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92
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529
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22

Navin Ramankutty 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 Navin Ramankutty sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 212 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Navin Ramankutty 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 Navin Ramankutty sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Navin Ramankutty is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, focusing primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research encompasses multiple areas within these fields, with significant contributions to understanding sustainability and ecosystem management.

Ramankutty's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields they have contributed to include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The key topics covered in Ramankutty's work are:

  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Frequent publication venues for Ramankutty's research include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Nature Food
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Ramankutty include:

  • "Ten facts about land systems for sustainability," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Higher yields and more biodiversity on smaller farms," 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • "Functional connectivity of the world's protected areas," 2022, Science
  • "Livestock policy for sustainable development," 2020, Nature Food
  • "The global divide in data-driven farming," 2020, Nature Sustainability

Ramankutty collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Zia Mehrabi
  • Hannah Wittman
  • Claire Kremen
  • Angela Brennan
  • Robin Naidoo

Best Publications

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet

    Jonathan A. Foley;Navin Ramankutty;Kate A. Brauman;Emily S. Cassidy

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

    Mark A. Friedl;Damien Sulla-Menashe;Bin Tan;Annemarie Schneider

  • Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production

    Corey Lesk;Pedram Rowhani;Navin Ramankutty;Navin Ramankutty

  • Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

    Nathaniel D. Mueller;James S. Gerber;Matt Johnston;Deepak K. Ray

  • Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture

    Verena Seufert;Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992

    Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

    Chad Monfreda;Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

    Holly Gibbs;A. S. Ruesch;F. Achard;M. K. Clayton

  • Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

    Erle C Ellis;Navin Ramankutty

  • Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

    Navin Ramankutty;Amato T. Evan;Chad Monfreda;Jonathan A. Foley

  • An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65–70 years

    Michael E. Schlesinger;Navin Ramankutty

  • Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

    Deepak K. Ray;Navin Ramankutty;Nathaniel D. Mueller;Paul C. West

  • Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

    Erle C. Ellis;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Stefan Siebert;Deborah Lightman

  • An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics

    Jonathan A. Foley;I. Colin Prentice;Navin Ramankutty;Samuel Levis

  • Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

    Richard A. Houghton;J.I. House;J. Pongratz;J. Pongratz;G. R. van der Werf

  • Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

    Bruce M. Campbell;Douglas J. Beare;Elena M. Bennett;Jason M. Hall-Spencer

  • Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns.

    William J. Sacks;Delphine Deryng;Jonathan A. Foley;Navin Ramankutty

  • Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models

    A.D. McGuire;S. Sitch;Joy S. Clein;R. Dargaville

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota
Thomas W. Hertel
Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette
Christopher J. Kucharik
Christopher J. Kucharik University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Michael E. Schlesinger
Michael E. Schlesinger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University
Stefan Siebert
Stefan Siebert University of Göttingen

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