Danny Cullenward

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Danny Cullenward is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Danny Cullenward has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Danny Cullenward's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (22 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (15 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (8 papers). Danny Cullenward is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (22 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (15 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (8 papers). Danny Cullenward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and United Kingdom. Danny Cullenward's co-authors include Grayson Badgley, Jeremy Freeman, William R. L. Anderegg, Anna T. Trugman, James T. Randerson, D. N. Huntzinger, Robert B. Jackson, S. J. Goetz, J. T. R. Nickerson and Christa M. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Danny Cullenward

36 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

2020 504 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Anna T. Trugman et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danny Cullenward United States	14	666	366	211	208	186	37	1.2k
Justin S. Baker United States	22	745 1.1×	526 1.4×	101 0.5×	172 0.8×	354 1.9×	80	1.6k
Valentin Bellassen France	19	843 1.3×	223 0.6×	64 0.3×	329 1.6×	238 1.3×	45	1.3k
Zhao Min China	17	564 0.8×	484 1.3×	185 0.9×	185 0.9×	545 2.9×	64	1.4k
Kenneth Richards United States	16	756 1.1×	621 1.7×	161 0.8×	178 0.9×	196 1.1×	49	1.2k
Dennis Tirpak United States	12	402 0.6×	368 1.0×	174 0.8×	56 0.3×	104 0.6×	24	997
Frank Sperling Austria	13	358 0.5×	204 0.6×	78 0.4×	77 0.4×	197 1.1×	24	1.1k
Wenhua Li China	18	724 1.1×	207 0.6×	41 0.2×	172 0.8×	154 0.8×	73	1.5k
Chundi Chen China	20	404 0.6×	219 0.6×	134 0.6×	62 0.3×	361 1.9×	64	1.0k
Daniel Steinberg United States	15	263 0.4×	163 0.4×	263 1.2×	219 1.1×	403 2.2×	34	1.3k
Thales A. P. West United States	18	733 1.1×	387 1.1×	54 0.3×	158 0.8×	89 0.5×	40	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danny Cullenward

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

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Grubert, Emily, et al.. (2025). Greenhouse gas offsets distort the effect of clean energy tax credits in the United States. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 15001–15001. 2 indexed citations

Anderegg, William R. L., Christa M. Anderson, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2025). Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests. Nature. 643(8074). 1214–1222. 4 indexed citations

Haya, Barbara, Christa M. Anderson, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2024). Funding forests’ climate potential without carbon offsets. One Earth. 7(7). 1147–1150. 5 indexed citations

Cullenward, Danny, et al.. (2023). Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. One Earth. 6(9). 1085–1088. 19 indexed citations

Badgley, Grayson, et al.. (2022). California’s forest carbon offsets buffer pool is severely undercapitalized. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 44 indexed citations

Badgley, Grayson, Jeremy Freeman, Joseph Hamman, et al.. (2021). Systematic over‐crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program. Global Change Biology. 28(4). 1433–1445. 125 indexed citations

Anderegg, William R. L., Anna T. Trugman, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2020). Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests. Science. 368(6497). 504 indexed citations breakdown →

Mastrandrea, Michael D., et al.. (2020). Analyzing California’s framework for estimating greenhouse gas emissions associated with retail electricity sales. The Electricity Journal. 33(8). 106818–106818. 5 indexed citations

Mastrandrea, Michael D., Mason Inman, & Danny Cullenward. (2019). WCI-RULES: An open-source model of the Western Climate Initiative cap-and-trade program with supply-demand scenarios through 2030. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Cullenward, Danny & Shelley Welton. (2018). The Quiet Undoing: How Regional Electricity Market Reforms Threaten State Clean Energy Goals. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Victor, David G., et al.. (2017). Prove Paris was more than paper promises. Nature. 548(7665). 25–27. 88 indexed citations

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Cullenward, Danny & Andy Coghlan. (2016). Structural oversupply and credibility in California’s carbon market. The Electricity Journal. 29(5). 7–14. 23 indexed citations

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Wara, Michael W., Danny Cullenward, & Rachel Teitelbaum. (2015). Peak Electricity and the Clean Power Plan. The Electricity Journal. 28(4). 18–27. 9 indexed citations

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Cullenward, Danny & Jonathan Koomey. (2015). A critique of Saunders' ‘historical evidence for energy efficiency rebound in 30 us sectors’. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 103. 203–213. 6 indexed citations

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Cullenward, Danny, et al.. (2014). Resource Shuffling and the California Carbon Market. 5 indexed citations

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Cullenward, Danny. (2014). Leakage in California's Carbon Market: Preliminary Trading Is Consistent with Expected Impacts of Regulatory Changes. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Cullenward, Danny, Jordan Wilkerson, Michael W. Wara, & John P. Weyant. (2014). Dynamically Estimating the Distributional Impacts of U.S. Climate Policy with NEMS: A Case Study of the Climate Protection Act of 2013. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Wilkerson, Jordan, et al.. (2013). End use technology choice in the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS): An analysis of the residential and commercial building sectors. Energy Economics. 40. 773–784. 48 indexed citations

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Cullenward, Danny. (2009). Carbon Capture and Storage: An Assessment of Required Technological Growth Rates and Capital Investments. 2 indexed citations

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Victor, David G. & Danny Cullenward. (2007). Ways to curb carbon.. Scientific American. 297(6). 77–77. 1 indexed citations

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