Paul West

27.9k citations
83 papers · 11.6k · 14 hit papers · h-index 32

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Papers in

    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services 13
    • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 9
    • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact 13
    • Remote Sensing in Agriculture 4

Paul West

67 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Paul West's Hit Papers

Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation 2024 · 62 citations
620+4+9Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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Paul West
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  • Soil Science 1.8k
  • Agronomy and Crop Science 1.3k
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.1k
  • Global and Planetary Change 2.7k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2.4k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Paul West, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050
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20132360
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Climate variation explains a third of global crop yield variability
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20151429
3
Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation
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20121144
4
Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services
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2012849
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Climate change has likely already affected global food production
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2019637
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Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment
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2014594
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Greenhouse gas emissions intensity of global croplands
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2016526
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Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare
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2013433
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Biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity as key drivers of ecosystem services provided by soils
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2015343
10
Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production
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2016299
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Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis
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2017287
12 2010265
13 2018224
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Climate adaptation by crop migration
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2020210
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Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands
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2018195
16 2015191
17 2019182
18 2015164
19 2016152
20 2016124

About Paul West

Paul West is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science and Education, having authored 83 papers that have together received 11.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (13 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (12 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (5 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (4 papers) and Online and Blended Learning (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (1.8k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.3k citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (1.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.7k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.4k citations). Paul West has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include D. K. Ray, Jonathan A. Foley, Nathaniel D. Mueller, James Gerber, Graham K. MacDonald, Navin Ramankutty, E. S. Cassidy, Mario Herrero, Kimberly M. Carlson and Kate A. Brauman. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change and One Earth.

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