Massimo Tavoni

25.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
226 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Massimo Tavoni is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Massimo Tavoni has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 91 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 55 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Massimo Tavoni's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (149 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (54 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (51 papers). Massimo Tavoni is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (149 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (54 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (51 papers). Massimo Tavoni collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Massimo Tavoni's co-authors include Valentina Bosetti, Carlo Carraro, Laurent Drouet, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Emanuele Massetti, Jae Edmonds, Katharine Ricke, Ken Caldeira, Volker Krey and Shoibal Chakravarty and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Massimo Tavoni

216 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Betting on negative emissions

2014 792 citations Glen P. Peters, Massimo Tavoni et al. profile →
Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change

2018 599 citations Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Massimo Tavoni et al. profile →
Country-level social cost of carbon

2018 545 citations Laurent Drouet, Massimo Tavoni et al. profile →
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals

2019 462 citations Massimo Tavoni et al. profile →
Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit

2021 391 citations Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren et al. profile →
An inter-model assessment of the role of direct air capture in deep mitigation pathways

2019 376 citations Laurent Drouet, Adam Hawkes et al. profile →
Are renewable energy subsidies effective? Evidence from Europe

2017 217 citations Massimo Tavoni et al. profile →
Three green financial policies to address climate risks

2021 171 citations Valentina Bosetti, Massimo Tavoni et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Massimo Tavoni Italy	53	5.8k	3.4k	2.7k	2.4k	1.2k	226	10.7k
Michel den Elzen Netherlands	47	5.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	3.4k 1.4×	993 0.8×	163	11.3k
Ottmar Edenhofer Germany	64	7.4k 1.3×	4.9k 1.4×	4.0k 1.5×	3.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	271	15.6k
Jan C. Minx Germany	53	4.7k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	5.5k 2.0×	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	126	13.8k
Roberto Schaeffer Brazil	48	2.9k 0.5×	3.1k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	194	10.5k
Cameron Hepburn United Kingdom	43	4.1k 0.7×	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	725 0.6×	119	9.1k
Gunnar Luderer Germany	62	5.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.3×	3.9k 1.5×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.6×	154	13.2k
Felix Creutzig Germany	56	3.7k 0.6×	3.0k 0.9×	3.7k 1.4×	4.3k 1.8×	1.5k 1.2×	170	15.3k
Joeri Rogelj Austria	62	6.1k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	3.8k 1.4×	6.6k 2.7×	2.4k 1.9×	161	17.7k
Robbie M. Andrew Norway	42	3.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	3.2k 1.2×	2.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	75	11.0k
Leon Clarke United States	55	3.6k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	835 0.7×	139	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Massimo Tavoni

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Borgonovo, Emanuele, et al.. (2025). Global sensitivity analysis of integrated assessment models with multivariate outputs. Risk Analysis. 45(8). 2132–2156. 1 indexed citations

Bonan, Jacopo, Cristina Cattaneo, Giovanna D’Adda, & Massimo Tavoni. (2024). Heat of the Moment: How Temperature Influences the Search and Purchase of Energy-Using Appliances. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 227. 106703–106703.

Giarola, Sara, et al.. (2024). Underestimating demographic uncertainties in the synthesis process of the IPCC. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

Bonan, Jacopo, et al.. (2024). Widening the scope: The direct and spillover effects of nudging water efficiency in the presence of other behavioral interventions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 127. 103037–103037. 2 indexed citations

Reis, Lara Aleluia, Panagiotis Fragkos, Harmen Sytze de Boer, et al.. (2024). Reducing the cost of capital to finance the energy transition in developing countries. Nature Energy. 9(10). 1241–1251. 25 indexed citations

Saltelli, Andrea, Gerd Gigerenzer, Mike Hulme, et al.. (2024). Bring digital twins back to Earth. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 15(6). 8 indexed citations

Antonini, Enrico G. A., et al.. (2024). Weather- and climate-driven power supply and demand time series for power and energy system analyses. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1324–1324.

Conte, Marc, Xiaoli Dong, Tania Briceño, et al.. (2023). Unequal climate impacts on global values of natural capital. Nature. 625(7996). 722–727. 28 indexed citations

Berger, Loïc, et al.. (2023). Breath, Love, Walk? The Impact of Mindfulness Interventions on Climate Policy Support and Environmental Attitudes. Sustainability. 15(13). 10491–10491.

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Edelenbosch, Oreane Y., et al.. (2022). Translating observed household energy behavior to agent-based technology choices in an integrated modeling framework. iScience. 25(3). 103905–103905. 11 indexed citations

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Drouet, Laurent, Valentina Bosetti, & Massimo Tavoni. (2022). Net economic benefits of well-below 2°C scenarios and associated uncertainties. 2(1). 2 indexed citations

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Vinca, Adriano, Johannes Emmerling, & Massimo Tavoni. (2018). Bearing the Cost of Stored Carbon Leakage. Frontiers in Energy Research. 6. 31 indexed citations

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Reis, Lara Aleluia, Johannes Emmerling, Massimo Tavoni, & David Raitzer. (2016). The economics of greenhouse gas mitigation in developing Asia. Econstor (Econstor). 1 indexed citations

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Weyant, John P., Elmar Kriegler, Geoffrey J. Blanford, et al.. (2014). Special issue: The EMF27 Study on Global Technology and Climate Policy Strategies. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 2 indexed citations

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Carraro, Carlo, Alessandro Lanza, & Massimo Tavoni. (2014). All You Need to Know About the IPCC 5th Assessment Report. Mitigation of Climate Change. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Bosetti, Valentina, Carlo Carraro, Romain Duval, & Massimo Tavoni. (2010). What Should We Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D. SSRN Electronic Journal. 75 indexed citations

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Tavoni, Massimo, Valentina Bosetti, & Carlo Carraro. (2009). Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries: The benefits of early action. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4 indexed citations

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Bosetti, Valentina, Carlo Carraro, Enrica De Cian, et al.. (2009). The Incentives to Participate in, and the Stability of, International Climate Coalitions: A Game-Theoretic Analysis Using the Witch Model. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Carraro, Carlo, Enrica De Cian, & Massimo Tavoni. (2009). Human Capital Formation and Global Warming Mitigation: Evidence from an Integrated Assessment Model. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Bosetti, Valentina, Carlo Carraro, Emanuele Massetti, & Massimo Tavoni. (2007). International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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