Ilissa Ocko

1.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
18 papers, 891 citations indexed

About

Ilissa Ocko is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilissa Ocko has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 891 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Ilissa Ocko's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (7 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers). Ilissa Ocko is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (7 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers). Ilissa Ocko collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Ilissa Ocko's co-authors include Steven P. Hamburg, Tianyi Sun, Catherine Ivanovich, Michael Oppenheimer, Stephen W. Pacala, Doria R. Gordon, Yi Ming, A.N. Hristov, Denise L. Mauzerall and Drew Shindell and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ilissa Ocko

17 papers receiving 867 citations

Hit Papers

Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitiga... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2022 2023 50 100 150 200
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. Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming
    2021 209 citations Ilissa Ocko, Tianyi Sun et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
  2. Climate consequences of hydrogen emissions
    2022 146 citations Ilissa Ocko, Steven P. Hamburg Atmospheric chemistry and physics profile →
  3. Future warming from global food consumption
    2023 131 citations Catherine Ivanovich, Tianyi Sun et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ilissa Ocko United States 12 393 225 161 125 117 18 891
Clemens Schwingshackl Germany 11 463 1.2× 267 1.2× 267 1.7× 261 2.1× 50 0.4× 28 1.1k
Roberta Quadrelli United States 14 565 1.4× 485 2.2× 186 1.2× 235 1.9× 227 1.9× 17 1.5k
Borgar Aamaas Norway 16 335 0.9× 270 1.2× 136 0.8× 131 1.0× 26 0.2× 38 823
Jared Lewis Australia 10 226 0.6× 109 0.5× 77 0.5× 109 0.9× 35 0.3× 18 592
Tianyi Sun United States 8 233 0.6× 147 0.7× 77 0.5× 61 0.5× 112 1.0× 13 517
Mikalai Filonchyk China 22 850 2.2× 572 2.5× 110 0.7× 373 3.0× 62 0.5× 39 1.6k
Yanli Liu China 22 821 2.1× 319 1.4× 69 0.4× 300 2.4× 182 1.6× 95 1.7k
Volha Hurynovich China 11 410 1.0× 182 0.8× 81 0.5× 188 1.5× 26 0.2× 14 815
Zihang Fang China 8 307 0.8× 69 0.3× 295 1.8× 244 2.0× 45 0.4× 10 1.3k
Wenjia Li China 21 116 0.3× 152 0.7× 370 2.3× 50 0.4× 82 0.7× 49 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ilissa Ocko

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ilissa Ocko

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilissa Ocko

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Esquivel‐Elizondo, Sofia, et al.. (2025). Ensuring the Climate and Environmental Integrity of Alternative Fuels. Environmental Science & Technology. 60(7). 5219–5230. 1 indexed citations
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Martín, P., Ilissa Ocko, Sofia Esquivel‐Elizondo, et al.. (2024). A review of challenges with using the natural gas system for hydrogen. Energy Science & Engineering. 12(10). 3995–4009. 25 indexed citations
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Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2024). Climate Impacts of Hydrogen and Methane Emissions Can Considerably Reduce the Climate Benefits across Key Hydrogen Use Cases and Time Scales. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(12). 5299–5309. 39 indexed citations
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Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2023). Distortion of sectoral roles in climate change threatens climate goals. Frontiers in Climate. 5. 3 indexed citations
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Ivanovich, Catherine, Tianyi Sun, Doria R. Gordon, & Ilissa Ocko. (2023). Future warming from global food consumption. Nature Climate Change. 13(3). 297–302. 131 indexed citations breakdown →
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Esquivel‐Elizondo, Sofia, et al.. (2023). Wide range in estimates of hydrogen emissions from infrastructure. Frontiers in Energy Research. 11. 27 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa & Steven P. Hamburg. (2022). Climate consequences of hydrogen emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(14). 9349–9368. 146 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Tianyi, Ilissa Ocko, & Steven P. Hamburg. (2022). The value of early methane mitigation in preserving Arctic summer sea ice. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44001–44001. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Tianyi, et al.. (2021). Path to net zero is critical to climate outcome. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22173–22173. 52 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa, Tianyi Sun, Drew Shindell, et al.. (2021). Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 54042–54042. 209 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ivanovich, Catherine, Ilissa Ocko, Pedro Piris-Cabezas, & Annie Petsonk. (2019). Climate benefits of proposed carbon dioxide mitigation strategies for international shipping and aviation. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(23). 14949–14965. 11 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa & Steven P. Hamburg. (2019). Climate Impacts of Hydropower: Enormous Differences among Facilities and over Time. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(23). 14070–14082. 37 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa, Vaishali Naïk, & David Paynter. (2018). Rapid and reliable assessment of methane impacts on climate. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(21). 15555–15568. 18 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa & Paul Ginoux. (2017). Comparing multiple model-derived aerosol optical properties to spatially collocated ground-based and satellite measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(7). 4451–4475. 11 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa, Steven P. Hamburg, Daniel J. Jacob, et al.. (2017). Unmask temporal trade-offs in climate policy debates. Science. 356(6337). 492–493. 93 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa, V. Ramaswamy, & Yi Ming. (2014). Contrasting Climate Responses to the Scattering and Absorbing Features of Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcings. Journal of Climate. 27(14). 5329–5345. 49 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa, V. Ramaswamy, Paul Ginoux, Yi Ming, & Larry W. Horowitz. (2012). Sensitivity of scattering and absorbing aerosol direct radiative forcing to physical climate factors. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D20). 35 indexed citations
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Ocko, Ilissa. (2006). Air flow regime from 1999 to 2005 at the University of Michigan Biological Station and its relation to variability in net carbon dioxide flux and tropospheric ambient ozone; Summer 2006 analysis.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan).

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