Keywan Riahi

95.8k citations

269 papers · 44.6k indexed · 20 hit papers · h-index 79

Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 56
Atmospheric Science top 0.05%
Environmental Engineering top 0.02%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 54
General Energy top 0.05%
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.1%
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research 54
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies 49
Economics and Econometrics
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 140
Pollution
- Energy and Environment Impacts 29
Water Science and Technology
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies 19
Mechanical Engineering
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies 18

Co-authors: Detlef P. van Vuuren Volker Krey Nebojša Nakićenović Malte Meinshausen Elmar Kriegler Steven J. Smith Allison M. Thomson Jean‐François Lamarque
Cited by: Global and Planetary Change Atmospheric Science Environmental Engineering
Journals: Nature Climate Change (28 papers)Climatic Change (26 papers)Environmental Research Letters (22 papers)
Partner nations: Austria United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Keywan Riahi

261 papers receiving 43.1k 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.

2024 Nature Climate Change
2024 Nature Climate Change
2023 Nature Energy
2020 Nature Climate Change
2019 Nature
2016 Nature Climate Change
2016 Nature
2016 Geoscientific model development
2015 Global Environmental Change
2015 Nature Climate Change
2014 Climatic Change
2013 Climatic Change
2013 Climatic Change
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Climatic Change
2010 Nature
2008 IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis)
2006 Technological Forecasting and Social Change
2002 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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1	A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage Nature ·Matthew Gidden,聰智奈良岡,John Armitage,Loos Hm,Miranda Boettcher,Elina Brutschin,Alexandre C. Köberle,Keywan Riahi,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner,Joeri Rogelj	2025	3
2	Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments Nature Climate Change ·Marina Andrijevic,Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner,Jesús Crespo Cuaresma,Tabea Lissner,Raya Muttarak,Keywan Riahi,Emily Theokritoff,Adelle Thomas,Nicole van Maanen,Edward Byers	2023	30
3	Fairness and feasibility in deep mitigation pathways with novel carbon dioxide removal considering institutional capacity to mitigate Environmental Research Letters ·Matthew Gidden,Elina Brutschin,Gaurav Ganti,Gamze Ünlü,Behnam Zakeri,Oliver Fricko,M. F. Platzer,Е.Е Курдюков,Keywan Riahi	2023	21
4	A multidimensional feasibility evaluation of low-carbon scenarios Environmental Research Letters ·Elina Brutschin,Silvia Pianta,Massimo Tavoni,Keywan Riahi,Valentina Bosetti,Giacomo Marangoni,Bas van Ruijven	2021	87
5	First forcing estimates from the future CMIP6 scenarios of anthropogenic aerosol optical properties and an associated Twomey effect Geoscientific model development ·Stephanie Fiedler,Björn Stevens,Matthew Gidden,Steven J. Smith,Keywan Riahi,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2019	30
6	Air Quality Improvement Co-benefits of Low-Carbon Pathways toward Well Below the 2 °C Climate Target in China Environmental Science & Technology ·Nan Li,Wenying Chen,Peter Rafaj,Gregor Kiesewetter,Wolfgang Schöpp,Huan Wang,Hongjun Zhang,Volker Krey,Keywan Riahi	2019	103
7	Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks Nature Communications ·S. Walsh,Philippe Ciais,Ivan A. Janssens,Josep Peñuelas,Keywan Riahi,森淳,Detlef P. van Vuuren,Michael Obersteiner	2017	134
8	Assessing the Feasibility of Global Long-Term Mitigation Scenarios Energies ·Ajay Gambhir,Laurent Drouet,David McCollum,Tamaryn Napp,Dan Bernie,Adam Hawkes,Oliver Fricko,Peter Havlík,Keywan Riahi,Valentina Bosetti,Jason Lowe	2017	46
9	Comparison and interactions between the long-term pursuit of energy independence and climate policies Nature Energy ·Jessica Jewell,Vadim Vinichenko,David McCollum,Nico Bauer,Keywan Riahi,Tino Aboumahboub,Oliver Fricko,Mathijs Harmsen,Tom Kober,Volker Krey,Giacomo Marangoni,Massimo Tavoni,Detlef P. van Vuuren,Bob van der Zwaan,Aleh Cherp	2016	59
10	Post-2020 climate agreements in the major economies assessed in the light of global models Nature Climate Change ·Massimo Tavoni,Elmar Kriegler,Keywan Riahi,Detlef P. van Vuuren,Tino Aboumahboub,Alex Bowen,Katherine Calvin,Emanuele Campiglio,Tom Kober,Jessica Jewell,Gunnar Luderer,Giacomo Marangoni,David McCollum,Mariësse A.E. van Sluisveld,Ana Paula Santos Barbosa,Bob van der Zwaan	2014	149
11	Special issue: The EMF27 Study on Global Technology and Climate Policy Strategies IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·John P. Weyant,Elmar Kriegler,Geoffrey J. Blanford,Volker Krey,Jae Edmonds,Keywan Riahi,Richard Richels,Massimo Tavoni	2014	2
12	Energy security indicators for use in integrated assessment models Lund University Publications (Lund University) ·Jessica Jewell,Aleh Cherp,Keywan Riahi	2012	2
13	Special Issue, "The Representative Concentration Pathways in Climatic Change" IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Detlef P. van Vuuren,Jae Edmonds,M. Kainuma,Keywan Riahi,John P. Weyant	2011	2
14	IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Reportbreakdown → IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Lenny Bernstein,Patrick M. Bösch,Osvaldo Canziani,Teruko Sawai,R. Christ,Keywan Riahi	2008	1186
15	Sectoral emission reduction potentials: comparing bottom-up and top-down approaches Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·Monique Hoogwijk,Detlef P. van Vuuren,Stefan Boeters,Kornelis Blok,Eliane Blomen,Terry Barker,Jean Château,Arnulf Grübler,Toshihiko Masui,G.J. Nabuurs,Александра Новикова,Keywan Riahi,Stéphane de la Rue du Can,Jayant Sathaye,Şerban Scrieciu,Diána Ürge-Vorsatz,Jasper van Vliet	2008	1
16	Special Issue: Greenhouse Gases - Integrated Assessment IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Keywan Riahi,Nebojša Nakićenović	2007	2
17	Wedge decomposition analysis: Application to SRES and post-SRES scenarios IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Jeffery B. Greenblatt,Robert H. Socolow,Keywan Riahi	2006	1
18	The hydrogen economy in the 21st century: a sustainable development scenario Fuel and Energy Abstracts ·Leonardo Barreto,J.F.C. Glatz,Keywan Riahi,Amanda M.D. Kleefman,R. Weselek,Ramón-Iker Soria-Royuela,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown)	2003	10
19	Targeting technological progress towards sustainable development IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·G. Klaassen,Asami Miketa,Keywan Riahi,Leo Schrattenholzer	2001	4
20	An Assessment of Technological Change Across Selected Energy Scenarios IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·N. Nakićenović,Keywan Riahi	2001	24

About Keywan Riahi

Keywan Riahi is a scholar working on General Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 269 papers that have together received 44.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (140 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (56 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (54 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (54 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (49 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (29 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (19 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (20.4k citations), Atmospheric Science (9.7k citations) and Environmental Engineering (6.8k citations). Keywan Riahi has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Detlef P. van Vuuren, Volker Krey, Nebojša Nakićenović, Malte Meinshausen, Elmar Kriegler, Steven J. Smith, Allison M. Thomson, Jean‐François Lamarque, Jae Edmonds and Brian C. O’Neill. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Nature Energy.

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