Reviewer #2 speaks directly to the influence, writing: "LPI is probably the single most widely known and used index of human impact on biodiversity [..] that receives exceptionally wide press coverage to one that is embedded into UN conventions and treaties."

The authors observe this: "We have explored the code used for the calculation of the LPI. Although [3 cites] provide the basic principle of calculating the LPI, the exact methodological procedure is clear only from the code of the package rlpi (v.0.1.0) in R"