Alan P. Ker

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alan P. Ker is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan P. Ker has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 31 papers in Soil Science and 12 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Alan P. Ker's work include Agricultural risk and resilience (29 papers), Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (20 papers) and Agricultural Economics and Policy (11 papers). Alan P. Ker is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural risk and resilience (29 papers), Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (20 papers) and Agricultural Economics and Policy (11 papers). Alan P. Ker collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Alan P. Ker's co-authors include Barry K. Goodwin, Tor N. Tolhurst, Keith H. Coble, Ken Janovicek, Cristina Tortora, Gary D. Libecap, Robert Glennon, Ralph C. Martin, William M. Deen and Amélie C. M. Gaudin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Alan P. Ker

60 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Increasing Crop Diversity Mitigates Weather Variations and Improves Yield Stability

2015 301 citations Amélie C. M. Gaudin, Tor N. Tolhurst et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan P. Ker Canada	18	778	616	344	276	209	64	1.4k
P. K. Joshi United States	26	631 0.8×	524 0.9×	1.0k 3.0×	260 0.9×	290 1.4×	107	2.1k
T.S. Amjath-Babu Germany	22	383 0.5×	246 0.4×	363 1.1×	394 1.4×	267 1.3×	54	1.5k
Maxwell Mudhara South Africa	21	324 0.4×	255 0.4×	485 1.4×	222 0.8×	139 0.7×	96	1.3k
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya United States	22	673 0.9×	333 0.5×	411 1.2×	917 3.3×	197 0.9×	40	1.7k
Kyle Emerick United States	10	626 0.8×	405 0.7×	375 1.1×	294 1.1×	198 0.9×	19	1.4k
Uris Lantz C. Baldos United States	23	212 0.3×	481 0.8×	267 0.8×	313 1.1×	144 0.7×	58	1.5k
Alwin Keil Germany	16	393 0.5×	171 0.3×	298 0.9×	277 1.0×	189 0.9×	27	1.0k
Chilot Yirga Ethiopia	18	633 0.8×	240 0.4×	785 2.3×	167 0.6×	287 1.4×	35	1.4k
Andrew G. Mude United States	22	1.0k 1.3×	416 0.7×	235 0.7×	438 1.6×	80 0.4×	69	1.6k
Abiodun A. Ogundeji South Africa	21	348 0.4×	295 0.5×	460 1.3×	374 1.4×	125 0.6×	84	1.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2025). On the Extent That Changing Climate Has Structurally Changed Marginal Crop Yield Distributions and Crop Losses. Agricultural Economics. 56(6). 1030–1041.

Deaton, Brady J., et al.. (2025). On the pass‐through rate of the Nutrition North Canada subsidy. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie. 73(4). 385–396.

Zhang, Fangyi, Alan P. Ker, & Satheesh V. Aradhyula. (2024). Regime-dependent wheat price volatilities. Applied Economics Letters. 33(5). 702–705. 1 indexed citations

Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2024). Heterogeneity, climate change, and crop yield distributions: Solvency implications for publicly subsidized crop insurance programs. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 107(1). 248–268. 4 indexed citations

Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2024). Climate change, production and trade in apples. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie. 72(3). 325–346. 2 indexed citations

Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2021). Risk management in Canada's agricultural sector in light of COVID‐19: Considerations one year later. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie. 69(2). 299–305. 6 indexed citations

Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2017). Canadian Business Risk Management: Private Firms, Crown Corporations, and Public Institutions. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie. 65(4). 591–612. 17 indexed citations

Ker, Alan P. & Yong Liu. (2016). Bayesian model averaging of possibly similar nonparametric densities. Computational Statistics. 32(1). 349–365. 3 indexed citations

Gaudin, Amélie C. M., Tor N. Tolhurst, Alan P. Ker, et al.. (2015). Increasing Crop Diversity Mitigates Weather Variations and Improves Yield Stability. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0113261–e0113261. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gaudin, Amélie C. M., et al.. (2015). Agroecological Approaches to Mitigate Increasing Limitation of Corn Yields by Water Availability. Procedia Environmental Sciences. 29. 11–12. 1 indexed citations

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Ker, Alan P., Tor N. Tolhurst, & Yong Liu. (2015). Bayesian Estimation of Possibly Similar Yield Densities: Implications for Rating Crop Insurance Contracts. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 98(2). 360–382. 34 indexed citations

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Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2013). Unconditional Quantile Estimation: An Application to the Gravity Framework. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 1 indexed citations

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O’Sullivan, Terri L., Robert Friendship, David L. Pearl, et al.. (2012). The association between submission counts to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory and the economic and disease challenges of the Ontario swine industry from 1998 to 2009. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 106(3-4). 275–283. 15 indexed citations

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Glennon, Robert, et al.. (2008). Law and the New Institutional Economics: Water Markets and Legal Change in California, 1987-2005. Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis). 26(1). 183–213. 8 indexed citations

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Glennon, Robert, et al.. (2007). Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms. SSRN Electronic Journal. 45 indexed citations

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Ker, Alan P., et al.. (2000). MODELING TECHNICAL TRADE BARRIERS UNDER UNCERTAINTY. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Ker, Alan P. & Barry K. Goodwin. (1999). Statistics and the U.S. Crop Insurance Program. CHANCE. 12(4). 25–30. 2 indexed citations

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Ker, Alan P., et al.. (1998). ON CHOOSING A BASE COVERAGE LEVEL FOR MULTIPLE PERIL CROP INSURANCE CONTRACTS. Journal of agricultural and resource economics. 23(2). 1–18. 2 indexed citations

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Ker, Alan P., et al.. (1993). Economies of Size in the Ontario Swine Industry. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Larue, Bruno, et al.. (1991). The demand for wine in ontario and the phasing-out of discriminatory mark-ups. Agribusiness. 7(5). 475–488. 9 indexed citations

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