Leon Merfort

892 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 453 citations indexed

About

Leon Merfort is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Merfort has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 453 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Environmental Engineering, 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 4 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Leon Merfort's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (2 papers). Leon Merfort is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (2 papers). Leon Merfort collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Ireland and Greece. Leon Merfort's co-authors include Alexander Popp, Gunnar Luderer, Florian Humpenöder, Nico Bauer, Jessica Strefler, Elmar Kriegler, Renato Rodrigues, Lavinia Baumstark, Michaja Pehl and Robert Pietzcker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Science Advances and Nature Energy.

In The Last Decade

Leon Merfort

12 papers receiving 436 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.

Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios

2021 365 citations Gunnar Luderer, Leon Merfort et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leon Merfort Germany	6	198	135	98	91	72	12	453
Marianna Rottoli Germany	7	247 1.2×	165 1.2×	111 1.1×	121 1.3×	94 1.3×	11	525
Jamil Farbes United States	3	176 0.9×	116 0.9×	80 0.8×	75 0.8×	55 0.8×	3	398
Steffen Schlömer Germany	3	198 1.0×	145 1.1×	112 1.1×	69 0.8×	51 0.7×	3	424
Felix Schreyer Germany	7	260 1.3×	169 1.3×	124 1.3×	128 1.4×	100 1.4×	12	586
Fernando Frechoso Spain	9	152 0.8×	215 1.6×	75 0.8×	151 1.7×	95 1.3×	19	448
Nianyuan Wu China	7	209 1.1×	116 0.9×	46 0.5×	62 0.7×	97 1.3×	10	463
Siqing Xu China	4	165 0.8×	86 0.6×	48 0.5×	91 1.0×	38 0.5×	6	438
Froylan Sifuentes United States	4	227 1.1×	78 0.6×	73 0.7×	85 0.9×	46 0.6×	5	374
Han Huang China	11	282 1.4×	319 2.4×	87 0.9×	89 1.0×	49 0.7×	17	659
Izumi Kaizuka Belgium	5	319 1.6×	233 1.7×	42 0.4×	121 1.3×	72 1.0×	20	577

Countries citing papers authored by Leon Merfort

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leon Merfort

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Leon Merfort. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Leon Merfort. The network helps show where Leon Merfort may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leon Merfort

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

All Works

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12 of 12 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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Strefler, Jessica, Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2025). Separating CO2 emission from removal targets comes with limited cost impacts. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5298–5298. 3 indexed citations

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Humpenöder, Florian, Leon Merfort, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2025). Hedging our bet on forest permanence for the economic viability of climate targets. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2460–2460. 3 indexed citations

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Strefler, Jessica, Leon Merfort, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2024). Technology availability, sector policies and behavioral change are complementary strategies for achieving net-zero emissions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8440–8440. 4 indexed citations

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Humpenöder, Florian, Alexander Popp, Leon Merfort, et al.. (2024). Food matters: Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways in line with the Paris Agreement. Science Advances. 10(13). eadj3832–eadj3832. 15 indexed citations

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Grubert, Emily, Lira Luz Benites Lázaro, Alexander Popp, et al.. (2024). Making low-carbon energy sustainable. One Earth. 7(2). 163–166. 1 indexed citations

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Merfort, Leon, Nico Bauer, Florian Humpenöder, et al.. (2023). Bioenergy-induced land-use-change emissions with sectorally fragmented policies. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 685–692. 25 indexed citations

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Merfort, Leon, Nico Bauer, Florian Humpenöder, et al.. (2023). State of global land regulation inadequate to control biofuel land-use-change emissions. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 610–612. 6 indexed citations

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Luderer, Gunnar, Leon Merfort, Falko Ueckerdt, et al.. (2022). Author Correction: Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios. Nature Energy. 7(4). 380–381. 4 indexed citations

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Luderer, Gunnar, Leon Merfort, Falko Ueckerdt, et al.. (2021). Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios. Nature Energy. 7(1). 32–42. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Merfort, Leon, et al.. (2019). Synchronization Patterns in Modular Neuronal Networks: A Case Study of C. elegans. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics. 5. 6 indexed citations

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Hövel, Philipp, et al.. (2018). Synchronization in Functional Networks of the Human Brain. Journal of Nonlinear Science. 30(5). 2259–2282. 19 indexed citations

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