World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
55
Citations
24488
World Ranking
1572
National Ranking
108

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
34381
World Ranking
2541
National Ranking
170

Overview

Stefan Siebert is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research spans primarily the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, producing 73 and 67 publications respectively in these domains. Within these main fields, their work focuses on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The topics covered in Stefan Siebert's research highlight diverse aspects of agriculture and environment, featuring themes such as Climate change impacts on agriculture, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Climate variability and models, Agricultural Economics and Policy, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Stefan Siebert has contributed to a number of recent scientific papers. Notable publications include:

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries, 2023, Nature
  • Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems, 2020, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Local food crop production can fulfil demand for less than one-third of the population, 2020, Nature Food

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Matti Kummu, Frank Ewert, Thomas Gaiser, and Heidi Webber. Collaboration counts indicate focused teamwork, with 19 publications alongside Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei and multiple others in the range of 10 to 14 joint works.

Stefan Siebert's research is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Food, Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing, and Field Crops Research. The distribution of publications in these outlets reflects an emphasis on both open data repositories and subject-specific journals in agriculture and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet

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

  • Groundwater use for irrigation - a global inventory

    Stefan Siebert;Jacob Burke;Jean-Marc Faures;Karen Frenken

  • Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000

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

  • MIRCA2000—Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high‐resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling

    Felix T. Portmann;Stefan Siebert;Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll

  • Lost food, wasted resources: global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

    M.S. Kummu;de H. Moel;M. Porkka;S. Siebert

  • Development and testing of the WaterGAP 2 global model of water use and availability

    Joseph Alcamo;Petra Döll;Thomas Henrichs;Frank Kaspar

  • Global modeling of irrigation water requirements

    Petra Döll;Stefan Siebert

  • Quantifying blue and green virtual water contents in global crop production as well as potential production losses without irrigation

    Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll

  • The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability

    M. Kummu;J. H. A. Guillaume;J. H. A. Guillaume;H. de Moel;S. Eisner

  • Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment

    Paul C. West;James S. Gerber;Peder M. Engstrom;Nathaniel D. Mueller

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

    Unknown

  • Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations

    P. Döll;H. Hoffmann-Dobrev;F. T. Portmann;S. Siebert

  • Development and validation of the global map of irrigation areas

    Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll;Jippe Hoogeveen;Jean-Marc Faures

  • Global estimates of water withdrawals and availability under current and future “business-as-usual” conditions

    Joseph Alcamo;Petra Döll;Thomas Henrichs;Frank Kaspar

  • A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005

    Stefan Siebert;Matti Kummu;Miina Porkka;Petra Döll

  • Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe

    Heidi Webber;Frank Ewert;Jørgen E. Olesen;Christoph Müller

  • Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

    Yue Qin;Yue Qin;John T. Abatzoglou;John T. Abatzoglou;Stefan Siebert;Laurie S. Huning

  • From food insufficiency towards trade dependency: a historical analysis of global food availability

    Miina Porkka;Matti Kummu;Stefan Siebert;Olli Varis

  • Improvements in crop water productivity increase water sustainability and food security—a global analysis

    Kate A Brauman;Stefan Siebert;Jonathan A Foley

  • Drought vulnerability and risk assessments: state of the art, persistent gaps, and research agenda

    Michael Hagenlocher;Isabel Meza;Carl C. Anderson;Annika Min

  • The food-energy-water nexus: Transforming science for society

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Ben L. Ruddell;Patrick M. Reed;Ruth I. Hook

  • Impact of heat stress on crop yield—on the importance of considering canopy temperature

    Stefan Siebert;Frank Ewert;Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei;Henning Kage

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Ewert
Frank Ewert University of Bonn
Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei
Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Petra Döll
Petra Döll Goethe University Frankfurt
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
Thomas Gaiser
Thomas Gaiser University of Bonn
Reimund P. Rötter
Reimund P. Rötter University of Göttingen
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Heidi Webber
Heidi Webber Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Edmar I. Teixeira
Edmar I. Teixeira Plant & Food Research

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Stefan Siebert

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles