Brian C. O’Neill

33.7k citations

168 papers · 17.3k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 52

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 77
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 35
- Climate variability and models 27
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 16
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 12
Economics and Econometrics 75
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 65

Co-authors: Keywan Riahi Elmar Kriegler Detlef P. van Vuuren Leiwen Jiang Kristie L. Ebi Claudia Tebaldi Bryan Jones Benjamin M. Sanderson
Journals: Climatic Change (21 papers)Environmental Research Letters (16 papers)Nature Climate Change (10 papers)Energy Economics (6 papers)Global Environmental Change (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Austria Germany

In The Last Decade

Brian C. O’Neill

161 papers receiving 16.6k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework 2020 · 366 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature Climate Change
2020 Nature Communications
2017 Nature Climate Change
2016 Environmental Research Letters
2016 Geoscientific model development
2015 Global Environmental Change
2015 Global Environmental Change
2013 Climatic Change
2013 Climatic Change
2012 Global Environmental Change

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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1	Omitting labor responses underestimates the effects of future heat stress on agriculture Communications Earth & Environment ·Graeme McCrory, Xin Zhao, Jae Edmonds, Stephanie Waldhoff, Pralit Patel, Brian C. O’Neill, Claudia Tebaldi, Marshall Wise	2025	1
2	Labour market evolution is a key determinant of global agroeconomic and environmental futures Nature Food ·Graeme McCrory, Jae Edmonds, Pralit Patel, Stephanie Waldhoff, Brian C. O’Neill, Marshall Wise, Xin Zhao	2025	4
3	A Framework for Multisector Scenarios of Outcomes for Well‐Being and Resilience Earth s Future ·Brian C. O’Neill, Jennifer Morris, Jonathan Lamontagne, John P. Weyant, Marshall Wise	2024	1
4	Non-parametric projections of national income distribution consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Environmental Research Letters ·Kanishka B. Narayan, Brian C. O’Neill, Stephanie Waldhoff, Claudia Tebaldi	2023	7
5	Envisioning a future with climate change Nature Climate Change ·Brian C. O’Neill	2023	11
6	Non-parametric projections of the net-income distribution for all U.S. states for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Environmental Research Letters ·Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Kongress, Kanishka B. Narayan, Brian C. O’Neill, Stephanie Waldhoff, Ehrmann Eh, J. J. Freilinger	2023	0
7	SSP‐Based Land‐Use Change Scenarios: A Critical Uncertainty in Future Regional Climate Change Projections Earth s Future ·Melissa Bukovsky, Jing Gao, Linda O. Mearns, Brian C. O’Neill	2021	29
8	Conditional Probabilistic Population Forecasting Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) ·Warren C. Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov, Brian C. O’Neill, Wolfgang Lutz	2021	4
9	Burning embers: towards more transparent and robust climate-change risk assessments Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Zinta Zommers, Philippe Marbaix, Andreas Fischlin, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Sean Grant, Alexandre Magnan, Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Mark Howden, Katherine Calvin, Koko Warner, Wim Thiery, Zita Sebesvári, Édouard L. Davin, Jason P. Evans, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Brian C. O’Neill, Anand Patwardhan, Rachel Warren, Maarten van Aalst, Susan Kirby-Smith	2020	44
10	Population scenarios for U.S. states consistent with shared socioeconomic pathways Environmental Research Letters ·Leiwen Jiang, Brian C. O’Neill, 马德有, Sheldon Rj	2020	16
11	U.S. State-level Projections of the Spatial Distribution of Population Consistent with Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Sustainability ·马德有, Brian C. O’Neill	2020	28
12	Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Nature Communications ·Jing Gao, Brian C. O’Neill Hit paper breakdown →	2020	427
13	A GAMS/MPSGE implementation of the PET model American Journal of Agricultural Economics ·Matthias Weitzel, Edward J. Balistreri, Brian C. O’Neill, Xiaolin Ren	2019	1
14	Population Projection for the US States under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways Based on global gridded population projections UCAR/NCAR ·Leiwen Jiang, 马德有, Brian C. O’Neill	2018	9
15	Avoiding population exposure to heat-related extremes: demographic change vs climate change Climatic Change ·Bryan Jones, Claudia Tebaldi, Brian C. O’Neill, Keith W. Oleson, Jing Gao	2018	107
16	Spatial Modeling of Agricultural Land-Use Change at Global Scale RePEc: Research Papers in Economics ·Prasanth Meiyappan, Michael Dalton, Brian C. O’Neill, Atul K. Jain	2013	2
17	Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Brian C. O’Neill, Michael Dalton, Regina Fuchs, Leiwen Jiang, Shonali Pachauri, Kataŕına Zigová	2010	347
18	Applications of probabilistic population forecasting IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Warren C. Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov, Lutz Walter, Brian C. O’Neill	2004	3
19	Demographic composition and projections of car use in Austria Vienna Yearbook of Population Research ·Alexia Prskawetz, Leiwen Jiang, Brian C. O’Neill	2004	51
20	Design and Implementation of an Inter-Process Communication Model for an Embedded Distributed Processing Network DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University) ·Kwang‐Leong Choy, Adrian A. Hopgood, Lars Nolle, Brian C. O’Neill	2003	2

About Brian C. O’Neill

Brian C. O’Neill is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Demography, having authored 168 papers that have together received 17.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (65 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (35 papers), demographic modeling and climate adaptation (31 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (20 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (15 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (9.0k citations), Atmospheric Science (3.3k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.5k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (2.0k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (3.8k citations). Brian C. O’Neill has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Austria and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Keywan Riahi, Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Leiwen Jiang, Kristie L. Ebi, Claudia Tebaldi, Bryan Jones, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Stéphane Hallegatte and Timothy R. Carter. Their work appears in journals such as Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Energy Economics and Global Environmental Change.

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