Navin Ramankutty

83.0k citations

166 papers · 49.9k indexed · 35 hit papers · h-index 77

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Soil Science top 0.05%

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 99
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 41
- Climate variability and models 25
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 19
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 17
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 16
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26

Co-authors: Jonathan A. Foley Chad Monfreda Pedram Rowhani Erle C. Ellis Corey Lesk I. Colin Prentice Christopher J. Kucharik Verena Seufert
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (17 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (12 papers)Nature (8 papers)Earth Interactions (7 papers)Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (6 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Navin Ramankutty

160 papers receiving 47.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Functional connectivity of the world’s protected areas 2022 · 126 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.

2022 Science
2021 Nature Sustainability
2018 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2018 Global Food Security
2017 Science Advances
2017 Ecology and Society
2016 Environmental Research Letters
2016 Science
2016 Nature
2015 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2014 Environmental Research Letters
2014 Global Food Security
2012 Nature
2012 Nature
2012 Biogeosciences
2012 Nature Communications
2011 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2010 Environmental Research Letters
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Remote Sensing of Environment
2008 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2008 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2007 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2005 Science
2004 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2001 Global Change Biology
2001 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
1999 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
1996 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
1994 Nature

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All Works

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#	Work
1	Author Correction: Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms Nature Sustainability ·D. M. Popov, Zia Mehrabi, Vincent Ricciardi, Dana James, Hannah Wittman, Navin Ramankutty	2024	0
2	The state of agroecology in Brazil: An indicator-based approach to identifying municipal “bright spots” Elementa Science of the Anthropocene ·Dana James, Jennifer Blesh, Christian Levers, Navin Ramankutty, Abram Bicksler, Anne Mottet, Hannah Wittman	2023	8
3	How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields? Environmental Research Letters ·Balsher Singh Sidhu, Zia Mehrabi, Navin Ramankutty, Milind Kandlikar	2023	25
4	Tackling policy leakage and targeting hotspots could be key to addressing the ‘Wicked’ challenge of nutrient pollution from corn production in the U.S. Environmental Research Letters ·Jing Liu, L. C. Bowling, Christopher J. Kucharik, Shigeyo Suzuki, Uris Lantz C. Baldos, Larissa Jarvis, Navin Ramankutty, Thomas W. Hertel	2023	4
5	On the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic factors in crop yield models Climatic Change ·Balsher Singh Sidhu, Zia Mehrabi, Milind Kandlikar, Navin Ramankutty	2022	6
6	Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms Nature Sustainability ·Vincent Ricciardi, Zia Mehrabi, Hannah Wittman, Dana James, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2021	169
7	Beyond productivism versus agroecology: lessons for sustainable food systems from Lovins’ soft path energy policies Environmental Research Letters ·Navin Ramankutty, Hadi Dowlatabadi	2021	6
8	The global divide in data-driven farming Nature Sustainability ·Zia Mehrabi, Kuan-Fu Liao, Vincent Ricciardi, Christian Levers, Karen Dakkak, 英稔田中, Hannah Wittman, Navin Ramankutty, Andy Jarvis	2020	111
9	Implementation of a Marauding Insect Module (MIM, version 1.0) in the Integrated BIosphere Simulator (IBIS, version 2.6b4) dynamic vegetation–land surface model Geoscientific model development ·Jean‐Sébastien Landry, David T. Price, Navin Ramankutty, Lael Parrott, H. Damon Matthews	2016	12
10	Modelling long-term impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks onmerchantable biomass, ecosystem carbon, albedo, and radiative forcing Biogeosciences ·Jean‐Sébastien Landry, Lael Parrott, David T. Price, Navin Ramankutty, H. Damon Matthews	2016	11
11	Agronomic phosphorus imbalances across the world's croplands Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Graham K. MacDonald, Elena M. Bennett, Philip A. Potter, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2011	664
12	Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns Global Ecology and Biogeography ·William J. Sacks, Delphine Deryng, Jonathan A. Foley, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2010	712
13	Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000 Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Erle C. Ellis, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stefan Siebert, 姜晓通, Navin Ramankutty Hit paper breakdown →	2010	992
14	Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Holly K. Gibbs, R Zündorf, Frédéric Achard, Murray K. Clayton, Peter Holmgren, Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1306
15	Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Chad Monfreda, Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1358
16	Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Navin Ramankutty, Amato T. Evan, Chad Monfreda, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1397
17	Global Agricultural Land use Data AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Navin Ramankutty, J. A. Foley, Kristine M. Rovell	2003	1
18	People on the Land: Changes in Global Population and Croplands during the 20th Century AMBIO ·Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley, Prijith Babu Pradeep	2002	134
19	People on the Land: Changes in Global Population and Croplands during the 20^thCentury AMBIO ·Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley, Prijith Babu Pradeep	2002	138
20	Metroglyph analysis of yield attributes in certain tall indica rice (Oryza sativa) varieties in north Kerala The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences ·J.H. Kim, Navin Ramankutty	1988	1

About Navin Ramankutty

Navin Ramankutty is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 166 papers that have together received 49.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (41 papers), Climate variability and models (25 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (23 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (19 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (18 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (24.5k citations), Soil Science (6.2k citations), Ecology (14.1k citations), Ecological Modeling (2.1k citations) and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3.6k citations). Navin Ramankutty has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan A. Foley, Chad Monfreda, Pedram Rowhani, Erle C. Ellis, Corey Lesk, I. Colin Prentice, Christopher J. Kucharik, Verena Seufert, Ruth DeFries and Michael E. Schlesinger. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Nature, Earth Interactions and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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