Christian Bauer

16.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
120 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Christian Bauer is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Bauer has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 43 papers in Environmental Engineering and 25 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christian Bauer's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (40 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (25 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (18 papers). Christian Bauer is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (40 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (25 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (18 papers). Christian Bauer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Christian Bauer's co-authors include Jürgen Reinhard, Bernhard Steubing, Gregor Wernet, Emilia Moreno‐Ruiz, Bo P. Weidema, Tom Terlouw, Marco Mazzotti, Karin Treyer, Christopher Mutel and Xiaojin Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christian Bauer

112 papers receiving 11.8k 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.

The ecoinvent database version 3 (part I): overview and methodology

2016 3.9k citations Christian Bauer et al. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment profile →
Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation

2021 443 citations Falko Ueckerdt, Christian Bauer et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Large-scale hydrogen production via water electrolysis: a techno-economic and environmental assessment

2022 404 citations Tom Terlouw, Christian Bauer et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
PRospective EnvironMental Impact asSEment (premise): A streamlined approach to producing databases for prospective life cycle assessment using integrated assessment models

2022 282 citations Romain Sacchi, Tom Terlouw et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →
Perspective on the hydrogen economy as a pathway to reach net-zero CO₂emissions in Europe

2022 269 citations Mijndert van der Spek, Christian Bauer et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production

2021 233 citations Christian Bauer, Karin Treyer et al. Sustainable Energy & Fuels profile →
Life cycle assessment of carbon dioxide removal technologies: a critical review

2021 215 citations Tom Terlouw, Christian Bauer et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs

2021 144 citations Russell McKenna, Stefan Pfenninger et al. Renewable Energy profile →
On the cost competitiveness of blue and green hydrogen

2024 99 citations Falko Ueckerdt, Christian Bauer et al. profile →

Peers

Christian Bauer

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M. Patel Switzerland

Anders Hammer Strømman Norway

Vasilis Fthenakis United States

Enas Taha Sayed Egypt

Morgan Bazilian United States

Michael Wang United States

Amit Kumar Canada

Gregory A. Keoleian United States

Jingzheng Ren Hong Kong

Adisa Azapagic United Kingdom

M. Patel Switzerland

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Countries citing papers authored by Christian Bauer

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Bauer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Bauer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Bauer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Bauer 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 Christian Bauer. Christian Bauer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Terlouw, Tom, et al.. (2026). Global cost drivers and regional trade-offs for low-carbon fuels: a prospective techno-economic assessment. Energy & Environmental Science.

Sacchi, Romain, et al.. (2025). Contextual LCIA without the overhead: an exchange-based framework for flexible impact assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(12). 3087–3101. 1 indexed citations

Douziech, Mélanie, Christian Bauer, Vasco Diogo, et al.. (2025). Prospective LCA to support the agri-food sector’s transition towards sustainability—89th LCA discussion forum conference report. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(12). 2794–2798.

Liu, Zipeng, Meixi Zhang, Christian Bauer, & Russell McKenna. (2025). The role of low carbon fuels towards net-zero in integrated assessment models and energy system models: A critical review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 215. 115608–115608. 3 indexed citations

Terlouw, Tom, Christian Moretti, Carina Harpprecht, et al.. (2025). Global greenhouse gas emissions mitigation potential of existing and planned hydrogen projects. Nature Energy. 10(12). 1503–1515. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaojin, Alina Walch, Martin Rüdisüli, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the levelized costs and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of electricity generation from rooftop solar photovoltaics: a Swiss case study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 45002–45002.

Pareschi, Giacomo, et al.. (2024). Fast as a plane, clean as a train? Prospective life cycle assessment of a hyperloop system. Resources Environment and Sustainability. 17. 100162–100162. 2 indexed citations

Terlouw, Tom, Nikolaos Savvakis, Christian Bauer, Russell McKenna, & George Arampatzis. (2024). Designing multi-energy systems in Mediterranean regions towards energy autonomy. Applied Energy. 377. 124458–124458. 6 indexed citations

Sacchi, Romain, Tom Terlouw, Kais Siala, et al.. (2022). PRospective EnvironMental Impact asSEment (premise): A streamlined approach to producing databases for prospective life cycle assessment using integrated assessment models. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 160. 112311–112311. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Paulillo, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Simplified models for predicting the environmental impacts of geothermal power generation. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 6. 100086–100086. 8 indexed citations

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Terlouw, Tom, Tarek AlSkaif, Christian Bauer, Marco Mazzotti, & Russell McKenna. (2022). Designing residential energy systems considering prospective costs and life cycle GHG emissions. Applied Energy. 331. 120362–120362. 17 indexed citations

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Dirnaichner, Alois, Marianna Rottoli, Romain Sacchi, et al.. (2022). Life-cycle impacts from different decarbonization pathways for the European car fleet. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44009–44009. 23 indexed citations

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McKenna, Russell, Stefan Pfenninger, Heidi Heinrichs, et al.. (2021). High-resolution large-scale onshore wind energy assessments: A review of potential definitions, methodologies and future research needs. Renewable Energy. 182. 659–684. 144 indexed citations breakdown →

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Antonini, Cristina, Karin Treyer, Emanuele Moioli, et al.. (2021). Hydrogen from wood gasification with CCS – a techno-environmental analysis of production and use as transport fuel. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 5(10). 2602–2621. 54 indexed citations

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Ueckerdt, Falko, Christian Bauer, Alois Dirnaichner, et al.. (2021). Potential and risks of hydrogen-based e-fuels in climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change. 11(5). 384–393. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bauer, Christian, Karin Treyer, Cristina Antonini, et al.. (2021). On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 6(1). 66–75. 233 indexed citations breakdown →

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Paulillo, Andrea, et al.. (2021). Influential parameters for estimating the environmental impacts of geothermal power: A global sensitivity analysis study. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 3. 100054–100054. 13 indexed citations

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Antonini, Cristina, Karin Treyer, Anne Streb, et al.. (2020). Hydrogen production from natural gas and biomethane with carbon capture and storage – A techno-environmental analysis. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 4(6). 2967–2986. 241 indexed citations

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Cox, Brian, Hans‐Jörg Althaus, Christian Bauer, et al.. (2020). Umweltauswirkungen von Fahrzeugen im urbanen Kontext. Schlussbericht. DORA PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute). 2 indexed citations

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Bauer, Christian, et al.. (2000). Web Based Learning: Aspects of Cultural Differences. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1396–1402. 8 indexed citations

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