Matti Kummu

25.4k total citations · 11 hit papers
212 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Matti Kummu is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Matti Kummu has authored 212 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Water Science and Technology, 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 56 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Matti Kummu's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (60 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (47 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (45 papers). Matti Kummu is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (60 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (47 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (45 papers). Matti Kummu collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Germany and United States. Matti Kummu's co-authors include Olli Varis, Philip J. Ward, Stefan Siebert, Miina Porkka, Hans de Moel, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Timo A. Räsänen, Juha Sarkkula, H. Lauri and Maija Taka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Matti Kummu

205 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain los... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2017 2016 2018 2020 250 500 750
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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. Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use
    2012 904 citations Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  2. Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future
    2017 752 citations Junguo Liu, Hong Yang et al. Earth s Future profile →
  3. The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability
    2016 656 citations Matti Kummu, Joseph H. A. Guillaume et al. profile →
  4. Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015
    2018 476 citations Matti Kummu, Joseph H. A. Guillaume et al. profile →
  5. Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries
    2020 397 citations Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer et al. profile →
  6. A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005
    2015 357 citations Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  7. Increasing dependence of lowland populations on mountain water resources
    2020 257 citations Matti Kummu, Yoshihide Wada et al. profile →
  8. Food system by-products upcycled in livestock and aquaculture feeds can increase global food supply
    2022 137 citations Vilma Sandström, Mika Jalava et al. Nature Food profile →
  9. Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions
    2024 95 citations Matti Kummu et al. profile →
  10. Increased probability of hot and dry weather extremes during the growing season threatens global crop yields
    2023 81 citations Matias Heino, Olli Varis et al. profile →
  11. Downscaled gridded global dataset for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita PPP over 1990–2022
    2025 17 citations Matti Kummu et al. profile →

Peers

Matti Kummu
Comparison fields: 5 of 178
  • Water Science and Technology 6.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 5.2k
  • Ecology 3.5k
  • Ocean Engineering 2.5k
  • Environmental Engineering 2.1k
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Stefan Siebert Germany
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Paolo D’Odorico United States
P. Kabat Netherlands
Philip J. Ward Netherlands
Hong Yang China
Wolfgang Lucht Germany
Fulco Ludwig Netherlands
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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A systematic review of sustainable food systems identifies socio-economic pathways driving food systems transformations
2026 ·Nature Food ·(unknown), (unknown), Johannes Piipponen, (unknown), Delphine Deryng, (unknown), Matias Heino, Xavier Irz, Mika Jalava, (unknown), Rachel Mazac, (unknown), (unknown), Marja Roitto, Hanna L. Tuomisto, Matti Kummu
0
2
Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity
2024 ·Nature Communications ·Junguo Liu, Delong Li, He Chen, (unknown), Yoshihide Wada, Matti Kummu, Simon N. Gosling, Hong Yang, Yadu Pokhrel, Philippe Ciais
45
3
The potential to increase food system resilience by replacing feed imports with domestic food system byproducts
2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Vilma Sandström, Thomas Kästner, Florian Schwarzmueller, Matti Kummu
1
4
Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change
2024 ·Global Environmental Change ·(unknown), Jannis Hoch, Jens de Bruijn, Kathleen Hermans, Amina Maharjan, Matti Kummu, Jasper van Vliet
1
5
Arctic rooting depth distribution influences modelled carbon emissions but cannot be inferred from aboveground vegetation type
2023 ·New Phytologist ·Gesche Blume‐Werry, Ellen Dorrepaal, Frida Keuper, Matti Kummu, Birgit Wild, James T. Weedon
5
6
Global trends in grassland carrying capacity and relative stocking density of livestock
2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Johannes Piipponen, Mika Jalava, Jan de Leeuw, Afag Rizayeva, Cécile Godde, (unknown), Mario Herrero, Matti Kummu
75
7
The Cambodian Mekong floodplain under future development plans and climate change
2022 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Long Phi Hoang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jorma Koponen, Matti Kummu
12
8
The Cambodian Mekong floodplain under the future developmentplans and climate change
2021 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jorma Koponen, Matti Kummu
3
9
Identifying Key Drivers of Peatland Fires Across Kalimantan's Ex‐Mega Rice Project Using Machine Learning
2021 ·Earth and Space Science ·(unknown), Vili Virkki, (unknown), Jukka Miettinen, (unknown), Matti Kummu
13
10
Giving Legs to Handprint Thinking: Foundations for Evaluating the Good We Do
2020 ·Earth s Future ·Joseph H. A. Guillaume, (unknown), Miina Porkka, Dieter Gerten, Mika Jalava, Leena Lankoski, (unknown), Michael Lettenmeier, Stephan Pfister, Kirsi Usva, Yoshihide Wada, Matti Kummu
16
11
Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales
2020 ·Earth s Future ·Samuel C. Zipper, Fernando Jaramillo, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Sarah Cornell, Tom Gleeson, Miina Porkka, Tiina Häyhä, Anne‐Sophie Crépin, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Holger Hoff, Nathanial Matthews, Constanza Ricaurte‐Villota, Matti Kummu, Yoshihide Wada, Line Gordon
76
12
Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming
2020 ·Nature Geoscience ·Frida Keuper, Birgit Wild, Matti Kummu, Christian Beer, Gesche Blume‐Werry, Sébastien Fontaine, Konstantin Gavazov, Norman Gentsch, Georg Guggenberger, Gustaf Hugelius, Mika Jalava, Charles D. Koven, Eveline J. Krab, Peter Kuhry, Sylvain Monteux, Andreas Richter, Tanvir Shahzad, James T. Weedon, Ellen Dorrepaal
100
13
Savings and losses of global water resources in food‐related virtual water trade
2018 ·Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·Wenfeng Liu, Marta Antonelli, Matti Kummu, Xu Zhao, Pute Wu, Junguo Liu, La Zhuo, Hong Yang
82
14
The Impacts of Climate Oscillations on Crop Yields: a Multi-model, Multi-scenario Global Study
2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Matias Heino, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, (unknown), Toshichika Iizumi, Matti Kummu
1
15
The Mekong's future flows under multiple drivers: How climate change, hydropower developments and irrigation expansions drive hydrological changes
2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Long Phi Hoang, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Matti Kummu, H. Lauri, Jorma Koponen, Iwan Supit, Rik Leemans, P. Kabat, Fulco Ludwig
119
16
Has dyke development in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta shifted flood hazard downstream?
2017 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Nguyễn Viết Dũng, Hideto Fujii, Matti Kummu, Bruno Merz, Heiko Apel
86
17
Extreme floods in the Mekong River Delta under climate change: combined impacts of upstream hydrological changes and sea level rise
2016 ·EGUGA ·Long Phi Hoang, Việt Dũng Nguyễn, Matti Kummu, H. Lauri, Jorma Koponen, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Iwan Supit, Rik Leemans, P. Kabat, Fulco Ludwig
1
18
Climate-driven interannual variability of water scarcity in food production potential: a global analysis
2014 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Matti Kummu, Dieter Gerten, Jens Heinke, (unknown), Olli Varis
96
19
A landscape approach to assess impacts of hydrological changes to vegetation communities of the Tonle Sap Floodplain
2011 ·University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury) ·Mauricio E. Arias, Thomas A. Cochrane, Brian S. Caruso, Timothy J. Killeen, Matti Kummu
3
20
Modelling Sediment and Ecosystem in Tonle Sap Lake for Impact Assessment
2005 ·Matti Kummu, Jorma Koponen, Juha Sarkkula
4

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