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Mark T. van Wijk publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark T. van Wijk sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 124 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Mark T. van Wijk D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark T. van Wijk sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mark T. van Wijk is affiliated with the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya. Their research focus lies primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a diverse output across several related subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work extensively covers key topics such as Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agricultural risk and resilience, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, and Climate change impacts on agriculture.

Frequent publication venues where their research appears include Agricultural Systems, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Food Security, Nature Food, and Global Food Security. The largest number of publications is found in Agricultural Systems, with 11 papers, followed by eight in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Mark T. van Wijk collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including James Hammond, Mario Herrero, Guillaume Martin, K.E. Giller, and Katrien Descheemaeker. These partnerships reflect an active network in the fields of agricultural and environmental sciences.

Notable recent publications include:

  • The future of farming: Who will produce our food? (2021, Food Security)
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system (2020, Nature Food)
  • Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals (2020, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • Editorial: Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural and food systems worldwide and on progress to the sustainable development goals (2020, Agricultural Systems)
  • Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options? (2021, Food Security)

Best Publications

  • The future of farming: Who will produce our food?

    Ken E. Giller;Thomas Delaune;João Vasco Silva;João Vasco Silva;Katrien Descheemaeker

  • A meta-analysis of long-term effects of conservation agriculture on maize grain yield under rain-fed conditions

    Leonard Rusinamhodzi;Leonard Rusinamhodzi;Marc Corbeels;Mark T. Van Wijk;Mariana Cristina Rufino

  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Yield gaps in oil palm: A quantitative review of contributing factors

    Lotte Suzanne Woittiez;Mark T. van Wijk;Maja Slingerland;Meine van Noordwijk;Meine van Noordwijk

  • Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis

    Mario Herrero;Philip K Thornton;Philip K Thornton;Brendan Power;Jessica R Bogard;Jessica R Bogard

  • Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms

    Romain Frelat;Romain Frelat;Santiago Lopez-Ridaura;Ken E. Giller;Mario Herrero

  • Conservation Agriculture in mixed crop–livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

    Diego Valbuena;Olaf Erenstein;Sabine Homann-Kee Tui;Tahirou Abdoulaye

  • Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Daniel Mason-D'Croz;Jeda Palmer

  • Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options?

    Ken E. Giller;Thomas Delaune;João Vasco Silva;João Vasco Silva;Mark van Wijk

  • Agricultural diversification as an important strategy for achieving food security in Africa

    Katharina Waha;Mark T. van Wijk;Steffen Fritz;Linda See

  • Editorial: Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural and food systems worldwide and on progress to the sustainable development goals.

    Emma C. Stephens;Guillaume Martin;Mark van Wijk;Jagadish Timsina

  • Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision.

    Pete Smith;Christian A. Davies;Stephen Ogle;Giuliana Zanchi

  • Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa

    Sabine Douxchamps;Mark T. Van Wijk;Silvia Silvestri;Abdoulaye S. Moussa

  • The REFLEX project: Comparing different algorithms and implementations for the inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model against eddy covariance data

    Andrew Fox;Mathew Williams;Andrew D. Richardson;David Cameron

  • Effects of climate variability and climate change on crop production in southern Mali

    Bouba Sidi Traoré;Marc Corbeels;Mark T. Van Wijk;Mark T. Van Wijk;Mariana Cristina Rufino

  • Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models

    Mario Herrero;Philip K. Thornton;Alberto Bernués;Isabelle Baltenweck

  • The Rural Household Multi-Indicator Survey (RHoMIS) for rapid characterisation of households to inform Climate Smart Agriculture interventions: Description and applications in East Africa and Central America

    James Hammond;Simon Fraval;Jacob van Etten;Jose Gabriel Suchini

  • Management swing potential for bioenergy crops

    Sarah C. Davis;Sarah C. Davis;Robert M. Boddey;Bruno J. R. Alves;Annette L. Cowie

  • Climate smart agriculture, farm household typologies and food security: An ex-ante assessment from Eastern India

    Santiago Lopez-Ridaura;Romain Frelat;Romain Frelat;Mark T. van Wijk;Diego Valbuena

  • Tree-grass competition in space and time: insights from a simple cellular automata model based on ecohydrological dynamics

    Mark T. van Wijk;Mark T. van Wijk;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Frequent Co-Authors

James O.S. Hammond
James O.S. Hammond Birkbeck, University of London
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research
Mariana C. Rufino
Mariana C. Rufino Lancaster University
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero Cornell University
Philip K. Thornton
Philip K. Thornton Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Marc Corbeels
Marc Corbeels International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Mathew Williams
Mathew Williams University of Edinburgh
Bernard Vanlauwe
Bernard Vanlauwe International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Lieven Claessens
Lieven Claessens Wageningen University & Research
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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