Mika Jalava

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mika Jalava is a scholar working on Ecology, Water Science and Technology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mika Jalava has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Water Science and Technology and 4 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Mika Jalava's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (9 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers). Mika Jalava is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (9 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (3 papers). Mika Jalava collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Germany and Australia. Mika Jalava's co-authors include Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert, Dieter Gerten, Jonas Jägermeyr, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Sibyll Schaphoff, Wolfgang Lucht, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky and Vera Heck and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Global Change Biology and Nature Geoscience.

In The Last Decade

Mika Jalava

18 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

2020 397 citations Dieter Gerten, Vera Heck et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Food system by-products upcycled in livestock and aquaculture feeds can increase global food supply

2022 137 citations Vilma Sandström, Anna Chrysafi et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers

Mika Jalava

ECOLO

GPC

E. S. Cassidy United States

Peder Engstrom United States

L. G. Barioni Brazil

Jon Hillier United Kingdom

David Leclère Austria

Manuel Oliva Peru

Helal Ahammad Australia

Kyle A. Emery United States

Amanda Palazzo Austria

Jelle Bruinsma Italy

E. S. Cassidy United States

Mika Jalava

495 ×0.9

ECOLO

184 ×0.7

GPC

339 ×1.6

180 ×0.9

176 ×1.0

Citations per year, relative to Mika Jalava Mika Jalava (= 1×) peers E. S. Cassidy

Countries citing papers authored by Mika Jalava

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mika Jalava

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mika Jalava. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mika Jalava. The network helps show where Mika Jalava may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mika Jalava

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mika Jalava. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mika Jalava 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 Mika Jalava. Mika Jalava is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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19 of 19 papers shown

Piipponen, Johannes, Delphine Deryng, Matias Heino, et al.. (2026). A systematic review of sustainable food systems identifies socio-economic pathways driving food systems transformations. Nature Food. 7(3). 234–246.

Heino, Matias, et al.. (2025). Climate change threatens crop diversity at low latitudes. Nature Food. 6(4). 331–342. 13 indexed citations

Heino, Matias, et al.. (2023). Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas of the world. Nature Food. 4(12). 1037–1046. 23 indexed citations

Jalava, Mika, et al.. (2023). Decreasing dietary nitrogen consumption improves wastewater treatment efficiency and carbon footprint. Water Science & Technology. 87(8). 1961–1968. 1 indexed citations

Piipponen, Johannes, Mika Jalava, Jan de Leeuw, et al.. (2022). Global trends in grassland carrying capacity and relative stocking density of livestock. Global Change Biology. 28(12). 3902–3919. 75 indexed citations

Mazac, Rachel, Jelena Meinilä, Liisa Korkalo, et al.. (2022). Incorporation of novel foods in European diets can reduce global warming potential, water use and land use by over 80%. Nature Food. 3(4). 286–293. 98 indexed citations

Sandström, Vilma, Anna Chrysafi, Marjukka Lamminen, et al.. (2022). Food system by-products upcycled in livestock and aquaculture feeds can increase global food supply. Nature Food. 3(9). 729–740. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

Stenzel, Fabian, et al.. (2022). Dietary changes could compensate for potential yield reductions upon global river flow protection. Global Sustainability. 1–27. 1 indexed citations

Jalava, Mika, et al.. (2022). Screening Protocol:Feasible Socioeconomic Measures to Create Sustainable Food Systems - A Systematic Review. Research Square. 1 indexed citations

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Guillaume, Joseph H. A., Miina Porkka, Dieter Gerten, et al.. (2020). Giving Legs to Handprint Thinking: Foundations for Evaluating the Good We Do. Earth s Future. 8(6). 16 indexed citations

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Keuper, Frida, Birgit Wild, Matti Kummu, et al.. (2020). Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming. Nature Geoscience. 13(8). 560–565. 100 indexed citations

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Kinnunen, Pekka, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Maija Taka, et al.. (2020). Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population. Nature Food. 1(4). 229–237. 146 indexed citations

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Gerten, Dieter, Vera Heck, Jonas Jägermeyr, et al.. (2020). Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries. Nature Sustainability. 3(3). 200–208. 397 indexed citations breakdown →

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Keuper, Frida, Birgit Wild, Matti Kummu, et al.. (2019). Rhizosphere priming doubles soil carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost area. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2832. 1 indexed citations

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Parviainen, Tuure, et al.. (2019). Cattle Production for Exports in Water-Abundant Areas: The Case of Finland. Sustainability. 11(4). 1075–1075. 9 indexed citations

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Kummu, Matti, Marianela Fader, Dieter Gerten, et al.. (2017). Bringing it all together: linking measures to secure nations’ food supply. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 29. 98–117. 47 indexed citations

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Guillaume, Joseph H. A., Muhammad Arshad, Anthony J. Jakeman, Mika Jalava, & Matti Kummu. (2016). Robust discrimination between uncertain management alternatives by iterative reflection on crossover point scenarios: Principles, design and implementations. Environmental Modelling & Software. 83. 326–343. 19 indexed citations

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Jalava, Mika, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Matti Kummu, et al.. (2016). Diet change and food loss reduction: What is their combined impact on global water use and scarcity?. Earth s Future. 4(3). 62–78. 62 indexed citations

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Heino, Matias, Matti Kummu, Marika Makkonen, et al.. (2015). Forest Loss in Protected Areas and Intact Forest Landscapes: A Global Analysis. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0138918–e0138918. 141 indexed citations

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