Daniel Mason-D’Croz

14.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel Mason-D’Croz is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Mason-D’Croz has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 14 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Daniel Mason-D’Croz's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (38 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (23 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (10 papers). Daniel Mason-D’Croz is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (38 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (23 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (10 papers). Daniel Mason-D’Croz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Daniel Mason-D’Croz's co-authors include Keith Wiebe, Timothy B. Sulser, Peter Scarborough, Marco Springmann, Mike Rayner, Mario Herrero, Sherman Robinson, Philip K. Thornton, Hubert Charles and Dirk Willenbockel and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Mason-D’Croz

71 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Health and nutritional aspects of sustainable diet strategies and their association with environmental impacts: a global modelling analysis with country-level detail

2018 612 citations Marco Springmann, Keith Wiebe et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →
Impacts of climate change on the livestock food supply chain; a review of the evidence

2021 395 citations Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Philip K. Thornton et al. Global Food Security profile →
The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models

2013 375 citations Hugo Valin, Ronald D. Sands et al. profile →
Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study

2016 298 citations Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Mason-D’Croz United States	30	1.9k	936	812	753	687	75	5.0k
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Germany	44	1.9k 1.0×	635 0.7×	778 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	504 0.7×	98	6.9k
Keith Wiebe United States	30	1.2k 0.7×	590 0.6×	714 0.9×	653 0.9×	497 0.7×	80	4.5k
Sonja Vermeulen United Kingdom	25	1.3k 0.7×	999 1.1×	854 1.1×	923 1.2×	583 0.8×	52	4.9k
Hugo Valin Austria	43	2.8k 1.5×	943 1.0×	663 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	618 0.9×	94	7.2k
Kyle Frankel Davis United States	41	1.4k 0.7×	751 0.8×	753 0.9×	1.4k 1.9×	395 0.6×	91	5.6k
Tom Wassenaar France	16	2.3k 1.2×	479 0.5×	452 0.6×	558 0.7×	597 0.9×	42	4.7k
Anne Mottet Italy	17	2.3k 1.2×	420 0.4×	480 0.6×	495 0.7×	826 1.2×	38	4.7k
Pierre Gerber Italy	32	5.0k 2.7×	908 1.0×	774 1.0×	844 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	69	10.0k
H. Steinfeld Italy	31	4.7k 2.5×	981 1.0×	740 0.9×	760 1.0×	1.3k 1.9×	59	9.3k
C. de Haan United States	16	2.3k 1.2×	528 0.6×	419 0.5×	512 0.7×	738 1.1×	33	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Mason-D’Croz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Mason-D’Croz

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All Works

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Gibson, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Degrowth as a plausible pathway for food systems transformation. Nature Food. 6(1). 19–24. 3 indexed citations

Beier, Felicitas, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Jens Heinke, et al.. (2025). Planetary boundaries under a land-based climate change mitigation scenario with a food demand transformation: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(10). 101249–101249. 2 indexed citations

Conti, Costanza, Andy Hall, Enayat A. Moallemi, et al.. (2025). Top-down vs bottom-up processes: A systematic review clarifying roles and patterns of interactions in food system transformation. Global Food Security. 44. 100833–100833. 5 indexed citations

Zanten, H.H.E. van, Felicitas Beier, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, et al.. (2025). Integrating circularity into the 2025 EAT–Lancet framework: a global modelling analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(10). 101337–101337.

Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Roseline Remans, Philip K. Thornton, et al.. (2025). Rigorous anticipatory governance is needed for responsible food system transformation. Nature Food. 6(10). 920–926.

Thornton, Philip K., et al.. (2024). Enabling food system innovation: accelerators for change. Global Food Security. 40. 100738–100738. 5 indexed citations

Anastasiou, Kim, Phillip Baker, Gilly A. Hendrie, et al.. (2023). Conceptualising the drivers of ultra-processed food production and consumption and their environmental impacts: A group model-building exercise. Global Food Security. 37. 100688–100688. 12 indexed citations

Barrett, Christopher B., Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 101001–101001. 21 indexed citations

Komarek, Adam M., Shahnila Dunston, Dolapo Enahoro, et al.. (2021). Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand. Global Environmental Change. 70. 102343–102343. 112 indexed citations

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Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Jessica Bogard, Mario Herrero, et al.. (2020). Modelling the global economic consequences of a major African swine fever outbreak in China. Nature Food. 1(4). 221–228. 135 indexed citations

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Barrett, Christopher B., Tim G. Benton, Karen Cooper, et al.. (2020). Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems. Nature Sustainability. 3(12). 974–976. 106 indexed citations

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Loboguerrero, Ana María, Philip K. Thornton, Jonathan Wadsworth, et al.. (2020). Perspective article: Actions to reconfigure food systems. Global Food Security. 26. 100432–100432. 23 indexed citations

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Stehfest, Elke, Willem‐Jan van Zeist, Hugo Valin, et al.. (2019). Key determinants of global land-use projections. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2166–2166. 160 indexed citations

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Beach, Robert, Timothy B. Sulser, Allison Crimmins, et al.. (2019). Combining the effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on protein, iron, and zinc availability and projected climate change on global diets: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 3(7). e307–e317. 109 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C., Jessica Bogard, Keith Lividini, et al.. (2018). Income growth and climate change effects on global nutrition security to mid-century. Nature Sustainability. 1(12). 773–781. 117 indexed citations

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Antle, John M., John E. Elliott, Christian Folberth, et al.. (2018). Biophysical and economic implications for agriculture of +1.5° and +2.0°C global warming using AgMIP Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments. Climate Research. 76(1). 17–39. 41 indexed citations

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Cenacchi, Nicola, Timothy B. Sulser, Shahnila Islam, et al.. (2016). Climate Change, Agriculture, and Adaptation in the Republic of Korea to 2050: An Integrated Assessment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Robinson, Sherman, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Shayla Islam, et al.. (2015). Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT. Open Access Repository of ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics). 25 indexed citations

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Wiebe, Keith, Hermann Lotze‐Campen, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, et al.. (2014). Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Security in 2050 under a Range of Plausible Socioeconomic and Emissions Scenarios. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Andersen, Lykke E., Clemens Breisinger, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, et al.. (2014). Agriculture, Incomes, and Gender in Latin America by 2050: An Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Household Resilience for Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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