Jae Edmonds

46.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
216 papers, 24.0k citations indexed

About

Jae Edmonds is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jae Edmonds has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 24.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 82 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 77 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jae Edmonds's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (119 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (60 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (54 papers). Jae Edmonds is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (119 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (60 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (54 papers). Jae Edmonds collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Germany. Jae Edmonds's co-authors include Steven J. Smith, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, Allison M. Thomson, Tom Kram, Steven K. Rose, Mikiko Kainuma, Nebojša Nakićenović, Kathy Hibbard and Volker Krey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jae Edmonds

211 papers receiving 22.9k citations

Hit Papers

The representative concentration pathways: ... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2011 2010 2011 1996 2013 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. The representative concentration pathways: an overview
    2011 5.9k citations Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jae Edmonds et al. Climatic Change profile →
  2. The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
    2010 5.0k citations Jae Edmonds, Steven K. Rose et al. profile →
  3. RCP4.5: a pathway for stabilization of radiative forcing by 2100
    2011 1.3k citations Allison M. Thomson, Katherine Calvin et al. Climatic Change profile →
  4. Economic and environmental choices in the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations
    1996 700 citations Richard Richels, Jae Edmonds et al. profile →
  5. A new scenario framework for Climate Change Research: scenario matrix architecture
    2013 510 citations Detlef P. van Vuuren, Elmar Kriegler et al. Climatic Change profile →
  6. Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit
    2021 391 citations Hongbo Duan, Sheng Zhou et al. Science profile →
  7. A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared climate policy assumptions
    2014 379 citations Elmar Kriegler, Jae Edmonds et al. Climatic Change profile →
  8. Evaluating the economic impact of water scarcity in a changing world
    2021 349 citations Mohamad Hejazi, Jae Edmonds et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jae Edmonds United States 60 11.2k 6.1k 5.0k 4.4k 3.7k 216 24.0k
Nebojša Nakićenović Austria 42 10.5k 0.9× 3.9k 0.6× 5.0k 1.0× 2.9k 0.7× 2.8k 0.8× 131 22.1k
Malte Meinshausen Germany 49 12.4k 1.1× 5.8k 0.9× 6.1k 1.2× 3.4k 0.8× 3.5k 0.9× 119 24.1k
Elmar Kriegler Germany 55 9.0k 0.8× 5.8k 1.0× 3.3k 0.7× 3.9k 0.9× 3.4k 0.9× 126 19.6k
Richard S.J. Tol Netherlands 87 7.2k 0.6× 12.2k 2.0× 2.3k 0.5× 3.2k 0.7× 5.4k 1.4× 503 26.4k
Steven J. Smith United States 55 15.0k 1.3× 3.1k 0.5× 10.0k 2.0× 3.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.5× 210 26.8k
Keywan Riahi Austria 79 20.4k 1.8× 9.3k 1.5× 9.7k 2.0× 6.8k 1.6× 6.9k 1.8× 269 44.6k
Brian C. O’Neill United States 52 9.0k 0.8× 3.8k 0.6× 3.3k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 168 17.3k
Volker Krey Austria 47 6.4k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.6× 2.7k 0.6× 3.2k 0.8× 117 15.2k
Tom Kram Netherlands 28 8.6k 0.8× 2.4k 0.4× 4.1k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 55 15.5k
Stéphane Hallegatte United States 59 8.4k 0.7× 4.4k 0.7× 3.3k 0.7× 2.0k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 231 18.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jae Edmonds

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Jae Edmonds's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jae Edmonds with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jae Edmonds more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Jae Edmonds

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jae Edmonds. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jae Edmonds. The network helps show where Jae Edmonds may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jae Edmonds

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jae Edmonds. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jae Edmonds 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 Jae Edmonds. Jae Edmonds 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
1.
Edmonds, Jae, Pralit Patel, Stephanie Waldhoff, et al.. (2025). Labour market evolution is a key determinant of global agroeconomic and environmental futures. Nature Food. 6(2). 139–150. 4 indexed citations
2.
Edmonds, Jae, et al.. (2024). The role of the iron and steel sector in achieving net zero U.S. CO2 emissions by 2050. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 5. 100152–100152. 7 indexed citations
3.
Narayan, Kanishka B., et al.. (2024). The role of the pulp and paper industry in achieving net zero U.S. CO2 emissions in 2050. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 5. 100160–100160. 6 indexed citations
4.
Sampedro, Jon, Stephanie Waldhoff, Jae Edmonds, et al.. (2024). Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures. Environmental Research Letters. 19(8). 84031–84031. 1 indexed citations
5.
Mignone, Bryan K., Leon Clarke, Jae Edmonds, et al.. (2024). Drivers and implications of alternative routes to fuels decarbonization in net-zero energy systems. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3938–3938. 13 indexed citations
6.
Iyer, Gokul, Ryna Cui, Jae Edmonds, et al.. (2023). Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C. One Earth. 6(9). 1089–1092. 10 indexed citations
7.
Duan, Hongbo, Sheng Zhou, Kejun Jiang, et al.. (2021). Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit. Science. 372(6540). 378–385. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
8.
Ou, Yang, Christopher Roney, Katherine Calvin, et al.. (2021). Deep mitigation of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases toward 1.5 °C and 2 °C futures. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6245–6245. 130 indexed citations
9.
Binsted, Matthew, Gokul Iyer, Jae Edmonds, et al.. (2019). Stranded asset implications of the Paris Agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 44026–44026. 46 indexed citations
10.
Edmonds, Jae, et al.. (2019). The Economic Potential of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and Implementation Challenges. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 12 indexed citations
11.
Collins, William D., Anthony P Craig, John Truesdale, et al.. (2015). The integrated Earth system model version 1: formulation and functionality. Geoscientific model development. 8(7). 2203–2219. 57 indexed citations
12.
Weyant, John P., Elmar Kriegler, Geoffrey J. Blanford, et al.. (2014). The EMF27 Study on Global Technology and Climate Policy Strategies. Climatic Change. 123. 4 indexed citations
13.
Weyant, John P., Elmar Kriegler, Geoffrey J. Blanford, et al.. (2014). Special issue: The EMF27 Study on Global Technology and Climate Policy Strategies. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 2 indexed citations
14.
Vittorio, Alan Di, Louise Chini, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, et al.. (2014). From land use to land cover: restoring the afforestation signal in a coupled integrated assessment–earth system model and the implications for CMIP5 RCP simulations. Biogeosciences. 11(22). 6435–6450. 51 indexed citations
15.
16.
Vuuren, Detlef P. van, Jae Edmonds, M. Kainuma, Keywan Riahi, & John P. Weyant. (2011). Special Issue, "The Representative Concentration Pathways in Climatic Change". IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 2 indexed citations
17.
Clarke, Leon, Jae Edmonds, Henry D. Jacoby, John M. Reilly, & Richard Richels. (2007). Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations. Insecta mundi. 336 indexed citations
18.
Smith, Steven J., et al.. (2002). Future Market Share of Space Solar Electric Power Under Open Competition. 735. 1 indexed citations
19.
Edmonds, Jae, et al.. (1992). Estimating the marginal cost of reducing global fossil fuel CO[sub 2] emissions. 2(2). 99–116. 5 indexed citations
20.
Reilly, John M. & Jae Edmonds. (1985). Global energy and carbon dioxide. 3. 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nebojša Nakićenović Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Malte Meinshausen Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Elmar Kriegler Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Richard S.J. Tol Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Steven J. Smith Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Keywan Riahi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Brian C. O’Neill Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Volker Krey Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tom Kram Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Stéphane Hallegatte
Rankless by CCL
2026