Richard E. Howitt

8.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
148 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Richard E. Howitt is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard E. Howitt has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Ocean Engineering, 59 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 45 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Richard E. Howitt's work include Water resources management and optimization (90 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (39 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (23 papers). Richard E. Howitt is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (90 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (39 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (23 papers). Richard E. Howitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. Richard E. Howitt's co-authors include Jay R. Lund, Josué Medellín–Azuara, Julien Harou, Marion W. Jenkins, Manuel Pulido-Velázquez, David E. Rosenberg, Quirino Paris, Henry J. Vaux, Duncan MacEwan and Ariel Dinar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Richard E. Howitt

137 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Positive Mathematical Programming

1995 629 citations Richard E. Howitt profile →
Hydro-economic models: Concepts, design, applications, and future prospects

2009 540 citations Julien Harou, Josué Medellín–Azuara et al. profile →
Brief history of agricultural systems modeling

2016 461 citations James W. Jones, John M. Antle et al. Agricultural Systems profile →
Toward a new generation of agricultural system data, models, and knowledge products: State of agricultural systems science

2016 279 citations James W. Jones, John M. Antle et al. Agricultural Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard E. Howitt United States	37	3.5k	2.7k	1.3k	1.0k	881	148	6.1k
Munir A. Hanjra Australia	26	1.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	341 0.3×	684 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	52	5.0k
David Molden Sri Lanka	39	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	224 0.2×	1.6k 1.6×	2.0k 2.2×	124	6.6k
Tingju Zhu United States	33	1.1k 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	390 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	566 0.6×	77	3.9k
Kenneth Strzepek United States	36	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	466 0.4×	1.6k 1.5×	356 0.4×	155	4.8k
Luís Garrote Spain	34	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.8×	388 0.3×	2.3k 2.2×	498 0.6×	149	5.4k
Ximing Cai United States	64	4.9k 1.4×	6.6k 2.4×	448 0.3×	4.5k 4.5×	1.1k 1.3×	316	12.4k
Olli Varis Finland	46	1.6k 0.5×	3.1k 1.1×	348 0.3×	1.9k 1.9×	427 0.5×	209	7.9k
Charlotte de Fraiture Netherlands	30	1.1k 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	252 0.2×	826 0.8×	805 0.9×	100	4.1k
Ana Iglesias Spain	36	862 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	577 0.4×	2.5k 2.5×	1.4k 1.6×	92	7.1k
Jay R. Lund United States	51	5.4k 1.5×	5.0k 1.8×	650 0.5×	2.5k 2.4×	449 0.5×	260	8.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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MacEwan, Duncan, et al.. (2017). Hydroeconomic modeling of sustainable groundwater management. Water Resources Research. 53(3). 2384–2403. 59 indexed citations

Jones, James W., John M. Antle, Bruno Basso, et al.. (2016). Toward a new generation of agricultural system data, models, and knowledge products: State of agricultural systems science. Agricultural Systems. 155. 269–288. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

Jones, James W., John M. Antle, Bruno Basso, et al.. (2016). Brief history of agricultural systems modeling. Agricultural Systems. 155. 240–254. 461 indexed citations breakdown →

Antle, John M., Bruno Basso, Richard T. Conant, et al.. (2016). Towards a new generation of agricultural system data, models and knowledge products: Design and improvement. Agricultural Systems. 155. 255–268. 118 indexed citations

Howitt, Richard E., et al.. (2015). An econometric test of water market structure in the western United States. Natural resources journal. 55(1). 127–152. 21 indexed citations

Volpe, Richard, Richard Green, Dale Heien, & Richard E. Howitt. (2010). Estimating the Supply Elasticity of California Wine Grapes Using Regional Systems of Equations. Journal of Wine Economics. 5(2). 219–235. 15 indexed citations

Medellín–Azuara, Josué, Leopoldo G. Mendoza‐Espinosa, Jay R. Lund, Julien Harou, & Richard E. Howitt. (2009). Virtues of simple hydro-economic optimization: Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Environmental Management. 90(11). 3470–3478. 30 indexed citations

Medellín–Azuara, Josué, Julien Harou, & Richard E. Howitt. (2009). Estimating economic value of agricultural water under changing conditions and the effects of spatial aggregation. The Science of The Total Environment. 408(23). 5639–5648. 68 indexed citations

Murphy, James J., Ariel Dinar, Richard E. Howitt, et al.. (2008). The design of water markets when instream flows have value. Journal of Environmental Management. 90(2). 1089–1096. 32 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Mimako, et al.. (2007). A dynamic, optimal disease control model for foot-and-mouth disease:. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 79(2-4). 257–273. 32 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Mimako, et al.. (2007). A dynamic, optimal disease control model for foot-and-mouth-disease:. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 79(2-4). 274–286. 30 indexed citations

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Sunding, David L., David Zilberman, Richard E. Howitt, Ariel Dinar, & Neal MacDougall. (2002). Measuring the costs of reallocating water from agriculture: a multi-model approach. 15(2). 201–225. 2 indexed citations

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Howitt, Richard E. & Arnaud Reynaud. (2002). Spatial Disaggregation of Agricultural Production Data. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

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Howitt, Richard E., et al.. (2002). Calibrated Stochastic Dynamic Models for Resource Management. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 3 indexed citations

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Howitt, Richard E., et al.. (2002). RECONSTRUCTING DISAGGREGATE PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 5 indexed citations

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Lund, Jay R., et al.. (2001). Banking Groundwater to Meet Growing Water Demand in California. 1–13. 1 indexed citations

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Murphy, James J., et al.. (2000). The Design of ``Smart'' Water Market Institutions Using Laboratory Experiments. Environmental and Resource Economics. 17(4). 375–394. 68 indexed citations

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Wichelns, Dennis, et al.. (1988). The economic effects of salinity and drainage problems. California Agriculture. 42(1). 10–13. 2 indexed citations

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Howitt, Richard E., et al.. (1988). Economic impacts of regional ozone standards on agricultural crops. Environmental Pollution. 53(1-4). 387–395. 2 indexed citations

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Howitt, Richard E., et al.. (1985). The economic effects of air pollution on annual crops. California Agriculture. 39(3). 22–24. 2 indexed citations

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