Timothy D. Searchinger

8.4k citations

41 papers · 5.5k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.5%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.5%
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility

Papers in

Agronomy and Crop Science 13
- Bioenergy crop production and management 10
Environmental Engineering 11
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 8

Co-authors: Patrice Dumas Denise L. Mauzerall Eric A. Davidson Xin Zhang Yuchao Shen Tim Beringer Stefan Wirsenius Helmut Haberl
Journals: Nature (4 papers)Science (4 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 papers)Nature Climate Change (2 papers)Environmental Research Letters (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Austria

In The Last Decade

Timothy D. Searchinger

40 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

The carbon costs of global wood harvests 2023 · 103 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature
2019 Nature Climate Change
2018 Nature Geoscience
2018 Nature
2015 Nature
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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All Works

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1	The carbon costs of global wood harvests Nature ·Liqing Peng, Timothy D. Searchinger, Jessica Zionts, Richard Waite Hit paper breakdown →	2023	103
2	EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy Nature ·Timothy D. Searchinger, Oliver James, Patrice Dumas, Thomas Kästner, Stefan Wirsenius	2022	25
3	Consequences of underexplored variation in biodiversity indices used for land‐use prioritization Ecological Applications ·Christopher L. Crawford, Lyndon Estes, Timothy D. Searchinger, David S. Wilcove	2021	5
4	Air quality, nitrogen use efficiency and food security in China are improved by cost-effective agricultural nitrogen management Nature Food ·Yixin Guo, Youfan Chen, Timothy D. Searchinger, Mi Zhou, Da Pan, Junnan Yang, Liang Wu, Zhenling Cui, Weifeng Zhang, Fusuo Zhang, Lin Ma, Yele Sun, Mark A. Zondlo, Lin Zhang, Denise L. Mauzerall	2020	209
5	Revising Public Agricultural Support to Mitigate Climate Change Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks ·Chris Malins, Timothy D. Searchinger, Patrice Dumas, David Baldock, Joe Glauber, Thomas S. Jayne, Jikun Huang, Paswell Marenya	2020	29
6	Europe’s renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests Nature Communications ·Timothy D. Searchinger, Tim Beringer, Bjart Holtsmark, Daniel M. Kammen, Éric F. Lambin, Wolfgang Lucht, Peter H. Raven, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou	2018	113
7	Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century Nature Geoscience ·Zhenzhong Zeng, Lyndon Estes, Alan D. Ziegler, Anping Chen, Timothy D. Searchinger, Fangyuan Hua, Kaiyu Guan, Attachai Jintrawet, Eric F. Wood Hit paper breakdown →	2018	211
8	Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change Nature ·Timothy D. Searchinger, Stefan Wirsenius, Tim Beringer, Patrice Dumas Hit paper breakdown →	2018	373
9	Sustainable Cattle Ranching in Practice: Moving from Theory to Planning in Colombia’s Livestock Sector Environmental Management ·Amy M. Lerner, Andrés Felipe Ramírez Zuluaga, Julian Chará, Andrés Etter, Timothy D. Searchinger	2017	55
10	Estimation of methane emissions from local and crossbreed beef cattle in Daklak province of Vietnam Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences ·Carlos A. Ramírez-Restrepo, Dung Van Tien, Lê Đức Ngoan, Mario Herrero, Le Dinh Phung, Dinh Van Dung, Lê Thị Hoa Sen, Cuong Manh Vu, Cesar Solano-Patiño, Amy M. Lerner, Timothy D. Searchinger	2017	6
11	Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Lyndon Estes, Timothy D. Searchinger, Marcus P. Spiegel, Di Tian, S. Sichinga, Marizvikuru Mwale, Laura Kehoe, Tobias Kuemmerle, A. Berven, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, K. K. Caylor	2016	29
12	Managing nitrogen for sustainable development Nature ·Xin Zhang, Eric A. Davidson, Denise L. Mauzerall, Timothy D. Searchinger, Patrice Dumas, Yuchao Shen Hit paper breakdown →	2015	2044
13	Cover crops in the upper midwestern United States: Simulated effect on nitrate leaching with artificial drainage Journal of Soil and Water Conservation ·Robert W. Malone, Dan B. Jaynes, T. C. Kaspar, Kelly R. Thorp, E. J. Kladivko, Liwang Ma, David E. James, Jeremy W. Singer, Xenia K. Morin, Timothy D. Searchinger	2014	59
14	Challenges and opportunities for improving eco-efficiency of tropical forage-based systems to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Michael Peters, (unknown), Mario Herrero, Myles Fisher, (unknown), Karl‐Heinz Erb, Idupulapati M. Rao, (unknown), G. V. Subbarao, Aracely Castro, (unknown), Jacobo Arango, (unknown), Julian Chará, (unknown), Enrique Murgueitio, (unknown), Rein van der Hoek, (unknown), Peter Läderach, (unknown), Glenn Hyman, (unknown), Jeimar Tapasco, (unknown), Bernardo B. N. Strassburg, Birthe K. Paul, (unknown), Álvaro Rincón, (unknown), Rainer Schultze‐Kraft, (unknown), Steven J. Fonte, (unknown), Timothy D. Searchinger	2013	43
15	Crop‐based biofuels and associated environmental concerns GCB Bioenergy ·Keith A. Smith, Timothy D. Searchinger	2012	42
16	Correcting a fundamental error in greenhouse gas accounting related to bioenergy Energy Policy ·Helmut Haberl, Detlef F. Sprinz, Marc Bonazountas, Pierluigi Cocco, Yves Desaubies, Mogens Henze, Ole Hertel, Richard K. Johnson, Ulrike Kastrup, Pierre Laconte, Eckart Lange, Peter Novák, Jouni Paavola, Anette Reenberg, Sybille van den Hove, Theo Vermeire, Peter Wadhams, Timothy D. Searchinger	2012	162
17	A Quick Fix to the Food Crisis Scientific American ·Timothy D. Searchinger	2011	1
18	Biofuels and the need for additional carbon Environmental Research Letters ·Timothy D. Searchinger	2010	121
19	Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change Science ·Timothy D. Searchinger, Ralph E. Heimlich, R. A. Houghton, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Simla Tokgöz, Dermot J. Hayes, Hun-Hsiang Yu	2008	84
20	Land-Use Change Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Timothy D. Searchinger	2008	17

About Timothy D. Searchinger

Timothy D. Searchinger is a scholar working on Agronomy and Crop Science, Environmental Engineering, Forestry, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 41 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bioenergy crop production and management (10 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (8 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (6 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (5 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (4 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (1.2k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (838 citations), Environmental Engineering (956 citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.4k citations) and Environmental Chemistry (635 citations). Timothy D. Searchinger has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Patrice Dumas, Denise L. Mauzerall, Eric A. Davidson, Xin Zhang, Yuchao Shen, Tim Beringer, Stefan Wirsenius, Helmut Haberl, Karl‐Heinz Erb and Fridolin Krausmann. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change and Environmental Research Letters.

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