David J. Frame

13.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
88 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

David J. Frame is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David J. Frame has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in David J. Frame's work include Climate variability and models (44 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (34 papers). David J. Frame is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (44 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (34 papers). David J. Frame collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and United States. David J. Frame's co-authors include Myles Allen, Malte Meinshausen, Nicolai Meinshausen, Reto Knutti, S. C. B. Raper, Bill Hare, Katja Frieler, Jason Lowe, Chris Jones and Chris Huntingford and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David J. Frame

85 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

2009 2.1k citations Malte Meinshausen, Nicolai Meinshausen et al. Nature profile →
Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

2009 1.2k citations Myles Allen, David J. Frame et al. Nature profile →
Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases

2005 857 citations David J. Frame, Myles Allen et al. Nature profile →
Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties

2010 456 citations David J. Frame et al. profile →
Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

2017 385 citations Richard Millar, Jan S. Fuglestvedt et al. profile →
A solution to the misrepresentations of CO2-equivalent emissions of short-lived climate pollutants under ambitious mitigation

2018 272 citations Myles Allen, Jan S. Fuglestvedt et al. profile →
Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors

2021 259 citations John Lynch, Michelle Cain et al. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
David J. Frame	4.5k	2.5k	2.3k	1.5k	1.1k	88	8.7k
H. Damon Matthews	4.6k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	142	9.3k
John P. Weyant	4.0k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	116	9.3k
Katherine Calvin	5.6k 1.2×	3.1k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	2.4k 2.1×	158	12.3k
Bill Hare	2.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	937 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	59	6.8k
Jan S. Fuglestvedt	3.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	124	7.7k
Katja Frieler	5.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.6k 1.1×	898 0.6×	966 0.8×	106	10.0k
S. C. B. Raper	6.0k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	4.6k 2.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	61	10.3k
Michiel Schaeffer	2.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	905 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	62	6.0k
Bas van Ruijven	2.6k 0.6×	2.4k 0.9×	773 0.3×	2.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	103	8.5k
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	3.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.9×	814 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	3	9.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David J. Frame

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Rosier, Suzanne M., et al.. (2025). Statistical modelling of extreme daily rainfall over Aotearoa New Zealand. Weather and Climate Extremes. 49. 100799–100799. 1 indexed citations

Revell, Laura E., et al.. (2025). Drivers of Regional Variation in the De-Emergence of Climate Change under Negative Emissions. Journal of Climate. 38(5). 1333–1350. 1 indexed citations

Frame, David J.. (2024). Using emerging climate signals to inform mitigation and adaptation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2.

Noy, Ilan, Michael Wehner, Dáithí A. Stone, et al.. (2023). Event attribution is ready to inform loss and damage negotiations. Nature Climate Change. 13(12). 1279–1281. 14 indexed citations

Robertson, F. R., et al.. (2023). Signal‐To‐Noise Calculations of Emergence and De‐Emergence of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(16). 4 indexed citations

Melia, Nathanael, S. M. Dean, H. Grant Pearce, et al.. (2022). Aotearoa New Zealand's 21st‐Century Wildfire Climate. Earth s Future. 10(6). 22 indexed citations

Otto, Friederike E. L., Luke J. Harrington, David J. Frame, et al.. (2021). The Need for Systematic Assessment of Loss and Damage Due to Climate Change. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(9). 833–836. 1 indexed citations

Cain, Michelle, Stuart Jenkins, Myles Allen, et al.. (2021). Methane and the Paris Agreement temperature goals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 380(2215). 20200456–20200456. 26 indexed citations

Stone, Dáithí A., Suzanne M. Rosier, & David J. Frame. (2021). The question of life, the universe and event attribution. Nature Climate Change. 11(4). 276–278. 27 indexed citations

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King, Andrew D., Josephine R. Brown, David J. Frame, et al.. (2021). Transient and Quasi‐Equilibrium Climate States at 1.5°C and 2°C Global Warming. Earth s Future. 9(11). 21 indexed citations

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Lynch, John, Michelle Cain, David J. Frame, & Raymond T. Pierrehumbert. (2021). Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4. 518039–518039. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hawkins, Ed, David J. Frame, Luke J. Harrington, et al.. (2020). Observed Emergence of the Climate Change Signal: From the Familiar to the Unknown. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(6). 108 indexed citations

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Frame, David J., Luke J. Harrington, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, et al.. (2019). Emissions and emergence: a new index comparing relative contributions to climate change with relative climatic consequences. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 84009–84009. 14 indexed citations

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Harrington, Luke J., et al.. (2018). How uneven are the impacts of a 1.5°C world and beyond?. EGUGA. 5780. 1 indexed citations

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Frame, David J. & Cameron Hepburn. (2010). An issue of trust: state corruption, responsibility and greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 5(1). 14004–14004. 5 indexed citations

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Allen, M. R., David J. Frame, Chris Huntingford, Chris Jones, & Jason Lowe. (2009). Impact of cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide: the trillionth tonne. EGUGA. 13409. 1 indexed citations

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Yamazaki, Y. H., M. R. Allen, Chris Huntingford, David J. Frame, & David Frank. (2009). Refining future climate projections using uncertain climate data of the last millennium. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17(4). 1204–9. 1 indexed citations

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Allen, Myles, David J. Frame, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2009). Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne. Nature. 458(7242). 1163–1166. 1175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meinshausen, Malte, Nicolai Meinshausen, Bill Hare, et al.. (2009). Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C. Nature. 458(7242). 1158–1162. 2056 indexed citations breakdown →

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Frame, David J., et al.. (2000). A new technique for evaluating mesospheric momentum balance utilizing radars and satellite data. Annales Geophysicae. 18(4). 478–484. 2 indexed citations

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