Mathijs Harmsen

15.1k citations

32 papers · 2.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 20

Impact in

Environmental Engineering top 1%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
General Energy top 2%

Papers in

General Energy 2
Environmental Engineering 13
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 13

Co-authors: Detlef P. van Vuuren David Gernaat Elke Stehfest Jonathan Doelman Vassilis Daioglou Harmen Sytze de Boer Maarten van den Berg Oreane Y. Edelenbosch
Journals: Climatic Change (8 papers)Environmental Research Letters (5 papers)Global Environmental Change (4 papers)Nature Climate Change (3 papers)Nature Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands Austria Germany

In The Last Decade

Mathijs Harmsen

32 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit 2021 · 391 citations

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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.

2021 Science
2018 Nature Climate Change
2016 Global Environmental Change

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1	Uncertainties around net‐zero climate targets have major impact on greenhouse gas emissions projections Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Michel den Elzen, Ioannis Dafnomilis, Leonardo Nascimento, Arthur Beusen, Nicklas Forsell, Joost Gubbels, Mathijs Harmsen, Elena Hooijschuur, Zuelclady Araujo Gutiérrez, Takeshi Kuramochi	2025	2
2	Exploring pathways for world development within planetary boundaries Nature ·Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jonathan Doelman, Isabela Schmidt Tagomori, Arthur Beusen, Sarah Cornell, Johan Rockström, Aafke M. Schipper, Elke Stehfest, Geanderson Ambrósio, Maarten van den Berg, Lex Bouwman, Vassilis Daioglou, Mathijs Harmsen, Paul Lucas, Kaj-Ivar van der Wijst, Willem-Jan van Zeist	2025	9
3	Climate policy and the SDGs agenda: how does near-term action on nexus SDGs influence the achievement of long-term climate goals? Environmental Research Letters ·Isabela Schmidt Tagomori, Mathijs Harmsen, Muhammad Awais, Edward Byers, Vassilis Daioglou, Jonathan Doelman, Adriano Vinca, Keywan Riahi, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2024	2
4	Reducing sectoral hard-to-abate emissions to limit reliance on carbon dioxide removal Nature Climate Change ·Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Andries F. Hof, Maarten van den Berg, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Hsing-Hsuan Chen, Vassilis Daioglou, Mark Dekker, Jonathan Doelman, Michel den Elzen, Mathijs Harmsen, Stratos Mikropoulos, Mariësse A.E. van Sluisveld, Elke Stehfest, Isabela Schmidt Tagomori, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2024	35
5	How the Russian–Ukrainian war reshapes the climate policy context Environmental Research Letters ·Mathijs Harmsen, Dimitris Fragkiadakis, Panagiotis Fragkos, An T. Vu, Dora Fazekas, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Ioannis Dafnomilis, Michel den Elzen, Áron Dénes Hartvig, Ha Thi Thu Bui, Elena Hooijschuur, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2024	2
6	Uncertainty in non-CO2 greenhouse gas mitigation contributes to ambiguity in global climate policy feasibility Nature Communications ·Mathijs Harmsen, Charlotte Tabak, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Florian Humpenöder, Pallav Purohit, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2023	37
7	Representation of adaptation in quantitative climate assessments Nature Climate Change ·Nicole van Maanen, Tabea Lissner, Mathijs Harmsen, Franziska Piontek, Marina Andrijevic, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2023	17
8	Environmental trade-offs of direct air capture technologies in climate change mitigation toward 2100 Nature Communications ·Yang Qiu, Patrick Lamers, Vassilis Daioglou, Noah McQueen, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Mathijs Harmsen, Jennifer Wilcox, André Bardow, Sangwon Suh	2022	94
9	Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models Environmental Research Letters ·Ilkka Keppo, Isabela Butnar, Nico Bauer, M. Caspani, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Johannes Emmerling, Panagiotis Fragkos, Céline Guivarch, Mathijs Harmsen, Julien Lefèvre, Thomas Le Gallic, Marian Leimbach, Will McDowall, Jean-François Mercure, Roberto Schaeffer, Evelina Trutnevyte, Fabian Wagner	2021	124
10	Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit Science ·Hongbo Duan, Sheng Zhou, Kejun Jiang, Christoph Bertram, Mathijs Harmsen, Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Shouyang Wang, Shinichiro Fujimori, Massimo Tavoni, Xi Ming, Kimon Keramidas, Gokul Iyer, Jae Edmonds Hit paper breakdown →	2021	391
11	Air quality and health implications of 1.5 °C–2 °C climate pathways under considerations of ageing population: a multi-model scenario analysis Environmental Research Letters ·Peter Rafaj, Gregor Kiesewetter, Volker Krey, W. Schoepp, Christoph Bertram, Laurent Drouet, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, Mathijs Harmsen, Jérôme Hilaire, Daniel Huppmann, Zbigniew Klimont, Peter Kolp, Lara Aleluia Reis, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2021	32
12	The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF)-30 study on short-lived climate forcers: introduction and overview Climatic Change ·Steven J. Smith, Zbigniew Klimont, Laurent Drouet, Mathijs Harmsen, Gunnar Luderer, Keywan Riahi, Detlef P. van Vuuren, John P. Weyant	2020	5
13	Analysing interactions among Sustainable Development Goals with Integrated Assessment Models SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Heleen van Soest, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jérôme Hilaire, Jan C. Minx, Mathijs Harmsen, Volker Krey, Alexander Popp, Keywan Riahi, Gunnar Luderer	2019	150
14	Data for long-term marginal abatement cost curves of non-CO2 greenhouse gases SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Mathijs Harmsen, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Dali Nayak, Andries F. Hof, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Paul Lucas, Jens Nielsen, Pete Smith, Elke Stehfest	2019	15
15	Taking some heat off the NDCs? The limited potential of additional short-lived climate forcers’ mitigation Climatic Change ·Mathijs Harmsen, Oliver Fricko, Jérôme Hilaire, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Laurent Drouet, Olivier Durand-Lasserve, Shinichiro Fujimori, Kimon Keramidas, Zbigniew Klimont, Gunnar Luderer, Lara Aleluia Reis, Keywan Riahi, Fuminori Sano, Steven J. Smith	2019	15
16	Alternative pathways to the 1.5 °C target reduce the need for negative emission technologies Nature Climate Change ·Detlef P. van Vuuren, Elke Stehfest, David Gernaat, Maarten van den Berg, David L. Bijl, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Vassilis Daioglou, Jonathan Doelman, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Mathijs Harmsen, Andries F. Hof, Mariësse A.E. van Sluisveld Hit paper breakdown →	2018	514
17	Exploring SSP land-use dynamics using the IMAGE model: Regional and gridded scenarios of land-use change and land-based climate change mitigation Global Environmental Change ·Jonathan Doelman, Elke Stehfest, Andrzej Tabeau, Hans van Meijl, Luis Lassaletta, David Gernaat, Kathleen Hermans, Mathijs Harmsen, Vassilis Daioglou, Hester Biemans, Sietske van der Sluis, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2017	244
18	Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm Global Environmental Change ·Detlef P. van Vuuren, Elke Stehfest, David Gernaat, Jonathan Doelman, Maarten van den Berg, Mathijs Harmsen, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Lex Bouwman, Vassilis Daioglou, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Bastien Girod, Tom Kram, Luis Lassaletta, Paul Lucas, Hans van Meijl, Christoph Müller, Bas van Ruijven, Sietske van der Sluis, Andrzej Tabeau Hit paper breakdown →	2016	613
19	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
20	A multi-model assessment of the co-benefits of climate mitigation for global air quality Environmental Research Letters ·Shilpa Rao, Zbigniew Klimont, Joana Leitão, Keywan Riahi, Rita Van Dingenen, Lara Aleluia Reis, Katherine Calvin, Frank Dentener, Laurent Drouet, Shinichiro Fujimori, Mathijs Harmsen, Gunnar Luderer, C. Heyes, Jessica Strefler, Massimo Tavoni, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2016	84

About Mathijs Harmsen

Mathijs Harmsen is a scholar working on General Energy, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 32 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (13 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (6 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (5 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (5 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (4 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (861 citations), General Energy (41 citations), Global and Planetary Change (866 citations), Economics and Econometrics (1.1k citations) and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (597 citations). Mathijs Harmsen has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Austria and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Detlef P. van Vuuren, David Gernaat, Elke Stehfest, Jonathan Doelman, Vassilis Daioglou, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Maarten van den Berg, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Andries F. Hof and David L. Bijl. Their work appears in journals such as Climatic Change, Environmental Research Letters, Global Environmental Change, Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications.

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