Ben Groom

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ben Groom is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Groom has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ben Groom's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (36 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (29 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers). Ben Groom is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (36 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (29 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers). Ben Groom collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Ben Groom's co-authors include Mark Freeman, Cameron Hepburn, Phoebe Koundouri, Moritz A. Drupp, Frikk Nesje, David Pearce, Charles Palmer, Maureen Cropper, Thomas Sterner and William A. Pizer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ben Groom

61 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations

2013 238 citations Ben Groom, Thomas Sterner et al. profile →
Should Governments Use a Declining Discount Rate in Project Analysis?

2014 173 citations Ben Groom, Thomas Sterner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Groom United Kingdom	27	1.5k	684	445	301	168	70	2.3k
Simon Dietz United Kingdom	26	1.9k 1.2×	659 1.0×	711 1.6×	258 0.9×	366 2.2×	94	2.6k
Kathleen Segerson United States	31	2.5k 1.6×	931 1.4×	271 0.6×	550 1.8×	56 0.3×	121	4.1k
James S. Shortle United States	32	1.7k 1.1×	430 0.6×	225 0.5×	302 1.0×	91 0.5×	119	2.9k
Thomas D. Crocker United States	21	2.2k 1.4×	398 0.6×	477 1.1×	348 1.2×	48 0.3×	83	3.0k
Bengt Kriström Sweden	22	2.0k 1.3×	451 0.7×	319 0.7×	488 1.6×	47 0.3×	90	2.6k
Ken Willis United Kingdom	27	1.8k 1.2×	706 1.0×	188 0.4×	593 2.0×	109 0.6×	90	2.7k
Michael Getzner Austria	21	1.3k 0.9×	464 0.7×	427 1.0×	306 1.0×	37 0.2×	81	2.1k
Jon Strand United States	23	1.1k 0.7×	283 0.4×	340 0.8×	197 0.7×	36 0.2×	120	1.7k
Richard T. Woodward United States	23	1.2k 0.8×	672 1.0×	133 0.3×	497 1.7×	18 0.1×	74	2.1k
Joseph A. Herriges United States	28	2.2k 1.4×	464 0.7×	351 0.8×	376 1.2×	22 0.1×	65	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Groom

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Groom

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Groom

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Groom. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Groom based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Groom. Ben Groom is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Drupp, Moritz A., et al.. (2025). Global Evidence on the Income Elasticity of Willingness to Pay, Relative Price Changes and Public Natural Capital Values. Environmental and Resource Economics. 88(12). 3765–3804.

Venmans, Frank, Wilfried Rickels, & Ben Groom. (2025). Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions. Nature Climate Change. 16(1). 37–42.

Delacote, Philippe, Sylvain Chabé‐Ferret, Anna Cretì, et al.. (2025). Restoring credibility in carbon offsets through systematic ex post evaluation. Nature Sustainability. 8(7). 733–740. 5 indexed citations

Groom, Ben, et al.. (2025). Local people’s preferences for housing development-associated Biodiversity Net Gain in England. Land Use Policy. 158. 107758–107758.

Silvestro, Daniele, et al.. (2025). The 30 by 30 biodiversity commitment and financial disclosure: metrics matter. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 77. 101587–101587.

Drupp, Moritz A., et al.. (2024). Limited Substitutability, Relative Price Changes and the Uplifting of Public Natural Capital Values. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Collins, Rebecca, Ben Balmford, Amy Binner, et al.. (2024). Biodiversity offsets perform poorly for both people and nature, but better approaches are available. One Earth. 7(12). 2165–2174. 2 indexed citations

Groom, Ben & Frank Venmans. (2023). The social value of offsets. Nature. 619(7971). 768–773. 36 indexed citations

Wei, Xin, Lewis O. Grant, Ben Groom, & Chendi Zhang. (2023). Biodiversity Confusion: The Impact of ESG Biodiversity Ratings on Asset Prices. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations

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Nesje, Frikk, Moritz A. Drupp, Mark Freeman, & Ben Groom. (2023). Philosophers and economists agree on climate policy paths but for different reasons. Nature Climate Change. 13(6). 515–522. 17 indexed citations

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Groom, Ben, et al.. (2022). Carbon emissions reductions from Indonesia’s moratorium on forest concessions are cost-effective yet contribute little to Paris pledges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(5). 29 indexed citations

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Groom, Ben, et al.. (2021). Revisiting the link between cereal diversity and production in Ethiopia. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 1(2). 1 indexed citations

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Hänsel, Martin, Moritz A. Drupp, Daniel Johansson, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Climate economics support for the UN climate targets. Nature Climate Change. 11(5). 456–456. 1 indexed citations

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Groom, Ben, et al.. (2021). Reflections on the Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity. Environmental and Resource Economics. 79(1). 1–23. 7 indexed citations

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Venmans, Frank & Ben Groom. (2021). Social discounting, inequality aversion, and the environment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 109. 102479–102479. 18 indexed citations

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Groom, Ben, et al.. (2018). New Estimates of the Elasticity of Marginal Utility for the UK. Environmental and Resource Economics. 72(4). 1155–1182. 48 indexed citations

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Groom, Ben & Charles Palmer. (2009). Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both?. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations

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Groom, Ben, Cameron Hepburn, Phoebe Koundouri, & David Pearce. (2005). Discounting the future: the long and the short of it. Environmental and Resource Economics. 32(4). 21 indexed citations

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Pearce, David, Ben Groom, Cameron Hepburn, & Phoebe Koundouri. (2003). Valuing the future - recent advances in social discounting. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 112 indexed citations

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Pearce, David, Ben Groom, Cameron Hepburn, & Phoebe Koundouri. (2003). Valuing the Future. World Economy. 4(2). 121–141. 83 indexed citations

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