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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 65 2152 2054 871 804 275 29750
Biology and Biochemistry 64 9438 8706 4162 3735 250 26874

Alex C. Ruane publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alex C. Ruane between 2006 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alex C. Ruane published across 20 years, from 2006 to 2025, averaging 15.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 38 publications in 2015. 43 of the 303 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2006 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 38. Peak 38 publications in 2015. 2006: 3 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 38 publications 2016: 23 publications 2017: 21 publications 2018: 25 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 17 publications 2025: 26 publications
2006 2025

303 publications in total across all disciplines

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Alex C. Ruane: publications per year, 2006 to 2025
Year Publications
2006 3
2007 3
2008 6
2009 2
2010 12
2011 4
2012 9
2013 16
2014 13
2015 38
2016 23
2017 21
2018 25
2019 20
2020 21
2021 17
2022 10
2023 17
2024 17
2025 26
Total 303
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Alex C. Ruane publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex C. Ruane sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 271–280 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 275 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155 275
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Alex C. Ruane D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex C. Ruane sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 65 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119 65
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Alex C. Ruane is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research focuses on agricultural and environmental sciences, with a notable publication record across several key areas related to climate change impacts on agriculture and ecosystem dynamics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models, 2021, Nature Food
  • Understanding and managing connected extreme events, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation, 2023, Science
  • Large potential for crop production adaptation depends on available future varieties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alex C. Ruane include:

  • Gerrit Hoogenboom
  • Jonas Jägermeyr
  • Cynthia Rosenzweig
  • Heidi Webber
  • Christoph Müller

Alex C. Ruane publishes regularly in the following venues:

  • Nature Food
  • Global Change Biology
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • European Journal of Agronomy

Their main fields of study are:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields within these broader areas include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Agronomy and Crop Science

The primary research topics addressed by Alex C. Ruane focus on:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Crop yield and soil fertility
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Rice cultivation and yield improvement
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics

Best Publications

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;P. Martre;P. Martre;R. P. Rötter

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

    S. Asseng;F. Ewert;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP): Protocols and Pilot Studies

    C. Rosenzweig;C. Rosenzweig;J. W. Jones;J. L. Hatfield;A. C. Ruane;A. C. Ruane

  • Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Christoph Müller;Alex C. Ruane;Joshua Elliott

  • How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

    Simona Bassu;Nadine Brisson;Jean Louis Durand;Kenneth Boote

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Understanding and managing connected extreme events

    Colin Raymond;Colin Raymond;Radley M. Horton;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius

  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

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  • Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

    Pierre Martre;Pierre Martre;Daniel Wallach;Senthold Asseng;Frank Ewert

  • Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

    Senthold Asseng;Pierre Martre;Andrea Maiorano;Reimund P Rötter

  • Uncertainties in predicting rice yield by current crop models under a wide range of climatic conditions

    Tao Li;Toshihiro Hasegawa;Xinyou Yin;Yan Zhu

  • Climate forcing datasets for agricultural modeling: Merged products for gap-filling and historical climate series estimation

    Alex C. Ruane;Richard Goldberg;James Chryssanthacopoulos

  • Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe

    Heidi Webber;Frank Ewert;Jørgen E. Olesen;Christoph Müller

  • The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

    Enli Wang;Pierre Martre;Zhigan Zhao;Zhigan Zhao;Frank Ewert

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

    Winston Yu;Mozaharul Alam;Ahmadul Hassan;Abu Saleh Khan

  • Sea level rise projections for current generation CGCMs based on the semi‐empirical method

    Radley Horton;Radley Horton;Celine Herweijer;Cynthia Rosenzweig;Jiping Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Kenneth J. Boote
Kenneth J. Boote University of Florida
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Davide Cammarano
Davide Cammarano Aarhus University
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Peter J. Thorburn
Peter J. Thorburn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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