J. Steinberger

23.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
97 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

J. Steinberger is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Steinberger has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 32 papers in Environmental Engineering and 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in J. Steinberger's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (30 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (29 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (18 papers). J. Steinberger is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (30 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (29 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (18 papers). J. Steinberger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Austria. J. Steinberger's co-authors include William F. Lamb, Daniel W. O’Neill, Effie Papargyropoulou, Nigel Wright, Rodrigo Lozano, Zaini Ujang, Andrew L. Fanning, Manfred Lenzen, J. Timmons Roberts and Yannick Oswald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

J. Steinberger

94 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

A good life for all within planetary bou... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2018 2014 2020 2018 2009 250 500 750 1000
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. A good life for all within planetary boundaries
    2018 1.1k citations Daniel W. O’Neill, William F. Lamb et al. profile →
  2. The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste
    2014 1.0k citations Effie Papargyropoulou, Rodrigo Lozano et al. profile →
  3. Scientists’ warning on affluence
    2020 662 citations Lorenz Keyßer, J. Steinberger et al. profile →
  4. Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change
    2018 599 citations William F. Lamb, J. Steinberger et al. profile →
  5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities
    2009 484 citations J. Steinberger et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  6. Discourses of climate delay
    2020 351 citations William F. Lamb, Giulio Mattioli et al. Global Sustainability profile →
  7. The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach
    2020 348 citations Giulio Mattioli, J. Steinberger et al. profile →
  8. Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
    2025 38 citations Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
J. Steinberger United Kingdom 50 3.0k 2.4k 2.3k 1.5k 1.5k 97 10.7k
Arnold Tukker Netherlands 63 5.3k 1.8× 2.7k 1.2× 2.0k 0.9× 844 0.6× 876 0.6× 231 17.5k
Helmut Haberl Austria 73 5.2k 1.8× 2.6k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 6.7k 4.5× 199 17.2k
Tim Jackson United Kingdom 49 2.1k 0.7× 3.0k 1.3× 2.5k 1.1× 2.1k 1.4× 1.3k 0.9× 208 11.7k
H. Scott Matthews United States 60 3.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 797 0.5× 201 10.2k
Richard Wood Norway 59 6.2k 2.1× 3.9k 1.7× 2.5k 1.1× 516 0.3× 978 0.7× 200 10.8k
Daniel Moran Norway 46 5.8k 1.9× 4.0k 1.7× 1.8k 0.8× 509 0.3× 1.4k 0.9× 105 9.8k
Fridolin Krausmann Austria 59 5.7k 1.9× 2.5k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 861 0.6× 3.4k 2.3× 157 14.0k
Michael Obersteiner Austria 83 3.6k 1.2× 4.1k 1.7× 1.6k 0.7× 856 0.6× 6.9k 4.6× 336 20.9k
A.P.J. Mol Netherlands 63 843 0.3× 2.1k 0.9× 782 0.3× 2.9k 2.0× 2.4k 1.6× 260 12.5k
Sarah Cornell Sweden 38 1.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 2.0k 1.3× 4.6k 3.1× 101 15.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Steinberger

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kallis, Giorgos, Jason Hickel, Daniel W. O’Neill, et al.. (2025). Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(1). e62–e78. 38 indexed citations breakdown →
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Keyßer, Lorenz, J. Steinberger, & Matthias Schmelzer. (2025). Economic growth dependencies and imperatives: A review of key theories and their conflicts. Ecological Economics. 238. 108745–108745.
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Steinberger, J., et al.. (2024). Democratizing provisioning systems: a prerequisite for living well within limits. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 20(1). 8 indexed citations
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Carral, María del Río, J. Steinberger, Joachim Marti, et al.. (2022). Translating Planetary Health Principles Into Sustainable Primary Care Services. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 931212–931212. 14 indexed citations
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Oswald, Yannick, J. Steinberger, Diana Ivanova, & Joel Millward-Hopkins. (2021). Global redistribution of income and household energy footprints: a computational thought experiment. Global Sustainability. 4. 52 indexed citations
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Fuchs, Doris, J. Steinberger, William F. Lamb, et al.. (2021). A corridors and power-oriented perspective on energy-service demand and needs satisfaction. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 17(1). 162–172. 16 indexed citations
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Brand-Correa, Lina, Giulio Mattioli, William F. Lamb, & J. Steinberger. (2020). Understanding (and tackling) need satisfier escalation. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 16(1). 309–325. 49 indexed citations
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Baltruszewicz, Marta, J. Steinberger, Diana Ivanova, et al.. (2020). Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 25011–25011. 53 indexed citations
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Papargyropoulou, Effie, J. Steinberger, Nigel Wright, et al.. (2019). Patterns and Causes of Food Waste in the Hospitality and Food Service Sector: Food Waste Prevention Insights from Malaysia. Sustainability. 11(21). 6016–6016. 121 indexed citations
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Brockway, Paul E., Harry D. Saunders, Matthew Kuperus Heun, et al.. (2017). Energy Rebound as a Potential Threat to a Low-Carbon Future: Findings from a New Exergy-Based National-Level Rebound Approach. Energies. 10(1). 51–51. 67 indexed citations
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Wiedenhofer, Dominik, J. Steinberger, Nina Eisenmenger, & Willi Haas. (2015). Maintenance and Expansion: Modeling Material Stocks and Flows for Residential Buildings and Transportation Networks in the EU25. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(4). 538–551. 194 indexed citations
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Brockway, Paul E., John Barrett, Timothy J. Foxon, & J. Steinberger. (2014). Divergence of Trends in US and UK Aggregate Exergy Efficiencies 1960–2010. Environmental Science & Technology. 48(16). 9874–9881. 61 indexed citations
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Bai, Xuemei, Shobhakar Dhakal, J. Steinberger, & Helga Weisz. (2013). Drivers of urban energy use and main policy leverages. Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)). 3 indexed citations
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Haberl, Helmut, J. Steinberger, Christoph Plutzar, et al.. (2012). Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators. Ecological Indicators. 23(3). 222–231. 49 indexed citations
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Fischer‐Kowalski, Marina & J. Steinberger. (2011). Social Metabolism and Hybrid Structures. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 15(5). 642–644. 5 indexed citations
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Sahakian, Marlyne & J. Steinberger. (2011). Energy Reduction Through a Deeper Understanding of Household Consumption. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 15(1). 31–48. 20 indexed citations
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Haberl, Helmut, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, et al.. (2011). Global bioenergy potentials from agricultural land in 2050: Sensitivity to climate change, diets and yields. Biomass and Bioenergy. 35(12). 4753–4769. 176 indexed citations
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Gingrich, Simone, et al.. (2010). Long-term changes in CO2 emissions in Austria and Czechoslovakia—Identifying the drivers of environmental pressures. Energy Policy. 39(2). 535–543. 58 indexed citations
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Steinberger, J.. (2008). Sustainability Indicators: A Scientific Assessment edited by Tomas Hak, Bedrich Moldan, and Arther Lyon Dahl. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 12(5-6). 802–804. 3 indexed citations
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