The 50 most cited papers in LE (1925–2024), ranked by total and annual citations.
| R | Title | Author/s | Year | TC | C/Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Property-rights regimes and natural resources - a conceptual analysis | Schlager, E; Ostrom, E | 1992 | 1389 | 42.09 |
| 2 | Recreation demand models with taste differences over people | Train, KE | 1998 | 673 | 24.93 |
| 3 | A probabilistic analysis of shopping-center trade areas | Huff, DL | 1963 | 438 | 7.06 |
| 4 | Price and income elasticities of residential water demand: A meta-analysis | Dalhuisen, JM; Florax, RJGM; de Groot, HLF; Nijkamp, P | 2003 | 409 | 18.59 |
| 5 | The adoption and impact of soil and water conservation technology: An endogenous switching regression application | Abdulai, A; Huffman, W | 2014 | 400 | 36.36 |
| 6 | The effects of open space on residential property values | Irwin, EG | 2002 | 398 | 17.3 |
| 7 | Contingent valuation and revealed preference methodologies: Comparing the estimates for quasi-public goods | Carson, RT; Flores, NE; Martin, KM; Wright, JL | 1996 | 364 | 12.55 |
| 8 | Modeling the drivers of urban land use change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating remote sensing with socioeconomic data | Seto, KC; Kaufmann, RK | 2003 | 349 | 15.86 |
| 9 | Why do firms volunteer to exceed environmental regulations? Understanding participation in EPA’s 33/50 program | Arora, S; Cason, TN | 1996 | 299 | 10.31 |
| 10 | The concept of value in resource-allocation | Brown, TC | 1984 | 297 | 7.24 |
| 11 | Grain for green: Cost-effectiveness and sustainability of China's conservation set-aside program | Uchida, E; Xu, JT; Rozelle, S | 2005 | 292 | 14.6 |
| 12 | Destination choice models for rock climbing in the Northeastern Alps: A latent-class approach based on intensity of a latent-class approach preferences | Scarpa, R; Thiene, M | 2005 | 286 | 14.3 |
| 13 | Micro-neighborhood externalities and hedonic housing prices | Li, MM; Brown, HJ | 1980 | 286 | 6.36 |
| 14 | A critical review of the individual quota as a device in fisheries management | Copes, P | 2019 | 284 | 7.28 |
| 15 | Effects of flood hazards on property values: Evidence before and after Hurricane Floyd | Bin, O; Polasky, S | 2004 | 271 | 12.9 |
| 16 | Factors affecting the use of soil conservation practices - hypotheses, evidence, and policy implications | Ervin, CA; Ervin, DE | 1982 | 262 | 6.09 |
| 17 | Valuing urban wetlands: A property price approach | Mahan, BL; Polasky, S; Adams, RM | 2000 | 252 | 10.08 |
| 18 | Corporate environmental management: Regulatory and market-based incentives | Khanna, M; Anton, WRQ | 2002 | 242 | 10.52 |
| 19 | Value of time in recreation benefit studies | Cesario, FJ | 1976 | 242 | 4.94 |
| 20 | Which response format reveals the truth about donations to a public good? | Brown, TC; Champ, PA; Bishop, RC; McCollum, DW | 1996 | 229 | 7.9 |
| 21 | Hypothetical surveys and real economic commitments | Neill, HR; Cummings, RG; Ganderton, PT; Harrison, GW; McGuckin, T | 1994 | 229 | 7.39 |
| 22 | Demand side management policies for residential water use: Who bears the conservation burden? | Renwick, ME; Archibald, SO | 2018 | 226 | 8.37 |
| 23 | Selecting biological reserves cost-effectively: An application to terrestrial vertebrate conservation in Oregon | Polasky, S; Camm, JD; Garber-Yonts, B | 2001 | 224 | 9.33 |
| 24 | Confidence-intervals for evaluating benefits estimates from dichotomous choice contingent valuation studies | Park, T; Loomis, JB; Creel, M | 1991 | 220 | 6.47 |
| 25 | Valuing option, existence, and bequest demands for wilderness | Walsh, RG; Loomis, JB; Gillman, RA | 1984 | 220 | 5.37 |
| 26 | A discrete-continuous choice approach to residential water demand under block rate pricing | Hewitt, JA; Hanemann, WM | 1995 | 216 | 7.2 |
| 27 | A nonparametric approach to the estimation of welfare measures in discrete response valuation studies | Kristrom, B | 1990 | 216 | 6.17 |
| 28 | Forest conservation and slippage: Evidence from Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program | Alix-Garcia, JM; Shapiro, EN; Sims, KRE | 2012 | 214 | 16.46 |
| 29 | How can African agriculture adapt to climate change? A counterfactual analysis from Ethiopia | Di Falco, S; Veronesi, M | 2013 | 213 | 17.75 |
| 30 | Measuring the existence value of wildlife - what do CVM estimates really show | Stevens, TH; Echeverria, J; Glass, RJ; Hager, T; More, TA | 1991 | 212 | 6.24 |
| 31 | Deforestation and the rule of law in a cross-section of countries | Deacon, RT | 1994 | 209 | 6.74 |
| 32 | The impact of the Miami Metrorail on the value of residences near station locations | Gatzlaff, DH; Smith, MT | 1993 | 209 | 6.53 |
| 33 | Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land market participation: Evidence from Ethiopia | Deininger, K; Ali, DA; Alemu, T | 2011 | 208 | 14.86 |
| 34 | The cost-effectiveness of conservation payments | Ferraro, PJ; Simpson, RD | 2002 | 208 | 9.04 |
| 35 | Climate, water, and agriculture | Mendelsohn, R; Dinar, A | 2003 | 207 | 9.41 |
| 36 | Public benefits, private benefits, and policy mechanism choice for land-use change for environmental benefits | Pannell, DJ | 2008 | 201 | 11.82 |
| 37 | What drives land use change in the United States? A national analysis of landowner decisions | Lubowski, RN; Plantinga, AJ; Stavins, RN | 2008 | 195 | 11.47 |
| 38 | Do payments for environmental services affect forest cover? A farm-level evaluation from Costa Rica | Arriagada, RA; Ferraro, PJ; Sills, EO; Pattanayak, SK; Cordero-Sancho, S | 2012 | 193 | 14.85 |
| 39 | Do tropical forests provide natural insurance? The microeconomics of non-timber forest product collection in the Brazilian Amazon | Pattanayak, SK; Sills, EO | 2001 | 193 | 8.04 |
| 40 | Fuelwood consumption and forest degradation: A household model for domestic energy substitution in rural India | Heltberg, R; Arndt, TC; Sekhar, NU | 2000 | 193 | 7.72 |
| 41 | Patterns of behavior in endangered species preservation | Metrick, A; Weitzman, ML | 1996 | 192 | 6.62 |
| 42 | Conservation tillage - the role of farm and operator characteristics and the perception of soil-erosion | Gould, BW; Saupe, WE; Klemme, RM | 1989 | 192 | 5.33 |
| 43 | Targeting tools for the purchase of environmental amenities | Babcock, BA; Lakshminarayan, PG; Wu, JJ; Zilberman, D | 1997 | 189 | 6.75 |
| 44 | Normative and social influences affecting compliance with fishery regulations | Hatcher, A; Jaffry, S; Thébaud, O; Bennett, E | 2000 | 179 | 7.16 |
| 45 | Benefit estimates for landscape improvements: Sequential Bayesian design and respondents' rationality in a choice experiment | Scarpa, R; Campbell, D; Hutchinson, WG | 2007 | 178 | 9.89 |
| 46 | Forgetting the flood? An analysis of the flood risk discount over time | Atreya, A; Ferreira, S; Kriesel, W | 2013 | 173 | 14.42 |
| 47 | Estimating leakage from forest carbon sequestration programs | Murray, BC; McCarl, BA; Lee, HC | 2004 | 173 | 8.24 |
| 48 | Validation of empirical measures of welfare change - a comparison of nonmarket techniques | Seller, C; Stoll, JR; Chavas, JP | 1985 | 173 | 4.33 |
| 49 | Valuing environmental functions - tropical wetlands | Barbier, EB | 1994 | 165 | 5.32 |
| 50 | Programmed solution for approximating an optimum retail location | Huff, DL | 1966 | 165 | 2.8 |
Abbreviations: R = Rank; TC = Total citations; C/Y = Cites per year.