Kyle Frankel Davis

8.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
91 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Kyle Frankel Davis is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle Frankel Davis has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Water Science and Technology, 27 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Kyle Frankel Davis's work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (32 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (21 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers). Kyle Frankel Davis is often cited by papers focused on Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (32 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (21 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers). Kyle Frankel Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Kyle Frankel Davis's co-authors include Paolo D’Odorico, Maria Cristina Rulli, Jessica A. Gephart, Abinash Bhattachan, Christiane W. Runyan, Sujith Ravi, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Lorenzo Rosa, Jampel Dell’Angelo and Shauna Downs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kyle Frankel Davis

86 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2018 2017 2020 2022 200 400 600
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.

  1. Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks
    2012 700 citations Paolo D’Odorico, Kyle Frankel Davis et al. profile →
  2. The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus
    2018 497 citations Paolo D’Odorico, Kyle Frankel Davis et al. profile →
  3. Increased food production and reduced water use through optimized crop distribution
    2017 301 citations Kyle Frankel Davis, Maria Cristina Rulli et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  4. Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
    2020 287 citations Kyle Frankel Davis, Jessica A. Gephart et al. profile →
  5. Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change
    2022 260 citations Weston Anderson, Jonas Jägermeyr et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
  6. Crop switching can enhance environmental sustainability and farmer incomes in China
    2023 149 citations Wei Xie, Tariq Ali et al. profile →
  7. Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions
    2024 95 citations Piyush Mehta, Stefan Siebert et al. Nature Water profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kyle Frankel Davis United States 41 1.4k 1.4k 1.4k 855 819 91 5.6k
Kate A. Brauman United States 30 1.2k 0.9× 2.7k 1.9× 1.4k 1.0× 757 0.9× 733 0.9× 56 5.8k
Maria Cristina Rulli Italy 47 2.4k 1.7× 2.1k 1.5× 1.6k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 1.5k 1.8× 151 7.6k
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Germany 44 730 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.4× 1.3k 1.5× 688 0.8× 98 6.9k
Hermann Lotze‐Campen Germany 48 1.0k 0.7× 2.8k 2.0× 2.2k 1.6× 1.5k 1.7× 995 1.2× 144 8.5k
Liangzhi You United States 43 1.0k 0.7× 2.4k 1.7× 2.0k 1.4× 861 1.0× 1.3k 1.6× 167 7.5k
Sibyll Schaphoff Germany 39 1.5k 1.1× 3.4k 2.4× 1.4k 1.0× 764 0.9× 782 1.0× 80 6.9k
Graham K. MacDonald Canada 31 989 0.7× 1.7k 1.2× 1.6k 1.2× 800 0.9× 1.3k 1.6× 63 7.7k
Ian Holman United Kingdom 44 2.0k 1.4× 2.7k 1.9× 662 0.5× 832 1.0× 694 0.8× 155 5.5k
Line Gordon Sweden 40 1.5k 1.1× 4.6k 3.3× 1.5k 1.1× 692 0.8× 580 0.7× 73 8.1k
Charlotte de Fraiture Netherlands 30 1.4k 1.0× 826 0.6× 547 0.4× 458 0.5× 805 1.0× 100 4.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ali, Tariq, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Landon Marston, et al.. (2025). Deepening water scarcity in breadbasket nations. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1110–1110. 14 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, Weston Anderson, Steffen Ehrmann, et al.. (2025). HarvestStat: a global effort towards open and standardized sub-national agricultural data. Environmental Research Letters. 20(5). 52001–52001. 2 indexed citations
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Kebede, Asfaw, Stefan Siebert, Piyush Mehta, et al.. (2025). A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century. Scientific Data. 12(1). 208–208. 6 indexed citations
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Anderson, Weston, Frank Davenport, Shraddhanand Shukla, et al.. (2025). HarvestStat Africa – Harmonized Subnational Crop Statistics for Sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Data. 12(1). 690–690. 4 indexed citations
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Chhatre, Ashwini, et al.. (2025). Swapping rice for alternative cereals can reduce climate-induced production losses and increase farmer incomes in India. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2108–2108. 3 indexed citations
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Tang, Jing, et al.. (2024). Improving future agricultural sustainability by optimizing crop distributions in China. PNAS Nexus. 4(1). pgae562–pgae562.
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Household Water Treatment Technologies for Cholera Eradication in Sub-Saharan Africa: Epidemiological and Economic Perspectives. Sustainability. 16(4). 1422–1422. 1 indexed citations
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McDermid, Sonali, et al.. (2024). El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions simultaneously reduce the production of multiple cereals across India. Environmental Research Letters. 19(10). 104059–104059.
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Kebede, Asfaw, Tyler Clavelle, Halley E. Froehlich, et al.. (2024). Assessing and addressing the global state of food production data scarcity. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(4). 295–311. 32 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, et al.. (2023). Crop switching for water sustainability in India’s food bowl yields co-benefits for food security and farmers’ profits. Nature Water. 1(10). 864–878. 39 indexed citations
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Klinger, Julie Michelle, et al.. (2023). Unexpected Expansion of Rare-Earth Element Mining Activities in the Myanmar–China Border Region. Remote Sensing. 15(18). 4597–4597. 11 indexed citations
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Singh, Deepti, Alexandra Karambelas, Ashwini Chhatre, et al.. (2021). A systems lens to evaluate the compound human health impacts of anthropogenic activities. One Earth. 4(9). 1233–1247. 1 indexed citations
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Müller, Marc F., Gopal Penny, Meredith T. Niles, et al.. (2021). Impact of transnational land acquisitions on local food security and dietary diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(4). 64 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Paolo D’Odorico, et al.. (2020). Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions. Nature Geoscience. 13(7). 482–488. 110 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, Ashwini Chhatre, Narasimha D. Rao, et al.. (2019). Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(50). 25034–25041. 91 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Maria Cristina Rulli, et al.. (2018). Alternative cereals can improve water use and nutrient supply in India. Science Advances. 4(7). eaao1108–eaao1108. 112 indexed citations
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DeFries, Ruth, et al.. (2018). Understanding dietary and staple food transitions in China from multiple scales. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195775–e0195775. 46 indexed citations
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Gephart, Jessica A., Kyle Frankel Davis, Kyle A. Emery, et al.. (2016). The environmental cost of subsistence: Optimizing diets to minimize footprints. The Science of The Total Environment. 553. 120–127. 135 indexed citations
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Leach, Allison M., Kyle A. Emery, Jessica A. Gephart, et al.. (2016). Environmental impact food labels combining carbon, nitrogen, and water footprints. Food Policy. 61. 213–223. 150 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, Maria Cristina Rulli, & Paolo D’Odorico. (2013). Food security in the 21st century: Global yield projections and agricultural expansion. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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