M.K. van Ittersum

24.3k citations

325 papers · 16.0k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 65

Impact in

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences top 0.01%
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Soil Science top 0.1%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Papers in

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 92
- Agricultural Economics and Policy 48
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices 43
Environmental Chemistry 79
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis 57

Co-authors: J. Wolf Kenneth G. Cassman R. Rabbinge Patricio Grassini Pytrik Reidsma K.E. Giller Bert Rijk W.A.H. Rossing
Journals: Agricultural Systems (46 papers)European Journal of Agronomy (25 papers)Field Crops Research (22 papers)Global Food Security (12 papers)Potato Research (9 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States France

In The Last Decade

M.K. van Ittersum

318 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Circularity in Europe strengthens the sustainability of the global food system 2023 · 83 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Food
2021 Nature Food
2021 Food Security
2018 AMBIO
2015 Field Crops Research
2012 Field Crops Research
2012 Agricultural Systems
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Journal of Environmental Management

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Mario Herrero Australia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside M.K. van Ittersum, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Prospects for cereal self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·M.K. van Ittersum, Jianjun Qian, ‪João Vasco Silva, Cindy Fong, Frederick Baijukya, Abdullahi Bala, Régis Chikowo, Patricio Grassini, Charles Andrew Goodman, 宗行伊達, L. Xiaolan, Timothy B. Sulser, G. Taulya, Fatima A. Tenorio, Kindie Tesfaye, Shen Yuan, Marloes P. van Loon	2025	2
2	Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs Global Food Security ·M.K. van Ittersum, ‪João Vasco Silva, Riccardo Bommarco, Renske Hijbeek, Ola Lundin, Romain Nandillon, Göran Bergkvist, Alexander Menegat, Ingrid Öborn, 聡児島, Frederick L. Stoddard, Giulia Vico, Di Palma F, Christine Watson, Chloe MacLaren	2025	1
3	Simulating water-limited potato yields across the Netherlands with (SWAP-)WOFOST: Experimentation, model improvement and evaluation Agricultural Water Management ·N Dakhil, Sun Luong, 辰美内山, Allard de Wit, F.K. van Evert, M.K. van Ittersum, Pytrik Reidsma	2024	4
4	How to use residual biomass streams in circular food systems to minimise land use or GHG emissions Agricultural Systems ·Benjamin van Selm, Renske Hijbeek, C.E. van Middelaar, I.J.M. de Boer, M.K. van Ittersum	2024	3
5	Driving forces of the agricultural land footprint of China's food supply Journal of Cleaner Production ·Xiaoying Zhang, Qunchao Fang, I A Tsekmes, Jingmeng Wang, M.K. van Ittersum, Sabah A. Elkasab, Yong Hou	2024	5
6	Effects of Planting Date and Field Type outweighed the Effect of Seed Origin on Ware Potato Yield Potato Research ·Sun Luong, Vyacheslav O. Betin, P.C. Struik, Pytrik Reidsma, C. Kempenaar, M.K. van Ittersum	2024	1
7	Agronomic dataset on potato growth and yield in the Netherlands Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·N Dakhil, 辰美内山, M.K. van Ittersum, F.K. van Evert, Allard de Wit, Pytrik Reidsma	2024	1
8	Physiological Age of Potato Seed Tubers of Contrasting Cultivars Hardly Affects Crop Performance in a Temperate Climate Potato Research ·Vyacheslav O. Betin, P.E.L. van der Putten, Jorge Augusto Lima Rocha, Betty Lenhardt Hudgens, W.J.M. Lommen, P.C. Struik, M.K. van Ittersum	2024	1
9	Why is nutrient cycling in food systems so limited? A case study from the North-Netherlands region Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems ·أحمد عبدالرحمن الملحم, C.E. van Middelaar, I.J.M. de Boer, J. Kros, M.K. van Ittersum, A.G.T. Schut	2024	4
10	Daily bias-corrected weather data and daily simulated growth data of maize, millet, sorghum, and wheat in the changing climate of sub-Saharan Africa Data in Brief ·Jianjun Qian, Marloes P. van Loon, Julián Ramírez-Villegas, Herman N.C. Berghuijs, M.K. van Ittersum	2024	2
11	Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems AMBIO ·Benjamin van Selm, H.H.E. van Zanten, Renske Hijbeek, C.E. van Middelaar, Marijke Schop, M.K. van Ittersum, I.J.M. de Boer	2023	7
12	Spatial frameworks for robust estimation of yield gaps Nature Food ·Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, José F. Andrade, Kenneth G. Cassman, M.K. van Ittersum, Marloes P. van Loon, Patricio Grassini	2021	45
13	Yield gap analysis in dairy production systems using the mechanistic model LiGAPS-Dairy Journal of Dairy Science ·A. van der Linden, S.J. Oosting, G.W.J. van de Ven, R.L.G. Zom, M.K. van Ittersum, Pierre Gerber, I.J.M. de Boer	2021	7
14	Beyond the plot: technology extrapolation domains for scaling out agronomic science Environmental Research Letters ·Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, Kenneth G. Cassman, Zvi Hochman, M.K. van Ittersum, L.G.J. van Bussel, Lieven Claessens, Patricio Grassini	2018	47
15	LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 3: model evaluation animal ·A. van der Linden, G.W.J. van de Ven, S.J. Oosting, M.K. van Ittersum, I.J.M. de Boer	2018	8
16	LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 1: model description and illustration animal ·A. van der Linden, G.W.J. van de Ven, S.J. Oosting, M.K. van Ittersum, I.J.M. de Boer	2018	10
17	Can potato add to China's food self-sufficiency? The scope for increasing potato production in China European Journal of Agronomy ·M Watanabe, Pytrik Reidsma, A.A. Pronk, Allard de Wit, M.K. van Ittersum	2018	40
18	Yield gap analysis of feed-crop livestock systems: The case of grass-based beef production in France Agricultural Systems ·A. van der Linden, S.J. Oosting, G.W.J. van de Ven, Patrick Veysset, I.J.M. de Boer, M.K. van Ittersum	2017	7
19	Residual soil phosphorus as the missing piece in the global phosphorus crisis puzzle Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sheida Z. Sattari, Lex Bouwman, K.E. Giller, M.K. van Ittersum Hit paper breakdown →	2012	513
20	WARM: a scientific group on rice modelling Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) ·Roberto Confalonieri, Marco Acutis, M.K. van Ittersum, Gianni Bellocchi, Leonardo Mariani, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Francesco Vidotto, Dario Sacco, Carlo Grignani, Aldo Ferrero, (unknown)	2005	4

About M.K. van Ittersum

M.K. van Ittersum is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 325 papers that have together received 16.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (79 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (67 papers), Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis (57 papers), Agricultural Economics and Policy (48 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (43 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (28 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (28 papers) and Potato Plant Research (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3.6k citations), Soil Science (3.3k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (3.0k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.4k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (4.4k citations). M.K. van Ittersum has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include J. Wolf, Kenneth G. Cassman, R. Rabbinge, Patricio Grassini, Pytrik Reidsma, K.E. Giller, Bert Rijk, W.A.H. Rossing, Sander Janssen and Zvi Hochman. Their work appears in journals such as Agricultural Systems, European Journal of Agronomy, Field Crops Research, Global Food Security and Potato Research.

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