Benjamin Sultan

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Sultan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Sultan has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 62 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 30 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Sultan's work include Climate variability and models (57 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (54 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (20 papers). Benjamin Sultan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (57 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (54 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (20 papers). Benjamin Sultan collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Senegal. Benjamin Sultan's co-authors include Serge Janicot, Christian Baron, Philippe Roudier, Philippe Quirion, Alexis Berg, Marco Gaetani, Dimitri Defrance, Michaël Dingkuhn, Seydou Traoré and Arona Diédhiou and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Sultan

114 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

The impact of future climate change on West African crop yields: What does the recent literature say?

2011 389 citations Benjamin Sultan, Philippe Quirion et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Sultan France	41	3.4k	2.2k	2.0k	997	936	115	6.1k
Andrea Toreti Italy	36	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	936 0.9×	384 0.4×	102	4.7k
A. Wiltshire United Kingdom	31	3.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	826 0.4×	625 0.6×	427 0.5×	55	5.3k
G. J. Husak United States	28	4.5k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	316 0.3×	749 0.8×	83	6.8k
Pierluigi Calanca Switzerland	35	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	927 0.5×	963 1.0×	683 0.7×	111	4.4k
Bruce Hewitson South Africa	40	5.8k 1.7×	3.9k 1.7×	1.4k 0.7×	278 0.3×	441 0.5×	96	7.4k
Molly E. Brown United States	39	4.2k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	695 0.7×	707 0.8×	142	8.0k
Tianyi Zhang China	29	2.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	690 0.7×	121	5.8k
L. Harrison United States	19	3.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	662 0.3×	269 0.3×	505 0.5×	42	5.1k
Chris Funk United States	49	8.6k 2.5×	5.3k 2.4×	2.0k 1.0×	520 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	144	12.4k
Masayuki Yokozawa Japan	39	2.7k 0.8×	938 0.4×	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 2.3×	924 1.0×	118	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Sultan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Sultan

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Tramblay, Yves, Lahoucine Hanich, Jafet Andersson, et al.. (2025). Future water resources and droughts in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco under a high-emission climate scenario. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 59. 102371–102371. 2 indexed citations

Traoré, Amadou, Gatien N. Falconnier, Antoine Couëdel, et al.. (2023). Sustainable intensification of sorghum-based cropping systems in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: The role of improved varieties, mineral fertilizer, and legume integration. Field Crops Research. 304. 109180–109180. 7 indexed citations

Sultan, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Livestock exposure to future cumulated climate-related stressors in West Africa. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 2698–2698. 8 indexed citations

Dutheil, Cyril, Matthieu Lengaigne, Margot Bador, et al.. (2020). Impact of projected sea surface temperature biases on tropical cyclones projections in the South Pacific. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4838–4838. 23 indexed citations

Defrance, Dimitri, Benjamin Sultan, Mathieu Castets, Adjoua Moïse Famien, & Christian Baron. (2020). Impact of Climate Change in West Africa on Cereal Production Per Capita in 2050. Sustainability. 12(18). 7585–7585. 38 indexed citations

Gaetani, Marco, Serge Janicot, Mathieu Vrac, Adjoua Moïse Famien, & Benjamin Sultan. (2020). Robust assessment of the time of emergence of precipitation change in West Africa. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7670–7670. 39 indexed citations

Rhoné, Bénédicte, Dimitri Defrance, Cécile Berthouly‐Salazar, et al.. (2020). Pearl millet genomic vulnerability to climate change in West Africa highlights the need for regional collaboration. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5274–5274. 71 indexed citations

Sultan, Benjamin, Dimitri Defrance, & Toshichika Iizumi. (2019). Evidence of crop production losses in West Africa due to historical global warming in two crop models. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12834–12834. 167 indexed citations

Satgé, Frédéric, Dimitri Defrance, Benjamin Sultan, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of 23 gridded precipitation datasets across West Africa. Journal of Hydrology. 581. 124412–124412. 144 indexed citations

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Dutheil, Cyril, Margot Bador, Matthieu Lengaigne, et al.. (2019). Impact of surface temperature biases on climate change projections of the South Pacific Convergence Zone and tropical cyclone activity.. EGUGA. 12198. 1 indexed citations

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Famien, Adjoua Moïse, Serge Janicot, Mathieu Vrac, et al.. (2018). A bias-corrected CMIP5 dataset for Africa using the CDF-t method – a contribution to agricultural impact studies. Earth System Dynamics. 9(1). 313–338. 69 indexed citations

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Parkes, Ben, Dimitri Defrance, Benjamin Sultan, Philippe Ciais, & Xuhui Wang. (2018). Projected changes in crop yield mean and variability over West Africa in a world 1.5 K warmer than the pre-industrial era. Earth System Dynamics. 9(1). 119–134. 33 indexed citations

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Defrance, Dimitri, Gilles Ramstein, Sylvie Charbit, et al.. (2017). Consequences of rapid ice sheet melting on the Sahelian population vulnerability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(25). 6533–6538. 50 indexed citations

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Ronchail, Josyane, Tatiana Schor, Manon Sabot, et al.. (2016). Hydrologie et production agricole dans le nord-ouest de l’Amazonie. Bulletin de l Association de géographes français. 93(3). 270–286. 2 indexed citations

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Berg, Alexis, Philippe Quirion, & Benjamin Sultan. (2009). Weather-Index Drought Insurance in Burkina-Faso: Assessment of Its Potential Interest to Farmers. Weather Climate and Society. 1(1). 71–84. 36 indexed citations

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Drobinski, Philippe, Sophie Bastin, Serge Janicot, et al.. (2009). On the late northward propagation of the West African monsoon in summer 2006 in the region of Niger/Mali. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D9). 12 indexed citations

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Sultan, Benjamin, Serge Janicot, Christian Baron, et al.. (2008). Les impacts agronomiques du climat en Afrique de l'Ouest : une illustration des problèmes majeurs. Science et changements planétaires / Sécheresse. 19(1). 29–37. 6 indexed citations

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Sultan, Benjamin, Christian Baron, Michaël Dingkuhn, Benoı̂t Sarr, & Serge Janicot. (2005). La variabilité climatique en Afrique de l’Ouest aux échelles saisonnière et intra-saisonnière. II : applications à la sensibilité des rendements agricoles au Sahel. Agritrop (Cirad). 16(1). 23–33. 9 indexed citations

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Sultan, Benjamin, Karim Labadi, Gérard Beltrando, & Serge Janicot. (2004). Meningococcal meningitis and the atmospheric dynamics in West Africa. Environnement Risques & Sante. 3(1). 23–34. 1 indexed citations

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Sultan, Benjamin & Serge Janicot. (2004). La variabilité climatique en Afrique de l’Ouest aux échelles saisonnière et intra-saisonnière. I : mise en place de la mousson et variabilité intra-saisonnière de la convection. Science et changements planétaires / Sécheresse. 15(4). 321–330. 6 indexed citations

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