John Lynch

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

John Lynch is a scholar working on Ecology, Economics and Econometrics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lynch has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Lynch's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (10 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers). John Lynch is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (20 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (10 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers). John Lynch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. John Lynch's co-authors include Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Michelle Cain, Myles Allen, David J. Frame, Michael Clark, Jason Hill, Inês L. Azevedo, Sumil K Thakrar, David Tilman and William H. Kimbel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Lynch

66 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets

2020 690 citations Michael Clark, Sumil K Thakrar et al. Science profile →
Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors

2021 259 citations John Lynch, Michelle Cain et al. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems profile →
Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts

2023 166 citations Peter Scarborough, Michael Clark et al. Nature Food profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Lynch United Kingdom	27	1.4k	457	427	398	371	71	3.3k
Zhigang Jiang China	38	2.5k 1.8×	113 0.2×	656 1.5×	123 0.3×	122 0.3×	292	5.6k
Kathleen A. Galvin United States	35	1.2k 0.9×	470 1.0×	1.3k 3.1×	192 0.5×	105 0.3×	69	4.2k
Ian F. Spellerberg New Zealand	24	1.8k 1.3×	54 0.1×	1.1k 2.7×	172 0.4×	87 0.2×	69	3.8k
Mark Brewer United Kingdom	30	884 0.6×	40 0.1×	599 1.4×	133 0.3×	434 1.2×	83	3.7k
David Williams United Kingdom	23	1.2k 0.9×	136 0.3×	896 2.1×	269 0.7×	179 0.5×	55	2.6k
Ya Zhang China	29	2.0k 1.4×	96 0.2×	357 0.8×	9 0.0×	196 0.5×	102	5.8k
Brian S. Cade United States	28	2.3k 1.7×	18 0.0×	1.3k 3.1×	263 0.7×	231 0.6×	74	4.9k
Charles F. Mason United States	38	2.2k 1.6×	37 0.1×	586 1.4×	1.1k 2.8×	236 0.6×	207	5.1k
Ben Phalan United Kingdom	37	3.0k 2.1×	181 0.4×	2.8k 6.6×	701 1.8×	246 0.7×	67	6.3k
Mike Kent United Kingdom	27	815 0.6×	226 0.5×	469 1.1×	42 0.1×	161 0.4×	157	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by John Lynch

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Lynch

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Lynch

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lynch, John, et al.. (2025). Management approach matters: meeting seagrass recovery and carbon mitigation goals. PubMed. 4(1). 18–18.

Butnar, Isabela, John Lynch, Sylvia H. Vetter, et al.. (2024). A Review of Life Cycle Assessment Methods to Inform the Scale‐Up of Carbon Dioxide Removal Interventions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Energy and Environment. 13(6). 2 indexed citations

Lynch, John & Raymond T. Pierrehumbert. (2024). Does ‘net zero’ mean zero cows?. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 80(3). 153–157.

Lynch, John, et al.. (2024). Selective Oxidation of Vitamin D₃ Enhanced by Long‐Range Effects of a Substrate Channel Mutation in Cytochrome P450_BM3 (CYP102A1). Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(51). e202401487–e202401487. 3 indexed citations

Potter, Christina, Rachel Pechey, Michael Clark, et al.. (2024). Effects of environmental impact labels on the sustainability of food purchases: A randomised controlled trial in an experimental online supermarket. PLoS ONE. 19(9). e0309386–e0309386. 5 indexed citations

Lynch, John, et al.. (2024). Advancing nature‐based solutions through enhanced soil health monitoring in the United Kingdom. Soil Use and Management. 40(4). 4 indexed citations

Scarborough, Peter, Michael Clark, Linda Cobiac, et al.. (2023). Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts. Nature Food. 4(7). 565–574. 166 indexed citations breakdown →

Allen, Myles, Katsumasa Tanaka, Adrian Macey, et al.. (2021). Ensuring that offsets and other internationally transferred mitigation outcomes contribute effectively to limiting global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 16(7). 74009–74009. 37 indexed citations

Cain, Michelle, Stuart Jenkins, Myles Allen, et al.. (2021). Methane and the Paris Agreement temperature goals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 380(2215). 20200456–20200456. 26 indexed citations

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Lynch, John, Michelle Cain, David J. Frame, & Raymond T. Pierrehumbert. (2021). Agriculture's Contribution to Climate Change and Role in Mitigation Is Distinct From Predominantly Fossil CO2-Emitting Sectors. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4. 518039–518039. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clark, Michael, Sumil K Thakrar, David Tilman, et al.. (2020). Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets. Science. 370(6517). 705–708. 690 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lynch, John, Michelle Cain, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, & Myles Allen. (2020). Demonstrating GWP*: a means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impacts of short- and long-lived climate pollutants. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 44023–44023. 209 indexed citations

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Cain, Michelle, John Lynch, Myles Allen, et al.. (2019). Improved calculation of warming-equivalent emissions for short-lived climate pollutants. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 2(1). 29–29. 209 indexed citations

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Lynch, John. (2019). Availability of disaggregated greenhouse gas emissions from beef cattle production: A systematic review. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 76. 69–78. 79 indexed citations

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Lynch, John, et al.. (2019). Ivermectin treatment failure on four Irish dairy farms. Irish Veterinary Journal. 72(1). 4–4. 3 indexed citations

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Firbank, L. G., John E. Elliott, Rob H. Field, et al.. (2018). Assessing the performance of commercial farms in England and Wales: Lessons for supporting the sustainable intensification of agriculture. Food and Energy Security. 7(4). 10 indexed citations

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Lynch, John, Trevor Donnellan, John A. Finn, Emma Dillon, & Mary Ryan. (2018). Potential development of Irish agricultural sustainability indicators for current and future policy evaluation needs. Journal of Environmental Management. 230. 434–445. 39 indexed citations

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Lynch, John, et al.. (2015). The Leaving of Ireland : Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film. 67. 1 indexed citations

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Lockwood, Charles A., John Lynch, & William H. Kimbel. (2002). Quantifying temporal bone morphology of great apes and humans: an approach using geometric morphometrics. Journal of Anatomy. 201(6). 447–464. 103 indexed citations

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Lynch, John. (1983). Studies in Pacific languages and cultures in honour of Bruce Biggs . Ed. By Jim Hollyman and Andrew Pawley. Auckland: Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 1981. Pp. 392.. Language. 59(4). 935–935. 35 indexed citations

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