Chris Funk

17.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
144 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Chris Funk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Funk has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 61 papers in Atmospheric Science and 44 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Chris Funk's work include Climate variability and models (79 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (43 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (40 papers). Chris Funk is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (79 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (43 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (40 papers). Chris Funk collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Chris Funk's co-authors include G. J. Husak, Pete Peterson, Joel Michaelsen, Andrew Hoell, J. P. Verdin, Shraddhanand Shukla, L. Harrison, Diego Pedreros, M. F. Landsfeld and James Rowland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chris Funk

142 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

2015 3.9k citations Chris Funk, Pete Peterson et al. profile →
A quasi-global precipitation time series for drought monitoring

2014 594 citations Chris Funk, Pete Peterson et al. profile →
Validation of the CHIRPS satellite rainfall estimates over eastern Africa

2018 556 citations Tufa Dinku, Chris Funk et al. profile →
A land data assimilation system for sub-Saharan Africa food and water security applications

2017 445 citations Amy McNally, Shraddhanand Shukla et al. profile →
Warming accelerates global drought severity

2025 41 citations Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Funk United States	49	8.6k	5.3k	2.0k	1.9k	1.5k	144	12.4k
David Lister United Kingdom	25	8.7k 1.0×	6.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	55	13.5k
Steven K. Rose United States	28	7.8k 0.9×	3.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	65	14.2k
Jakob Zscheischler Germany	50	9.0k 1.0×	4.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	142	12.2k
J. P. Verdin United States	33	6.7k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	93	9.8k
Mikiko Kainuma Japan	25	7.5k 0.9×	4.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	56	13.2k
Linda O. Mearns United States	47	10.9k 1.3×	6.4k 1.2×	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	98	14.9k
Martin Beniston Switzerland	56	7.5k 0.9×	7.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.6×	2.6k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	171	14.0k
José A. Marengo Brazil	66	11.5k 1.3×	6.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	3.6k 1.9×	3.3k 2.2×	207	17.4k
Joel Michaelsen United States	35	6.1k 0.7×	4.3k 0.8×	942 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	65	9.2k
Vicente Barros Argentina	23	6.2k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	926 0.6×	46	10.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Funk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Funk

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Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Justin Sheffield, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, et al.. (2025). Warming accelerates global drought severity. Nature. 642(8068). 628–635. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Baylis, Kathy, Erin Lentz, K. K. Caylor, et al.. (2025). Five Lessons for Closing the Last Mile: How to Make Climate Decision Support Actionable. Earth s Future. 13(8).

Davenport, Frank, et al.. (2024). Contrasting performance of panel and time-series data models for subnational crop forecasting in Sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 359. 110213–110213. 2 indexed citations

Tollerud, H., et al.. (2024). SSEBop Evapotranspiration Estimates Using Synthetically Derived Landsat Data from the Continuous Change Detection and Classification Algorithm. Remote Sensing. 16(7). 1297–1297. 2 indexed citations

Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, et al.. (2023). Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022. Earth system science data. 15(12). 5449–5466. 45 indexed citations

Funk, Chris, Andreas H. Fink, L. Harrison, et al.. (2023). Frequent but Predictable Droughts in East Africa Driven by a Walker Circulation Intensification. Earth s Future. 11(11). 18 indexed citations

Davenport, Frank, Shraddhanand Shukla, G. J. Husak, et al.. (2022). Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning. Global Food Security. 33. 100643–100643. 24 indexed citations

Davenport, Frank, Shraddhanand Shukla, William Turner, et al.. (2021). Sending out an SOS: using start of rainy season indicators for market price forecasting to support famine early warning. Environmental Research Letters. 16(8). 84050–84050. 8 indexed citations

Helman, David, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, & Chris Funk. (2020). Climate has contrasting direct and indirect effects on armed conflicts. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104017–104017. 23 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Simon Dadson, Feyera A. Hirpa, et al.. (2020). A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset. Earth system science data. 12(1). 753–769. 90 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Simon Dadson, Feyera A. Hirpa, et al.. (2020). A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset. 1 indexed citations

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Fink, Andreas H., et al.. (2020). Using seasonal rainfall clusters to explain the interannual variability of the rain belt over the Greater Horn of Africa. International Journal of Climatology. 41(S1). 10 indexed citations

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Davenport, Frank, Chris Funk, & Gideon Galu. (2018). How will East African maize yields respond to climate change and can agricultural development mitigate this response?. Climatic Change. 147(3-4). 491–506. 26 indexed citations

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Shukla, Shraddhanand, Chris Funk, Pete Peterson, et al.. (2017). The Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset and its applications in drought risk management. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11498. 7 indexed citations

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Budde, Michael, Chris Funk, G. J. Husak, et al.. (2016). Earth Observations for Early Detection of Agricultural Drought: Contributions of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Hobbins, Mike, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, G. J. Husak, et al.. (2016). What role does evaporative demand play in driving drought in Africa. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Mahowald, N. M., Fiona Lo, L. Harrison, et al.. (2016). Projections of leaf area index in earth system models. Earth System Dynamics. 7(1). 211–229. 105 indexed citations

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Mahowald, N. M., Fiona Lo, Yue Zheng, et al.. (2015). Leaf Area Index in Earth System Models: evaluation and projections. 11 indexed citations

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Peterson, Pete, Chris Funk, M. F. Landsfeld, et al.. (2015). The Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) v2.0 Dataset: 35 year Quasi-Global Precipitation Estimates for Drought Monitoring. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 3 indexed citations

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Peterson, Pete, Chris Funk, G. J. Husak, et al.. (2013). The Climate Hazards group InfraRed Precipitation (CHIRP) with Stations (CHIRPS): Development and Validation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 14 indexed citations

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