Nathaniel D. Mueller

27.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
99 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Nathaniel D. Mueller is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathaniel D. Mueller has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 28 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Nathaniel D. Mueller's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (32 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (13 papers). Nathaniel D. Mueller is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (32 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (13 papers). Nathaniel D. Mueller collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Nathaniel D. Mueller's co-authors include D. K. Ray, Jonathan A. Foley, Paul West, James Gerber, Navin Ramankutty, Matt Johnston, Peter Huybers, Steven J. Davis, Ethan E. Butler and Stefan Siebert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nathaniel D. Mueller

94 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050

2013 2.3k citations Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paul West et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

2012 2.1k citations Nathaniel D. Mueller, James Gerber et al. profile →
Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

2012 1.1k citations Nathaniel D. Mueller, Paul West et al. Nature Communications profile →
Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition

2017 624 citations Samuel S. Myers, Matthew R. Smith et al. profile →
Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment

2014 587 citations Paul West, James Gerber et al. profile →
Random Forests for Global and Regional Crop Yield Predictions

2016 535 citations Nathaniel D. Mueller, James Gerber et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands

2016 506 citations Kimberly M. Carlson, James Gerber et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017

2021 389 citations Nathaniel D. Mueller, Steven J. Davis et al. profile →
Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

2020 275 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Steven J. Davis et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Climate adaptation by crop migration

2020 205 citations Lindsey Sloat, Steven J. Davis et al. Nature Communications profile →
Warming reduces global agricultural production by decreasing cropping frequency and yields

2022 121 citations Peng Zhu, Zhenong Jin et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation

2024 52 citations James Gerber, David Makowski et al. Nature Food profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Limitation of Maize Potential Yield by Phosphorus at the Global Scale 2025 ·Global Change Biology ·Bruno Ringeval, (unknown), Julian Helfenstein, Marko Kvakić, Alain Mollier, (unknown), Thomas Nesme, James Gerber, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Sylvain Pellerin	0
2	Greenhouse gas emissions from US irrigation pumping and implications for climate-smart irrigation policy 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Avery W. Driscoll, Richard T. Conant, Landon Marston, (unknown), Nathaniel D. Mueller	28
3	Evaluation of new alternative methods for the identification of estrogenic, androgenic and steroidogenic effects: a comparative in vitro/in silico study 2023 ·Archives of Toxicology ·Abdulkarim Najjar, (unknown), (unknown), Nathaniel D. Mueller, (unknown), Johanna Ebmeyer, Andreas Schepky, Daniela Lange	3
4	US crop yield losses from hydroclimatic hazards 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), A. J. Rigden, Natthachet Tangdamrongsub, Michael F. Jasinski, Nathaniel D. Mueller	8
5	Sustainable irrigation and climate feedbacks 2023 ·Nature Food ·Yi Yang, Zhenong Jin, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Avery W. Driscoll, Rebecca R. Hernandez, Steven M. Grodsky, Lindsey Sloat, Mikhail Chester, Yong‐Guan Zhu, David B. Lobell	46
6	Trade-induced displacement of impacts of global crop production on oxygen depletion in marine ecosystems 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), Nathaniel D. Mueller, Thomas Kästner	4
7	Pollinator Deficits, Food Consumption, and Consequences for Human Health: A Modeling Study 2022 ·Environmental Health Perspectives ·Matthew R. Smith, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Marco Springmann, Timothy B. Sulser, Lucas A. Garibaldi, James Gerber, Keith Wiebe, Samuel S. Myers	41
8	The critical benefits of snowpack insulation and snowmelt for winter wheat productivity 2022 ·Nature Climate Change ·Peng Zhu, Tae‐Gon Kim, Zhenong Jin, Chenxi Lin, Xuhui Wang, Philippe Ciais, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Amir AghaKouchak, Jianxi Huang, D. J. Mulla, David Makowski	37
9	Impact of transnational land acquisitions on local food security and dietary diversity 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Marc F. Müller, Gopal Penny, Meredith T. Niles, Vincent Ricciardi, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Kyle Frankel Davis, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Paolo D’Odorico, Lorenzo Rosa, Maria Cristina Rulli, Nathaniel D. Mueller	64
10	Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Lorenzo Rosa, Maria Cristina Rulli, Saleem H. Ali, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Arnim Scheidel, Giuseppina Siciliano, Paolo D’Odorico	55
11	Insights on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Co‐Limitation in Global Croplands From Theoretical and Modeling Fertilization Experiments 2021 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Bruno Ringeval, Marko Kvakić, Laurent Augusto, Philippe Ciais, Daniel S. Goll, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Christoph Müller, Thomas Nesme, Nicolas Vuichard, Xuhui Wang, Sylvain Pellerin	9
12	Author Correction: Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Lorenzo Rosa, Maria Cristina Rulli, Saleem H. Ali, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Arnim Scheidel, Giuseppina Siciliano, Paolo D’Odorico	9
13	Climate risks to Brazilian coffee production 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Rachael Garrett, Anthony C. Janetos, Nathaniel D. Mueller	32
14	Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World 2020 ·Journal of Health Economics ·Jan von der Goltz, (unknown), Ram Fishman, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Prabhat Barnwal, Gordon C. McCord	21
15	Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat 2018 ·Nature Plants ·Wei Xie, Wei Xiong, Jie Pan, Tariq Ali, Qi Cui, Dabo Guan, Jing Meng, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Erda Lin, Steven J. Davis	163
16	Quantifying the Limitation to World Cereal Production Due To Soil Phosphorus Status 2018 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Marko Kvakić, Sylvain Pellerin, Philippe Ciais, David L. Achat, Laurent Augusto, Pascal Denoroy, James Gerber, Daniel S. Goll, Alain Mollier, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Xuhui Wang, Bruno Ringeval	37
17	A precarious water balance for U.S. maize yield 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·A. J. Rigden, Nathaniel D. Mueller, N. Michele Holbrook, (unknown), Peter Huybers	1
18	Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Climate Change ·Kimberly M. Carlson, James Gerber, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Mario Herrero, Graham K. MacDonald, Kate A. Brauman, Peter Havlík, Christine S. O’Connell, Justin A. Johnson, Sassan Saatchi, Paul West	506
19	The Role of Latin America’s Land and Water Resources for Global Food Security: Environmental Trade-Offs of Future Food Production Pathways 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Bárbara Willaarts, Hua Xie, (unknown), Nathaniel D. Mueller, Claudia Ringler, Alberto Garrido	51
20	Widespread Occurrence of Glyphosate and its Degradation Product (AMPA) in U.S. Soils, Surface Water, Groundwater, and Precipitation, 2001-2009 2011 ·AGUFM ·Kate A. Brauman, Martina Flörke, Nathaniel D. Mueller, J. A. Foley	3

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