Gerald C. Nelson

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Gerald C. Nelson is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald C. Nelson has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gerald C. Nelson's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (22 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (16 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (15 papers). Gerald C. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (22 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (16 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (15 papers). Gerald C. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Austria. Gerald C. Nelson's co-authors include Daniel Hellerstein, Philip K. Thornton, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Richard Robertson, Peter Havlík, Hans van Meijl, Senthold Asseng, Mario Herrero, Sidney Greenbaum and Paul H. Holloway and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical review. B, Condensed matter, PLoS ONE and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Gerald C. Nelson

140 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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 Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and pilot studies

2012 689 citations Cynthia Rosenzweig, James W. Jones et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models

2013 375 citations Hugo Valin, Ronald D. Sands et al. Agricultural Economics profile →
Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis

2017 278 citations Mario Herrero, Philip K. Thornton et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerald C. Nelson United States	34	1.4k	1.4k	1.1k	905	890	144	5.9k
Vaclav Smil Canada	42	1.1k 0.8×	254 0.2×	910 0.8×	944 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	233	9.1k
Bruno Gérard France	49	497 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	237 0.3×	886 1.0×	189	6.9k
Joachim von Braun Germany	43	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.8×	833 0.9×	263	8.7k
Mesfin M. Mekonnen United States	44	1.7k 1.2×	611 0.4×	794 0.7×	920 1.0×	3.7k 4.1×	122	17.1k
Stefan Reis United Kingdom	43	1.8k 1.3×	414 0.3×	986 0.9×	400 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	141	8.2k
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	3	3.4k 2.4×	696 0.5×	556 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	3	9.7k
Ingo Fetzer Germany	34	3.5k 2.5×	456 0.3×	841 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	2.4k 2.7×	83	13.1k
Wilfried Winiwarter Austria	43	1.7k 1.2×	302 0.2×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	158	12.0k
Osvaldo Canziani	5	4.7k 3.3×	2.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	917 1.0×	1.9k 2.2×	5	11.7k
David Pimentel United States	41	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.8×	1.5k 1.6×	1.9k 2.1×	111	9.9k

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Nelson, Gerald C., Jennifer Vanos, George Havenith, et al.. (2024). Global reductions in manual agricultural work capacity due to climate change. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17142–e17142. 15 indexed citations

Thornton, Philip K., Mario Herrero, Gerald C. Nelson, & Dianne Mayberry. (2024). Resilient livelihoods in Africa’s pastoral–agropastoral transition zones will increasingly depend on heat stress adaptation and systemic change. Nature Food. 5(12). 976–981. 1 indexed citations

Meza, Francisco, Rebecca Darbyshire, Aidan D. Farrell, et al.. (2023). Assessing temperature‐based adaptation limits to climate change of temperate perennial fruit crops. Global Change Biology. 29(9). 2557–2571. 13 indexed citations

Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Hitomi Wakatsuki, Shalika Vyas, et al.. (2022). A global dataset for the projected impacts of climate change on four major crops. Scientific Data. 9(1). 58–58. 86 indexed citations

Wiebe, Keith, Timothy B. Sulser, Shahnila Dunston, et al.. (2021). Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on Crops to End Hunger. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0249994–e0249994. 21 indexed citations

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

Finley, John W., et al.. (2017). Nutritional Sustainability: Aligning Priorities in Nutrition and Public Health with Agricultural Production. Advances in Nutrition. 8(5). 780–788. 31 indexed citations

Herrero, Mario, Philip K. Thornton, Brendan Power, et al.. (2017). Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health. 1(1). e33–e42. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

Valin, Hugo, Ronald D. Sands, Hans van Meijl, et al.. (2013). The future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models. Agricultural Economics. 45(1). 51–67. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia, James W. Jones, Jerry L. Hatfield, et al.. (2012). The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and pilot studies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 170. 166–182. 689 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nzuma, Jonathan Makau, et al.. (2010). Strategies for adapting to climate change in Sub- Saharan Africa : a review of data sources, poverty reduction stategy programs (PRSP) and national adaptation plans for agriculture (NAPAs)in ASARECA member countries. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 8 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C., Mark W. Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, et al.. (2010). The costs of agricultural adaptation to climate change. 1–62. 24 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C.. (2009). Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 41 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C., et al.. (2007). Herbicides, glyphosate resistance and acute mammalian toxicity: simulating an environmental effect of glyphosate‐resistant weeds in the USA. Pest Management Science. 64(4). 470–478. 26 indexed citations

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Robertson, Richard & Gerald C. Nelson. (2004). An Assessment Of Workarounds For Spatial Effects In The Case Of Binary Probit. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C.. (1993). Sexual harassment: An issue in the orthodontic office?. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. 104(4). 417–418. 3 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C.. (1991). Policy Reform for Philippine Sugar: Is Now the Time?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 28(1). 1–19. 1 indexed citations

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Peden, Charles H. F., J.W. Rogers, Dianna Sue Blair, & Gerald C. Nelson. (1988). Kinetic and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies of the Thermal Nitridation of Si(100). MRS Proceedings. 131. 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C.. (1984). Status report on the ASTM E‐42 Committee on surface analysis. Surface and Interface Analysis. 6(3). 144–148. 3 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gerald C., et al.. (1983). Time for Tapioca, 1970 to 1980: European Demand and World Supply of Dried Cassava. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 19(1). 1–26. 5 indexed citations

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