Chris Smith

16.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
127 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Chris Smith is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Smith has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 66 papers in Atmospheric Science and 28 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Chris Smith's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (35 papers) and Climate variability and models (34 papers). Chris Smith is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (58 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (35 papers) and Climate variability and models (34 papers). Chris Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Austria and United States. Chris Smith's co-authors include Piers Forster, Drew Shindell, Joeri Rogelj, R. Crook, Dominic Kniveton, Katarzyna Tokarska, Richard Black, Amanda C. Maycock, Sebastian Sippel and Reto Knutti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chris Smith

122 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Climate and air-quality benefits of a realistic phase-out of fossil fuels

2019 499 citations Chris Smith et al. profile →
Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models

2020 447 citations Katarzyna Tokarska, Martin B. Stolpe et al. Science Advances profile →
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19

2020 437 citations Piers Forster, Robin Lamboll et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
An inherently mass‐conserving semi‐implicit semi‐Lagrangian discretization of the deep‐atmosphere global non‐hydrostatic equations

2013 348 citations Nigel Wood, Thomas Melvin et al. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society profile →
A calcite reference material for LA‐ICP‐MS U‐Pb geochronology

2017 330 citations Chris Smith et al. profile →
Estimating and tracking the remaining carbon budget for stringent climate targets

2019 258 citations Joeri Rogelj, Piers Forster et al. profile →
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets

2023 111 citations Robin Lamboll, Zebedee Nicholls et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Chemistry-albedo feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation’s CO ₂ removal benefits

2024 46 citations Chris Smith et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Smith United Kingdom	42	2.9k	2.3k	829	713	576	127	6.5k
Gian‐Kasper Plattner Switzerland	36	5.9k 2.0×	3.2k 1.4×	811 1.0×	1.0k 1.4×	748 1.3×	62	11.1k
Makiko Sato United States	27	4.7k 1.6×	4.2k 1.8×	574 0.7×	550 0.8×	537 0.9×	53	8.8k
Atul K. Jain United States	46	4.9k 1.7×	1.8k 0.8×	999 1.2×	812 1.1×	1.0k 1.8×	211	10.0k
Anders Levermann Germany	47	4.2k 1.4×	4.9k 2.1×	365 0.4×	837 1.2×	510 0.9×	175	9.3k
Michael E. Schlesinger United States	43	5.0k 1.7×	3.7k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	1.6k 2.2×	649 1.1×	125	8.9k
J. S. Daniel United States	37	5.8k 2.0×	5.6k 2.4×	502 0.6×	595 0.8×	834 1.4×	81	12.2k
Katja Frieler Germany	39	5.2k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	898 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	966 1.7×	106	10.0k
H. Damon Matthews Canada	47	4.6k 1.6×	2.3k 1.0×	1.6k 2.0×	2.6k 3.6×	1.6k 2.8×	142	9.3k
S. C. B. Raper United Kingdom	36	6.0k 2.1×	4.6k 2.0×	1.2k 1.4×	2.1k 3.0×	1.0k 1.7×	61	10.3k
Jens Hartmann Germany	56	3.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	691 0.8×	761 1.1×	3.0k 5.2×	196	13.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Smith

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Pfleiderer, Peter, Thomas L. Frölicher, Chahan M. Kropf, et al.. (2025). Reversal of the impact chain for actionable climate information. Nature Geoscience. 18(1). 10–19. 1 indexed citations

Nauels, Alexander, Zebedee Nicholls, Tim H. J. Hermans, et al.. (2025). Multi-century global and regional sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. Nature Climate Change. 15(11). 1198–1204.

Melvin, Thomas, Ben Shipway, Nigel Wood, et al.. (2024). A mixed finite‐element, finite‐volume, semi‐implicit discretisation for atmospheric dynamics: Spherical geometry. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(764). 4252–4269. 3 indexed citations

Fredriksen, Hege‐Beate, Chris Smith, Angshuman Modak, & Maria Rugenstein. (2023). 21st Century Scenario Forcing Increases More for CMIP6 Than CMIP5 Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(6). 14 indexed citations

Lamboll, Robin, Zebedee Nicholls, Chris Smith, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets. Nature Climate Change. 14(1). 106–106. 2 indexed citations

Fiedler, Stephanie, Twan van Noije, Chris Smith, et al.. (2023). Historical Changes and Reasons for Model Differences in Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing in CMIP6. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15). 10 indexed citations

Mitchell, Dann, E. J. Stone, Oliver Andrews, et al.. (2022). The Bristol CMIP6 Data Hackathon. Weather. 77(6). 218–221. 4 indexed citations

Wiltshire, Andy, Dan Bernie, Laila Gohar, et al.. (2022). Post COP26: does the 1.5°C climate target remain alive?. Weather. 77(12). 412–417. 5 indexed citations

Purohit, Pallav, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Nathan Borgford‐Parnell, Zbigniew Klimont, & Chris Smith. (2022). The key role of propane in a sustainable cooling sector. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(34). e2206131119–e2206131119. 8 indexed citations

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Kramer, Ryan J., Haozhe He, Brian J. Soden, et al.. (2021). Observational Evidence of Increasing Global Radiative Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 62 indexed citations

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Andrews, Timothy, Chris Smith, Gunnar Myhre, et al.. (2021). Effective Radiative Forcing in a GCM With Fixed Surface Temperatures. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(4). 25 indexed citations

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Smith, Chris, Ryan J. Kramer, Gunnar Myhre, et al.. (2020). Effective Radiative Forcing and Adjustments in CMIP6. 1 indexed citations

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Tokarska, Katarzyna, Martin B. Stolpe, Sebastian Sippel, et al.. (2020). Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models. Science Advances. 6(12). eaaz9549–eaaz9549. 447 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stolpe, Martin B., Katarzyna Tokarska, Sebastian Sippel, et al.. (2020). Past warming trend constrains future warming in CMIP6 models. 3 indexed citations

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Nauels, Alexander, Thorsten Mauritsen, Amanda C. Maycock, et al.. (2019). ZERO IN ON the remaining carbon budget and decadal warming rates. The CONSTRAIN Project Annual Report 2019. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 6 indexed citations

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Mayne, Nathan J., Florian Debras, I. Baraffe, et al.. (2017). Results from a set of three-dimensional numerical experiments of a hot Jupiter atmosphere. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 48 indexed citations

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Kovács, Tamás, Wuhu Feng, J. M. C. Plane, et al.. (2017). Determination of the atmospheric lifetime and global warming potential of sulfur hexafluoride using a three-dimensional model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(2). 883–898. 55 indexed citations

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Smith, Chris, Piers Forster, Myles Allen, et al.. (2017). FAIR v1.1: A simple emissions-based impulse response and carbon cycle model. 11 indexed citations

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Amundsen, D. S., Nathan J. Mayne, I. Baraffe, et al.. (2016). The UK Met Office global circulation model with a sophisticated radiation scheme applied to the hot Jupiter HD 209458b. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 77 indexed citations

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Mayne, Nathan J., I. Baraffe, David M. Acreman, et al.. (2014). Using the UM dynamical cores to reproduce idealised 3-D flows. Geoscientific model development. 7(6). 3059–3087. 44 indexed citations

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