Most cited papers in Agricultural Innovations and Practices
What are the most cited papers in Agricultural Innovations and Practices?
The most cited paper in Agricultural Innovations and Practices is "A model for technical inefficiency effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data" (George E. Battese, Timothy Coelli, 1995), with 6,045 citations. Next come "The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops" (4,298) and "A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis" (3,565).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 697 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A model for technical inefficiency effects in a stochastic frontier production function for panel data George E. Battese, Timothy Coelli · Empirical Economics | Jun 1995 | 6,045 |
| 2 | The global burden of pathogens and pests on major food crops Serge Savary, Laetitia Willocquet, Sarah Jane Pethybridge et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution | 4 Feb 2019 | 4,298 |
| 3 | A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis Kaoru Tone · European Journal of Operational Research | 26 Aug 2002 | 3,565 |
| 4 | Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030 David B. Lobell, Marshall Burke, Claudia Tebaldi et al. · Science | Feb 2008 | 3,116 |
| 5 | The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal Robert Chambers · World Development | Jul 1994 | 2,523 |
| 6 | Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead Prabhu Pingali · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 Jul 2012 | 2,450 |
| 7 | Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification Frank B. Ellis · The Journal of Development Studies | Oct 1998 | 2,328 |
| 8 | Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000 Robert Eugene Evenson, Douglas Gollin · Science | May 2003 | 2,233 |
| 9 | Learning about a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana Timothy G. Conley, Christopher Udry · American Economic Review | Mar 2010 | 2,194 |
| 10 | Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture Verena Seufert, Navin Ramankutty, Jonathan A. Foley · Nature | 24 Apr 2012 | 2,152 |
| 11 | Adapting agriculture to climate change Mark S. Howden, Jean‐François Soussana, Francesco Nicola Tubiello et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Dec 2007 | 2,144 |
| 12 | Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification Teja Tscharntke, Yann Clough, Thomas Cherico Wanger et al. · Biological Conservation | 12 Mar 2012 | 2,083 |
| 13 | The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide Sarah K. Lowder, Jakob Skoet, Terri L. Raney · World Development | 9 Feb 2016 | 2,013 |
| 14 | Estimating Mediated Effects in Prevention Studies David P. MacKinnon, James H. Dwyer · Evaluation Review | Apr 1993 | 1,974 |
| 15 | Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia Temesgen Tadesse Deressa, Rashid Hassan, Claudia Ringler et al. · Global Environmental Change | 5 Mar 2009 | 1,951 |
| 16 | Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence Jules Pretty · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 25 Jul 2007 | 1,931 |
| 17 | Livelihoods perspectives and rural development Ian Scoones · The Journal of Peasant Studies | 2009 | 1,873 |
| 18 | Farmers’ adoption of conservation agriculture: A review and synthesis of recent research Duncan J. Knowler, Ben Bradshaw · Food Policy | 20 May 2006 | 1,833 |
| 19 | Organic agriculture in the twenty-first century John P. Reganold, Jonathan M. Wachter · Nature Plants | 3 Feb 2016 | 1,770 |
| 20 | Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies Tara Garnett, M. C. Appleby, Andrew P. Balmford et al. · Science | 4 Jul 2013 | 1,740 |
| 21 | Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture Jules Pretty · World Development | Aug 1995 | 1,734 |
| 22 | Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture Cameron Mark Pittelkow, Xinqiang Liang, Bruce A. Linquist et al. · Nature | 21 Oct 2014 | 1,687 |
| 23 | Data envelopment analysis (DEA) – Thirty years on Wade D. Cook, L. Seiford · European Journal of Operational Research | 5 Feb 2008 | 1,601 |
| 24 | Evaluating Program and Managerial Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Program Follow Through A. Charnes, William White Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes · Management Science | Jun 1981 | 1,556 |
| 25 | Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture Wolfram Schlenker, David B. Lobell · Environmental Research Letters | 2010 | 1,503 |
| 26 | Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics’ view K.E. Giller, Ernst Witter, Marc Corbeels et al. · Field Crops Research | 29 Jul 2009 | 1,500 |
| 27 | Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders David J. Pannell, Graham R. Marshall, Neil Barr et al. · Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture | 9 Oct 2006 | 1,478 |
| 28 | Crops that feed the world 10. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security Bekele A. Shiferaw, Mélinda Smale, Hans‐Joachim Braun et al. · Food Security | 28 Apr 2013 | 1,466 |
| 29 | China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency Brett A. Bryan, Lei Gao, Yanqiong Ye et al. · Nature | Jul 2018 | 1,451 |
| 30 | Agroecology and the design of climate change-resilient farming systems Miguel Angel Altieri, Clara Ines Nicholls, Alejandro Henao et al. · Agronomy for Sustainable Development | 30 Apr 2015 | 1,443 |
| 31 | Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? A Micro‐Perspective from Ethiopia Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi, Mahmud Yesuf · American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 7 Mar 2011 | 1,386 |
| 32 | Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers Zhenling Cui et al. · Nature | Mar 2018 | 1,336 |
| 33 | The livelihoods approach and management of small-scale fisheries Edward H. Allison, Frank B. Ellis · Marine Policy | Sep 2001 | 1,327 |
| 34 | Pesticide productivity and food security. A review József Popp, Károly Pető, János Nagy · Agronomy for Sustainable Development | 17 Oct 2012 | 1,247 |
| 35 | Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa Christopher B. Barrett · Food Policy | 17 Apr 2008 | 1,239 |
| 36 | Sustainable intensification in African agriculture Jules Pretty, Camilla Toulmin, S. B. Williams · International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability | Feb 2011 | 1,220 |
| 37 | Adaptation to climate change in Ethiopia and South Africa: options and constraints Elizabeth M Bryan, Temesgen Tadesse Deressa, Glwadys Aymone Gbetibouo et al. · Environmental Science & Policy | 5 Jan 2009 | 1,198 |
| 38 | Efficiency and Cross-efficiency in DEA: Derivations, Meanings and Uses John Robert Doyle, Rodney Green · Journal of the Operational Research Society | May 1994 | 1,190 |
| 39 | The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture Tomek de Ponti, Bert Rijk, M.K. van Ittersum · Agricultural Systems | 7 Feb 2012 | 1,186 |
| 40 | Agroecology: the science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments Miguel Angel Altieri · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | Dec 2002 | 1,128 |
| 41 | Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs Claire Kremen, Albie F. Miles · Ecology and Society | 2012 | 1,114 |
| 42 | The role of agri‐environment schemes in conservation and environmental management Péter Batáry, Lynn V. Dicks, David Kleijn et al. · Conservation Biology | 21 May 2015 | 1,107 |
| 43 | A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in U.S. Dairy Farms Subal C. Kumbhakar, Soumendra N. Ghosh, J. Thomas McGuckin · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | Jul 1991 | 1,095 |
| 44 | When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture Pablo Adrián Tittonell, K.E. Giller · Field Crops Research | 23 Nov 2012 | 1,094 |
| 45 | Agricultural diversification promotes multiple ecosystem services without compromising yield Giovanni Tamburini, Riccardo Bommarco, Thomas Cherico Wanger et al. · Science Advances | 4 Nov 2020 | 1,086 |
| 46 | Behavioural factors affecting the adoption of sustainable farming practices: a policy-oriented review François J. Dessart, Jesús Barreiro‐Hurlé, René van Bavel · European Review of Agricultural Economics | 13 Mar 2019 | 1,043 |
| 47 | Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification Jules Pretty, Tim G. Benton, Zareen Pervez Bharucha et al. · Nature Sustainability | 23 Jul 2018 | 1,016 |
| 48 | Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet F. Stuart Chapin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Gary P. Kofinas et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 17 Nov 2009 | 982 |
| 49 | Global Food Security: Challenges and Policies Mark W. Rosegrant, Sarah A. Cline · Science | 11 Dec 2003 | 980 |
| 50 | Applied data envelopment analysis Aziz Boussofiane, Robert G. Dyson, Emmanuel Thanassoulis · European Journal of Operational Research | May 1991 | 968 |
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