Clifton Makate

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Clifton Makate is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Clifton Makate has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 25 papers in Soil Science and 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Clifton Makate's work include Agricultural Innovations and Practices (38 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (20 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 papers). Clifton Makate is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Innovations and Practices (38 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (20 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 papers). Clifton Makate collaborates with scholars based in Zimbabwe, United States and China. Clifton Makate's co-authors include Nelson Mango, Marshall Makate, Shephard Siziba, Rongchang Wang, Gift Ndengu, Lulseged Tamene, Nelson Mango, Powell Mponela, Lawrence Mapemba and Kefasi Nyikahadzoi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Clifton Makate

53 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

2 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.

Crop diversification and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe: adaptive management for environmental change

2016 276 citations Clifton Makate, Rongchang Wang et al. SpringerPlus profile →
Increasing resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change through multiple adoption of proven climate-smart agriculture innovations. Lessons from Southern Africa

2018 238 citations Clifton Makate, Marshall Makate et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Clifton Makate Zimbabwe	23	1.1k	639	580	340	304	56	2.1k
Nelson Mango Zimbabwe	16	864 0.8×	509 0.8×	450 0.8×	288 0.8×	250 0.8×	42	1.6k
Hailemariam Teklewold Ethiopia	15	1.5k 1.3×	914 1.4×	587 1.0×	278 0.8×	398 1.3×	32	2.1k
Victor Owusu Ghana	23	943 0.9×	665 1.0×	391 0.7×	268 0.8×	416 1.4×	95	2.0k
Solomon Asfaw Italy	25	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.6×	605 1.0×	444 1.3×	635 2.1×	53	2.8k
Justice A. Tambo Switzerland	21	613 0.6×	406 0.6×	404 0.7×	430 1.3×	465 1.5×	48	1.9k
Marcella Veronesi Italy	14	875 0.8×	741 1.2×	514 0.9×	117 0.3×	600 2.0×	48	1.9k
Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert United States	26	1.3k 1.2×	772 1.2×	211 0.4×	321 0.9×	657 2.2×	74	2.2k
T. S. Jayne United States	26	1.5k 1.3×	955 1.5×	345 0.6×	213 0.6×	615 2.0×	74	2.5k
Paswel Marenya Kenya	25	1.9k 1.7×	1.3k 2.0×	691 1.2×	440 1.3×	641 2.1×	71	3.0k
P. K. Joshi United States	26	1.0k 0.9×	631 1.0×	260 0.4×	290 0.9×	524 1.7×	107	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Clifton Makate

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clifton Makate

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Westengen, Ola Tveitereid, et al.. (2025). Contribution of Community Seed Banks to farmer seed systems and food security in Northern and Central Malawi. Food Policy. 132. 102860–102860. 1 indexed citations

Martinsen, Vegard, Andreas Botnen Smebye, Alfred Obia, et al.. (2025). Enhancing yields and climate resilience through conservation agriculture: multi-year regional on-farm trials in Zambia. Plant and Soil. 513(1). 489–505. 1 indexed citations

Makate, Clifton, Arild Angelsen, Stein T. Holden, & Ola Tveitereid Westengen. (2024). Smallholder access to purchased seeds in the presence of pervasive market imperfections and rainfall shocks: panel data evidence from Malawi and Ethiopia. Agricultural and Food Economics. 12(1).

Makate, Clifton, et al.. (2024). Commercialization of African indigenous vegetables: evidence from Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe. Cogent Social Sciences. 10(1). 1 indexed citations

Cornelissen, Gerard, Clifton Makate, Jan Mulder, et al.. (2024). Emission Factors for Biochar Production from Various Biomass Types in Flame Curtain Kilns. Applied Sciences. 14(21). 9649–9649. 1 indexed citations

Makate, Marshall & Clifton Makate. (2023). Leaving No Women Behind: Evaluating the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Livelihood Outcomes in Kenya and Ethiopia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(6). 5048–5048. 4 indexed citations

Makate, Clifton, Arild Angelsen, Stein T. Holden, & Ola Tveitereid Westengen. (2022). Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia. World Development. 159. 106054–106054. 22 indexed citations

Makate, Clifton. (2019). Effective scaling of climate smart agriculture innovations in African smallholder agriculture: A review of approaches, policy and institutional strategy needs. Environmental Science & Policy. 96. 37–51. 106 indexed citations

Makate, Clifton, Marshall Makate, & Nelson Mango. (2018). Farm household typology and adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices in smallholder farming systems of southern Africa. African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and Development. 10(4). 421–439. 57 indexed citations

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Mango, Nelson, Clifton Makate, Lulseged Tamene, Powell Mponela, & Gift Ndengu. (2018). Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation Farming as a Climate-Smart Agriculture Practice and Its Influence on Household Income in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa. Land. 7(2). 49–49. 90 indexed citations

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Makate, Marshall & Clifton Makate. (2017). The evolution of socioeconomic status-related inequalities in maternal health care utilization: evidence from Zimbabwe, 1994–2011. Global Health Research and Policy. 2(1). 1–1. 41 indexed citations

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Mango, Nelson, et al.. (2017). Collective market participation for improved income among smallholder farming households: a case of Balaka Innovation Platform in Malawi. African Crop Science Journal. 25(1). 97–97. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Fengting, et al.. (2017). Health Safety of Drinking Water Supplied in Africa: A Closer Look Using Applicable Water-Quality Standards as a Measure. Exposure and Health. 10(2). 117–128. 23 indexed citations

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Makate, Marshall & Clifton Makate. (2017). Prenatal care utilization in Zimbabwe: Examining the role of community-level factors. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health. 7(4). 255–255. 14 indexed citations

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Makate, Clifton, Marshall Makate, & Nelson Mango. (2017). Sustainable agriculture practices and livelihoods in pro-poor smallholder farming systems in southern Africa. African Journal of Science Technology Innovation and Development. 9(3). 269–279. 37 indexed citations

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Makate, Marshall & Clifton Makate. (2016). The causal effect of increased primary schooling on child mortality in Malawi: Universal primary education as a natural experiment. Social Science & Medicine. 168. 72–83. 50 indexed citations

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Makate, Clifton, Rongchang Wang, Marshall Makate, & Nelson Mango. (2016). Crop diversification and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe: adaptive management for environmental change. SpringerPlus. 5(1). 1135–1135. 276 indexed citations breakdown →

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Makate, Marshall & Clifton Makate. (2016). The impact of prenatal care quality on neonatal, infant and child mortality in Zimbabwe: evidence from the demographic and health surveys. Health Policy and Planning. 32(3). czw154–czw154. 30 indexed citations

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Mango, Nelson, Lawrence Mapemba, Hardwick Tchale, et al.. (2015). Comparative analysis of tomato value chain competitiveness in selected areas of Malawi and Mozambique. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 13 indexed citations

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Makate, Clifton, et al.. (2014). Technical efficiency performance of metal fabricating small to medium enterprises (Smes) in Zimbabwe: implications for agricultural development. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 1 indexed citations

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