Michel den Elzen

17.1k citations

163 papers · 11.3k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 47

Environmental Engineering top 0.1%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 71
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.5%
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies 49
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research 12
Economics and Econometrics top 0.05%
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 133
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth 11
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 35
General Energy top 1%
Atmospheric Science
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 10
Mechanical Engineering
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies 10

Co-authors: Detlef P. van Vuuren Niklas Höhne Malte Meinshausen Hanna Fekete Joeri Rogelj Keywan Riahi Harald Winkler Taryn Fransen
Cited by: Environmental Engineering Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Economics and Econometrics
Journals: Nature (2 papers)Science (2 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands Austria Germany

In The Last Decade

Michel den Elzen

162 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

2024 IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis)
2023 Science
2021 Nature Communications
2021 Nature Climate Change
2017 Nature Climate Change
2016 Nature
2011 Climatic Change
2009 Climatic Change
2007 Climatic Change

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1	Analysis of cost-effective reduction pathways for major emitting countries to achieve the Paris Agreement climate goal VU Research Portal ·Elena Hooijschuur,Michel den Elzen,Ioannis Dafnomilis,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2025	1
2	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
3	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,Zuelclady Araujo-Gutierrez,Nicklas Forsell,William F. Lamb,Emily McGlynn,Joana Melo,Simone Rossi,Malte Meinshausen,Sandro Federici,Matthew Gidden,Kimon Keramidas,Anu Korosuo,Giacomo Grassi	2025	2
4	Navigating the black box of fair national emissions targets Nature Climate Change ·Mark Dekker,Andries F. Hof,Yann Robiou du Pont,Nicole J. van den Berg,Vassilis Daioglou,Michel den Elzen,Rik van Heerden,Elena Hooijschuur,Isabela Schmidt Tagomori,Chantal Würschinger,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2025	3
5	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
6	Comparing the ambition of EU companies with science-based targets to EU regulation-imposed reductions SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Mark Roelfsema,Takeshi Kuramochi,Michel den Elzen	2024	1
7	Climate policy in 2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Leonardo Nascimento,Catrina Godinho,Takeshi Kuramochi,Mia Moisio,Michel den Elzen,Niklas Höhne	2024	4
8	Emissions Gap Report 2024: No more hot air … please! With a massive gap between rhetoric and reality, countries draft new climate commitmentsbreakdown → IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·(unknown),Anne Olhoff,Chris Bataille,John M. Christensen,Michel den Elzen,Taryn Fransen,Neil Grant,Kornelis Blok,Kejun Jiang,Eleonore Soubeyran,William F. Lamb,Kelly Levin,Joana Portugal‐Pereira,Minal Pathak,Takeshi Kuramochi,Costanza Strinati,Stephanie Roe,Joeri Rogelj	2024	64
9	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
10	Paris targets within reach by aligning, broadening and strengthening net-zero pledges Communications Earth & Environment ·Ioannis Dafnomilis,Michel den Elzen,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2024	17
11	Achieving net‐zero emissions targets: An analysis of long‐term scenarios using an integrated assessment model Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Ioannis Dafnomilis,Michel den Elzen,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2023	37
12	The impact of policy and model uncertainties on emissions projections of the Paris Agreement pledges Environmental Research Letters ·Michel den Elzen,Ioannis Dafnomilis,Andries F. Hof,Marika Olsson,Arthur Beusen,W. J. Wouter Botzen,Takeshi Kuramochi,Leonardo Nascimento,Joeri Rogelj	2023	10
13	Updated nationally determined contributions collectively raise ambition levels but need strengthening further to keep Paris goals within reach Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change ·Michel den Elzen,Ioannis Dafnomilis,Nicklas Forsell,Panagiotis Fragkos,Kostas Fragkiadakis,Niklas Höhne,Takeshi Kuramochi,Leonardo Nascimento,Mark Roelfsema,Heleen van Soest,Frank Sperling	2022	72
14	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
15	Net-zero emission targets for major emitting countries consistent with the Paris Agreementbreakdown → Nature Communications ·Heleen van Soest,Michel den Elzen,Detlef P. van Vuuren	2021	371
16	MOESM1 of Assessing the INDCsâ land use, land use change, and forest emission projections Figshare ·Nicklas Forsell,Olga Turkovska,Mykola Gusti,Michael Obersteiner,Michel den Elzen,Peter Havlík	2016	1
17	Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °Cbreakdown → Nature ·Joeri Rogelj,Michel den Elzen,Niklas Höhne,Taryn Fransen,Hanna Fekete,Harald Winkler,Roberto Schaeffer,Fu Sha,Keywan Riahi,Malte Meinshausen	2016	2477
18	Common-But-Differentiated-Responsibilities for adaptation financing: An assessment of the contributions of countries Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·Rob Dellink,Michel den Elzen,H. Aiking,Emmy Bergsma,Frans Berkhout,Thijs Dekker,Joyeeta Gupta	2009	1
19	Post-2012 climate policy scenarios RePEc: Research Papers in Economics ·Stefan Boeters,Ton Manders,Gerard Verweij,Michel den Elzen,Veenendaal. P.J.J.	2007	8
20	The image greenhouse model as a mathematical system Applied Mathematical Modelling ·R. D. Braddock,Jerzy A. Filar,Radoslaw Zapert,Joris I. Rotmans,Michel den Elzen	1994	13

About Michel den Elzen

Michel den Elzen is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and General Energy, having authored 163 papers that have together received 11.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (133 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (71 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (49 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (35 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (12 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (11 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers) and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (3.5k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (3.1k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (5.3k citations). Michel den Elzen has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Austria and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Detlef P. van Vuuren, Niklas Höhne, Malte Meinshausen, Hanna Fekete, Joeri Rogelj, Keywan Riahi, Harald Winkler, Taryn Fransen, Andries F. Hof and Roberto Schaeffer. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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