Robert Finger

12.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
264 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Finger is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Finger has authored 264 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 75 papers in Soil Science and 68 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Robert Finger's work include Agricultural risk and resilience (67 papers), Agricultural Economics and Policy (66 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (62 papers). Robert Finger is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural risk and resilience (67 papers), Agricultural Economics and Policy (66 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (62 papers). Robert Finger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Robert Finger's co-authors include Robert Huber, Nadja El Benni, Niklas Möhring, Achim Walter, David Wuepper, Tobias Dalhaus, Nina Buchmann, Manuela Meraner, Pasquale Borrelli and Thomas Böcker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Robert Finger

249 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture

2017 474 citations Robert Finger, Robert Huber et al. profile →
Countries and the global rate of soil erosion

2019 359 citations Robert Finger et al. profile →
Precision Farming at the Nexus of Agricultural Production and the Environment

2019 301 citations Robert Finger, Nadja El Benni et al. profile →
Pathways for advancing pesticide policies

2020 220 citations Niklas Möhring, Per Kudsk et al. profile →
Digital innovations for sustainable and resilient agricultural systems

2023 107 citations Robert Finger European Review of Agricultural Economics profile →
Extreme weather events cause significant crop yield losses at the farm level in German agriculture

2022 104 citations Frank Offermann, Robert Finger et al. Food Policy profile →
The role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' participation in voluntary agri‐environmental schemes: A systematic review

2023 79 citations Sergei Schaub, Robert Huber et al. Journal of Agricultural Economics profile →
Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption

2023 77 citations Frank Ewert, Robert Finger et al. profile →
The emergence of pesticide-free crop production systems in Europe

2024 34 citations Robert Finger, Niklas Möhring profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Finger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Finger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Finger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Finger 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 Robert Finger. Robert Finger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Sustainable crop protection and the role of digital agriculture 2025 ·Agricultural Systems ·Robert Finger	1
2	The use of crop diversification in agricultural yield insurance products 2025 ·Food Policy ·(unknown), Frank Offermann, Robert Finger	0
3	Productivity dispersion and persistence in European agriculture 2025 ·American Journal of Agricultural Economics ·(unknown), Robert Finger	1
4	Farmer behavior toward herbicide‐free agriculture and conservation tillage 2025 ·American Journal of Agricultural Economics ·(unknown), Niklas Möhring, Yanbing Wang, Robert Finger	0
5	Towards sustainable crop protection in agriculture: A framework for research and policy 2024 ·Agricultural Systems ·Robert Finger, Jaap Sok, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Silke Dachbrodt‐Saaydeh, Carolien de Lauwere, (unknown), Per Kudsk, Fatima Lambarraa-Lehnhardt, (unknown), Alfons Oude Lansink, Erwin Wauters, Niklas Möhring	32
6	Determinants of the adoption of fungus-resistant grapevines: Evidence from Switzerland 2024 ·Journal of Wine Economics ·(unknown), (unknown), Robert Finger	9
7	Product differentiation, quality, and milk price stability: The case of the Swiss cheese market 2024 ·Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy ·Yanbing Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Robert Finger	2
8	Open science in agricultural economics 2024 ·Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ·Robert Finger, Arne Henningsen, Julia Höhler, Robert Huber, Jens Rommel, Carola Grebitus	5
9	Restoring functional integrity of the global production ecosystem through biological control 2024 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Kris A. G. Wyckhuys, (unknown), Ibtissem Ben Fekih, Robert Finger, Marc Kenis, Yanhui Lu, Sevgan Subramanian, Fiona H. M. Tang, Donald C. Weber, Wei Zhang, (unknown)	11
10	Action‐ versus results‐based policy designs for agricultural climate change mitigation 2023 ·Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy ·(unknown), Robert Finger, Robert Huber	12
11	A note on European farmers' preferences under cumulative prospect theory 2023 ·Journal of Agricultural Economics ·Robert Finger, (unknown), (unknown), Jens Rommel	9
12	Precipitation causes quality losses of large economic relevance in wheat production 2023 ·Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) ·(unknown), (unknown), Juan M. Herrera, Lilia Levy Häner, Jesse Tack, Robert Finger	0
13	Exploring actors' perceptions of the precision agriculture innovation system – A Group Concept Mapping approach in Germany and Switzerland 2023 ·Technological Forecasting and Social Change ·(unknown), Chad M. Baum, Melf‐Hinrich Ehlers, Robert Finger, Stefanie Bröring	16
14	Cost-effectiveness of farm- vs. regional-level climate change mitigation policies 2023 ·Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) ·(unknown), Robert Huber, Gabriele Mack, Nadja El Benni, Robert Finger	6
15	The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development 2022 ·One Earth ·Lukas Fesenfeld, Nicolas Schmid, Robert Finger, Alexander Mathys, Tobias S. Schmidt	34
16	A note on synthetic data for replication purposes in agricultural economics 2022 ·Journal of Agricultural Economics ·(unknown), Robert Finger	8
17	No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Heidi Webber, Gunnar Lischeid, Michael Sommer, Robert Finger, Claas Nendel, Thomas Gaiser, Frank Ewert	85
18	Stability of risk attitude, agricultural policies and production shocks: evidence from Italy 2020 ·European Review of Agricultural Economics ·Martina Bozzola, Robert Finger	17
19	Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Sergei Schaub, Robert Finger, Florian Leiber, (unknown), Michael Kreuzer, Alexandra Weigelt, Nina Buchmann, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen	79
20	Potential effects of the income stabilisation tool (IST) in Swiss agriculture 2015 ·European Review of Agricultural Economics ·Nadja El Benni, Robert Finger, M.P.M. Meuwissen	49

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