2026 R. Cesar Izaurralde: 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	78	1055	1002	464	427	329	27697

Overview

R. Cesar Izaurralde is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work frequently focuses on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science, Ecology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The main topics covered in Izaurralde's research include Climate change impacts on agriculture, Climate variability and models, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Plant responses to elevated CO₂, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Their research contributions extend across several publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in Geoscientific Model Development, Agricultural Systems, and European Journal of Agronomy, along with work published in Environmental Research Letters and Global Change Biology.

Frequent collaborators of Izaurralde include Curtis D. Jones, Christoph Müller, Alex C. Ruane, Ashwan Reddy, and Jonas Jägermeyr, reflecting a network of co-authorship contributing to various aspects of environmental and agricultural modeling.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by R. Cesar Izaurralde include:

Exploring uncertainties in global crop yield projections in a large ensemble of crop models and CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate scenarios, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
The GGCMI Phase 2 experiment: global gridded crop model simulations under uniform changes in CO₂, temperature, water, and nitrogen levels (protocol version 1.0), 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
The GGCMI Phase 2 emulators: global gridded crop model responses to changes in CO₂, temperature, water, and nitrogen (version 1.0), 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
Agricultural breadbaskets shift poleward given adaptive farmer behavior under climate change, 2021, Global Change Biology
Strong regional influence of climatic forcing datasets on global crop model ensembles, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Best Publications

Rising Temperatures Reduce Global Wheat Production

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

2444
Citations
Climate Impacts on Agriculture: Implications for Crop Production

Jerry L. Hatfield;Kenneth J. Boote;B. A. Kimball;Lewis A. Ziska

2012
Citations
Uncertainty in Simulating Wheat Yields Under Climate Change

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

1459
Citations
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

1142
Citations
How Do Various Maize Crop Models Vary in Their Responses to Climate Change Factors

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

834
Citations
Sustainable bioenergy production from marginal lands in the US Midwest.

Ilya Gelfand;Ilya Gelfand;Ritvik Sahajpal;Ritvik Sahajpal;Ritvik Sahajpal;Xuesong Zhang;Xuesong Zhang;R. César Izaurralde;R. César Izaurralde;R. César Izaurralde

825
Citations
Simulating soil C dynamics with EPIC: Model description and testing against long-term data

R.C. Izaurralde;J.R. Williams;W.B. McGill;N.J. Rosenberg

668
Citations
Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

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

583
Citations
Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: many models are better than one

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

563
Citations
U.S. Agriculture and Climate Change: New Results

J. Reilly;F. Tubiello;B. McCarl;D. Abler

550
Citations
Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein

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

543
Citations
Management effects on soil C storage on the Canadian prairies

H.H Janzen;C.A Campbell;R.C Izaurralde;B.H Ellert

540
Citations
Cellulosic biofuel contributions to a sustainable energy future: Choices and outcomes

G. Philip Robertson;G. Philip Robertson;Stephen K. Hamilton;Stephen K. Hamilton;Bradford L. Barham;Bradford L. Barham;Bruce E. Dale;Bruce E. Dale

427
Citations
MONITORING AND VERIFYING CHANGES OF ORGANIC CARBON IN SOIL

W.M. Post;R. C. Izaurralde;L. K. Mann;Norman B. Bliss

379
Citations
Distribution of light and heavy fractions of soil organic carbon as related to land use and tillage practice

Zhengxi Tan;R. Lal;L. Owens;R. C. Izaurralde

375
Citations
The uncertainty of crop yield projections is reduced by improved temperature response functions.

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

330
Citations
A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

323
Citations
Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

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

318
Citations
EPIC and APEX: Model Use, Calibration, and Validation

X. Wang;J. R. Williams;P. W. Gassman;C. Baffaut

313
Citations
Integrated assessment of Hadley Center (HadCM2) climate-change impacts on agricultural productivity and irrigation water supply in the conterminous United States: Part II. Regional agricultural production in 2030 and 2095

R Cesar C. Izaurralde;Norman J. Rosenberg;Robert A. Brown;Allison M. Thomson

288
Citations
The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison: data and modeling protocols for Phase 1 (v1.0)

J. Elliott;C. Müller;D. Deryng;J. Chryssanthacopoulos

269
Citations
Long-term climate change impacts on agricultural productivity in eastern China

Daniel R. Chavas;R. César Izaurralde;Allison M. Thomson;Xuejie Gao

261
Citations
Cycles of Soil

R. César Izaurralde

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuesong Zhang Agricultural Research Service

Allison M. Thomson University of Maryland, College Park

Scott M. Swinton Michigan State University

G. Philip Robertson Michigan State University

Tristram O. West Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Wilfred M. Post University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Philip W. Gassman Iowa State University

Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham

Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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