L. S. Pereira

42.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
300 papers, 33.7k citations indexed

About

L. S. Pereira is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, L. S. Pereira has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 33.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Soil Science, 154 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 65 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in L. S. Pereira's work include Irrigation Practices and Water Management (147 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (116 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (53 papers). L. S. Pereira is often cited by papers focused on Irrigation Practices and Water Management (147 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (116 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (53 papers). L. S. Pereira collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and China. L. S. Pereira's co-authors include Richard G. Allen, Dirk Raes, Martin Smith, Paula Paredes, Ana A. Paulo, Tayeb Raziei, Isabel Alves, Theib Oweis, Abdelaziz Zaïri and Marvin E. Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Landscape and Urban Planning and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

L. S. Pereira

283 papers receiving 31.4k citations

Hit Papers

Crop evapotranspiration : guidelines for computing crop w... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2011 2002 2014 2005 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
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. Crop evapotranspiration : guidelines for computing crop water requirements
    1998 16.9k citations L. S. Pereira et al. profile →
  2. Evapotranspiration information reporting: I. Factors governing measurement accuracy
    2011 778 citations L. S. Pereira et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →
  3. Irrigation management under water scarcity
    2002 721 citations L. S. Pereira et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →
  4. Crop evapotranspiration estimation with FAO56: Past and future
    2014 589 citations L. S. Pereira et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →
  5. A recommendation on standardized surface resistance for hourly calculation of reference ETo by the FAO56 Penman-Monteith method
    2005 546 citations L. S. Pereira et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →
  6. FAO-56 Dual Crop Coefficient Method for Estimating Evaporation from Soil and Application Extensions
    2005 495 citations L. S. Pereira et al. profile →
  7. Improved indicators of water use performance and productivity for sustainable water conservation and saving
    2012 374 citations L. S. Pereira et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →
  8. Coping with salinity in irrigated agriculture: Crop evapotranspiration and water management issues
    2019 283 citations P.S. Minhas, Tiago B. Ramos et al. Agricultural Water Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
L. S. Pereira Portugal 71 19.0k 13.3k 10.0k 9.2k 5.3k 300 33.7k
Dirk Raes Belgium 48 13.7k 0.7× 11.1k 0.8× 10.1k 1.0× 7.0k 0.8× 4.7k 0.9× 162 29.0k
Martin Smith United States 10 10.0k 0.5× 6.8k 0.5× 5.9k 0.6× 5.5k 0.6× 3.2k 0.6× 14 18.9k
Lu Zhang China 77 14.4k 0.8× 5.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.2× 13.5k 1.5× 3.8k 0.7× 525 23.5k
Artemi Cerdà Spain 90 8.8k 0.5× 14.9k 1.1× 3.9k 0.4× 4.3k 0.5× 3.0k 0.6× 454 26.9k
Guirui Yu China 87 14.9k 0.8× 8.6k 0.6× 4.7k 0.5× 3.5k 0.4× 3.3k 0.6× 803 29.2k
Shaozhong Kang China 66 7.1k 0.4× 7.3k 0.5× 7.0k 0.7× 2.9k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 296 14.2k
J. R. Williams United States 50 6.7k 0.4× 6.4k 0.5× 1.6k 0.2× 11.0k 1.2× 3.5k 0.7× 153 17.0k
Mingan Shao China 73 5.2k 0.3× 9.3k 0.7× 3.5k 0.3× 3.8k 0.4× 5.0k 1.0× 541 20.3k
Jerry L. Hatfield United States 68 6.8k 0.4× 5.4k 0.4× 8.7k 0.9× 2.1k 0.2× 3.3k 0.6× 365 21.4k
W.G.M. Bastiaanssen Netherlands 56 10.1k 0.5× 2.8k 0.2× 1.7k 0.2× 5.7k 0.6× 4.2k 0.8× 159 14.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. S. Pereira

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Paredes, Paula, R. López-Urrea, A. Martínez-Romero, et al.. (2025). Estimating the lengths of crop growth stages to define the crop coefficient curves using growing degree days (GDD): Application of the revised FAO56 guidelines. Agricultural Water Management. 319. 109758–109758. 2 indexed citations
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Raziei, Tayeb & L. S. Pereira. (2024). Relating the Drought Precipitation Percentiles Index to the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) under Influence of Aridity and Timescale. Water Resources Management. 38(14). 5739–5758. 7 indexed citations
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Petry, Mirta Teresinha, et al.. (2024). Evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of sprinkler-irrigated aerobic rice in southern Brazil using the SIMDualKc water balance model. Irrigation Science. 42(6). 1–22. 4 indexed citations
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López-Urrea, R., C.M. Oliveira, F. Montoya, Paula Paredes, & L. S. Pereira. (2024). Single and basal crop coefficients for temperate climate fruit trees, vines and shrubs with consideration of fraction of ground cover, height, and training system. Irrigation Science. 42(6). 1099–1135. 6 indexed citations
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Pereira, L. S., Mariana Mota, Tayeb Raziei, & Paula Paredes. (2024). Water requirements and crop coefficients of edible, spicy and medicinal herbs and vegetables; a review aimed at supporting plant and water management. Irrigation Science. 42(6). 1199–1228. 2 indexed citations
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Minhas, P.S., Tiago B. Ramos, Alon Ben‐Gal, & L. S. Pereira. (2019). Coping with salinity in irrigated agriculture: Crop evapotranspiration and water management issues. Agricultural Water Management. 227. 105832–105832. 283 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roberti, Débora Regina, et al.. (2018). Evapotranspiration of the Brazilian Pampa Biome: Seasonality and Influential Factors. Water. 10(12). 1864–1864. 42 indexed citations
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Moreira, Elsa, Diogo Martins, & L. S. Pereira. (2015). Assessing drought cycles in SPI time series using a Fourier analysis. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 15(3). 571–585. 38 indexed citations
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Popova, Zornitsa, et al.. (2014). DROUGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN BULGARIA: ASSESSING MAIZE CROP RISK AND IRRIGATION REQUIREMENTS IN RELATION TO SOIL AND CLIMATE REGION. Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science. 21(1). 169–169. 6 indexed citations
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Todorović, Mladen, et al.. (2014). Impact of climate change on crop evapotranspiration and irrigation requirements in the Mediterranean with a special focus on the countries of former Yugoslavia.. 51–60.
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Moreira, Elsa, João T. Mexia, & L. S. Pereira. (2012). Are drought occurrence and severity aggravating? A study on SPI drought class transitions using log-linear models and ANOVA-like inference. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(8). 3011–3028. 26 indexed citations
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Pereira, L. S., et al.. (2012). INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY OUTSOURCING KEY ISSUES: A SERVICE PROVIDERS' PERSPECTIVE. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 121. 1 indexed citations
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Ramos, Tiago B., et al.. (2011). Soil hydraulic properties in different soil texture classes.. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 34(2). 252–264. 1 indexed citations
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Raziei, Tayeb, I. Bordi, L. S. Pereira, & Alfonso Sutera. (2010). Space-time variability of hydrological drought and wetness in Iran using NCEP/NCAR and GPCC datasets. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 14(10). 1919–1930. 30 indexed citations
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Cai, Jiabing, et al.. (2009). Simulation of the soil water balance of wheat using daily weather forecast messages to estimate the reference evapotranspiration. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(7). 1045–1059. 50 indexed citations
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Gonçalves, José Manuel, et al.. (2008). Web decision support system for surface irrigation design.. 1 indexed citations
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Raziei, Tayeb, I. Bordi, & L. S. Pereira. (2008). A precipitation-based regionalization for Western Iran and regional drought variability. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 12(6). 1309–1321. 112 indexed citations
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Rijo, Manuel, António Betâmio de Almeida, & L. S. Pereira. (1991). Modelling Automatic Upstream Control with SIMCAR. Irrigation and Drainage. 487–493. 1 indexed citations

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