Meredith T. Niles

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Meredith T. Niles is a scholar working on Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Meredith T. Niles has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Plant Science, 30 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 29 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Meredith T. Niles's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (26 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (25 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (24 papers). Meredith T. Niles is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (26 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (25 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (24 papers). Meredith T. Niles collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and New Zealand. Meredith T. Niles's co-authors include Mark Lubell, Margaret Brown, Van R. Haden, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Farryl Bertmann, Emily H. Belarmino, Erin C. McKiernan, Juan Pablo Alperín, Lesley A. Schimanski and Roni Neff and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Meredith T. Niles

114 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Early Food Insecurity Impacts of COVID-19

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Lois Wright Morton United States

Stefan Sieber Germany

Polly Ericksen Kenya

Kerstin K. Zander Australia

Rachel Bezner Kerr United States

Gordon M. Hickey Canada

Stephan Rist Switzerland

Daniel Mason-D’Croz United States

Sonja Vermeulen United Kingdom

Patti Kristjanson Kenya

Lois Wright Morton United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meredith T. Niles

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All Works

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Hunt, Lauren, Jennifer Jo Thompson, & Meredith T. Niles. (2025). How on-farm research project participants compare to a general sample of farmers: A case study of US cover crop farmers. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 45(1). 1 indexed citations

Beckage, Brian, Lisa Chase, David Conner, et al.. (2024). Regional food system sustainability: Using team science to develop an indicator-based assessment framework. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1–24.

Faulkner, Joshua W., et al.. (2023). The role of farmer networks in supporting adaptive capacity: Opening the door for innovation and transformation in the Northeastern United States. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 11(1). 9 indexed citations

Niles, Meredith T., et al.. (2023). Incentive programs promote cover crop adoption in the northeastern United States. Agricultural & Environmental Letters. 8(2). 16 indexed citations

Han, Guang & Meredith T. Niles. (2023). Interested but Uncertain: Carbon Markets and Data Sharing among U.S. Crop Farmers. Land. 12(8). 1526–1526. 7 indexed citations

Neher, Deborah A., et al.. (2023). Microplastics in composts, digestates, and food wastes: A review. Journal of Environmental Quality. 52(2). 225–240. 60 indexed citations

Niles, Meredith T., et al.. (2022). The Fruits of Labor: Home Food Procurement and Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition. 18(3). 450–469. 4 indexed citations

Niles, Meredith T., et al.. (2022). Manure management strategies are interconnected with complexity across U.S. dairy farms. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0267731–e0267731. 6 indexed citations

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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Ryschawy, Julie, et al.. (2021). Moving niche agroecological initiatives to the mainstream: A case-study of sheep-vineyard integration in California. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

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Roy, Eric D., Courtney Hammond Wagner, & Meredith T. Niles. (2021). Hot spots of opportunity for improved cropland nitrogen management across the United States. Environmental Research Letters. 16(3). 35004–35004. 27 indexed citations

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Niles, Meredith T., et al.. (2021). Awareness of climate change's impacts and motivation to adapt are not enough to drive action: A look of Puerto Rican farmers after Hurricane Maria. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244512–e0244512. 29 indexed citations

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Wagner, Courtney Hammond & Meredith T. Niles. (2020). What is Fair in Groundwater Allocation? Distributive and Procedural Fairness Perceptions of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Society & Natural Resources. 33(12). 1508–1529. 15 indexed citations

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Wagner, Courtney Hammond, Suzie Greenhalgh, Meredith T. Niles, Asim Zia, & William B. Bowden. (2020). Evaluating water quality regulation as a driver of farmer behavior: a social-ecological systems approach. Ecology and Society. 25(4). 5 indexed citations

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Niles, Meredith T., Lesley A. Schimanski, Erin C. McKiernan, & Juan Pablo Alperín. (2020). Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship to review, promotion and tenure expectations. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0228914–e0228914. 130 indexed citations

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Vatovec, Christine, et al.. (2020). What’s in Your Body of Water? A Pilot Study Using Metaphoric Framing to Reduce the Psychological Distance in Pharmaceutical Pollution Risk Communication. Environmental Management. 65(5). 630–641. 4 indexed citations

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Niles, Meredith T., et al.. (2019). A review of determinants for dairy farmer decision making on manure management strategies in high-income countries. Environmental Research Letters. 14(5). 53004–53004. 20 indexed citations

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Alperín, Juan Pablo, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Lesley A. Schimanski, et al.. (2019). How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion and tenure documents?. eLife. 8. 101 indexed citations

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McKiernan, Erin C., Lesley A. Schimanski, Carol Muñoz Nieves, et al.. (2019). Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. eLife. 8. 189 indexed citations

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Niles, Meredith T. & Molly E. Brown. (2017). A multi-country assessment of factors related to smallholder food security in varying rainfall conditions. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16277–16277. 34 indexed citations

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