Florian Humpenöder

20.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
63 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Florian Humpenöder is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Humpenöder has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 21 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Florian Humpenöder's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (19 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (13 papers). Florian Humpenöder is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (19 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (13 papers). Florian Humpenöder collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Florian Humpenöder's co-authors include Alexander Popp, Hermann Lotze‐Campen, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, Miodrag Stevanović, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Gunnar Luderer, Christoph Müller, Michaja Pehl and Markus Bonsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Florian Humpenöder

61 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Reactive nitrogen requirements to feed the world in 2050 ... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 2021 2022 2022 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Reactive nitrogen requirements to feed the world in 2050 and potential to mitigate nitrogen pollution
    2014 424 citations Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Alexander Popp et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Understanding future emissions from low-carbon power systems by integration of life-cycle assessment and integrated energy modelling
    2017 379 citations Michaja Pehl, Anders Arvesen et al. Nature Energy profile →
  3. Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios
    2021 365 citations Gunnar Luderer, Leon Merfort et al. Nature Energy profile →
  4. Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities
    2022 168 citations Abhijeet Mishra, Florian Humpenöder et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Projected environmental benefits of replacing beef with microbial protein
    2022 145 citations Florian Humpenöder, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florian Humpenöder Germany 33 1.1k 1.0k 936 867 672 63 4.2k
Jonathan Doelman Netherlands 30 1.0k 1.0× 1.8k 1.8× 996 1.1× 1.0k 1.2× 522 0.8× 61 4.9k
Göran Berndes Sweden 41 1.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 512 0.5× 811 0.9× 664 1.0× 139 6.1k
Tim Beringer Germany 21 1.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 894 1.0× 606 0.7× 520 0.8× 32 3.9k
Tomoko Hasegawa Japan 40 1.3k 1.2× 1.7k 1.7× 1.7k 1.8× 1.1k 1.3× 751 1.1× 136 5.7k
Stefan Frank Austria 28 884 0.8× 791 0.8× 901 1.0× 1.0k 1.2× 450 0.7× 57 3.3k
Benjamin Leon Bodirsky Germany 44 1.3k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.2× 1.9k 2.2× 704 1.0× 98 6.9k
Florian Kraxner Austria 43 1.6k 1.4× 2.8k 2.7× 1.1k 1.2× 1.8k 2.0× 664 1.0× 148 7.3k
Vassilis Daioglou Netherlands 34 1.6k 1.5× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.3× 377 0.4× 1.1k 1.6× 70 5.2k
A.R. van Amstel Netherlands 6 2.1k 2.0× 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 619 0.9× 14 5.5k
David Gernaat Netherlands 26 874 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 296 0.3× 895 1.3× 40 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Florian Humpenöder

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florian Humpenöder

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Humpenöder

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beier, Felicitas, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Jens Heinke, et al.. (2025). Planetary boundaries under a land-based climate change mitigation scenario with a food demand transformation: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(10). 101249–101249. 2 indexed citations
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Orlov, Anton, Felix Havermann, Julia Pongratz, et al.. (2025). Limited Effect of Future Land‐Use Changes on Human Heat Stress and Labor Capacity. Earth s Future. 13(1). 1 indexed citations
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Strefler, Jessica, Leon Merfort, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2024). Technology availability, sector policies and behavioral change are complementary strategies for achieving net-zero emissions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8440–8440. 4 indexed citations
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Arvesen, Anders, Florian Humpenöder, Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez, et al.. (2024). Advancing life cycle assessment of bioenergy crops with global land use models. Environmental Research Communications. 6(12). 125004–125004.
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Humpenöder, Florian, Alexander Popp, Leon Merfort, et al.. (2024). Food matters: Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways in line with the Paris Agreement. Science Advances. 10(13). eadj3832–eadj3832. 15 indexed citations
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Merfort, Leon, Nico Bauer, Florian Humpenöder, et al.. (2023). Bioenergy-induced land-use-change emissions with sectorally fragmented policies. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 685–692. 25 indexed citations
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Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Galina Churkina, et al.. (2022). Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4889–4889. 168 indexed citations breakdown →
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Humpenöder, Florian, et al.. (2022). Accounting for local temperature effect substantially alters afforestation patterns. Environmental Research Letters. 17(2). 24030–24030. 5 indexed citations
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Luderer, Gunnar, Leon Merfort, Falko Ueckerdt, et al.. (2022). Author Correction: Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios. Nature Energy. 7(4). 380–381. 4 indexed citations
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Doelman, Jonathan, Felicitas Beier, Elke Stehfest, et al.. (2022). Quantifying synergies and trade-offs in the global water-land-food-climate nexus using a multi-model scenario approach. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 45004–45004. 37 indexed citations
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Luderer, Gunnar, Leon Merfort, Falko Ueckerdt, et al.. (2021). Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios. Nature Energy. 7(1). 32–42. 365 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Jan Philipp Dietrich, et al.. (2021). Estimating global land system impacts of timber plantations using MAgPIE 4.3.5. Geoscientific model development. 14(10). 6467–6494. 11 indexed citations
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Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Jan Philipp Dietrich, et al.. (2021). Estimating global land system impacts of timber plantations using MAgPIE 4.3.2. 1 indexed citations
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Dietrich, Jan Philipp, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, et al.. (2021). MAgPIE - An Open Source land-use modeling framework. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Elke Stehfest, et al.. (2020). Mapping the yields of lignocellulosic bioenergy crops from observations at the global scale. Earth system science data. 12(2). 789–804. 40 indexed citations
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Krause, Andreas, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Anita D. Bayer, et al.. (2018). Large uncertainty in carbon uptake potential of land‐based climate‐change mitigation efforts. Global Change Biology. 24(7). 3025–3038. 61 indexed citations
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Meijl, Hans van, Peter Havlík, Hermann Lotze‐Campen, et al.. (2018). Comparing impacts of climate change and mitigation on global agriculture by 2050. Environmental Research Letters. 13(6). 64021–64021. 103 indexed citations
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Pikaar, Ilje, Silvio Matassa, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, et al.. (2018). Decoupling Livestock from Land Use through Industrial Feed Production Pathways. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(13). 7351–7359. 127 indexed citations
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Krause, Andreas, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Anita D. Bayer, et al.. (2017). Global consequences of afforestation and bioenergy cultivation on ecosystem service indicators. Biogeosciences. 14(21). 4829–4850. 36 indexed citations
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Humpenöder, Florian, et al.. (2011). Analysing land-use effects on the carbon balance of biofuels by coupling a spatial model to LCA.. EnviroInfo. 582–591. 1 indexed citations

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