Johan Rockström

119.9k total citations · 28 hit papers
228 papers, 39.2k citations indexed

About

Johan Rockström is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Johan Rockström has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 39.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 50 papers in Ocean Engineering and 48 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Johan Rockström's work include Water resources management and optimization (50 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (37 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (35 papers). Johan Rockström is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (50 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (37 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (35 papers). Johan Rockström collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Johan Rockström's co-authors include Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, Will Steffen, Malin Falkenmark, Katherine Richardson, Marten Scheffer, Dieter Gerten, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Ingo Fetzer and Sarah Cornell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Johan Rockström

217 papers receiving 36.8k citations

Hit Papers

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human developme... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2015 2010 2013 2005 2018 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Johan Rockström Sweden 78 12.5k 6.8k 5.1k 4.9k 4.8k 228 39.2k
Jianguo Liu United States 83 13.8k 1.1× 2.7k 0.4× 4.3k 0.9× 2.8k 0.6× 8.7k 1.8× 525 32.5k
Detlef P. van Vuuren Netherlands 108 23.9k 1.9× 3.9k 0.6× 2.9k 0.6× 6.1k 1.3× 5.8k 1.2× 485 59.4k
Brian Walker Australia 61 18.7k 1.5× 7.5k 1.1× 6.6k 1.3× 1.6k 0.3× 11.9k 2.5× 138 45.9k
Gretchen C. Daily United States 91 26.9k 2.1× 2.8k 0.4× 7.2k 1.4× 3.4k 0.7× 14.8k 3.1× 232 52.4k
Peter H. Verburg Netherlands 108 27.2k 2.2× 2.1k 0.3× 5.1k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 8.4k 1.8× 469 37.7k
Mike Hulme United Kingdom 77 15.7k 1.3× 6.7k 1.0× 2.5k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 2.6k 0.5× 275 27.6k
Marten Scheffer Netherlands 106 25.9k 2.1× 4.9k 0.7× 3.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 18.7k 3.9× 308 58.2k
Will Steffen Australia 53 9.6k 0.8× 4.6k 0.7× 4.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.3× 4.4k 0.9× 150 29.0k
Richard S.J. Tol Netherlands 87 7.2k 0.6× 4.2k 0.6× 3.1k 0.6× 2.1k 0.4× 1.5k 0.3× 503 26.4k
Stephen Polasky United States 92 20.8k 1.7× 1.8k 0.3× 5.7k 1.1× 2.2k 0.5× 9.2k 1.9× 265 41.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Johan Rockström

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Fields of papers citing papers by Johan Rockström

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johan Rockström

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Johan Rockström. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Johan Rockström 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 Johan Rockström. Johan Rockström 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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Beier, Felicitas, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Jens Heinke, et al.. (2025). Planetary boundaries under a land-based climate change mitigation scenario with a food demand transformation: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 9(10). 101249–101249. 2 indexed citations
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Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Robin Lamboll, Joeri Rogelj, et al.. (2024). Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions critical to limit climate tipping risks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6192–6192. 24 indexed citations
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Tobian, Arne, Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2024). Climate change critically affects the status of the land-system change planetary boundary. Environmental Research Letters. 19(5). 54060–54060. 3 indexed citations
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Rockström, Johan & Katherine Richardson. (2023). William Steffen (1947–2023). Science. 380(6642). 245–245.
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Ripple, William J., Christopher Wolf, Jillian W. Gregg, et al.. (2023). The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory. BioScience. 73(12). 841–850. 98 indexed citations breakdown →
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McKay, David I. Armstrong, Arie Staal, Jesse F. Abrams, et al.. (2022). Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points. Science. 377(6611). eabn7950–eabn7950. 799 indexed citations breakdown →
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Warszawski, Lila, Elmar Kriegler, Timothy M. Lenton, et al.. (2021). All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64037–64037. 64 indexed citations
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Noon, Monica, Allie Goldstein, Juan Carlos Ledezma, et al.. (2021). Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems. Nature Sustainability. 5(1). 37–46. 109 indexed citations
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McKay, David I. Armstrong, Sarah Cornell, Katherine Richardson, & Johan Rockström. (2021). Resolving ecological feedbacks on the ocean carbon sink in Earth system models. Earth System Dynamics. 12(3). 797–818. 10 indexed citations
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Randers, Jørgen, Johan Rockström, Ulrich Golüke, et al.. (2019). Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals within 9 planetary boundaries. Global Sustainability. 2. 106 indexed citations
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Lade, Steven J., Jon Norberg, John M. Anderies, et al.. (2019). Potential feedbacks between loss of biosphere integrity and climate change. Global Sustainability. 2. 12 indexed citations
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Lade, Steven J., Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2018). Analytically tractable climate–carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 507–523. 5 indexed citations
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Steffen, Will, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, et al.. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science. 347(6223). 1259855–1259855. 7139 indexed citations breakdown →
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Griggs, David, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Owen Gaffney, et al.. (2013). Sustainable development goals for people and planet. Nature. 495(7441). 305–307. 1906 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Junguo, Christian Folberth, Hong Yang, et al.. (2013). A Global and Spatially Explicit Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Crop Production and Consumptive Water Use. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e57750–e57750. 79 indexed citations
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Zaag, Pieter van der, et al.. (2012). A regional and multi-faceted approach to postgraduate water education – the WaterNet experience in Southern Africa. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(11). 4225–4232. 7 indexed citations
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Folke, Carl, Stephen R. Carpenter, Brian Walker, et al.. (2010). Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability. Ecology and Society. 15(4). 2778 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rockström, Johan, Jennie Barron, & P. Fox. (2003). Water productivity in rain-fed agriculture: challenges and opportunities for smallholder farmers in drought-prone tropical agroecosystems. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations
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Falkenmark, Malin, Johan Lundqvist, Sandra Postel, et al.. (1998). Water scarcity as a key factor behind global food insecurity: Round table discussion. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 13 indexed citations

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