James Rising

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

James Rising is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, James Rising has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in James Rising's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 papers). James Rising is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 papers). James Rising collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. James Rising's co-authors include Robert E. Kopp, Solomon Hsiang, Trevor Houser, Michael Delgado, Amir Jina, Paul Wilson, Robert Muir‐Wood, Michael Oppenheimer, Shashank Mohan and Kate Larsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James Rising

55 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States

2017 730 citations Solomon Hsiang, Robert E. Kopp et al. Science profile →
The missing risks of climate change

2022 143 citations James Rising, Marco Tedesco et al. Nature profile →
Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation

2025 31 citations Tamma Carleton, Michael Delgado et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Rising United States	23	705	591	370	287	220	58	2.2k
Alistair Hunt United Kingdom	17	455 0.6×	559 0.9×	195 0.5×	358 1.2×	309 1.4×	55	1.8k
Anand Patwardhan United States	27	442 0.6×	830 1.4×	315 0.9×	211 0.7×	296 1.3×	84	2.5k
Gernot Klepper Germany	17	747 1.1×	913 1.5×	462 1.2×	201 0.7×	514 2.3×	34	2.7k
Ramón Pichs-Madruga Austria	7	513 0.7×	645 1.1×	368 1.0×	144 0.5×	522 2.4×	10	2.2k
Amir Jina United States	13	499 0.7×	509 0.9×	247 0.7×	304 1.1×	167 0.8×	20	1.7k
Rutu Dave India	4	588 0.8×	553 0.9×	451 1.2×	183 0.6×	616 2.8×	7	2.6k
Jim Skea United Kingdom	21	607 0.9×	729 1.2×	490 1.3×	198 0.7×	439 2.0×	79	2.9k
Stephen R. Connors United States	13	328 0.5×	555 0.9×	310 0.8×	170 0.6×	314 1.4×	26	2.4k
Jie Fan China	25	588 0.8×	800 1.4×	175 0.5×	342 1.2×	433 2.0×	129	2.2k
Kashif Abbass China	20	948 1.3×	278 0.5×	380 1.0×	127 0.4×	238 1.1×	46	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by James Rising

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Rising

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James Rising. 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 James Rising. The network helps show where James Rising may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Rising

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Hatfield, Charles, et al.. (2025). Lessons in traffic: Nairobi's school term congestion and equity challenges. 3. 100044–100044.

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Stoerk, Thomas, James Rising, Drew Shindell, & Simon Dietz. (2025). Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over. Science. 390(6772). eadu7392–eadu7392. 1 indexed citations

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Rising, James, et al.. (2024). Geolocated fish spawning habitats. Scientific Data. 11(1). 521–521. 2 indexed citations

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Batıbeniz, Fulden, et al.. (2024). Publisher Correction: Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature. Nature Climate Change. 14(11). 1210–1210. 1 indexed citations

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Moore, Frances C., Moritz A. Drupp, James Rising, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of Evidence Yields High Social Cost of Carbon Due to Structural Model Variation and Uncertainties. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Moore, Frances C., Moritz A. Drupp, James Rising, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of Evidence Yields High Social Cost of Carbon Due to Structural Model Variation and Uncertainties. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Rode, Ashwin, Rachel E. Baker, Tamma Carleton, et al.. (2024). Is Workplace Temperature a Valuable Job Amenity? Implications for Climate Change. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Batıbeniz, Fulden, et al.. (2024). Climate damage projections beyond annual temperature. Nature Climate Change. 14(6). 592–599. 44 indexed citations

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Teurlincx, Sven, Brenda Rashleigh, Annette B.G. Janssen, et al.. (2023). New paths for modelling freshwater nature futures. Sustainability Science. 6 indexed citations

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Rising, James, et al.. (2023). Weather drives variation in COVID-19 transmission and detection. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 11001–11001. 1 indexed citations

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Rising, James, et al.. (2023). Interbasin water transfers in the United States and Canada. Scientific Data. 10(1). 27–27. 31 indexed citations

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Rising, James. (2023). Confounding Adaptation in Perennial Climate Damages: A Unified Statistical Approach for Brazilian Coffee. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 11(2). 451–486. 1 indexed citations

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Rising, James, Marco Tedesco, Franziska Piontek, & David A. Stainforth. (2022). The missing risks of climate change. Nature. 610(7933). 643–651. 143 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dietz, Simon, James Rising, Thomas Stoerk, & Gernot Wagner. (2021). Economic impacts of tipping points in the climate system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(34). 102 indexed citations

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Kikstra, Jarmo, et al.. (2021). The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability. Environmental Research Letters. 16(9). 94037–94037. 78 indexed citations

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Ciscar, Juan-Carlos, James Rising, Robert E. Kopp, & Luc Feyen. (2019). Assessing future climate change impacts in the EU and the USA: insights and lessons from two continental-scale projects*. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 84010–84010. 23 indexed citations

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Moore, Frances C., et al.. (2018). Mimi-PAGE, an open-source implementation of the PAGE09 integrated assessment model. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180187–180187. 25 indexed citations

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Hsiang, Solomon, Robert E. Kopp, Amir Jina, et al.. (2017). Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States. Science. 356(6345). 1362–1369. 730 indexed citations breakdown →

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Houser, Trevor, Solomon Hsiang, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, et al.. (2014). Risky Business and the American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States". AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Thomas, Craig W., et al.. (1976). Blood Lead Concentrations of Children and Dogs from 83 Illinois Families. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 169(11). 1237–1240. 3 indexed citations

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