Ruth Madulu

453 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 339 citations indexed

About

Ruth Madulu is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Business and International Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Madulu has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 339 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 2 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 1 paper in Business and International Management. Recurrent topics in Ruth Madulu's work include Agricultural Innovations and Practices (3 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 paper) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (1 paper). Ruth Madulu is often cited by papers focused on Agricultural Innovations and Practices (3 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 paper) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (1 paper). Ruth Madulu collaborates with scholars based in Tanzania, Mexico and Ethiopia. Ruth Madulu's co-authors include Woinishet Asnake, Yoseph Alemayehu, Monica Fisher, Tsedeke Abate, Rodney Lunduka, Paswel Marenya and K. Z. Ahmed and has published in prestigious journals such as Climatic Change, African Crop Science Journal and Journal of Food Science and Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Madulu

8 papers receiving 327 citations

Hit Papers

Drought tolerant maize for farmer adaptation to drought i... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Drought tolerant maize for farmer adaptation to drought in sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants of adoption in eastern and southern Africa
    2015 299 citations Monica Fisher, Tsedeke Abate et al. Climatic Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruth Madulu Tanzania 3 158 135 133 98 42 9 339
Krista Isaacs United States 7 135 0.9× 77 0.6× 95 0.7× 111 1.1× 44 1.0× 10 329
Roberto La Rovere Mexico 12 278 1.8× 150 1.1× 106 0.8× 124 1.3× 54 1.3× 34 471
Woinishet Asnake Kenya 4 206 1.3× 157 1.2× 148 1.1× 157 1.6× 77 1.8× 6 454
Nkulumo Zinyengere South Africa 7 107 0.7× 134 1.0× 224 1.7× 135 1.4× 56 1.3× 10 430
Mandiaye Diagne Ivory Coast 11 118 0.7× 81 0.6× 128 1.0× 207 2.1× 32 0.8× 17 382
P. S. Birthal India 13 121 0.8× 98 0.7× 68 0.5× 159 1.6× 72 1.7× 25 376
Jeffrey D. Vitale United States 13 173 1.1× 87 0.6× 67 0.5× 159 1.6× 47 1.1× 44 401
S. S. J. Buah Ghana 10 184 1.2× 99 0.7× 115 0.9× 125 1.3× 98 2.3× 20 446
Guillaume Chirat France 3 142 0.9× 120 0.9× 158 1.2× 91 0.9× 80 1.9× 4 326
Roberta V. Gerpacio United States 11 150 0.9× 84 0.6× 74 0.6× 155 1.6× 75 1.8× 13 436

Countries citing papers authored by Ruth Madulu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruth Madulu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ruth Madulu. 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 Ruth Madulu. The network helps show where Ruth Madulu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Madulu

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

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Madulu, Ruth, et al.. (2016). Seed value chains to support Sustainable Intensification in Tanzania. 1 indexed citations
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Madulu, Ruth, et al.. (2016). Rice value chain analysis in Tanzania: identification of constraints, opportunities and upgrading strategies. African Crop Science Journal. 24(1). 73–73. 31 indexed citations
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Madulu, Ruth, et al.. (2016). A Transaction Cost Analysis on the Acquisition of Rice Seed by Small-Scale Farmers in ECA Region: Generating Empirical Evidence in Tanzania. Journal of Food Science and Engineering. 7(1). 1 indexed citations
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Fisher, Monica, Tsedeke Abate, Rodney Lunduka, et al.. (2015). Drought tolerant maize for farmer adaptation to drought in sub-Saharan Africa: Determinants of adoption in eastern and southern Africa. Climatic Change. 133(2). 283–299. 299 indexed citations breakdown →
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Madulu, Ruth. (2011). Improving access to credit for paddy farmers through warehouse receipt-based agricultural marketing system in Tanzania.. 37–39. 2 indexed citations
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Madulu, Ruth, et al.. (2011). Baseline survey report. 1 indexed citations
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Madulu, Ruth, et al.. (2007). Potential and constraints of fruit trees in Coast region in Tanzania: a case study of Mkuranga and Bagamoyo districts.. 1399–1401. 1 indexed citations
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Madulu, Ruth, et al.. (2005). Organic vegetable production an alternative income generating activity to the disease affected coconut farming system in Mkuranga District in Tanzania. 7. 1539–1544. 3 indexed citations

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