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

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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.

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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert Finger	2.4k	2.1k	2.1k	1.3k	1.3k	264	7.7k
Prabhu Pingali	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	899 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	153	8.1k
Mark W. Rosegrant	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	211	11.0k
Alfons Oude Lansink	2.5k 1.0×	788 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	927 0.7×	2.2k 1.6×	374	9.2k
David J. Pannell	2.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	945 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	281	9.3k
Scott M. Swinton	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	881 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	139	7.6k
Menale Kassie	5.4k 2.3×	3.3k 1.5×	1.6k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	135	9.4k
John M. Antle	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	165	7.2k
Joachim von Braun	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	263	8.7k
Bekele Shiferaw	5.1k 2.1×	3.5k 1.7×	3.0k 1.4×	2.2k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	140	10.7k
Camilla Toulmin	2.9k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	4.2k 2.0×	2.1k 1.6×	714 0.5×	88	13.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Finger

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All Works

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Finger, Robert. (2025). Sustainable crop protection and the role of digital agriculture. Agricultural Systems. 231. 104516–104516. 1 indexed citations

Offermann, Frank, et al.. (2025). The use of crop diversification in agricultural yield insurance products. Food Policy. 134. 102905–102905.

Finger, Robert, et al.. (2025). Productivity dispersion and persistence in European agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 108(1). 204–231. 1 indexed citations

Finger, Robert, et al.. (2024). Determinants of the adoption of fungus-resistant grapevines: Evidence from Switzerland. Journal of Wine Economics. 19(3). 232–264. 9 indexed citations

Finger, Robert, Jaap Sok, Silke Dachbrodt‐Saaydeh, et al.. (2024). Towards sustainable crop protection in agriculture: A framework for research and policy. Agricultural Systems. 219. 104037–104037. 32 indexed citations

Huber, Robert, et al.. (2024). Agricultural land use modeling and climate change adaptation: A reinforcement learning approach. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 46(4). 1379–1405. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Yanbing, et al.. (2024). Product differentiation, quality, and milk price stability: The case of the Swiss cheese market. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 47(1). 416–435. 2 indexed citations

Finger, Robert, Arne Henningsen, Julia Höhler, et al.. (2024). Open science in agricultural economics. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 5(3). 5 indexed citations

Finger, Robert, et al.. (2023). A note on European farmers' preferences under cumulative prospect theory. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 75(1). 465–472. 9 indexed citations

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Herrera, Juan M., et al.. (2023). Precipitation causes quality losses of large economic relevance in wheat production. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 4(1).

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Baum, Chad M., et al.. (2023). Exploring actors' perceptions of the precision agriculture innovation system – A Group Concept Mapping approach in Germany and Switzerland. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 189. 122270–122270. 16 indexed citations

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Finger, Robert, et al.. (2023). Action‐ versus results‐based policy designs for agricultural climate change mitigation. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 46(3). 1010–1037. 12 indexed citations

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Huber, Robert, et al.. (2023). Cost-effectiveness of farm- vs. regional-level climate change mitigation policies. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 5(1). 6 indexed citations

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Angst, Mario, et al.. (2023). Farmers’ social networks and regional spillover effects in agricultural climate change mitigation. Climatic Change. 176(2). 26 indexed citations

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Webber, Heidi, Gunnar Lischeid, Michael Sommer, et al.. (2020). No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104012–104012. 85 indexed citations

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Bozzola, Martina & Robert Finger. (2020). Stability of risk attitude, agricultural policies and production shocks: evidence from Italy. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 48(3). 477–501. 17 indexed citations

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Schaub, Sergei, Robert Finger, Florian Leiber, et al.. (2020). Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands. Nature Communications. 11(1). 768–768. 79 indexed citations

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Schaub, Sergei, Robert Huber, & Robert Finger. (2020). Tracking societal concerns on pesticides – a Google Trends analysis. Environmental Research Letters. 15(8). 84049–84049. 27 indexed citations

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Huber, Robert, Martha Bakker, Alfons Balmann, et al.. (2018). Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models. Agricultural Systems. 167. 143–160. 119 indexed citations

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Benni, Nadja El, Robert Finger, & M.P.M. Meuwissen. (2015). Potential effects of the income stabilisation tool (IST) in Swiss agriculture. European Review of Agricultural Economics. 43(3). 475–502. 49 indexed citations

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