Ahjond Garmestani

Environmental Protection Agency

Publishing since 2011, latest 2025

Global and Planetary Change
Ecology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Sociology and Political Science
Environmental Engineering

Publications: 112011–2025
Citations: 438to those papers
h-index: 8i10-index 8
Field-weighted impact: 5.021.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 64%7 of 11 scored papers
Open access: 91%10 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Publications

11 in all

Opportunities and challenges for transformation of urban social-ecological systems
2025Advances in ecological research/Advances in Ecological ResearchBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.1016/bs.aecr.2025.02.003
Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems
2024Ecology and Society

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Global and Planetary Change982%
Ecology327%
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law327%
Nature and Landscape Conservation327%
Sociology and Political Science218%
Environmental Engineering19%
Political Science and International Relations19%
Pollution19%

Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Ecosystem dynamics and resilience5
Land Use and Ecosystem Services4
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance4
Coastal and Marine Management3
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies3
Disaster Management and Resilience2
Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies1
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration1
Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies1
Energy and Environment Impacts1
Environmental Conservation and Management1
Forest Management and Policy1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

100% of their papers have a co-author abroad

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Most frequent partner countries

United States11
Australia7
Netherlands7
South Africa5
Sweden4
Canada3
United Kingdom3
Ireland2

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Environmental Protection AgencyUS10 papers
University of Nebraska–LincolnUS9 papers
Utrecht UniversityNL7 papers
Emory UniversityUS5 papers
Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSE4 papers
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research LaboratoryUS4 papers
United States Geological SurveyUS4 papers
University of Cape TownZA4 papers
United States Fish and Wildlife ServiceUS3 papers
Centre for Marine SocioecologyAU3 papers

Where they publish

Ecology2
Advances in ecological research/Advances in Ecological Research1
Ecology and Evolution1
Ecology and Society1
Environmental Policy and Governance1
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

13Climate action3
15Life on land3
11Sustainable cities and communities1
12Responsible consumption and production1
14Life below water1

Most cited

Discontinuities, cross‐scale patterns, and the organization of ecosystems
Ecology15
2013130 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Hybrid
Managing for resilience
Wildlife Biology15
2011113 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Bronze

How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social‐ecological systems

2023Environmental Policy and GovernanceJournalOpen accessSenior author27 citations10.1002/eet.2056

Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance

2022Global SustainabilityJournalOpen accessSenior author46 citations10.1017/sus.2022.10

Adaptive Governance of River Deltas Under Accelerating Environmental Change

2022Utrecht Law ReviewJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding12 citations10.36633/ulr.803

Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management

2020Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding57 citations10.1002/fee.2264

A method to detect discontinuities in census data

2018Ecology and EvolutionJournalOpen access14 citations10.1002/ece3.4297

Managing for resilience

2011Wildlife BiologyJournalOpen access113 citations10.2981/10-084

Global Sustainability

Sustainability Science1

How it can be read

91% free to read

Diamond 1 · 9%Free to read and to publish
Gold 3 · 27%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 3 · 27%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 9%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 18%A copy in a repository
Closed 1 · 9%Behind a paywall

Who funds it

7 of 11 papers name a funder

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service3
U.S. Geological Survey3
University of Nebraska-Lincoln3
National Science Foundation1
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada1
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek1
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency1
Universiteit Utrecht1

Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment15

202057 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green

Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance

Global Sustainability13

202246 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold