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ArticleNature2023

Crop switching can enhance environmental sustainability and farmer incomes in China.

Wei Xie, Anfeng Zhu, Tariq Ali, Zhengtao Zhang, Xiaoguang Chen, Feng Wu, Jikun Huang, Kyle Frankel Davis

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Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
58.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 236 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Wei Xie *China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. xiewei.ccap@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-4301
Anfeng Zhu *China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9547-3713
Tariq Ali *School of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-6959
Zhengtao ZhangSchool of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Xiaoguang ChenResearch Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. cxg@swufe.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3292-4529
Feng WuInstitute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. wufeng@igsnrr.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4688-0157
Jikun HuangChina Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Kyle Frankel DavisDepartment of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. kfdavis@udel.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4504-1407
Peking University · CNBeijing Normal University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNJiangxi Agricultural University · CNSouthwestern University of Finance and Economics · CNUniversity of Delaware · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Achieving food-system sustainability is a multidimensional challenge. In China, a doubling of crop production since 1990 has compromised other dimensions of sustainability

Indexed as

Crop ProductionEnvironmentIncomeSustainable DevelopmentChinaFertilizersGreenhouse GasesPesticidesFertilizersGreenhouse GasesPesticides

Identifiers

PMID36927804
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