Sander J. Zwart

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Sander J. Zwart is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sander J. Zwart has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 19 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Sander J. Zwart's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (17 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers) and Irrigation Practices and Water Management (11 papers). Sander J. Zwart is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (17 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (14 papers) and Irrigation Practices and Water Management (11 papers). Sander J. Zwart collaborates with scholars based in Ivory Coast, Netherlands and Ghana. Sander J. Zwart's co-authors include W.G.M. Bastiaanssen, Moctar Dembélé, Komlavi Akpoti, P.A.J. van Oort, Amos T. Kabo–bah, Jonne Rodenburg, Confidence Duku, Elliott Ronald Dossou‐Yovo, Paul Kiepe and Walter W. Immerzeel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sander J. Zwart

67 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Review of measured crop water productivity values for irrigated wheat, rice, cotton and maize

2004 762 citations Sander J. Zwart, W.G.M. Bastiaanssen Agricultural Water Management profile →
Agricultural land suitability analysis: State-of-the-art and outlooks for integration of climate change analysis

2019 227 citations Komlavi Akpoti, Amos T. Kabo–bah et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sander J. Zwart Ivory Coast	27	1.3k	1.0k	892	757	711	70	3.2k
Jonas Jägermeyr Germany	31	1.3k 1.0×	898 0.9×	543 0.6×	925 1.2×	910 1.3×	70	3.8k
John P. A. Lamers Germany	32	866 0.7×	898 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	465 0.6×	539 0.8×	138	3.4k
Anne Gobin Belgium	28	974 0.8×	797 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	555 0.7×	596 0.8×	113	3.3k
Mladen Todorović Italy	28	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	529 0.7×	541 0.8×	75	3.0k
R. Ragab United Kingdom	34	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	357 0.5×	172	3.7k
Donatella Spano Italy	36	2.8k 2.2×	1.3k 1.2×	683 0.8×	619 0.8×	490 0.7×	152	4.7k
Xining Zhao China	44	1.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	1.8k 2.0×	958 1.3×	288 0.4×	169	4.8k
Nikolay Khabarov Austria	28	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	707 0.8×	330 0.4×	1.7k 2.4×	61	4.0k
André Daccache United States	29	638 0.5×	742 0.7×	814 0.9×	538 0.7×	614 0.9×	71	2.6k
Christian Folberth Austria	29	1.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.7×	957 1.1×	461 0.6×	2.2k 3.1×	63	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sander J. Zwart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sander J. Zwart

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Akpoti, Komlavi, et al.. (2025). Estimating water levels in reservoirs using Sentinel-2 derived time series of surface water areas: A case study of 20 reservoirs in Burkina Faso. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 139. 104523–104523. 1 indexed citations

Steinbach, Stefanie, et al.. (2024). Low-Cost Sensors and Multitemporal Remote Sensing for Operational Turbidity Monitoring in an East African Wetland Environment. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 8490–8508. 2 indexed citations

Dembélé, Moctar, Mathieu Vrac, Natalie Ceperley, et al.. (2024). Future shifting of annual extreme flows under climate change in the Volta River basin. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 385. 121–127. 1 indexed citations

Dembélé, Moctar, Mathieu Vrac, Natalie Ceperley, et al.. (2022). Contrasting changes in hydrological processes of the Volta River basin under global warming. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(5). 1481–1506. 28 indexed citations

Dossou‐Yovo, Elliott Ronald, et al.. (2022). Thirty years of water management research for rice in sub-Saharan Africa: Achievement and perspectives. Field Crops Research. 283. 108548–108548. 34 indexed citations

Dembélé, Moctar, Mathieu Vrac, Natalie Ceperley, et al.. (2021). Contrasting dynamics of hydrological processes in the Volta River basin under global warming. 2 indexed citations

Akpoti, Komlavi, Thomas Higginbottom, Timothy Foster, Roshan Adhikari, & Sander J. Zwart. (2021). Mapping land suitability for informal, small-scale irrigation development using spatial modelling and machine learning in the Upper East Region, Ghana. The Science of The Total Environment. 803. 149959–149959. 21 indexed citations

Hessels, Tim, et al.. (2020). Comparative analysis of the pysebal model and lysimeter for estimating actual evapotranspiration of soybean crop in Adana, Turkey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 60–65. 12 indexed citations

Kouadio, Louis, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal Assessment of Irrigation Performance of the Kou Valley Irrigation Scheme in Burkina Faso Using Satellite Remote Sensing-Derived Indicators. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 9(8). 484–484. 19 indexed citations

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Kouyaté, Amadou Malé, et al.. (2019). A geospatial dataset of inland valleys in four zones in Benin, Sierra Leone and Mali. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 103699–103699. 2 indexed citations

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Akpoti, Komlavi, Amos T. Kabo–bah, Elliott Ronald Dossou‐Yovo, T.A. Groen, & Sander J. Zwart. (2019). Mapping suitability for rice production in inland valley landscapes in Benin and Togo using environmental niche modeling. The Science of The Total Environment. 709. 136165–136165. 56 indexed citations

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Duku, Confidence, Sander J. Zwart, & Lars Hein. (2018). Impacts of climate change on cropping patterns in a tropical, sub-humid watershed. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0192642–e0192642. 33 indexed citations

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Kouyaté, Amadou Malé, et al.. (2018). Predictors determining the potential of inland valleys for rice production development in West Africa. Applied Geography. 96. 86–97. 18 indexed citations

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Giertz, Simone, et al.. (2017). Comparing water quantity and quality in three inland valley watersheds with different levels of agricultural development in central Benin. Agricultural Water Management. 192. 257–270. 15 indexed citations

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Zwart, Sander J., Lorenzo Busetto, Mandiaye Diagne, Mirco Boschetti, & Andrew Nelson. (2017). Mapping Changes in Area and the Cropping Season of Irrigated Rice in Senegal and Mauritania between 2003 and 2014 Using the PhenoRice Algorithm and MODIS Imagery. University of Twente Research Information. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Duku, Confidence, Hendrik Rathjens, Sander J. Zwart, & Lars Hein. (2015). Towards ecosystem accounting: a comprehensive approach to modelling multiple hydrological ecosystem services. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(10). 4377–4396. 45 indexed citations

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Rodenburg, Jonne, et al.. (2013). FAILURE AND SUCCESS FACTORS OF IRRIGATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE OUÉMÉ AND ZOU VALLEYS IN BENIN. Irrigation and Drainage. 63(3). 328–339. 32 indexed citations

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Wipfler, E.L., Klaas Metselaar, J.C. van Dam, et al.. (2011). Seasonal evaluation of the land surface scheme HTESSEL against remote sensing derived energy fluxes of the Transdanubian region in Hungary. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(4). 1257–1271. 18 indexed citations

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Klok, Lisette, Sander J. Zwart, H.J. Verhagen, & Elena Mauri. (2009). The surface heat island of Rotterdam derived from satellite imagery. 1 indexed citations

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Zwart, Sander J., et al.. (2000). Isolated Familial Hyperparathyroidism with a Novel Mutation of the Men1 Gene. Endocrine Practice. 6(3). 268–270. 11 indexed citations

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