Thomas Delaune

901 total citations · 2 hit papers
4 papers, 515 citations indexed

About

Thomas Delaune is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Delaune has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 515 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 2 papers in Plant Science and 1 paper in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Delaune's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 papers), Medical and Agricultural Research Studies (1 paper) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (1 paper). Thomas Delaune is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 papers), Medical and Agricultural Research Studies (1 paper) and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (1 paper). Thomas Delaune collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Zimbabwe and Uganda. Thomas Delaune's co-authors include James Hammond, G.W.J. van de Ven, Jens Andersson, K.E. Giller, Katrien Descheemaeker, ‪João Vasco Silva, A.G.T. Schut, Mark T. van Wijk, Régis Chikowo and G. Taulya and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecography, European Journal of Agronomy and Food Security.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Delaune

3 papers receiving 490 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.

The future of farming: Who will produce our food?

2021 323 citations K.E. Giller, Thomas Delaune et al. Food Security profile →
Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?

2021 169 citations K.E. Giller, Thomas Delaune et al. Food Security profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Delaune Netherlands	3	181	148	102	99	77	4	515
Devendra Gauchan Nepal	14	200 1.1×	238 1.6×	56 0.5×	75 0.8×	54 0.7×	82	559
Heitor Mancini Teixeira Netherlands	8	211 1.2×	188 1.3×	123 1.2×	91 0.9×	110 1.4×	14	657
Stéphanie Alvarez Netherlands	11	302 1.7×	123 0.8×	67 0.7×	213 2.2×	107 1.4×	19	656
Christian Grovermann Switzerland	14	222 1.2×	221 1.5×	70 0.7×	62 0.6×	62 0.8×	33	593
Fabrizio Bresciani Italy	5	121 0.7×	106 0.7×	65 0.6×	43 0.4×	69 0.9×	10	405
Wim Paas Netherlands	11	150 0.8×	87 0.6×	57 0.6×	138 1.4×	111 1.4×	16	405
Bekele Hundie Kotu Ghana	13	319 1.8×	128 0.9×	149 1.5×	98 1.0×	30 0.4×	29	559
Yigezu A. Yigezu Syria	15	278 1.5×	169 1.1×	157 1.5×	136 1.4×	36 0.5×	44	625
Job K. Lagat Kenya	9	184 1.0×	75 0.5×	91 0.9×	101 1.0×	31 0.4×	42	431
Nathan Clay United Kingdom	11	166 0.9×	87 0.6×	60 0.6×	102 1.0×	146 1.9×	15	534

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Delaune

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Delaune

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Delaune

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

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Delaune, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Can Sentinel-2 imagery support the identification of legume fields in maize-dominated smallholder farming systems?. European Journal of Agronomy. 170. 127764–127764.

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Giller, K.E., Thomas Delaune, ‪João Vasco Silva, et al.. (2021). Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?. Food Security. 13(6). 1431–1454. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Giller, K.E., Thomas Delaune, ‪João Vasco Silva, et al.. (2021). The future of farming: Who will produce our food?. Food Security. 13(5). 1073–1099. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Delaune, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Landscape drivers of pests and pathogens abundance in arable crops. Ecography. 44(10). 1429–1442. 23 indexed citations

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