Joeri Rogelj

42.9k total citations · 19 hit papers
161 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Joeri Rogelj is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Joeri Rogelj has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 102 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 34 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Joeri Rogelj's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (100 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (81 papers) and Climate variability and models (24 papers). Joeri Rogelj is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (100 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (81 papers) and Climate variability and models (24 papers). Joeri Rogelj collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and Germany. Joeri Rogelj's co-authors include Malte Meinshausen, Keywan Riahi, Reto Knutti, Michiel Schaeffer, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Niklas Höhne, Michel den Elzen, Gunnar Luderer, Taryn Fransen 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

Joeri Rogelj

154 papers receiving 17.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

2016 2.5k citations Joeri Rogelj, Michel den Elzen et al. Nature profile →
Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

2018 1.0k citations Sabine Fuss, Joeri Rogelj et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

2017 782 citations Johan Rockström, Joeri Rogelj et al. profile →
Energy system transformations for limiting end-of-century warming to below 1.5 °C

2015 705 citations Joeri Rogelj, Elmar Kriegler et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

2016 644 citations Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

2018 598 citations Sabine Fuss, Joeri Rogelj et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates

2012 596 citations Joeri Rogelj, Malte Meinshausen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets

2014 556 citations Joeri Rogelj, Michiel Schaeffer et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C

2016 512 citations Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj et al. profile →
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19

2020 437 citations Piers Forster, Matthew Gidden et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C

2017 385 citations Joeri Rogelj, H. Damon Matthews et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix

2021 361 citations Joeri Rogelj et al. Nature profile →
A new scenario logic for the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal

2019 359 citations Joeri Rogelj, Keywan Riahi et al. Nature profile →
Estimating and tracking the remaining carbon budget for stringent climate targets

2019 258 citations Joeri Rogelj, Piers Forster et al. Nature profile →
Pandemic, War, and Global Energy Transitions

2022 253 citations Shonali Pachauri, Joeri Rogelj et al. profile →
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement

2021 178 citations Niklas Höhne, Matthew Gidden et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets

2023 111 citations Robin Lamboll, Zebedee Nicholls et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Credibility gap in net-zero climate targets leaves world at high risk

2023 88 citations Joeri Rogelj, Michel den Elzen et al. profile →
Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitments

2024 64 citations Michel den Elzen, Joeri Rogelj et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage 2025 ·Nature ·Matthew Gidden, (unknown), John Armitage, (unknown), Miranda Boettcher, Elina Brutschin, Alexandre C. Köberle, Keywan Riahi, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj	3
2	A principle-based framework to determine countries’ fair warming contributions to the Paris Agreement 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Setu Pelz, Robin Lamboll, Can Wang, Joeri Rogelj	2
3	Reversal of the impact chain for actionable climate information 2025 ·Nature Geoscience ·Peter Pfleiderer, Thomas L. Frölicher, Chahan M. Kropf, Robin Lamboll, Quentin Lejeune, Tiago Capela Lourenço, Fabien Maussion, Jamie W. McCaughey, Yann Quilcaille, Joeri Rogelj, Benjamin M. Sanderson, (unknown), Jana Sillmann, Chris Smith, Emily Theokritoff, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner	1
4	Closing decent living gaps in energy and emissions scenarios: introducing DESIRE 2025 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Jarmo Kikstra, Vassilis Daioglou, Jihoon Min, (unknown), Bjoern Soergel, Elmar Kriegler, (unknown), Alessio Mastrucci, Shonali Pachauri, Narasimha D. Rao, Sebastian Rauner, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, Bas van Ruijven, Joeri Rogelj	2
5	Using net-zero carbon debt to track climate overshoot responsibility 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Setu Pelz, Gaurav Ganti, Robin Lamboll, Luke Grant, Chris Smith, Shonali Pachauri, Joeri Rogelj, Keywan Riahi, Wim Thiery, Matthew Gidden	5
6	Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization 2024 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Andrew H. MacDougall, Joeri Rogelj, Chris Jones, Spencer Liddicoat, Giacomo Grassi	1
7	Spatially resolved emulated annual temperature projections for overshoot pathways 2024 ·Scientific Data ·Jonas Schwaab, Mathias Hauser, Robin Lamboll, Lea Beusch, Lukas Gudmundsson, Yann Quilcaille, Quentin Lejeune, (unknown), Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Shruti Nath, Joeri Rogelj, Zebedee Nicholls, Sonia I. Seneviratne	3
8	Substantial reductions in non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions reductions implied by IPCC estimates of the remaining carbon budget 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Joeri Rogelj, Robin Lamboll	23
9	Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions critical to limit climate tipping risks 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, (unknown), (unknown), Robin Lamboll, Joeri Rogelj, Jonathan F. Donges, Johan Rockström, Nico Wunderling	24
10	A taxonomy to map evidence on the co-benefits, challenges, and limits of carbon dioxide removal 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Sabine Fuss, Sarah Lück, (unknown), Joeri Rogelj	21
11	Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets 2023 ·Nature Climate Change ·Robin Lamboll, Zebedee Nicholls, Chris Smith, Jarmo Kikstra, Edward Byers, Joeri Rogelj	2
12	Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Climate Change ·Niklas Höhne, Matthew Gidden, Michel den Elzen, Frederic Hans, Claire Fyson, Andreas Geiges, M. Louise Jeffery, Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga, Silke Mooldijk, Bill Hare, Joeri Rogelj	178
13	The cost of mitigation revisited 2021 ·Nature Climate Change ·Alexandre C. Köberle, Toon Vandyck, Céline Guivarch, Nick Macaluso, Valentina Bosetti, Ajay Gambhir, Massimo Tavoni, Joeri Rogelj	52
14	Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the zero emission commitment from CO2 2020 ·Andrew H. MacDougall, Thomas L. Frölicher, Chris Jones, Joeri Rogelj, H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, (unknown)	2
15	ZERO IN ON the remaining carbon budget and decadal warming rates. The CONSTRAIN Project Annual Report 2019 2019 ·White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) ·Alexander Nauels, (unknown), Thorsten Mauritsen, Amanda C. Maycock, Christine M. McKenna, Joeri Rogelj, (unknown), Eric Alden Smith, Chris Smith, Piers Forster	6
16	Inconsistencies when applying novel metrics for emissions accounting to the Paris agreement 2019 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Alexander Nauels, Michiel Schaeffer, Bill Hare, Joeri Rogelj	27
17	The Zero Emissions Commitment Model Intercomparison Project (ZECMIP) contribution to C4MIP: quantifying committed climate changes following zero carbon emissions 2019 ·Geoscientific model development ·Chris Jones, Thomas L. Frölicher, Charles D. Koven, Andrew H. MacDougall, H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Joeri Rogelj, Katarzyna Tokarska, Nathan P. Gillett, Tatiana Ilyina, Malte Meinshausen, Nadine Mengis, Roland Séférian, Michael Eby, Friedrich A. Burger	69
18	Global mean temperature indicators linked to warming levels avoiding climate risks 2018 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Peter Pfleiderer, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Matthias Mengel, Joeri Rogelj	16
19	Linking sea level rise and socioeconomic indicators under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 2017 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Alexander Nauels, Joeri Rogelj, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Malte Meinshausen, Matthias Mengel	46
20	Getting It Right Matters: Temperature Goal Interpretations in Geoscience Research 2017 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Joeri Rogelj, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Bill Hare	56

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