Standout Papers

Tipping elements in the E... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2018 2016 2020 2019 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
    2008 2.3k citations Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Meat consumption, health, and the environment
    2018 1.4k citations H. Charles J. Godfray, Paul Aveyard et al. Science profile →
  3. Sensitivity analysis of environmental models: A systematic review with practical workflow
    2016 1.1k citations Francesca Pianosi, Keith Beven et al. Environmental Modelling & Software profile →
  4. Pollution exacerbates China’s water scarcity and its regional inequality
    2020 515 citations Ting Ma, Siao Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Infrastructure for sustainable development
    2019 490 citations Scott Thacker, Daniel Adshead et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  6. Crop yield sensitivity of global major agricultural countries to droughts and the projected changes in the future
    2018 470 citations Guoyong Leng, Jim W. Hall The Science of The Total Environment profile →
  7. Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment
    2018 392 citations Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, W. J. Wouter Botzen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets
    2019 339 citations Elco Koks, Julie Rozenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →

Immediate Impact

6 by Nobel laureates 35 from Science/Nature 88 hit
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Citing Papers

Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes
2025 HitNature
Carbon dioxide capture from open air using covalent organic frameworks
2024 HitNatureNobel
3 intermediate papers

Works of Jim W. Hall being referenced

Operationalizing the net-negative carbon economy
2021 Nature
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
2008 Hit
and 1 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Jim W. Hall 9.2k 4.8k 2.9k 2.8k 2.5k 486 21.4k
Paolo D’Odorico 8.8k 1.0× 4.5k 0.9× 2.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.5× 3.3k 1.3× 324 20.3k
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts 12.3k 1.3× 3.8k 0.8× 5.0k 1.8× 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 223 16.7k
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz 12.7k 1.4× 9.4k 2.0× 3.7k 1.3× 2.2k 0.8× 2.5k 1.0× 295 19.1k
Philip J. Ward 10.9k 1.2× 4.8k 1.0× 5.2k 1.8× 1.2k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 221 16.5k
Johan Rockström 12.5k 1.3× 4.8k 1.0× 1.9k 0.7× 3.1k 1.1× 4.2k 1.6× 225 38.8k
Nigel W. Arnell 10.8k 1.2× 7.5k 1.6× 2.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 195 19.5k
H. H. G. Savenije 9.2k 1.0× 10.2k 2.1× 3.6k 1.3× 2.7k 1.0× 4.5k 1.8× 343 18.1k
Hao Wang 8.3k 0.9× 8.6k 1.8× 2.6k 0.9× 3.4k 1.2× 4.5k 1.8× 1.8k 30.6k
Stéphane Hallegatte 8.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.3× 3.3k 1.2× 958 0.3× 2.0k 0.8× 230 18.0k
Jianguo Liu 13.8k 1.5× 3.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 3.4k 1.3× 524 32.5k

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