2026 Navin Ramankutty: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	92	526	496	22	19	212	98023

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

15498
Citations
Solutions for a cultivated planet

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

9354
Citations
Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

6259
Citations
MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

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

3834
Citations
Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production

Corey Lesk;Pedram Rowhani;Navin Ramankutty;Navin Ramankutty

3687
Citations
Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

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

3163
Citations
Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture

Verena Seufert;Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

2650
Citations
Estimating historical changes in global land cover: Croplands from 1700 to 1992

Navin Ramankutty;Jonathan A. Foley

2552
Citations
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

2515
Citations
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

2265
Citations
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

2257
Citations
Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world

Erle C Ellis;Navin Ramankutty

2251
Citations
Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

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

2078
Citations
An oscillation in the global climate system of period 65–70 years

Michael E. Schlesinger;Navin Ramankutty

1866
Citations
Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

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

1796
Citations
Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

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

1794
Citations
An integrated biosphere model of land surface processes, terrestrial carbon balance, and vegetation dynamics

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

1681
Citations
Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

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

1440
Citations
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

1194
Citations
Crop planting dates: an analysis of global patterns.

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

1072
Citations
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

975
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota

Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette

Christopher J. Kucharik University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

Michael E. Schlesinger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center

Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center

Mark A. Friedl Boston University

Stefan Siebert University of Göttingen

External Links

Personal website of Navin Ramankutty

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