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, John MacRobert and Christian Thierfelder 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 Jon Hellin, Kai Sonder et al. profile →
Estimating the global number and distribution of maize and wheat farms

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

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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.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Production vulnerability to wheat blast disease under climate change 2024 ·Nature Climate Change ·Diego Noleto Luz Pequeno, (unknown), J. M. C. Fernandes, P. K. Singh, Willingthon Pavan, Kai Sonder, Richard Robertson, Timothy J. Krupnik, Olaf Erenstein, Senthold Asseng	34
2	Quantifying Wheat Blast Disease Induced Yield and Production Losses of Wheat: A Quasi-Natural Experiment 2023 ·Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics ·Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, David Hodson, Timothy J. Krupnik, Kai Sonder	4
3	Climate variability and simultaneous breadbasket yield shocks as observed in long-term yield records 2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Weston Anderson, Walter Baethgen, Fabian Capitanio, Philippe Ciais, Benjamin I. Cook, (unknown), Lisa Goddard, Bernhard Schauberger, Kai Sonder, Guillermo Podestá, Marijn van der Velde, Liangzhi You	30
4	Projecting wheat demand in China and India for 2030 and 2050: Implications for food security 2023 ·Frontiers in Nutrition ·Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Gideon Kruseman, Aymen Frija, Kai Sonder, Santiago López‐Ridaura	42
5	Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security 2022 ·Nature Food ·Alison R. Bentley, Jason Donovan, Kai Sonder, Frédéric Baudron, Janet M. Lewis, Rachel C. Voss, Pieter Rutsaert, Nigel Poole, Sophien Kamoun, Diane G. O. Saunders, David Hodson, David Hughes, Christine Negra, María Itria Ibba, Sieglinde S. Snapp, Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida, Moti Jaleta, Kindie Tesfaye, Inbal Becker‐Reshef, Bram Govaerts	97
6	Characterization of the genetic basis of local adaptation of wheat landraces from Iran and Pakistan using genome‐wide association study 2021 ·The Plant Genome ·Uzma Hanif, Hadi Alipour, Alvina Gul, Jing Li, Reza Darvishzadeh, Rabia Amir, Faiza Munir, Muhammad Ilyas, Abdul Ghafoor, (unknown), Paul St. Amand, (unknown), Guihua Bai, Kai Sonder, Awais Rasheed, Zhonghu He, Huihui Li	10
7	Introgression of Maize Diversity for Drought Tolerance: Subtropical Maize Landraces as Source of New Positive Variants 2021 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·(unknown), Roberto Fritsche‐Neto, (unknown), César Daniel Petroli, Juan Burgueño, Giovanni Galli, Martha C. Willcox, Kai Sonder, (unknown), (unknown), Terence Molnar	20
8	Wheat Blast: A Disease Spreading by Intercontinental Jumps and Its Management Strategies 2021 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·P. K. Singh, (unknown), Roy C, Krishna Kanta Roy, Xinyao He, Batiseba Tembo, Kaijie Xu, Philomin Juliana, Kai Sonder, Muhammad Rezaul Kabir, Aakash Chawade	59
9	Increased ranking change in wheat breeding under climate change 2021 ·Nature Plants ·Wei Xiong, Matthew Reynolds, José Crossa, Urs Schulthess, Kai Sonder, Carlo Montes, (unknown), Ravi P. Singh, Karim Ammar, Bruno Gérard, Thomas Payne	46
10	Tracking the adoption of bread wheat varieties in Afghanistan using DNA fingerprinting 2019 ·BMC Genomics ·Susanne Dreisigacker, Rajiv Sharma, Eric Huttner, Aziz Karimov, (unknown), P. K. Singh, Carolina Sansaloni, Rosemary Shrestha, Kai Sonder, Hans‐Joachim Braun	20
11	Economic benefits of blast-resistant biofortified wheat in Bangladesh: The case of BARI Gom 33 2019 ·Crop Protection ·Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Velu Govindan, P. K. Singh, Kai Sonder, Xinyao He, Ravi P. Singh, Arun Kumar Joshi, Naresh Chandra Deb Barma, Gideon Kruseman, Olaf Erenstein	23
12	A guide to scaling soil and water conservation in the Western Highlands of Guatemala 2019 ·CIMMYT eBooks ·Jon Hellin, Santiago López‐Ridaura, Kai Sonder, (unknown), (unknown)	1
13	Occurrence of wheat blast in Bangladesh and its implications for South Asian wheat production 2017 ·Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding (The) ·Apurba K. Chowdhury, M. S. Saharan, (unknown), Paritosh Kumar Malaker, NCD Barma, (unknown), E. Duveiller, P. K. Singh, Amit Kumar Srivastava, Kai Sonder, Ravi P. Singh, Hans J. Braun, Arun Kumar Joshi	13
14	Impacts of international wheat improvement research, 1994-2014 2016 ·CIMMYT eBooks ·(unknown), Hans‐Joachim Braun, Thomas Payne, (unknown), Kai Sonder, Michaël Baum, M. van Ginkel, Olaf Erenstein	42
15	Assessing high-impact spots of climate change: spatial yield simulations with Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) model 2016 ·Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change ·Anton Eitzinger, Peter Läderach, (unknown), Myles Fisher, Stephen Beebe, Kai Sonder, Axel Schmidt	27
16	Climate change at winter wheat breeding sites in central Asia, eastern Europe, and USA, and implications for breeding 2013 ·Euphytica ·Alexey Morgounov, Stefan Haun, Iain Lang, С. П. Мартынов, Kai Sonder	21
17	Putting Ug99 on the map: An update on current and future monitoring 2011 ·Dave Hodson, K. Nazari, (unknown), Jens Grønbech Hansen, Poul Lassen, (unknown), T. Fetch, Mogens S. Hovmøller, Yue Jin, Z. A. Pretorius, Kai Sonder	3
18	Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps 2011 ·Journal of Experimental Botany ·Matthew Reynolds, Jon Hellin, Bram Govaerts, Petr Kosina, Kai Sonder, Peter Hobbs, Hans J. Braun	36
19	Drought Risk and Maize Production in Southern Africa - Lessons for Ethiopia 2010 ·AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) ·Girma T. Kassie, Roberto La Rovere, W. Mwangi, Olaf Erenstein, (unknown), Kai Sonder, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	3
20	Comparative assessment of forage and livestock density in Tekeze River Basin 2006 ·CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) ·(unknown), (unknown), Kai Sonder, D. Peden, Yilma Jobre	2

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