Marco Springmann

35.0k citations

57 papers · 5.9k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Ecology top 0.2%
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Food Science top 0.2%
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability

Papers in ⓘ

Ecology 33
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact 33
Economics and Econometrics 15
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 12

Co-authors: Peter Scarborough (13 shared papers)Mike Rayner (9 shared papers)Hubert Charles (6 shared papers)Michael Clark (5 shared papers)Daniel Mason-D’Croz (6 shared papers)Tara Garnett (3 shared papers)Keith Wiebe (6 shared papers)Timothy J. Key (2 shared papers)
Journals: The Lancet Planetary Health (7 papers)Nature Food (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)One Earth (2 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Marco Springmann

54 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts 2023 · 166 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Food
2022 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2021 The Lancet Planetary Health
2020 BMJ
2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018 Science
2018 The Lancet Planetary Health
2016 The Lancet
2016 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Marco Springmann, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Meat consumption, health, and the environment Science ·H. Charles J. Godfray, Paul Aveyard, Tara Garnett, Jim W. Hall, Timothy J. Key, Jamie Lorimer, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Peter Scarborough, Marco Springmann, Susan A. Jebb Hit paper breakdown →	2018	1397
2	Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Marco Springmann, Hubert Charles, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough Hit paper breakdown →	2016	781
3	Health and nutritional aspects of sustainable diet strategies and their association with environmental impacts: a global modelling analysis with country-level detail The Lancet Planetary Health ·Marco Springmann, Keith Wiebe, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Timothy B. Sulser, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough Hit paper breakdown →	2018	612
4	Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael Clark, Marco Springmann, Jason Hill, David Tilman Hit paper breakdown →	2019	545
5	The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study BMJ ·Marco Springmann, Luke Spajic, Michael Clark, Joseph Poore, Anna Herforth, Patrick Webb, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough Hit paper breakdown →	2020	330
6	Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study The Lancet ·Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, Tara Garnett, Hubert Charles, Douglas Gollin, Mike Rayner, Paola Ballón, Peter Scarborough Hit paper breakdown →	2016	298
7	Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities Nature Climate Change ·Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, Keith Wiebe, Hubert Charles, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough	2016	208
8	Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael Clark, Marco Springmann, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough, Jason Hill, David Tilman, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Jessica Fanzo, Lauren Bandy, Richard Harrington Hit paper breakdown →	2022	189
9	Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts Nature Food ·Peter Scarborough, Michael Clark, Linda Cobiac, Keren Papier, Anika Knüppel, John Lynch, Richard Harrington, Timothy J. Key, Marco Springmann Hit paper breakdown →	2023	166
10	The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study The Lancet Planetary Health ·Marco Springmann, Michael Clark, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough, Patrick Webb Hit paper breakdown →	2021	157
11	Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand Global Environmental Change ·Adam M. Komarek, Shahnila Dunston, Dolapo Enahoro, Hubert Charles, Mario Herrero, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Karl M. Rich, Peter Scarborough, Marco Springmann, Timothy B. Sulser, Keith Wiebe, Dirk Willenbockel	2021	112
12	Global Improvement in Dietary Quality Could Lead to Substantial Reduction in Premature Death Journal of Nutrition ·Dong D. Wang, Yanping Li, Ashkan Afshin, Marco Springmann, Dariush Mozaffarian, Meir J. Stampfer, Frank B. Hu, Christopher J L Murray, Walter C. Willett	2019	107
13	Health-motivated taxes on red and processed meat: A modelling study on optimal tax levels and associated health impacts PLoS ONE ·Marco Springmann, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Sherman Robinson, Keith Wiebe, Hubert Charles, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough	2018	107
14	The public health implications of the Paris Agreement: a modelling study The Lancet Planetary Health ·Ian Hamilton, Harry Kennard, Alice McGushin, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Gregor Kiesewetter, Melissa Lott, James Milner, Pallav Purohit, Peter Rafaj, Rohit Sharma, Marco Springmann, James Woodcock, Nick Watts	2021	102
15	Options for reforming agricultural subsidies from health, climate, and economic perspectives Nature Communications ·Marco Springmann, Florian Freund	2022	79
16	We need a food system transformation—In the face of the Russia-Ukraine war, now more than ever One Earth ·Lisa M. Pörtner, Nathalie Lambrecht, Marco Springmann, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Franziska Gaupp, Florian Freund, Hermann Lotze‐Campen, Sabine Gabrysch	2022	55
17	Toward Optimal Meat Pricing: Is It Time to Tax Meat Consumption? Review of Environmental Economics and Policy ·Franziska Funke, Linus Mattauch, Inge van den Bijgaart, H. Charles J. Godfray, Cameron Hepburn, David Klenert, Marco Springmann, Nicolas Treich	2022	48
18	Environmental and human health trade-offs in potential Chinese dietary shifts One Earth ·Yixin Guo, Pan He, Tim Searchinger, Youfan Chen, Marco Springmann, Mi Zhou, Xin Zhang, Lin Zhang, Denise L. Mauzerall	2022	46
19	India has natural resource capacity to achieve nutrition security, reduce health risks and improve environmental sustainability Nature Food ·Kerstin Damerau, Kyle Frankel Davis, Cécile Godde, Mario Herrero, Marco Springmann, Shilpa N Bhupathiraju, Samuel S. Myers, Walter C. Willett	2020	44
20	Integrating emissions transfers into policy-making Nature Climate Change ·Marco Springmann	2014	44

About Marco Springmann

Marco Springmann is a scholar working on Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 57 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (33 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (13 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (12 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (12 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (11 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (9 papers), Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (3.6k citations), Food Science (1.7k citations), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (1.6k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (622 citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (681 citations). Marco Springmann has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Peter Scarborough, Mike Rayner, Hubert Charles, Michael Clark, Daniel Mason-D’Croz, Tara Garnett, Keith Wiebe, Timothy J. Key, Jason Hill and David Tilman. Their work appears in journals such as The Lancet Planetary Health, Nature Food, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, One Earth and Nature Communications.

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