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Climate change impacts on agriculture

Climate change impacts on agriculture is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1954. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and strategies for adapting agriculture to climate change, with an emphasis on ensuring food security, managing vulnerability, and sustaining crop production. The research covers topics such as climate change impacts on global food security, adaptation methods for agricultural systems, vulnerability analysis, sustainable intensification, and the effects of extreme weather events on crop yields.

  • Climate Change
  • Agriculture
  • Adaptation
  • Food Security
  • Vulnerability
  • Crop Production
  • Sustainability
  • Global Warming
  • Water Management
  • Extreme Weather
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Climate change impacts on agriculture

Which countries lead Climate change impacts on agriculture research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 India 1.1k works
  3. 3 United States 852 works
  4. 4 Germany 261 works
  5. 5 Ethiopia 247 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 224 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 217 works
  8. 8 South Africa 210 works
  9. 9 Australia 205 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 200 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 26.1%India: 23.3%United States: 17.8%Germany: 5.5%6 others listed: 27.3%26%largest
China1,248 · 26.1%India1,112 · 23.3%United States852 · 17.8%Germany261 · 5.5%6 others listed1,303 · 27.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Climate change impacts on agriculture research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Climate change impacts on agriculture research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 144 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 120 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 72 works
  4. 4 CGIARFrance 61 works
  5. 5 China Agricultural UniversityChina 48 works
  6. 6 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 42 works
  7. 7 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 40 works
  8. 8 Leibniz AssociationGermany 39 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Climate change impacts on agriculture?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Climate change impacts on agriculture include Mark A. Bradford, Philippe Ciais and David Tilman.

  1. 1 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  4. 4 Till Bärnighausen Germany 189k citations
  5. 5 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  6. 6 Eric J. Topol United States 187k citations
  7. 7 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  8. 8 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  9. 9 André M. N. Renzaho Australia 168k citations
  10. 10 Stephen R. Carpenter United States 165k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Climate change impacts on agriculture?

The most cited paper in Climate change impacts on agriculture is "Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture" (David Tilman, Christian Balzer, Jason Hill et al., 2011), with 7,718 citations. Next come "Vulnerability" (5,343) and "Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability" (5,234).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture David Tilman, Christian Balzer, Jason Hill et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 21 Nov 2011 7,718
2 Vulnerability William Neil Adger · Global Environmental Change 21 Jul 2006 5,343
3 Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability Barry E. Smit, Johanna Wandel · Global Environmental Change Open access 17 Jul 2006 5,234
4 Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models Aiguo Dai · Nature Climate Change 3 Aug 2012 4,836
5 Social and ecological resilience: are they related? William Neil Adger · Progress in Human Geography Sep 2000 4,824
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Where is Climate change impacts on agriculture research done?

The largest centres of Climate change impacts on agriculture research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tamale.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 431 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 137 works
  3. 3 DhakaBangladesh 104 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 102 works
  5. 5 NairobiKenya 92 works
  6. 6 Addis AbabaEthiopia 79 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 72 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 65 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 51 works
  10. 10 CoimbatoreIndia 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TamaleGH · 22.2 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Climate change impacts on agriculture than the world average.

See Climate change impacts on agriculture on the map

Where is the best place to study Climate change impacts on agriculture?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, China Agricultural University and Northwest A&F University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 19.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…China Agricultural U…Northwest A&F Univer…Beijing Normal Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 85.221.2%16.6×42 +8.2%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 81.820.9%12.3×48 +38.8%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 80.120.1%11.9×32 +57.8%
4Beijing Normal UniversityChina 77.019.1%7.3×40 +10.6%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 74.621.5%2.9×33 +16.6%
6Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurIndia 71.623.5%6.3×22 +73.1%
7Université Mohammed VI PolytechniqueMorocco 68.022.2%17.2×10 +180.9%
8Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 66.912.1%17.3×28 +37.4%
9ETH ZurichSwitzerland 66.824.4%3.0×14 -11.2%
10Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 65.210.4%17.0×26 +57.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Climate change impacts on agriculture, country by country

Is Climate change impacts on agriculture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Climate change impacts on agriculture.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Climate change impacts on agriculture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Climate change impacts on agriculture0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Climate change impacts on agriculture over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Climate change impacts on agriculture10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

Questions people ask

Who leads research on climate change and agriculture?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Climate change impacts on agriculture research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. By volume, China and India publish the most (1.2k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

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