Jonathan A. Foley

96.5k citations

134 papers · 49.8k indexed · 23 hit papers · h-index 73

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Soil Science top 0.05%

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 82
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 36
- Climate variability and models 36
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 19
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 19
Atmospheric Science 26
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 12

Co-authors: Navin Ramankutty Stephen R. Carpenter Chad Monfreda D. K. Ray Nathaniel D. Mueller Tracey Holloway Jonathan A. Patz Marten Scheffer
Journals: Global Biogeochemical Cycles (18 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (14 papers)Environmental Research Letters (12 papers)Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (8 papers)Nature (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

In The Last Decade

Jonathan A. Foley

132 papers receiving 47.2k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050 2013 · 2.3k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 PLoS ONE
2013 Environmental Research Letters
2012 Nature
2012 Nature Communications
2012 Nature
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Science
2008 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2008 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2007 Environmental Research Letters
2005 Science
2005 Nature
2004 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2004 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2001 Global Change Biology
2001 Science
2001 Nature
2001 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
1999 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
1996 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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All Works

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1	A people-first approach to achieving global climate and nature goals One Earth ·Paul West, Yusuf Jameel, 이을상, Chukwuma - Ogbonna Joyce Adaku, Jill Baumgartner, Ademola K. Braimoh, Jonathan A. Foley, James Gerber, 伊坂忠夫, Distian Pingkan Lumi, Cheikh Fayé, P. Spinicci, Ndola Prata, Tapas Chakraborty	2025	0
2	Understanding Durban University of Technology Students’ Perceptions of Biodiversity Loss SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jonathan A. Foley, Himansu Baijnath, Ana Marcela Gil Vásquez	2018	1
3	Como alimentar a 9.000 millones National geographic/The complete National geographic/The National geographic magazine ·Jonathan A. Foley	2014	0
4	Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation Nature Communications ·D. K. Ray, Navin Ramankutty, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paul West, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1117
5	Evaluating greenhouse gas emissions inventories for agricultural burning using satellite observations of active fires Ecological Applications ·Shirin Jadidi, Yufang Jin, Louis Giglio, Jonathan A. Foley, James T. Randerson	2012	18
6	Can We Feed the World & Sustain the Planet? Scientific American ·Jonathan A. Foley	2011	85
7	A Simple, Minimal Parameter Model for Predicting the Influence of Changing Land Cover on the Land–Atmosphere System+ Earth Interactions ·J. E. Bagley, Ankur R. Desai, Paul West, Jonathan A. Foley	2011	13
8	Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns Global Ecology and Biogeography ·William J. Sacks, Delphine Deryng, Jonathan A. Foley, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2010	712
9	Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Holly K. Gibbs, R Zündorf, Frédéric Achard, Murray K. Clayton, Peter Holmgren, Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1306
10	Boundaries for a Healthy Planet Scientific American ·Jonathan A. Foley	2010	20
11	Links between Climate, Malaria, and Wetlands in the Amazon Basin Emerging infectious diseases ·Sarah H. Olson, Ronald E. Gangnon, Éric Elguero, Laurent Durieux, Jean‐François Guégan, Jonathan A. Foley, Jonathan A. Patz	2009	67
12	Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Chad Monfreda, Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1358
13	Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Navin Ramankutty, Amato T. Evan, Chad Monfreda, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1397
14	Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·Ruth DeFries, Jonathan A. Foley, Gregory P. Asner Hit paper breakdown →	2004	678
15	People on the Land: Changes in Global Population and Croplands during the 20th Century AMBIO ·Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley, Prijith Babu Pradeep	2002	134
16	People on the Land: Changes in Global Population and Croplands during the 20^thCentury AMBIO ·Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley, Prijith Babu Pradeep	2002	138
17	Comparison of the climate simulated by the CCM3 coupled to two different land-surface models Climate Dynamics ·Christine Delire, Samuel Levis, Gordon B. Bonan, Jonathan A. Foley, Michael T. Coe, S. J. Vavrus	2002	36
18	The global distribution of cultivable lands: current patterns and sensitivity to possible climate change Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley, John M. Norman, Kevin McSweeney	2002	485
19	The effects of CO2, climate and land-use on terrestrial carbon balance, 1920-1992: An analysis with four process-based ecosystem models Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·A. D. McGuire, Stephen Sitch, J. S. Clein, Roger Dargaville, G. Esser, Jonathan A. Foley, Martin Heimann, Fortunat Joos, Jed O. Kaplan, David W. Kicklighter, Ronny Meier, Jerry M. Melillo, Berrien Moore, I. Colin Prentice, Navin Ramankutty, Tim G. Reichenau, Annette L. Schloss, Hanqin Tian, Larry J. Williams, Uwe Wittenberg	2001	6
20	Plane trading : policies for reducing the climate change effects of international aviation OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) ·Gerard Charles O'brien, Jonathan A. Foley	2000	7

About Jonathan A. Foley

Jonathan A. Foley is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Soil Science and Ecology, having authored 134 papers that have together received 49.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (36 papers), Climate variability and models (36 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (19 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (24.4k citations), Soil Science (5.1k citations), Ecology (13.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (6.3k citations) and Ecological Modeling (1.8k citations). Jonathan A. Foley has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Navin Ramankutty, Stephen R. Carpenter, Chad Monfreda, D. K. Ray, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Tracey Holloway, Jonathan A. Patz, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke and Brian R. Walker. Their work appears in journals such as Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Research Letters, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and Nature.

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