D. K. Ray

24.2k citations

53 papers · 10.9k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 29

Soil Science top 0.2%
- Agricultural risk and resilience 7
Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.2%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.2%
- Climate change impacts on agriculture 20
Plant Science top 0.2%
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Climate variability and models 15
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 7
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 5
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 5
Ecology
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact 7
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 5

Co-authors: Paul West Nathaniel D. Mueller Jonathan A. Foley James Gerber Navin Ramankutty Matt Johnston Graham K. MacDonald Alexander V. Prishchepov
Cited by: Soil Science Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Journals: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (6 papers)Nature Food (6 papers)Environmental Research Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Australia

In The Last Decade

D. K. Ray

52 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

2024 Nature Food
2023 Scientific Reports
2021 Nature Food
2020 Nature Communications
2019 PLoS ONE
2019 Environmental Research Letters
2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Nature Communications
2014 Science
2013 PLoS ONE
2012 Nature
2012 Nature Communications

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1	HarvestStat: a global effort towards open and standardized sub-national agricultural data Environmental Research Letters ·Kyle Frankel Davis,Weston Anderson,Steffen Ehrmann,Satyasai Badveti,C. Saint,Jonathan Proctor,D. K. Ray,Liangzhi You,Michael M. Foley,Hervé Kerdiles,Jeff Massie,Peter Huybers,Asfaw Kebede,Michele Meroni,Rich Leyden,Donghoon Lee	2025	2
2	A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century Scientific Data ·Asfaw Kebede,Ricardo Palacios Bañuelos,Stefan Siebert,Piyush Mehta,武郎塙,Jonas Jägermeyr,D. K. Ray,Tariq Ali,Kate A. Brauman,A. Botne,Wei Xie,Kyle Frankel Davis	2025	6
3	Greenhouse gas emissions in US beef production can be reduced by up to 30% with the adoption of selected mitigation measures Nature Food ·Rylie E. O. Pelton,Clare E. Kazanski,Marie-France Guimond,Breda Karun,Sasha Gennet,Nathaniel Springer,M. Heavenlin,Michael Wironen,D. K. Ray,Kris Johnson,Jennifer Schmitt	2024	11
4	Spatial Distribution of Cropping Systems in South Asia Using Time-Series Satellite Data Enriched with Ground Data Remote Sensing ·Murali Krishna Gumma,Ali Tizghadam,S. K. Dubey,D. K. Ray,C. S. Murthy,M. D. M. Kadiyala,Mohammed Ismail,Germán Loewe	2024	4
5	Assessing and addressing the global state of food production data scarcity Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Asfaw Kebede,Cece Zheng,Tyler Clavelle,Halley E. Froehlich,Jessica A. Gephart,武郎塙,Mario Herrero,Hannah Kerner,Piyush Mehta,Catherine Nakalembe,D. K. Ray,Stefan Siebert,Philip K. Thornton,Kyle Frankel Davis	2024	32
6	Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnationbreakdown → Nature Food ·James Gerber,D. K. Ray,David Makowski,Ethan E. Butler,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Paul West,Justin A. Johnson,Stephen Polasky,Leah Samberg,Stefan Siebert,Lindsey Sloat	2024	52
7	Assessing carcass relocation for offsetting golden eagle mortality at wind energy facilities Journal of Wildlife Management ·Eric V. Lonsdorf,James Gerber,D. K. Ray,Steven J. Slater,Taber D. Allison	2023	2
8	Land use leverage points to reduce GHG emissions in U.S. agricultural supply chains Environmental Research Letters ·Rylie E. O. Pelton,S. Spawn,Tyler J. Lark,Tae‐Gon Kim,Nathaniel Springer,Peter Hawthorne,D. K. Ray,Jennifer Schmitt	2021	14
9	Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yieldsbreakdown → Nature Food ·Corey Lesk,Ethan Coffel,Jonathan M. Winter,D. K. Ray,Jakob Zscheischler,Sonia I. Seneviratne,Radley M. Horton	2021	200
10	Sensitivity of global major crop yields to climate variables: A non-parametric elasticity analysis The Science of The Total Environment ·Di Liu,Ashok K. Mishra,D. K. Ray	2020	33
11	Climate adaptation by crop migrationbreakdown → Nature Communications ·Lindsey Sloat,Steven J. Davis,James Gerber,Frances C. Moore,D. K. Ray,Paul West,Nathaniel D. Mueller	2020	205
12	Application of multi-dated Sentinel-2 imageries to assess the cropping system in Gosaba Island of Indian Sundarbans. Amit Ghosh,Manoj Kumar Nanda,H. A. WALDRON,L. Chahine,Μιχαήλ Κουκάκης,D. K. Ray	2019	7
13	Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocksbreakdown → Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michelle Tigchelaar,David S. Battisti,Rosamond L. Naylor,D. K. Ray	2018	328
14	Climate variation explains a third of global crop yield variabilitybreakdown → Nature Communications ·D. K. Ray,James Gerber,Graham K. MacDonald,Paul West	2015	1375
15	The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison: data and modeling protocols for Phase 1 (v1.0) Geoscientific model development ·Joshua Elliott,Christoph Müller,Delphine Deryng,James Chryssanthacopoulos,Kenneth J. Boote,Matthias Büchner,Ian Foster,Michael Glotter,Jens Heinke,Toshichika Iizumi,R. C. Izaurralde,Nathaniel D. Mueller,D. K. Ray,Cynthia Rosenzweig,Alex C. Ruane,Justin Sheffield	2015	198
16	Climate variability and extreme weather events and global crop production D. K. Ray,James Gerber	2015	2
17	Direct human influence on atmospheric CO2 seasonality from increased cropland productivity Nature ·Josh Gray,Steve Frolking,E. A. Kort,D. K. Ray,Christopher J. Kucharik,Navin Ramankutty,M. A. Friedl	2014	105
18	Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnationbreakdown → Nature Communications ·D. K. Ray,Navin Ramankutty,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Paul West,Jonathan A. Foley	2012	1117
19	Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water managementbreakdown → Nature ·Nathaniel D. Mueller,James Gerber,Matt Johnston,D. K. Ray,Navin Ramankutty,Jonathan A. Foley	2012	2062
20	The Impact of Future Land Use Scenarios on Runoff Volumes in the Muskegon River Watershed Environmental Management ·D. K. Ray,由紀子谷口,Bryan C. Pijanowski	2010	22

About D. K. Ray

D. K. Ray is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Soil Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, having authored 53 papers that have together received 10.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (20 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (7 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (2.0k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.8k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (3.1k citations), Plant Science (5.1k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (2.7k citations). D. K. Ray has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Paul West, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Jonathan A. Foley, James Gerber, Navin Ramankutty, Matt Johnston, Graham K. MacDonald, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Snigdhansu Chatterjee and Michael Clark. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Nature Food, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Communications and Nature.

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