Zia Mehrabi

6.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
46 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Zia Mehrabi is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zia Mehrabi has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 12 papers in Plant Science and 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Zia Mehrabi's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (8 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 papers). Zia Mehrabi is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (9 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (8 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (8 papers). Zia Mehrabi collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Zia Mehrabi's co-authors include Navin Ramankutty, Larissa Jarvis, Vincent Ricciardi, Mario Herrero, Claire Kremen, Loren H. Rieseberg, Katharina Waha, Erle C. Ellis, Hannah Wittman and Dana James and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Zia Mehrabi

44 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security

2018 627 citations Navin Ramankutty, Zia Mehrabi et al. profile →
How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?

2018 310 citations Vincent Ricciardi, Navin Ramankutty et al. profile →
Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms

2021 169 citations Vincent Ricciardi, Zia Mehrabi et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Functional connectivity of the world’s protected areas

2022 126 citations Zia Mehrabi, Navin Ramankutty et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zia Mehrabi Canada	23	855	614	523	463	413	46	2.6k
Johan Ahnström Sweden	8	840 1.0×	614 1.0×	378 0.7×	393 0.8×	714 1.7×	11	2.1k
M. Jahi Chappell United States	16	1.1k 1.3×	677 1.1×	620 1.2×	1.3k 2.8×	370 0.9×	41	2.9k
Guillaume Martin France	26	647 0.8×	753 1.2×	354 0.7×	669 1.4×	799 1.9×	83	2.8k
John Tyndall United States	22	387 0.5×	344 0.6×	473 0.9×	476 1.0×	441 1.1×	77	2.2k
S. Vermeulen Belgium	16	480 0.6×	610 1.0×	545 1.0×	721 1.6×	513 1.2×	28	2.5k
Jane Mills United Kingdom	22	436 0.5×	403 0.7×	511 1.0×	689 1.5×	205 0.5×	60	2.0k
Jacques-Éric Bergez France	31	1.0k 1.2×	462 0.8×	579 1.1×	581 1.3×	813 2.0×	90	2.9k
Nadia El‐Hage Scialabba Italy	13	592 0.7×	920 1.5×	480 0.9×	285 0.6×	219 0.5×	16	2.2k
Christian Bockstaller France	31	1000 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	335 0.6×	727 1.6×	550 1.3×	78	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Zia Mehrabi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zia Mehrabi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zia Mehrabi

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mehrabi, Zia, et al.. (2025). Global agricultural lands in the year 2015. Earth system science data. 17(7). 3473–3496. 1 indexed citations

Mehrabi, Zia, et al.. (2025). Asset stranding could open new pathways to food systems transformation. Nature Food. 6(5). 440–445. 1 indexed citations

Tigchelaar, Michelle, Elizabeth R. Selig, Ali Sarhadi, et al.. (2024). Nutrition-sensitive climate risk across food production systems. Environmental Research Letters. 20(1). 14046–14046. 2 indexed citations

Mehrabi, Zia, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms. Nature Sustainability. 7(5). 682–682.

Morel, A., Zia Mehrabi, Sami W. Rifai, et al.. (2024). Landscape and management influences on smallholder agroforestry yields show shifts during a climate shock. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 366. 108930–108930. 3 indexed citations

Sidhu, Balsher Singh, Zia Mehrabi, Navin Ramankutty, & Milind Kandlikar. (2023). How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields?. Environmental Research Letters. 18(2). 24008–24008. 25 indexed citations

Mehrabi, Zia. (2023). Likely decline in the number of farms globally by the middle of the century. Nature Sustainability. 6(8). 949–954. 21 indexed citations

Newlands, Nathaniel K., et al.. (2023). Assessing the Performance of Satellite-Based Models for Crop Yield Estimation in the Canadian Prairies. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 49(1). 1 indexed citations

Sidhu, Balsher Singh, Zia Mehrabi, Milind Kandlikar, & Navin Ramankutty. (2022). On the relative importance of climatic and non-climatic factors in crop yield models. Climatic Change. 173(1-2). 6 indexed citations

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Ricciardi, Vincent, Zia Mehrabi, Hannah Wittman, Dana James, & Navin Ramankutty. (2021). Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms. Nature Sustainability. 4(7). 651–657. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bartlett, Bjarne R., et al.. (2021). Digital technology helps remove gender bias in academia. Scientometrics. 126(5). 4073–4081. 13 indexed citations

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Ricciardi, Vincent, Abdrahmane Wane, Balsher Singh Sidhu, et al.. (2020). A scoping review of research funding for small-scale farmers in water scarce regions. Nature Sustainability. 3(10). 836–844. 35 indexed citations

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Mehrabi, Zia, Vincent Ricciardi, Christian Levers, et al.. (2020). The global divide in data-driven farming. Nature Sustainability. 4(2). 154–160. 111 indexed citations

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Mehrabi, Zia & Navin Ramankutty. (2019). Synchronized failure of global crop production. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(5). 780–786. 84 indexed citations

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Morel, A., Mark Hirons, Zia Mehrabi, et al.. (2019). The structures underpinning vulnerability: examining landscape-society interactions in a smallholder coffee agroforestry system. Environmental Research Letters. 14(7). 75006–75006. 11 indexed citations

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Ricciardi, Vincent, et al.. (2018). An open-access dataset of crop production by farm size from agricultural censuses and surveys. Data in Brief. 19. 1970–1988. 14 indexed citations

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Mehrabi, Zia & Philippe Lashermes. (2017). Protecting the origins of coffee to safeguard its future. Nature Plants. 3(1). 16209–16209. 7 indexed citations

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Mauchline, Tim H., Govind Chandra, Toby Samuels, et al.. (2015). An analysis of P seudomonas genomic diversity in take‐all infected wheat fields reveals the lasting impact of wheat cultivars on the soil microbiota. Environmental Microbiology. 17(11). 4764–4778. 29 indexed citations

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Mehrabi, Zia, Eleanor M. Slade, Ángel Solís, & Darren J. Mann. (2014). The Importance of Microhabitat for Biodiversity Sampling. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e114015–e114015. 28 indexed citations

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Mehrabi, Zia & Parviz Ehsanzadeh. (2011). A STUDY ON PHYSIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES AND GRAIN YIELD OF SESAME (SESAMUM INDICUM L.) CULTIVARS UNDER DIFFERENT SOIL MOISTURE REGIMES. 13(2). 75–88. 2 indexed citations

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