Kristie L. Ebi

60.3k total citations · 21 hit papers
309 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

Kristie L. Ebi is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristie L. Ebi has authored 309 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 82 papers in General Health Professions and 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kristie L. Ebi's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (203 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (95 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (57 papers). Kristie L. Ebi is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (203 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (95 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (57 papers). Kristie L. Ebi collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Kristie L. Ebi's co-authors include Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, Brian C. O’Neill, Stéphane Hallegatte, Timothy R. Carter, Ritu Mathur, Bertil Forsberg, Andy Haines and Jan C. Semenza and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kristie L. Ebi

301 papers receiving 23.8k citations

Hit Papers

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Adv... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2012 2015 2013 2021 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    2012 2.4k citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  2. The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century
    2015 2.1k citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  3. A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways
    2013 1.8k citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  4. Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications
    2021 592 citations Kristie L. Ebi, Jane W. Baldwin et al. profile →
  5. A new scenario framework for Climate Change Research: scenario matrix architecture
    2013 510 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  6. Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties
    2010 456 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  7. The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health
    2019 435 citations Andy Haines, Kristie L. Ebi New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  8. Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities
    2021 427 citations Sari Kovats, Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  9. A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared climate policy assumptions
    2014 379 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  10. Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health
    2020 372 citations Rongbin Xu, Pei Yu et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
  11. Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework
    2020 366 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  12. Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
    2022 350 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  13. Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves
    2017 344 citations Lei Zhao, Michael Oppenheimer et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
  14. Dengue in a changing climate
    2016 315 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  15. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries
    2018 307 citations Chunwu Zhu, Kazuhiko Kobayashi et al. Science Advances profile →
  16. Climate change and child health: a scoping review and an expanded conceptual framework
    2021 179 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →
  17. Quantifying the human cost of global warming
    2023 168 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  18. Climate Change and Cascading Risks from Infectious Disease
    2022 151 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →
  19. Humidity’s Role in Heat-Related Health Outcomes: A Heated Debate
    2023 116 citations Jane W. Baldwin, Kristie L. Ebi et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  20. A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate
    2023 87 citations Jane W. Baldwin, Kristie L. Ebi et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Risk factors associated with heatwave mortality in Chinese adults over 65 years
    2024 51 citations Kristie L. Ebi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kristie L. Ebi United States 74 9.8k 7.2k 3.3k 3.0k 2.8k 309 25.0k
Sari Kovats United Kingdom 66 9.9k 1.0× 2.7k 0.4× 1.6k 0.5× 3.1k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 225 16.7k
Jonathan A. Patz United States 49 5.3k 0.5× 7.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 2.2k 0.8× 112 21.8k
Andy Haines United Kingdom 90 6.8k 0.7× 1.9k 0.3× 1.6k 0.5× 7.8k 2.6× 1.4k 0.5× 382 30.1k
Patrick L. Kinney United States 77 14.3k 1.5× 2.8k 0.4× 881 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 3.7k 1.3× 349 19.4k
Shilu Tong Australia 70 11.9k 1.2× 1.6k 0.2× 1.1k 0.3× 3.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.6× 409 21.0k
Michelle L. Bell United States 75 19.4k 2.0× 3.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.3× 3.1k 1.0× 5.0k 1.8× 376 23.7k
Anthony J. McMichael Australia 76 7.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.2× 1.8k 0.5× 2.9k 1.0× 785 0.3× 293 22.4k
Brent A. Coull United States 89 21.5k 2.2× 1.8k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 1.6k 0.5× 5.3k 1.9× 664 32.8k
Kirk R. Smith United States 90 14.2k 1.5× 2.6k 0.4× 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 2.9k 1.0× 317 26.1k
Yuming Guo China 79 15.6k 1.6× 2.4k 0.3× 492 0.1× 3.1k 1.0× 3.9k 1.4× 831 25.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kristie L. Ebi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hess, Jeremy & Kristie L. Ebi. (2025). An Evidence-Based Approach to Climate Change and Health. JAMA. 333(14). 1253–1253.
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Roca-Barceló, Aina, Mary B. Rice, Yanelli Nunez, et al.. (2024). Climate action has valuable health benefits. Environmental Epidemiology. 8(1). e288–e288. 4 indexed citations
3.
Chersich, Matthew, Christopher Jack, Guéladio Cissé, et al.. (2024). Protocol of an individual participant data meta-analysis to quantify the impact of high ambient temperatures on maternal and child health in Africa (HE 2 AT IPD). BMJ Open. 14(1). e077768–e077768. 3 indexed citations
4.
Tong, Shilu, Hilary Bambrick, & Kristie L. Ebi. (2024). Striving for a climate-resilient future. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8(4). e214–e215. 2 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Dann, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Oliver Andrews, et al.. (2024). Expert judgement reveals current and emerging UK climate-mortality burden. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8(9). e684–e694. 5 indexed citations
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Vandyck, Toon, Kristie L. Ebi, Donna Green, Wenjia Cai, & Sotiris Vardoulakis. (2022). Climate change, air pollution and human health. Environmental Research Letters. 17(10). 100402–100402. 9 indexed citations
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Jagals, Paul & Kristie L. Ebi. (2021). Core Competencies for Health Workers to Deal with Climate and Environmental Change. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(8). 3849–3849. 32 indexed citations
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Masuda, Yuta J., Teevrat Garg, Kristie L. Ebi, et al.. (2021). Warming from tropical deforestation reduces worker productivity in rural communities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1601–1601. 24 indexed citations
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Ebi, Kristie L., C. Leigh Anderson, Jeremy Hess, et al.. (2021). Nutritional quality of crops in a high CO2 world: an agenda for research and technology development. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64045–64045. 41 indexed citations
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Xu, Rongbin, Pei Yu, Michael J. Abramson, et al.. (2020). Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health. New England Journal of Medicine. 383(22). 2173–2181. 372 indexed citations breakdown →
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Miller, Kristin A., Kristie L. Ebi, Edward T. Game, et al.. (2019). Association between work in deforested, compared to forested, areas and human heat strain: an experimental study in a rural tropical environment. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 84012–84012. 14 indexed citations
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McGregor, Glenn R. & Kristie L. Ebi. (2018). El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Health: An Overview for Climate and Health Researchers. Atmosphere. 9(7). 282–282. 39 indexed citations
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Black, Daniel, Gabriel Scally, Judy Orme, et al.. (2018). Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development: Reflections on the Operationalization of a Transdisciplinary Case Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 1700103–1700103. 29 indexed citations
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Zhu, Chunwu, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Irakli Loladze, et al.. (2018). Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice-dependent countries. Science Advances. 4(5). eaaq1012–eaaq1012. 307 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhao, Lei, Michael Oppenheimer, Qing Zhu, et al.. (2017). Interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3). 34003–34003. 344 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ebi, Kristie L.. (2009). Facilitating Climate Justice through Community-Based Adaptation in the Health Sector. Environmental Justice. 2(4). 191–195. 20 indexed citations
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Ebi, Kristie L.. (2009). CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge. Environmental Health Perspectives. 117(2). 2 indexed citations
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Ebi, Kristie L., Sari Kovats, & Bettina Menne. (2006). An Approach for Assessing Human Health Vulnerability and Public Health Interventions to Adapt to Climate Change. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(12). 1930–1934. 218 indexed citations
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Gubler, D. J., Paul Reiter, Kristie L. Ebi, et al.. (2001). Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on vector- and rodent-borne diseases.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 109(suppl 2). 223–233. 478 indexed citations
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Anderson, Larry E., James E. Morris, Douglas L. Miller, et al.. (2001). Large granular lymphocytic (LGL) leukemia in rats exposed to intermittent 60 Hz magnetic fields. Bioelectromagnetics. 22(3). 185–193. 11 indexed citations

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