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Andrew J. Challinor

Andrew J. Challinor

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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
27950
World Ranking
1645
National Ranking
133

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
26833
World Ranking
7246
National Ranking
552

Andrew J. Challinor 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 Andrew J. Challinor sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 181 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Andrew J. Challinor 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 Andrew J. Challinor sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Andrew J. Challinor is a researcher affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily falls within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their research covers a number of main topics, including:

  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Agricultural risk and resilience

Challinor's subfields of study include Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Soil Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

Recent papers reflect a focus on climate change adaptation, food security, and crop responses under environmental stresses. Notable publications include:

  • Drought in Northeast Brazil: A review of agricultural and policy adaptation options for food security, 2021, Climate Resilience and Sustainability
  • Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Enhanced Leaf Cooling Is a Pathway to Heat Tolerance in Common Bean, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Global Potato Yields Increase Under Climate Change With Adaptation and CO2 Fertilisation, 2020, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • The EAT-Lancet reference diet and cognitive function across the life course, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health

Their frequent co-authors include Marcelo Valadares Galdos, Stewart Jennings, Stephen Whitfield, Edward Pope, and Julián Ramírez-Villegas.

Publications are often featured in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Nature Food, Environmental Research Letters, and Global Change Biology.

In addition to journal articles, Andrew J. Challinor has contributed to academic book publications, including the title Climate Science, Solutions and Services for Net Zero, Climate-Resilient Food Systems, published by Frontiers Media in 2024.

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation

    Andrew J. Challinor;Andrew J. Challinor;J. Watson;David B. Lobell;Howden Sm

  • Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

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

  • Food security and food production systems

    John R. Porter;Liyong Xie;Andrew J. Challinor;Kevern Cochrane

  • Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

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

  • Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review.

    Philip K. Thornton;Polly J. Ericksen;Mario T. Herrero;Andrew J. Challinor

  • Avoiding dangerous climate change

    AJ Challinor;TR Wheeler;TM Osborne;JM Slingo

  • Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change

    Andrew Challinor;Tim Wheeler;Chris Garforth;Peter Craufurd

  • Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change

    Sonja J. Vermeulen;Pramod K. Aggarwal;Pramod K. Aggarwal;A. Ainslie;C. Angelone

  • Agriculture and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa in a 4 ◦ C+ world

    Philip K. Thornton;Peter G. Jones;Polly J. Ericksen;Andrew J. Challinor

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

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

  • 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

  • Crops and climate change: progress, trends, and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation

    Andrew J. Challinor;Frank Ewert;Steve Arnold;Elisabeth Simelton

  • Chapter 7: Food Security and Food Production Systems

    Porter;L Xie;AJ Challinor;K Cochrane

  • Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops

    Toshichika Iizumi;Jing-Jia Luo;Andrew J. Challinor;Gen Sakurai

  • Design and optimisation of a large-area process-based model for annual crops

    A.J. Challinor;T.R. Wheeler;P.Q. Craufurd;J.M. Slingo

  • Translating climate forecasts into agricultural terms: advances and challenges

    James W. Hansen;Andrew Challinor;Amor Valeriano M. Ines;Tim Wheeler

  • Calibration and bias correction of climate projections for crop modelling: An idealised case study over Europe

    Ed Hawkins;Thomas M. Osborne;Chun Kit Ho;Andrew J. Challinor

  • Addressing uncertainty in adaptation planning for agriculture

    Sonja J. Vermeulen;Andrew J. Challinor;Philip K. Thornton;Bruce M. Campbell

  • African Climate Change: Taking the Shorter Route

    Richard Washington;Mike Harrison;Declan Conway;Emily Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Julian Ramirez-Villegas Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
Tim Wheeler
Tim Wheeler University of Reading
Senthold Asseng
Senthold Asseng Technical University of Munich
Pierre Martre
Pierre Martre INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Pramod K. Aggarwal
Pramod K. Aggarwal Borlaug Institute for South Asia
Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Peter J. Thorburn
Peter J. Thorburn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso Michigan State University
Roberto C. Izaurralde
Roberto C. Izaurralde University of Maryland, College Park
Reimund P. Rötter
Reimund P. Rötter University of Göttingen

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