Dan Welsby

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 767 citations indexed

About

Dan Welsby is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Pollution and General Energy. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Welsby has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 767 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 2 papers in Pollution and 2 papers in General Energy. Recurrent topics in Dan Welsby's work include Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (2 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). Dan Welsby is often cited by papers focused on Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (2 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). Dan Welsby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Kenya and France. Dan Welsby's co-authors include Steve Pye, James Price, Paul Ekins, Greg Muttitt, Nick Hughes, Alvaro Calzadilla, Chris Bataille, Matthew Winning, Will McDowall and Olivier Dessens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Dan Welsby

6 papers receiving 753 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.

Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world

2021 608 citations Dan Welsby, James Price et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Dan Welsby	325	175	154	114	113	6	767
Amy Myers Jaffe	306 0.9×	300 1.7×	96 0.6×	78 0.7×	76 0.7×	68	963
Thomas Longden	318 1.0×	168 1.0×	311 2.0×	108 0.9×	54 0.5×	47	1.0k
Ahmed Abdulla	140 0.4×	144 0.8×	209 1.4×	96 0.8×	97 0.9×	39	694
Chi-Jen Yang	288 0.9×	134 0.8×	360 2.3×	107 0.9×	39 0.3×	20	962
Manfred Häfner	275 0.8×	187 1.1×	239 1.6×	155 1.4×	78 0.7×	48	1.1k
Brent Wanner	304 0.9×	169 1.0×	313 2.0×	73 0.6×	72 0.6×	3	1.1k
Davide D’Ambrosio	304 0.9×	168 1.0×	373 2.4×	80 0.7×	72 0.6×	18	1.2k
Janssens-Maenhout Greet	157 0.5×	195 1.1×	67 0.4×	76 0.7×	198 1.8×	32	918
Xue Min	329 1.0×	61 0.3×	77 0.5×	111 1.0×	93 0.8×	35	814
Óscar Carpintero	405 1.2×	308 1.8×	133 0.9×	53 0.5×	125 1.1×	35	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Welsby

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Welsby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Dan Welsby. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Dan Welsby. The network helps show where Dan Welsby may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Welsby

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

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Pye, Steve, Michael Bradshaw, James Price, et al.. (2025). The global implications of a Russian gas pivot to Asia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 386–386. 1 indexed citations

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Hoseinpoori, Pooya, et al.. (2024). Mid- to long-term capacity planning for a reliable power system in Kenya. Energy Strategy Reviews. 52. 101312–101312. 12 indexed citations

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Muttitt, Greg, James Price, Steve Pye, & Dan Welsby. (2023). Socio-political feasibility of coal power phase-out and its role in mitigation pathways. Nature Climate Change. 13(2). 140–147. 66 indexed citations

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Pye, Steve, Dan Welsby, Will McDowall, et al.. (2022). Regional uptake of direct reduction iron production using hydrogen under climate policy. 3. 100087–100087. 18 indexed citations

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Welsby, Dan, James Price, Steve Pye, & Paul Ekins. (2021). Unextractable fossil fuels in a 1.5 °C world. Nature. 597(7875). 230–234. 608 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pye, Steve, et al.. (2020). An equitable redistribution of unburnable carbon. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3968–3968. 62 indexed citations

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