Sonali McDermid

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Sonali McDermid is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonali McDermid has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sonali McDermid's work include Climate variability and models (17 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers). Sonali McDermid is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (17 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers). Sonali McDermid collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and India. Sonali McDermid's co-authors include Alex C. Ruane, Deepti Singh, Weston Anderson, Subimal Ghosh, Mathew Koll Roxy, Onoriode Coast, A. J. Rigden, Corey Lesk, Megan Konar and Jonas Jägermeyr and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sonali McDermid

41 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

2022 260 citations Weston Anderson, Sonali McDermid et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonali McDermid United States	19	647	398	286	244	216	43	1.3k
Weston Anderson United States	24	861 1.3×	546 1.4×	383 1.3×	321 1.3×	265 1.2×	51	1.8k
Philippe Roudier France	14	800 1.2×	723 1.8×	278 1.0×	209 0.9×	310 1.4×	23	1.7k
Lindsey Sloat United States	13	388 0.6×	310 0.8×	206 0.7×	175 0.7×	121 0.6×	24	1.1k
Melissa Widhalm United States	14	1.1k 1.7×	539 1.4×	147 0.5×	189 0.8×	143 0.7×	20	1.6k
Motoki Nishimori Japan	21	696 1.1×	646 1.6×	599 2.1×	292 1.2×	214 1.0×	62	1.6k
Stefan Olin Sweden	20	740 1.1×	528 1.3×	424 1.5×	202 0.8×	277 1.3×	52	1.5k
Xiangyang Hou China	21	964 1.5×	226 0.6×	321 1.1×	222 0.9×	523 2.4×	68	2.2k
Jemma Gornall United Kingdom	12	348 0.5×	373 0.9×	385 1.3×	195 0.8×	168 0.8×	15	1.1k
Hui Ju China	22	631 1.0×	774 1.9×	627 2.2×	134 0.5×	337 1.6×	44	1.5k
M. L. Parry Finland	14	498 0.8×	251 0.6×	230 0.8×	177 0.7×	123 0.6×	43	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sonali McDermid

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonali McDermid

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Greve, Peter, Diego G. Miralles, Sonali McDermid, et al.. (2025). Observational evidence of increased afternoon rainfall downwind of irrigated areas. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3415–3415. 2 indexed citations

Geethalakshmi, V., et al.. (2025). A systematic review of climate downscaling and extremes in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6). Environmental Development. 56. 101280–101280. 1 indexed citations

Li, Tao, Sonali McDermid, Roberto O. Valdivia, & P Sundaram. (2024). Climate change mitigation and adaptation for rice-based farming systems in the Red River Delta, Vietnam. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience. 1 indexed citations

McDermid, Sonali, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Drought on Terrestrial Carbon in the West African Sahel: Implications for Natural Climate Solutions. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 2 indexed citations

McDermid, Sonali, et al.. (2024). El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions simultaneously reduce the production of multiple cereals across India. Environmental Research Letters. 19(10). 104059–104059.

McDermid, Sonali. (2024). Agricultural water demand is taxing regional water supplies. Nature Water. 2(3). 225–227. 2 indexed citations

Cook, Benjamin I., Kate Marvel, Sonali McDermid, et al.. (2023). Anthropogenic Aerosols Delay the Emergence of GHGs‐Forced Wetting of South Asian Rainy Seasons Under a Fossil‐Fuel Intensive Pathway. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(18). 1 indexed citations

McDermid, Sonali, Matthew Hayek, Dale Jamieson, Galina Hale, & David Kanter. (2023). Research needs for a food system transition. Climatic Change. 176(4). 9 indexed citations

Chiang, Felicia, Benjamin I. Cook, & Sonali McDermid. (2023). Warming Overwhelms the Efficacy of Wet Conditions to Moderate Extreme Heat and Atmospheric Aridity Across the Central Plains. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 1 indexed citations

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McDermid, Sonali, Ensheng Weng, Michael J. Puma, et al.. (2022). Soil Carbon Losses Reduce Soil Moisture in Global Climate Model Simulations. Earth Interactions. 26(1). 195–208. 2 indexed citations

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Weng, Ensheng, Igor Aleinov, Michael J. Puma, et al.. (2022). Modeling demographic-driven vegetation dynamics and ecosystem biogeochemical cycling in NASA GISS's Earth system model (ModelE-BiomeE v.1.0). Geoscientific model development. 15(22). 8153–8180. 5 indexed citations

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Anderson, Weston, et al.. (2022). The impact of flooding on food security across Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(43). e2119399119–e2119399119. 52 indexed citations

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McDermid, Sonali, Benjamin I. Cook, Martin G. De Kauwe, et al.. (2021). Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO₂. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(5). e2020JD034108–e2020JD034108. 19 indexed citations

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McDermid, Sonali, et al.. (2021). Minimizing trade-offs for sustainable irrigation. Nature Geoscience. 14(10). 706–709. 24 indexed citations

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Cook, Benjamin I., Sonali McDermid, Michael J. Puma, et al.. (2020). Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(14). 22 indexed citations

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Kanter, David, Andrew Reid Bell, & Sonali McDermid. (2019). Precision Agriculture for Smallholder Nitrogen Management. One Earth. 1(3). 281–284. 23 indexed citations

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Singh, Deepti, Sonali McDermid, Benjamin I. Cook, et al.. (2018). Distinct Influences of Land Cover and Land Management on Seasonal Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(21). 12017–12039. 35 indexed citations

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McDermid, Sonali, Linda O. Mearns, & Alex C. Ruane. (2017). Representing agriculture in Earth System Models: Approaches and priorities for development. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(5). 2230–2265. 63 indexed citations

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Ruane, Alex C., Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senthold Asseng, et al.. (2017). An AgMIP framework for improved agricultural representation in integrated assessment models. Environmental Research Letters. 12(12). 125003–125003. 65 indexed citations

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McDermid, Sonali, et al.. (2016). The Impacts of Climate Change on Tamil Nadu Rainfed Maize Production:A Multi-Model Approach to Identify Sensitivities and Uncertainties. Current Science. 110(7). 1257–1271. 8 indexed citations

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