Kate Dooley

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 945 citations indexed

About

Kate Dooley is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Dooley has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 945 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Kate Dooley's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (20 papers), Climate Change and Geoengineering (7 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 papers). Kate Dooley is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (20 papers), Climate Change and Geoengineering (7 papers) and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 papers). Kate Dooley collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Kate Dooley's co-authors include Chukwumerije Okereke, Sivan Kartha, Wim Carton, Jens Friis Lund, Malte Meinshausen, Aarti Gupta, Guy Lomax, Mark Workman, Geoff Darch and Peter Christoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Kate Dooley

28 papers receiving 888 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sustainability limits needed for CO ₂ removal

2024 52 citations Paul Leadley, Kate Dooley et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kate Dooley Australia	17	492	413	235	159	142	31	945
Wim Carton Sweden	16	501 1.0×	389 0.9×	319 1.4×	155 1.0×	158 1.1×	33	1.1k
Dominic Lenzi Germany	10	453 0.9×	354 0.9×	221 0.9×	142 0.9×	282 2.0×	24	1.0k
Holly Jean Buck United States	22	677 1.4×	420 1.0×	533 2.3×	170 1.1×	240 1.7×	50	1.3k
Emily Cox United Kingdom	15	265 0.5×	148 0.4×	346 1.5×	105 0.7×	116 0.8×	32	707
Danny Cullenward United States	14	666 1.4×	366 0.9×	77 0.3×	211 1.3×	54 0.4×	37	1.2k
Juan Moreno‐Cruz United States	21	676 1.4×	546 1.3×	246 1.0×	158 1.0×	27 0.2×	66	1.2k
Annalisa Savaresi United Kingdom	12	276 0.6×	178 0.4×	201 0.9×	95 0.6×	40 0.3×	68	835
Rob Bellamy United Kingdom	21	822 1.7×	275 0.7×	782 3.3×	84 0.5×	179 1.3×	37	1.4k
Michael Delgado United States	8	304 0.6×	426 1.0×	137 0.6×	240 1.5×	31 0.2×	13	1.1k
Eli Mitchell-Larson United Kingdom	5	200 0.4×	236 0.6×	60 0.3×	154 1.0×	105 0.7×	6	733

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Dooley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Dooley

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Buma, Brian, Peter C. Frumhoff, Brendan M. Rogers, et al.. (2026). Policy solutions to better assess progress toward Paris goals given warming-induced ecosystem emissions, which shorten timelines by 2–5 years. One Earth. 9(3). 101571–101571.

Markusson, Nils, et al.. (2026). Beyond ‘doing both’—framing carbon removal carefully. Frontiers in Climate. 8.

Markusson, Nils, et al.. (2024). Carbon removal and the empirics of climate delay. Environmental Science & Policy. 161. 103884–103884. 4 indexed citations

Leadley, Paul, Kate Dooley, Phillip Williamson, et al.. (2024). Sustainability limits needed for CO ₂ removal. Science. 383(6682). 484–486. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Dooley, Kate, et al.. (2024). Over-reliance on land for carbon dioxide removal in net-zero climate pledges. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9118–9118. 13 indexed citations

Dooley, Kate, Setu Pelz, & Alexander Norton. (2024). Understanding land-based carbon dioxide removal in the context of the Rio Conventions. One Earth. 7(9). 1501–1514. 3 indexed citations

Dooley, Kate, Zebedee Nicholls, & Malte Meinshausen. (2022). Carbon removals from nature restoration are no substitute for steep emission reductions. One Earth. 5(7). 812–824. 42 indexed citations

Dooley, Kate, Christian Holz, Sivan Kartha, et al.. (2021). Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement. Nature Climate Change. 11(4). 300–305. 80 indexed citations

Teske, Sven, Thomas Pregger, Sonja Simon, et al.. (2021). It Is Still Possible to Achieve the Paris Climate Agreement: Regional, Sectoral, and Land-Use Pathways. Energies. 14(8). 2103–2103. 48 indexed citations

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Littleton, Emma, Kate Dooley, Anna Harper, et al.. (2021). Dynamic modelling shows substantial contribution of ecosystem restoration to climate change mitigation. Environmental Research Letters. 16(12). 124061–124061. 16 indexed citations

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Stabinsky, Doreen & Kate Dooley. (2021). Forests can’t handle all the net-zero emissions plans – companies and countries expect nature to offset too much carbon. 2 indexed citations

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Workman, Mark, et al.. (2021). Climate policy decision making in contexts of deep uncertainty - from optimisation to robustness. Environmental Science & Policy. 120. 127–137. 33 indexed citations

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Morrow, David R., Michael S. Thompson, Holly Jean Buck, et al.. (2020). Principles for Thinking about Carbon Dioxide Removal in Just Climate Policy. One Earth. 3(2). 150–153. 70 indexed citations

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Dooley, Kate, Joyeeta Gupta, & Anand Patwardhan. (2018). INEA editorial: Achieving 1.5 °C and climate justice. International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics. 18(1). 1–9. 10 indexed citations

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Kartha, Sivan, Tom Athanasiou, Simon Caney, et al.. (2017). Response to Robiou Du Pont Et Al on Climate Equity. Correspondence to Nature Climate Change. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Dooley, Kate & Aarti Gupta. (2016). Governing by expertise. International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Kartha, Sivan & Kate Dooley. (2016). The risks of relying on tomorrow’s ‘negative emissions’ to guide today’s mitigation action. 16 indexed citations

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Dooley, Kate & Aarti Gupta. (2016). Governing by expertise: the contested politics of (accounting for) land-based mitigation in a new climate agreement. International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics. 17(4). 483–500. 38 indexed citations

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Dooley, Kate. (2011). Deforestation and Climate Change: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation – Edited by Valentina Bosetti and Ruben Lubowski. Natural Resources Forum. 35(3). 248–249. 1 indexed citations

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Okereke, Chukwumerije & Kate Dooley. (2009). Principles of justice in proposals and policy approaches to avoided deforestation: Towards a post-Kyoto climate agreement. Global Environmental Change. 20(1). 82–95. 119 indexed citations

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