brita Asplund
  • Olaf Bastian
  • Ola Engelmark
  • Mariia Fedorіak

Best Publications

  • FOREST CARBON SINKS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

    Christine L. Goodale;Michael J. Apps;Richard A. Birdsey;Christopher B. Field

  • Managing climate risk.

    M. Obersteiner;C. Azar;P. Kauppi;K. Mollersten

  • The carbon sequestration potential of a global afforestation program

    Sten Nilsson;Wolfgang Schopfhauser

  • A spatial comparison of four satellite derived 1 km global land cover datasets

    Ian McCallum;Michael Obersteiner;Sten Nilsson;Anatoly Shvidenko

  • Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region

    O. Anisimov;Ö. Arnalds;A. Arnoldusen;J. Bockheim

  • Industrial forest plantation subsidies: Impacts and implications

    Gary Q. Bull;Michael Bazett;Olaf Schwab;Sten Nilsson

  • China and the global market for forest products: transforming trade to benefit forests and livelihoods

    A. White;Xiufang Sun;K. Canby;Jintao Xu

  • Full Carbon Account for Russia

    S. Nilsson;A. Shvidenko;V. Stolbovoi;M. Gluck

  • A synthesis of the impact of Russian forests on the global carbon budget for 1961–1998

    Anatoly Shvidenko;Sten Nilsson

  • Acclimation of Russian forests to recent changes in climate

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  • Long-term strategies for mitigating global warming☆

    Nebojša Nakićenović;Arnulf Grübler;Atsushi Inaba;Sabine Messner

  • Negative emissions from BioEnergy use, carbon capture and sequestration (BECS)—the case of biomass production by sustainable forest management from semi-natural temperate forests

    Florian Kraxner;Sten Nilsson;Michael Obersteiner

  • Dynamics of Russian Forests and the Carbon Budget in 1961–1998: An Assessment Based on Long-Term Forest Inventory Data

    Anatoly Shvidenko;Sten Nilsson

  • Boreal forest fires in Siberia in 1998: Estimation of area burned and emissions of pollutants by advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite data

    Yoshizumi Kajii;Yoshizumi Kajii;Shungo Kato;Shungo Kato;David G. Streets;Nancy Y. Tsai

  • Semi-empirical models for assessing biological productivity of Northern Eurasian forests

    Anatoly Shvidenko;Dmitry Schepaschenko;Sten Nilsson;Yuri Bouloui

  • Comparison of four global FAPAR datasets over Northern Eurasia for the year 2000

    Ian McCallum;Wolfgang Wagner;Christiane Schmullius;Anatoly Shvidenko

  • Impact of the Arctic Oscillation pattern on interannual forest fire variability in Central Siberia

    Heiko Balzter;Charles T. George;Clare S. Rowland

  • Satellite-based terrestrial production efficiency modeling.

    Ian McCallum;Wolfgang Wagner;Christiane Schmullius;Anatoly Shvidenko

  • Estimating the carbon balance of central Siberia using a landscape‐ecosystem approach, atmospheric inversion and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

    Shaun Quegan;Christian Beer;Anatoly Shvidenko;Ian Mccallum

  • What do we know about the Siberian forests

    A. Shvidenko;S. Nilsson

  • Extent, Distribution, and Ecological Role of Fire in Russian Forests

    Anatoly Z. Shvidenko;Sten Nilsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Anatoly Shvidenko
Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford
Ian McCallum
Ian McCallum International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Dmitry Schepaschenko
Dmitry Schepaschenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Eugene A. Vaganov
Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University
Heiko Balzter
Heiko Balzter University of Leicester
Shaun Quegan
Shaun Quegan University of Sheffield
Christiane Schmullius
Christiane Schmullius Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Roman Słowiński
Roman Słowiński Poznań University of Technology
Yoshiki Yamagata
Yoshiki Yamagata Keio University

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