Matthew Gidden

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
67 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Matthew Gidden is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Gidden has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthew Gidden's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (29 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (12 papers). Matthew Gidden is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (29 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (12 papers). Matthew Gidden collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Matthew Gidden's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Gidden

62 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19

2020 437 citations Matthew Gidden, Robin Lamboll et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
A new scenario logic for the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal

2019 359 citations Joeri Rogelj, Daniel Huppmann et al. Nature profile →
Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement

2021 178 citations Niklas Höhne, Matthew Gidden et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The carbon dioxide removal gap

2024 47 citations William F. Lamb, Thomas Gasser et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Gidden Austria	23	841	795	462	446	320	67	2.3k
Mathijs Harmsen Netherlands	20	866 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	597 1.3×	861 1.9×	268 0.8×	32	2.8k
Laurent Drouet Italy	18	749 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	641 1.4×	628 1.4×	200 0.6×	57	2.5k
Taryn Fransen United States	12	754 0.9×	977 1.2×	724 1.6×	664 1.5×	179 0.6×	50	3.2k
Morna Isaac Netherlands	14	773 0.9×	832 1.0×	709 1.5×	750 1.7×	179 0.6×	15	2.7k
Fu Sha China	9	644 0.8×	913 1.1×	791 1.7×	731 1.6×	164 0.5×	13	3.1k
Nathan Hultman United States	27	1.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	685 1.5×	609 1.4×	138 0.4×	72	2.8k
Zhu Deng China	17	529 0.6×	629 0.8×	538 1.2×	747 1.7×	253 0.8×	35	2.8k
Rutu Dave India	4	553 0.7×	588 0.7×	451 1.0×	616 1.4×	183 0.6×	7	2.6k
Ramón Pichs-Madruga Austria	7	645 0.8×	513 0.6×	368 0.8×	522 1.2×	144 0.5×	10	2.2k
Amit Garg India	28	693 0.8×	484 0.6×	646 1.4×	711 1.6×	515 1.6×	188	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Gidden

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Gidden

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Gidden

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

All Works

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Román-Cuesta, Rosa María, Michel den Elzen, Nicklas Forsell, et al.. (2025). Land remains a blind spot in tracking progress under the Paris Agreement due to lack of data comparability. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 2 indexed citations

Gidden, Matthew, John Armitage, Miranda Boettcher, et al.. (2025). A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage. Nature. 645(8079). 124–132. 3 indexed citations

Pelz, Setu, Gaurav Ganti, Robin Lamboll, et al.. (2025). Using net-zero carbon debt to track climate overshoot responsibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(13). e2409316122–e2409316122. 5 indexed citations

Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). The carbon dioxide removal gap. Nature Climate Change. 14(6). 644–651. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs. Nature Climate Change. 14(12). 1323–1323.

Ganti, Gaurav, Thomas Gasser, Mai Bui, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the near- and long-term role of carbon dioxide removal in meeting global climate objectives. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 16 indexed citations

Gidden, Matthew, Elina Brutschin, Gaurav Ganti, et al.. (2023). Fairness and feasibility in deep mitigation pathways with novel carbon dioxide removal considering institutional capacity to mitigate. Environmental Research Letters. 18(7). 74006–74006. 21 indexed citations

Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Gaurav Ganti, Joeri Rogelj, & Matthew Gidden. (2022). An emission pathway classification reflecting the Paris Agreement climate objectives. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 59 indexed citations

Höhne, Niklas, Matthew Gidden, Michel den Elzen, et al.. (2021). Wave of net zero emission targets opens window to meeting the Paris Agreement. Nature Climate Change. 11(10). 820–822. 178 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huppmann, Daniel, Matthew Gidden, Zebedee Nicholls, et al.. (2021). pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios. Open Research Europe. 1. 74–74. 16 indexed citations

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Pachauri, Shonali, et al.. (2021). Clean cooking access may stall under slow post-pandemic recovery and ambitious climate mitigation without explicit focus. Nature Energy. 6(11). 1009–1010. 6 indexed citations

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Aboumahboub, Tino, Robert J. Brecha, Andreas Geiges, et al.. (2020). Decarbonization of Australia’s Energy System: Integrated Modeling of the Transformation of Electricity, Transportation, and Industrial Sectors. Energies. 13(15). 3805–3805. 34 indexed citations

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Daioglou, Vassilis, Steven K. Rose, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2020). Bioenergy technologies in long-run climate change mitigation: results from the EMF-33 study. Climatic Change. 163(3). 1603–1620. 38 indexed citations

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Feng, Leyang, Steven J. Smith, Caleb Braun, et al.. (2020). The generation of gridded emissions data for CMIP6. Geoscientific model development. 13(2). 461–482. 121 indexed citations

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Fyson, Claire, et al.. (2020). Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility. Nature Climate Change. 10(9). 836–841. 88 indexed citations

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Fiedler, Stephanie, Björn Stevens, Matthew Gidden, et al.. (2019). First forcing estimates from the future CMIP6 scenarios of anthropogenic aerosol optical properties and an associated Twomey effect. Geoscientific model development. 12(3). 989–1007. 30 indexed citations

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Gidden, Matthew & Daniel Huppmann. (2019). 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. 4(33). 1095–1095. 12 indexed citations

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Feng, Leyang, Steve Smith, Caleb Braun, et al.. (2019). Gridded Emissions for CMIP6. 3 indexed citations

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Huppmann, Daniel, Matthew Gidden, Oliver Fricko, et al.. (2018). 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. 112. 143–156. 149 indexed citations

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Liu, Lu, Simon Parkinson, Matthew Gidden, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the potential for reservoirs to secure future surface water yields in the world’s largest river basins. Environmental Research Letters. 13(4). 44026–44026. 27 indexed citations

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