Kai Sonder

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
80 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Kai Sonder is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Sonder has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Plant Science, 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 21 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Kai Sonder's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (29 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (15 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (11 papers). Kai Sonder is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (29 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (15 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (11 papers). Kai Sonder collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Kenya. Kai Sonder's co-authors include Olaf Erenstein, B. M. Prasanna, Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Moti Jaleta, Jill E. Cairns, J. L. Araus, Jon Hellin, Matthew Reynolds, Christian Thierfelder and John MacRobert and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Kai Sonder

79 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Global maize production, consumption and trade: trends and R&D implications

2022 628 citations Olaf Erenstein, Moti Jaleta et al. profile →
Adapting maize production to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa

2013 346 citations Jill E. Cairns, Jon Hellin et al. profile →
Estimating the global number and distribution of maize and wheat farms

2021 115 citations Olaf Erenstein, Kai Sonder et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kai Sonder	1.9k	764	743	465	360	80	3.1k
C. Huyghe	1.8k 1.0×	896 1.2×	804 1.1×	249 0.5×	314 0.9×	226	3.0k
Lawton Lanier Nalley	1.6k 0.9×	279 0.4×	569 0.8×	491 1.1×	314 0.9×	105	2.9k
T.J. Stomph	2.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	343 0.5×	851 1.8×	229 0.6×	135	3.5k
Cosmos Magorokosho	2.7k 1.4×	915 1.2×	715 1.0×	449 1.0×	321 0.9×	62	3.7k
Jean-Marc Meynard	1.6k 0.9×	656 0.9×	544 0.7×	348 0.7×	632 1.8×	80	2.6k
Festus K. Akinnifesi	1.3k 0.7×	737 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	640 1.4×	677 1.9×	104	3.7k
Dirk Reheul	1.9k 1.0×	745 1.0×	533 0.7×	1.1k 2.4×	254 0.7×	203	4.1k
M.C.S. Wopereis	2.9k 1.5×	507 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	1.3k 2.8×	611 1.7×	105	4.5k
B. Vivek	2.3k 1.2×	916 1.2×	639 0.9×	355 0.8×	235 0.7×	48	3.0k
R. Rabbinge	2.3k 1.2×	779 1.0×	969 1.3×	689 1.5×	516 1.4×	176	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Sonder

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Sonder

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Sonder

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Sonder. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Sonder 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 Kai Sonder. Kai Sonder is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Muñoz, Carlos, et al.. (2025). Aflatoxins in Mexican Maize Systems: From Genetic Resources to Agroecological Resilience and Co-Occurrence with Fumonisins. Toxins. 17(11). 531–531.

Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz, J. M. C. Fernandes, P. K. Singh, et al.. (2024). Production vulnerability to wheat blast disease under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 14(2). 178–183. 34 indexed citations

Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, David Hodson, Timothy J. Krupnik, & Kai Sonder. (2023). Quantifying Wheat Blast Disease Induced Yield and Production Losses of Wheat: A Quasi-Natural Experiment. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 55(1). 34–56. 4 indexed citations

Anderson, Weston, Walter Baethgen, Fabian Capitanio, et al.. (2023). Climate variability and simultaneous breadbasket yield shocks as observed in long-term yield records. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 331. 109321–109321. 30 indexed citations

Bentley, Alison R., Jason Donovan, Kai Sonder, et al.. (2022). Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security. Nature Food. 3(7). 483–486. 97 indexed citations

Hanif, Uzma, Hadi Alipour, Alvina Gul, et al.. (2021). Characterization of the genetic basis of local adaptation of wheat landraces from Iran and Pakistan using genome‐wide association study. The Plant Genome. 14(3). e20096–e20096. 10 indexed citations

Singh, P. K., Roy C, Krishna Kanta Roy, et al.. (2021). Wheat Blast: A Disease Spreading by Intercontinental Jumps and Its Management Strategies. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 710707–710707. 59 indexed citations

Hellin, Jon, et al.. (2019). A guide to scaling soil and water conservation in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. CIMMYT eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, Velu Govindan, P. K. Singh, et al.. (2019). Economic benefits of blast-resistant biofortified wheat in Bangladesh: The case of BARI Gom 33. Crop Protection. 123. 45–58. 23 indexed citations

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Dreisigacker, Susanne, Rajiv Sharma, Eric Huttner, et al.. (2019). Tracking the adoption of bread wheat varieties in Afghanistan using DNA fingerprinting. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 660–660. 20 indexed citations

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Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, P. K. Singh, Kai Sonder, Gideon Kruseman, & Olaf Erenstein. (2019). Averting wheat blast by implementing a ‘wheat holiday’: In search of alternative crops in West Bengal, India. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0211410–e0211410. 15 indexed citations

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Morgounov, Alexey, Kai Sonder, Vijai Bhadauria, et al.. (2018). Effect of climate change on spring wheat yields in North America and Eurasia in 1981-2015 and implications for breeding. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0204932–e0204932. 48 indexed citations

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Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, P. K. Singh, Kai Sonder, et al.. (2018). Threat of wheat blast to South Asia’s food security: An ex-ante analysis. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0197555–e0197555. 57 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Apurba K., M. S. Saharan, Paritosh Kumar Malaker, et al.. (2017). Occurrence of wheat blast in Bangladesh and its implications for South Asian wheat production. Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding (The). 77(1). 1–1. 13 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Matthew, Hans‐Joachim Braun, Anthony J. Cavalieri, et al.. (2017). Improving global integration of crop research : Field laboratories in realistic crop environments are needed. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations

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Braun, Hans‐Joachim, Thomas Payne, Kai Sonder, et al.. (2016). Impacts of international wheat improvement research, 1994-2014. CIMMYT eBooks. 42 indexed citations

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Eitzinger, Anton, Peter Läderach, Myles Fisher, et al.. (2016). Assessing high-impact spots of climate change: spatial yield simulations with Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) model. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 22(5). 743–760. 27 indexed citations

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Araus, J. L., et al.. (2012). Phenotyping for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Maize^F. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 54(4). 238–249. 81 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Matthew, Jon Hellin, Bram Govaerts, et al.. (2011). Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps. Journal of Experimental Botany. 63(1). 1–12. 36 indexed citations

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Sonder, Kai, et al.. (2006). Comparative assessment of forage and livestock density in Tekeze River Basin. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 2 indexed citations

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