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

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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.

Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050

2013 2.3k citations D. K. Ray, Nathaniel D. Mueller et al. 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 D. K. Ray, Nathaniel D. Mueller 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. 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, Jinfeng Chang 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, D. K. Ray et al. Nature Food profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nathaniel D. Mueller	5.2k	2.9k	2.7k	2.6k	2.4k	99	13.1k
James Gerber	3.3k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	68	10.0k
D. K. Ray	5.1k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	53	10.9k
Bruno Basso	3.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	210	9.2k
Francesco N. Tubiello	3.9k 0.7×	4.1k 1.4×	3.9k 1.4×	3.4k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	102	13.5k
Paul West	4.4k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	79	11.2k
Christoph Müller	3.8k 0.7×	4.6k 1.6×	2.8k 1.0×	5.4k 2.1×	2.7k 1.1×	240	14.9k
Mark Howden	3.5k 0.7×	4.9k 1.7×	2.7k 1.0×	3.8k 1.5×	2.6k 1.1×	138	12.9k
Frank Ewert	6.4k 1.2×	5.9k 2.0×	2.3k 0.8×	4.1k 1.6×	3.0k 1.2×	253	13.6k
Jean‐François Soussana	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.3×	4.0k 1.6×	4.3k 1.8×	153	12.1k
Fulu Tao	5.1k 1.0×	4.9k 1.7×	2.8k 1.0×	4.2k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	243	11.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathaniel D. Mueller

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All Works

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Ringeval, Bruno, Julian Helfenstein, Marko Kvakić, et al.. (2025). Limitation of Maize Potential Yield by Phosphorus at the Global Scale. Global Change Biology. 31(9). e70485–e70485.

Najjar, Abdulkarim, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of new alternative methods for the identification of estrogenic, androgenic and steroidogenic effects: a comparative in vitro/in silico study. Archives of Toxicology. 98(1). 251–266. 3 indexed citations

Rigden, A. J., et al.. (2023). US crop yield losses from hydroclimatic hazards. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1). 14005–14005. 8 indexed citations

Mueller, Nathaniel D., et al.. (2023). Trade-induced displacement of impacts of global crop production on oxygen depletion in marine ecosystems. The Science of The Total Environment. 873. 162226–162226. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Yi, Zhenong Jin, Nathaniel D. Mueller, et al.. (2023). Sustainable irrigation and climate feedbacks. Nature Food. 4(8). 654–663. 46 indexed citations

Zhu, Peng, Tae‐Gon Kim, Zhenong Jin, et al.. (2022). The critical benefits of snowpack insulation and snowmelt for winter wheat productivity. Nature Climate Change. 12(5). 485–490. 37 indexed citations

Smith, Matthew R., Nathaniel D. Mueller, Marco Springmann, et al.. (2022). Pollinator Deficits, Food Consumption, and Consequences for Human Health: A Modeling Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 130(12). 127003–127003. 41 indexed citations

Tian, Hanqin, Zihao Bian, Hao Shi, et al.. (2022). History of anthropogenic Nitrogen inputs (HaNi) to the terrestrial biosphere: a 5 arcmin resolution annual dataset from 1860 to 2019. Earth system science data. 14(10). 4551–4568. 56 indexed citations

Rosa, Lorenzo, Maria Cristina Rulli, Saleem H. Ali, et al.. (2021). Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2319–2319. 55 indexed citations

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Ringeval, Bruno, Marko Kvakić, Laurent Augusto, et al.. (2021). Insights on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Co‐Limitation in Global Croplands From Theoretical and Modeling Fertilization Experiments. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(6). 9 indexed citations

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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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Rosa, Lorenzo, Maria Cristina Rulli, Saleem H. Ali, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4477–4477. 9 indexed citations

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Ringeval, Bruno, Christoph Müller, Thomas A. M. Pugh, et al.. (2021). Potential yield simulated by global gridded crop models: using a process-based emulator to explain their differences. Geoscientific model development. 14(3). 1639–1656. 10 indexed citations

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Garrett, Rachael, et al.. (2020). Climate risks to Brazilian coffee production. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104015–104015. 32 indexed citations

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Xie, Wei, Wei Xiong, Jie Pan, et al.. (2018). Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat. Nature Plants. 4(11). 964–973. 163 indexed citations

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Kvakić, Marko, Sylvain Pellerin, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the Limitation to World Cereal Production Due To Soil Phosphorus Status. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 32(1). 143–157. 37 indexed citations

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Rigden, A. J., et al.. (2018). A precarious water balance for U.S. maize yield. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Carlson, Kimberly M., James Gerber, Nathaniel D. Mueller, et al.. (2016). Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands. Nature Climate Change. 7(1). 63–68. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Elliott, Joshua, Christoph Müller, Delphine Deryng, et al.. (2015). The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison: data and modeling protocols for Phase 1 (v1.0). Geoscientific model development. 8(2). 261–277. 198 indexed citations

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Brauman, Kate A., Martina Flörke, Nathaniel D. Mueller, & J. A. Foley. (2011). Widespread Occurrence of Glyphosate and its Degradation Product (AMPA) in U.S. Soils, Surface Water, Groundwater, and Precipitation, 2001-2009. AGUFM. 2011. 3 indexed citations

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