Corey Lesk

6.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
30 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Corey Lesk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Corey Lesk has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Corey Lesk's work include Climate variability and models (14 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). Corey Lesk is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (14 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). Corey Lesk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Corey Lesk's co-authors include Navin Ramankutty, Pedram Rowhani, Radley M. Horton, Ethan Coffel, Justin Mankin, Colin Raymond, Weston Anderson, Kai Kornhuber, Jonas Jägermeyr and Elisabeth Vogel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Corey Lesk

30 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production

2016 2.5k citations Corey Lesk, Pedram Rowhani et al. Nature profile →
A Review of Recent Advances in Research on Extreme Heat Events

2016 376 citations Radley M. Horton, Justin Mankin et al. profile →
Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

2022 260 citations Corey Lesk, Jonas Jägermeyr et al. profile →
Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions

2019 246 citations Kai Kornhuber, Dim Coumou et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields

2021 200 citations Corey Lesk, Ethan Coffel et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Corey Lesk United States	18	1.8k	1.6k	1.1k	682	534	30	4.4k
Pedram Rowhani United Kingdom	14	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	998 0.9×	265 0.4×	595 1.1×	28	3.6k
Thomas A. M. Pugh United Kingdom	37	2.9k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.6×	767 1.4×	93	6.0k
Li Xu China	36	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	485 0.4×	508 0.7×	1.2k 2.3×	149	4.7k
Marco Moriondo Italy	38	2.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.7×	1.4k 1.2×	464 0.7×	617 1.2×	131	5.5k
Franziska Piontek Germany	15	1.9k 1.0×	876 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	562 0.8×	509 1.0×	24	4.1k
Andrea Toreti Italy	36	2.6k 1.5×	936 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	1.4k 2.1×	384 0.7×	102	4.7k
David W. Wolfe United States	31	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	856 0.8×	588 0.9×	960 1.8×	63	4.6k
Delphine Deryng Germany	19	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	2.6k 2.3×	317 0.5×	945 1.8×	22	4.8k
Erda Lin China	40	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.6×	572 0.8×	1.2k 2.2×	124	4.8k
Demel Teketay Ethiopia	49	2.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	808 0.7×	294 0.4×	591 1.1×	160	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Corey Lesk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Corey Lesk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Corey Lesk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Corey Lesk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Corey Lesk. Corey Lesk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Fu, Jin, Chengjie Wang, Yue Qin, et al.. (2025). Regionally variable responses of maize and soybean yield to rainfall events in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 364. 110458–110458. 2 indexed citations

Lesk, Corey, Jonathan M. Winter, & Justin Mankin. (2025). Projected runoff declines from plant physiological effects on precipitation. Nature Water. 3(2). 167–177. 5 indexed citations

Lesk, Corey, et al.. (2025). One-third of the global soybean production failure in 2012 is attributable to climate change. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Coffel, Ethan & Corey Lesk. (2024). Recent shift from energy- to moisture-limitation over global croplands. Environmental Research Letters. 19(6). 64065–64065. 5 indexed citations

Kleidon, Axel, Corey Lesk, Sha Zhou, et al.. (2024). Characterizing heatwaves based on land surface energy budget. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 5 indexed citations

Ting, Mingfang, et al.. (2024). Temporal connections between extreme precipitation and humid heat. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114076–114076. 3 indexed citations

Kornhuber, Kai, Corey Lesk, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, et al.. (2023). Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3528–3528. 66 indexed citations

Ting, Mingfang, Corey Lesk, Chunyu Liu, et al.. (2023). Contrasting impacts of dry versus humid heat on US corn and soybean yields. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 710–710. 19 indexed citations

Coffel, Ethan, Corey Lesk, & Justin Mankin. (2022). Earth System Model Overestimation of Cropland Temperatures Scales With Agricultural Intensity. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(16). 6 indexed citations

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Coffel, Ethan, Corey Lesk, Jonathan M. Winter, E. C. Osterberg, & Justin Mankin. (2022). Crop-climate feedbacks boost US maize and soy yields. Environmental Research Letters. 17(2). 24012–24012. 17 indexed citations

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Lesk, Corey, Ethan Coffel, Jonathan M. Winter, et al.. (2021). Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields. Nature Food. 2(9). 683–691. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lesk, Corey, Ethan Coffel, & Radley M. Horton. (2020). Net benefits to US soy and maize yields from intensifying hourly rainfall. Nature Climate Change. 10(9). 819–822. 60 indexed citations

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Lesk, Corey, et al.. (2020). Shifting economic activity to services has limited potential to reduce global environmental impacts due to the household consumption of labour. Environmental Research Letters. 15(6). 64019–64019. 18 indexed citations

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Coffel, Ethan, Bruce Keith, Corey Lesk, et al.. (2019). Future Hot and Dry Years Worsen Nile Basin Water Scarcity Despite Projected Precipitation Increases. Earth s Future. 7(8). 967–977. 81 indexed citations

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Heaney, Alexandra K., Daniel Carrión, Katrin Burkart, Corey Lesk, & Darby Jack. (2019). Climate Change and Physical Activity: Estimated Impacts of Ambient Temperatures on Bikeshare Usage in New York City. Environmental Health Perspectives. 127(3). 37002–37002. 69 indexed citations

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Rowhani, Pedram, Corey Lesk, & Navin Ramankutty. (2017). Extreme weather and the impacts on agriculture. EGUGA. 18206. 1 indexed citations

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Lesk, Corey, Ethan Coffel, Anthony W. D’Amato, Kevin J. Dodds, & Radley M. Horton. (2017). Threats to North American forests from southern pine beetle with warming winters. Nature Climate Change. 7(10). 713–717. 106 indexed citations

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Mandle, Lisa, Stacie Wolny, Nirmal Bhagabati, et al.. (2017). Assessing ecosystem service provision under climate change to support conservation and development planning in Myanmar. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184951–e0184951. 39 indexed citations

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Lesk, Corey, Pedram Rowhani, & Navin Ramankutty. (2016). Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature. 529(7584). 84–87. 2543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahern, Stéphane P., et al.. (2011). Critically ill patients and end-of-life decision-making: the senior medical resident experience. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 17(1). 121–136. 25 indexed citations

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