Matthew Gidden

9.3k citations

67 papers · 2.3k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 23

Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 16
Environmental Engineering top 2%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 10
Economics and Econometrics top 1%
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 29
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 5%
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research 8
Energy Engineering and Power Technology top 5%
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems 5
Mechanical Engineering
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies 12
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization 9
Aerospace Engineering
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering 6

Co-authors: Joeri Rogelj Keywan Riahi Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner Daniel Huppmann Volker Krey Zebedee Nicholls Malte Meinshausen Leon Clarke
Cited by: Global and Planetary Change Environmental Engineering Economics and Econometrics
Journals: Nature Climate Change (7 papers)Environmental Research Letters (6 papers)Communications Earth & Environment (4 papers)
Partner nations: Austria Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Matthew Gidden

62 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

2024 Nature Climate Change
2021 Nature Climate Change
2020 Nature Climate Change
2019 Nature

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1	Land remains a blind spot in tracking progress under the Paris Agreement due to lack of data comparability Communications Earth & Environment ·Rosa María Román-Cuesta,Michel den Elzen,昇岩井,Nicklas Forsell,William F. Lamb,Emily McGlynn,Joana Melo,Peter Schafhalter,Malte Meinshausen,Sandro Federici,Matthew Gidden,Kimon Keramidas,Anu Korosuo,Giacomo Grassi	2025	2
2	A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage Nature ·Matthew Gidden,聰智奈良岡,John Armitage,Loos Hm,Miranda Boettcher,Elina Brutschin,Alexandre C. Köberle,Keywan Riahi,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner,Joeri Rogelj	2025	3
3	Using net-zero carbon debt to track climate overshoot responsibility Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Setu Pelz,Gaurav Ganti,Robin Lamboll,Luke Grant,Chris Smith,Shonali Pachauri,Joeri Rogelj,Keywan Riahi,Wim Thiery,Matthew Gidden	2025	5
4	The carbon dioxide removal gapbreakdown → Nature Climate Change ·William F. Lamb,Thomas Gasser,Rosa María Román-Cuesta,Giacomo Grassi,Matthew Gidden,Carter M. Powis,Oliver Geden,Gregory F. Nemet,Yoga Wienda Pratama,Keywan Riahi,Stephen M. Smith,D. B. Vcherashniy,Naomi E. Vaughan,Ger Jan Sanderink,Jan C. Minx	2024	47
5	Author Correction: Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs Nature Climate Change ·William F. Lamb,Thomas Gasser,Rosa María Román-Cuesta,Giacomo Grassi,Matthew Gidden,Carter M. Powis,Oliver Geden,Gregory F. Nemet,Yoga Wienda Pratama,Keywan Riahi,Stephen M. Smith,D. B. Vcherashniy,Naomi E. Vaughan,Ger Jan Sanderink,Jan C. Minx	2024	0
6	Evaluating the near- and long-term role of carbon dioxide removal in meeting global climate objectives Communications Earth & Environment ·Gaurav Ganti,Thomas Gasser,Mai Bui,Oliver Geden,William F. Lamb,Jan C. Minx,Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner,Matthew Gidden	2024	16
7	Fairness and feasibility in deep mitigation pathways with novel carbon dioxide removal considering institutional capacity to mitigate Environmental Research Letters ·Matthew Gidden,Elina Brutschin,Gaurav Ganti,Gamze Ünlü,Behnam Zakeri,Oliver Fricko,M. F. Platzer,Е.Е Курдюков,Keywan Riahi	2023	21
8	An emission pathway classification reflecting the Paris Agreement climate objectives Communications Earth & Environment ·Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner,Gaurav Ganti,Joeri Rogelj,Matthew Gidden	2022	59
9	Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreementbreakdown → Nature Climate Change ·Niklas Höhne,Matthew Gidden,Michel den Elzen,Frederic Hans,Claire Fyson,Andreas Geiges,M. Louise Jeffery,Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga,Silke Mooldijk,Bill Hare,Joeri Rogelj	2021	178
10	pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios Open Research Europe ·Daniel Huppmann,Matthew Gidden,Zebedee Nicholls,Jonas Hörsch,Robin Lamboll,Paul Kishimoto,Thorsten Burandt,Oliver Fricko,Edward Byers,Jarmo Kikstra,Maarten Brinkerink,Maik Budzinski,Shelly Maria Purba,Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard,Lara Welder,Tianfan Cai,Chris Smith	2021	16
11	Clean cooking access may stall under slow post-pandemic recovery and ambitious climate mitigation without explicit focus Nature Energy ·Shonali Pachauri,Miguel Poblete-Cazenave,张宏业,Matthew Gidden	2021	6
12	Decarbonization of Australia’s Energy System: Integrated Modeling of the Transformation of Electricity, Transportation, and Industrial Sectors Energies ·Tino Aboumahboub,Robert J. Brecha,Biao Qin,H. Turner,Andreas Geiges,Bill Hare,Michiel Schaeffer,Lara Welder,Matthew Gidden	2020	34
13	Bioenergy technologies in long-run climate change mitigation: results from the EMF-33 study Climatic Change ·Vassilis Daioglou,Steven K. Rose,Nico Bauer,Alban Kitous,Matteo Muratori,Fuminori Sano,Shinichiro Fujimori,Matthew Gidden,Etsushi Kato,Kimon Keramidas,David Klein,Florian Leblanc,Junichi Tsutsui,Monika Parchańska-Kowalik,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2020	38
14	The generation of gridded emissions data for CMIP6 Geoscientific model development ·Leyang Feng,Steven J. Smith,Caleb Braun,Monica Crippa,Matthew Gidden,Rachel Hoesly,Zbigniew Klimont,Margreet van Marle,Maarten van den Berg,Guido R. van der Werf	2020	121
15	Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility Nature Climate Change ·Claire Fyson,R.Kh. Mustafina,Matthew Gidden,Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner	2020	88
16	First forcing estimates from the future CMIP6 scenarios of anthropogenic aerosol optical properties and an associated Twomey effect Geoscientific model development ·Stephanie Fiedler,Björn Stevens,Matthew Gidden,Steven J. Smith,Keywan Riahi,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2019	30
17	pyam: a Python Package for the Analysis and Visualization of Models of the Interaction of Climate, Human, and Environmental Systems The Journal of Open Source Software ·Matthew Gidden,Daniel Huppmann	2019	12
18	Gridded Emissions for CMIP6 Leyang Feng,Steve Smith,Caleb Braun,Monica Crippa,Matthew Gidden,Rachel Hoesly,Zbigniew Klimont,Margreet van Marle,Maarten van den Berg,Guido R. van der Werf	2019	3
19	The MESSAGE Integrated Assessment Model and the ix modeling platform (ixmp): An open framework for integrated and cross-cutting analysis of energy, climate, the environment, and sustainable development Environmental Modelling & Software ·Daniel Huppmann,Matthew Gidden,Oliver Fricko,Peter Kolp,Hyun-Chun Kim,Susanne Geburtig,Ahmad Fuad Abu Bakar,Adriano Vinca,Alessio Mastrucci,Keywan Riahi,Volker Krey	2018	149
20	Quantifying the potential for reservoirs to secure future surface water yields in the world’s largest river basins Environmental Research Letters ·Lu Liu,Simon Parkinson,Matthew Gidden,Edward Byers,Yusuke Satoh,Keywan Riahi,Barton A. Forman	2018	27

About Matthew Gidden

Matthew Gidden is a scholar working on Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, General Energy and Environmental Engineering, having authored 67 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (29 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (12 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (10 papers), Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (9 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (8 papers), Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (6 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (841 citations), Environmental Engineering (446 citations), Economics and Econometrics (795 citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (462 citations) and Energy Engineering and Power Technology (84 citations). Matthew Gidden has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Joeri Rogelj, Keywan Riahi, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Daniel Huppmann, Volker Krey, Zebedee Nicholls, Malte Meinshausen, Leon Clarke, Claire Fyson and Chris Smith. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Environmental Research Letters, Communications Earth & Environment, Climate Policy and Climatic Change.

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