Standout Papers

Groundwater use for irrigation – a global inventory 2010 2026 2015 2020 1.3k
  1. Groundwater use for irrigation – a global inventory (2010)
    Stefan Siebert, Jacob J. Burke et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences
  2. MIRCA2000—Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high‐resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling (2010)
    F. T. Portmann, Stefan Siebert et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  3. Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000 (2010)
    Erle C. Ellis, Kees Klein Goldewijk et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography
  4. Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use (2012)
    Matti Kummu, Hans de Moel et al. The Science of The Total Environment
  5. The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability (2016)
    Matti Kummu, Joseph H. A. Guillaume et al. Scientific Reports
  6. Development and testing of the WaterGAP 2 global model of water use and availability (2003)
    Joseph Alcamo, Petra Döll et al. Hydrological Sciences Journal
  7. Global modeling of irrigation water requirements (2002)
    Petra Döll, Stefan Siebert Water Resources Research
  8. Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment (2014)
    Paul West, James Gerber et al. Science
  9. Quantifying blue and green virtual water contents in global crop production as well as potential production losses without irrigation (2009)
    Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll Journal of Hydrology
  10. Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations (2011)
    Petra Döll, F. T. Portmann et al. Journal of Geodynamics
  11. Development and validation of the global map of irrigation areas (2005)
    Stefan Siebert et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences
  12. A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005 (2015)
    Stefan Siebert, Matti Kummu et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences
  13. Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt (2020)
    Yue Qin, John T. Abatzoglou et al. Nature Climate Change
  14. Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity (2020)
    Katharina Waha, Jan Philipp Dietrich et al. Global Environmental Change
  15. Food system by-products upcycled in livestock and aquaculture feeds can increase global food supply (2022)
    Vilma Sandström, Anna Chrysafi et al. Nature Food
  16. Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions (2024)
    Piyush Mehta, Stefan Siebert et al. Nature Water
  17. Increased probability of hot and dry weather extremes during the growing season threatens global crop yields (2023)
    Matias Heino, Pekka Kinnunen et al. Scientific Reports
  18. Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation (2024)
    James Gerber, D. K. Ray et al. Nature Food
  19. Climate change threatens crop diversity at low latitudes (2025)
    Matias Heino, Mika Jalava et al. Nature Food

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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stefan Siebert 2737 4517 4652 113 14.0k
Matti Kummu 928 4935 6129 165 14.3k
Paolo D’Odorico 1751 8597 4303 319 19.5k
Junguo Liu 1064 5805 6790 301 16.1k
Pasquale Steduto 3134 3872 3146 64 10.9k
P. Kabat 900 6438 3776 158 11.7k
Hong Yang 2266 6161 8885 323 18.7k
Christoph Müller 4364 5152 1538 217 13.9k
Brian Finlayson 1265 4186 2962 120 14.3k
Murray Peel 1306 5963 3825 102 13.7k
Elke Stehfest 1940 4333 1208 120 13.5k

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