Piyush Mehta

562 total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 274 citations indexed

About

Piyush Mehta is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Piyush Mehta has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 274 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Water Science and Technology, 3 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Piyush Mehta's work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (4 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (3 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (2 papers). Piyush Mehta is often cited by papers focused on Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (4 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (3 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (2 papers). Piyush Mehta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Piyush Mehta's co-authors include Kyle Frankel Davis, Stefan Siebert, Tariq Ali, Wei Xie, Landon Marston, Matti Kummu, Scott Atkinson, Kendall R. Jones, Moreno Di Marco and James R. Allan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Piyush Mehta

5 papers receiving 260 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

2022 127 citations James R. Allan, Hugh P. Possingham et al. Science profile →
Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions

2024 95 citations Piyush Mehta, Stefan Siebert et al. Nature Water profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Piyush Mehta United States	5	117	65	49	34	32	7	274
Mohsen Sharafatmandrad Iran	10	187 1.6×	84 1.3×	44 0.9×	37 1.1×	63 2.0×	44	335
Cristina Andrade Portugal	13	274 2.3×	53 0.8×	51 1.0×	38 1.1×	14 0.4×	36	474
Reinhard Prestele Germany	7	153 1.3×	63 1.0×	30 0.6×	56 1.6×	24 0.8×	11	262
Milena Marília Nogueira de Andrade Brazil	5	134 1.1×	50 0.8×	46 0.9×	37 1.1×	41 1.3×	25	262
Xiaodan Guan China	5	138 1.2×	58 0.9×	22 0.4×	33 1.0×	52 1.6×	6	302
Peter Backlund United States	3	105 0.9×	64 1.0×	35 0.7×	84 2.5×	18 0.6×	4	305
Qipeng Zhang China	10	157 1.3×	90 1.4×	33 0.7×	39 1.1×	32 1.0×	22	301
Sea Jin Kim South Korea	9	263 2.2×	75 1.2×	44 0.9×	59 1.7×	79 2.5×	17	407
Johanna Lundström Sweden	10	180 1.5×	71 1.1×	31 0.6×	40 1.2×	27 0.8×	15	304
Yanjie Zhang China	11	177 1.5×	99 1.5×	26 0.5×	23 0.7×	85 2.7×	22	336

Countries citing papers authored by Piyush Mehta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Piyush Mehta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Piyush Mehta. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Piyush Mehta. The network helps show where Piyush Mehta may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piyush Mehta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Piyush Mehta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Piyush Mehta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Piyush Mehta. Piyush Mehta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Ali, Tariq, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Landon Marston, et al.. (2025). Deepening water scarcity in breadbasket nations. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1110–1110. 14 indexed citations

2.

Kebede, Asfaw, Stefan Siebert, Piyush Mehta, et al.. (2025). A global open-source dataset of monthly irrigated and rainfed cropped areas (MIRCA-OS) for the 21st century. Scientific Data. 12(1). 208–208. 6 indexed citations

3.

Mehta, Piyush, et al.. (2025). Cropland expansion links climate extremes and diets in Nigeria. Science Advances. 11(2). eado5541–eado5541.

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Mehta, Piyush, Marc F. Müller, Meredith T. Niles, & Kyle Frankel Davis. (2025). Child diet diversity and irrigation expansion in the global south. Nature Sustainability. 8(8). 905–913.

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Kebede, Asfaw, Tyler Clavelle, Halley E. Froehlich, et al.. (2024). Assessing and addressing the global state of food production data scarcity. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(4). 295–311. 32 indexed citations

6.

Mehta, Piyush, Stefan Siebert, Matti Kummu, et al.. (2024). Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions. Nature Water. 2(3). 254–261. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Allan, James R., Hugh P. Possingham, Scott Atkinson, et al.. (2022). The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity. Science. 376(6597). 1094–1101. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

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