Paul West
Impact in
- Soil Science top 0.5%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.2%
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
Papers in
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- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 14
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 9
- Soil Science 10
- Agricultural risk and resilience 5
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 4
- Co-authors
- D. K. RayJonathan A. FoleyNathaniel D. MuellerJames GerberGraham K. MacDonaldNavin RamankuttyE. S. CassidyMario Herrero
- Journals
- Environmental Research Letters (5 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)One Earth (2 papers)Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesCanadaAustralia
In The Last Decade
Paul West
64 papers receiving 10.8k citations
Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 179
- Soil Science 1.8k
- Agronomy and Crop Science 1.4k
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.1k
- Global and Planetary Change 2.6k
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2.3k
Countries citing papers authored by Paul West
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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul West
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Co-authorship network
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Paul West, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025 | 4 | |
| 2 | 2025 | 0 | |
| 3 | Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation Hit paper breakdown → | 2024 | 52 |
| 4 | 2023 | 38 | |
| 5 | 2019 | 173 | |
| 6 | 2019 | 8 | |
| 7 | 2019 | 77 | |
| 8 | 2019 | 2 | |
| 9 | 2018 | 217 | |
| 10 | Progress towards sustainable intensification in China challenged by land-use change | 2018 | 1 |
| 11 | 2018 | 35 | |
| 12 | Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 278 |
| 13 | Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 506 |
| 14 | Precipitation variability on global pasturelands may affect food security in livestock-dependent regions | 2016 | 1 |
| 15 | Climate variation explains a third of global crop yield variability Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 1375 |
| 16 | Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 323 |
| 17 | Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 1117 |
| 18 | ICTs for higher education | 2009 | 10 |
| 19 | Open and Distance Learning in a Changing World: Selected speeches of Sir John Daniel and colleagues (2007-2008) | 2009 | 1 |
| 20 | Remembrance of Things Proust | 2000 | 0 |
About Paul West
Paul West is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 79 papers that have together received 11.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (14 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (14 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (12 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (5 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (4 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (1.8k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.4k citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (1.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.6k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.3k citations). Paul West has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Frequent co-authors include D. K. Ray, Jonathan A. Foley, Nathaniel D. Mueller, James Gerber, Graham K. MacDonald, Navin Ramankutty, E. S. Cassidy, Mario Herrero, Kimberly M. Carlson and Kate A. Brauman. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, PLoS ONE, Nature Communications, One Earth and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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