Anton Urfels

505 total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 267 citations indexed

About

Anton Urfels is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Water Science and Technology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Anton Urfels has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 267 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 10 papers in Water Science and Technology and 10 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Anton Urfels's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (11 papers), Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (9 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (7 papers). Anton Urfels is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (11 papers), Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (9 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (7 papers). Anton Urfels collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and India. Anton Urfels's co-authors include Sara Minoli, Senthold Asseng, Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, Timothy J. Krupnik, Andrew J. McDonald, Pieter van Oel, Gerardo van Halsema, P.C. Struik and Timothy Foster and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Research Letters and Agricultural Water Management.

In The Last Decade

Anton Urfels

20 papers receiving 254 citations

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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.

Global crop yields can be lifted by timely adaptation of growing periods to climate change

2022 145 citations Sara Minoli, Jonas Jägermeyr et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anton Urfels United States	7	120	118	72	57	49	23	267
Sabirjan Isaev Uzbekistan	6	71 0.6×	84 0.7×	67 0.9×	69 1.2×	35 0.7×	19	266
Elijah Phiri Zambia	12	127 1.1×	143 1.2×	71 1.0×	113 2.0×	106 2.2×	34	351
Jiongchao Zhao China	11	87 0.7×	131 1.1×	116 1.6×	53 0.9×	62 1.3×	20	309
Solomon Habtu Ethiopia	10	159 1.3×	182 1.5×	176 2.4×	113 2.0×	60 1.2×	24	379
Sanai Li United States	12	173 1.4×	197 1.7×	70 1.0×	106 1.9×	38 0.8×	22	337
V. Seng Cambodia	11	140 1.2×	242 2.1×	150 2.1×	46 0.8×	26 0.5×	49	380
D. Urban United States	6	209 1.7×	142 1.2×	95 1.3×	123 2.2×	84 1.7×	7	325
Vijaysinha Kakade India	9	45 0.4×	103 0.9×	122 1.7×	73 1.3×	49 1.0×	14	360
Marija Ćosić Serbia	9	139 1.2×	234 2.0×	153 2.1×	104 1.8×	33 0.7×	21	336
B.B. Vashisht India	13	166 1.4×	221 1.9×	170 2.4×	104 1.8×	77 1.6×	39	417

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anton Urfels

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20 of 20 papers shown

McDonald, Andrew J., ‪João Vasco Silva, Anton Urfels, et al.. (2025). Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia. Nature Sustainability. 8(1). 22–33. 10 indexed citations

Urfels, Anton, et al.. (2025). Delineating profit gaps in rice and wheat production: evidence from India’s economically marginalized region. Agricultural and Food Economics. 13(1). 93–93.

Deb, Proloy, Virender Kumar, Anton Urfels, et al.. (2025). Which Machine Learning Algorithm Is Best Suited for Estimating Reference Evapotranspiration in Humid Subtropical Climate?. CLEAN - Soil Air Water. 53(1). 1 indexed citations

Sapkota, Tek B., Jaweriah Hazrana, Anton Urfels, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Landscape of Crop Residue Burning in India: A Review of the Scale, Effects, and Solutions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Kishore, Avinash, et al.. (2025). Farmers agronomic management responses to extreme drought and rice yields in Bihar, India. Agricultural Water Management. 320. 109830–109830.

Seijger, Chris, et al.. (2024). More food, but less land and water for nature: Why agricultural productivity gains did not materialize. Agricultural Water Management. 307. 109229–109229. 2 indexed citations

Rossiter, David G., Hari Sankar Nayak, Anton Urfels, et al.. (2024). Hydrologic variability governs GHG emissions in rice-based cropping systems of Eastern India. Agricultural Water Management. 301. 108931–108931. 3 indexed citations

Rossiter, David G., et al.. (2024). Characterizing soil hydrology in the Indo-Gangetic plain of Bihar, India: Methods and preliminary results. Geoderma Regional. 37. e00784–e00784. 2 indexed citations

Nayak, Hari Sankar, Andrew J. McDonald, Virender Kumar, et al.. (2024). Context-dependent agricultural intensification pathways to increase rice production in India. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8403–8403. 6 indexed citations

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Urfels, Anton, Alisher Mirzabaev, Proloy Deb, et al.. (2024). Economics of sustainable irrigation in smallholder agriculture: implications for food security and climate action. Environmental Research Letters. 19(8). 81008–81008.

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Urfels, Anton, Kai Mausch, Dave Harris, et al.. (2023). Farm size limits agriculture's poverty reduction potential in Eastern India even with irrigation-led intensification. Agricultural Systems. 207. 103618–103618. 19 indexed citations

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Pandey, Vishnu Prasad, Nirman Shrestha, Anton Urfels, et al.. (2023). Implementing conjunctive management of water resources for irrigation development: A framework applied to the Southern Plain of Western Nepal. Agricultural Water Management. 283. 108287–108287. 5 indexed citations

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Minoli, Sara, Jonas Jägermeyr, Senthold Asseng, Anton Urfels, & Christoph Müller. (2022). Global crop yields can be lifted by timely adaptation of growing periods to climate change. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7079–7079. 145 indexed citations breakdown →

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Montes, Carlo, Anton Urfels, Eunjin Han, & Balwinder Singh. (2022). Planting Rice at Monsoon Onset Could Mitigate the Impact of Temperature Stress on Rice–Wheat Systems of Bihar, India. Atmosphere. 14(1). 40–40. 2 indexed citations

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Urfels, Anton, et al.. (2022). Potential Impacts of Cropping and Management Interventions on Resilient and Sustainable Irrigation Development in Western Nepal. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Urfels, Anton, Raghavan Srinivasan, Yared Bayissa, et al.. (2022). Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Crop Production in Western Nepal: Implications and Adaptation Strategies. Hydrology. 9(8). 132–132. 11 indexed citations

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Urfels, Anton, Carlo Montes, Balwinder Singh, et al.. (2022). Climate adaptive rice planting strategies diverge across environmental gradients in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Environmental Research Letters. 17(12). 124030–124030. 7 indexed citations

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Urfels, Anton, Andrew J. McDonald, Gerardo van Halsema, et al.. (2021). Social-ecological analysis of timely rice planting in Eastern India. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 41(2). 14–14. 19 indexed citations

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Urfels, Anton, Andrew J. McDonald, Timothy J. Krupnik, & Pieter van Oel. (2020). Drivers of groundwater utilization in water-limited rice production systems in Nepal. Water International. 45(1). 39–59. 20 indexed citations

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Foster, Timothy, et al.. (2019). Costs of diesel pump irrigation systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains: what options exist for efficiency gains?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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