Nico Bauer

18.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Nico Bauer is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nico Bauer has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 51 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 34 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nico Bauer's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (62 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (36 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (30 papers). Nico Bauer is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (62 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (36 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (30 papers). Nico Bauer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Nico Bauer's co-authors include Elmar Kriegler, Ottmar Edenhofer, Gunnar Luderer, Marian Leimbach, Alexander Popp, Jessica Strefler, Lavinia Baumstark, Markus Haller, Sylvie Ludig and David Klein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nico Bauer

99 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios

2021 365 citations Gunnar Luderer, Leon Merfort et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nico Bauer Germany	43	2.3k	1.8k	1.4k	1.1k	1.1k	102	5.1k
David McCollum Austria	42	2.1k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	83	5.6k
Shinichiro Fujimori Japan	50	3.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.7×	2.0k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	200	8.4k
Robert Pietzcker Germany	30	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	644 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	62	5.0k
Haewon McJeon United States	32	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	938 0.8×	593 0.5×	99	3.8k
Sergey Paltsev United States	48	3.3k 1.4×	2.7k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	587 0.5×	194	7.3k
Andries F. Hof Netherlands	36	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.5×	517 0.5×	103	5.0k
Leon Clarke United States	55	3.6k 1.5×	2.6k 1.5×	2.9k 2.0×	2.0k 1.8×	1.4k 1.2×	139	9.0k
David Reiner United Kingdom	32	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	713 0.6×	549 0.5×	117	4.5k
Vassilis Daioglou Netherlands	34	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	713 0.6×	70	5.2k
Chris Nielsen United States	42	1.1k 0.5×	827 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	882 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	93	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Nico Bauer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nico Bauer

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

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Pietzcker, Robert, et al.. (2025). Validation of climate mitigation pathways. Geoscientific model development. 18(23). 9897–9912. 1 indexed citations

Strefler, Jessica, Leon Merfort, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2024). Technology availability, sector policies and behavioral change are complementary strategies for achieving net-zero emissions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8440–8440. 4 indexed citations

Humpenöder, Florian, Alexander Popp, Leon Merfort, et al.. (2024). Food matters: Dietary shifts increase the feasibility of 1.5°C pathways in line with the Paris Agreement. Science Advances. 10(13). eadj3832–eadj3832. 15 indexed citations

Merfort, Leon, Nico Bauer, Florian Humpenöder, et al.. (2023). Bioenergy-induced land-use-change emissions with sectorally fragmented policies. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 685–692. 25 indexed citations

Guivarch, Céline, Thomas Le Gallic, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2022). Using large ensembles of climate change mitigation scenarios for robust insights. Nature Climate Change. 12(5). 428–435. 54 indexed citations

Luderer, Gunnar, Leon Merfort, Falko Ueckerdt, et al.. (2022). Author Correction: Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios. Nature Energy. 7(4). 380–381. 4 indexed citations

Leblanc, Florian, Ruben Bibas, Silvana Mima, et al.. (2022). The contribution of bioenergy to the decarbonization of transport: a multi-model assessment. Climatic Change. 170(3-4). 12 indexed citations

Keppo, Ilkka, Isabela Butnar, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2021). Exploring the possibility space: taking stock of the diverse capabilities and gaps in integrated assessment models. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 53006–53006. 124 indexed citations

Bertram, Christoph, Gunnar Luderer, Felix Creutzig, et al.. (2021). COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions. Nature Climate Change. 11(3). 193–196. 103 indexed citations

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Luderer, Gunnar, Leon Merfort, Falko Ueckerdt, et al.. (2021). Impact of declining renewable energy costs on electrification in low-emission scenarios. Nature Energy. 7(1). 32–42. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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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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Thiery, Wim, Stefan Lange, Joeri Rogelj, et al.. (2020). The kids aren’t alright.

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Daioglou, Vassilis, Matteo Muratori, Patrick Lamers, et al.. (2020). Implications of climate change mitigation strategies on international bioenergy trade. Climatic Change. 163(3). 1639–1658. 27 indexed citations

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Trutnevyte, Evelina, Léon F. Hirt, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2019). Societal Transformations in Models for Energy and Climate Policy: The Ambitious Next Step. One Earth. 1(4). 423–433. 153 indexed citations

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Keller, David P., Andrew Lenton, Vivian Scott, et al.. (2018). The Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project (CDRMIP): rationale and experimental protocol for CMIP6. Geoscientific model development. 11(3). 1133–1160. 155 indexed citations

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Keller, David P., Andrew Lenton, Vivian Scott, et al.. (2017). The Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project (CDR-MIP): Rationale and experimental design. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 9 indexed citations

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Jewell, Jessica, Vadim Vinichenko, David McCollum, et al.. (2016). Comparison and interactions between the long-term pursuit of energy independence and climate policies. Nature Energy. 1(6). 59 indexed citations

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Ueckerdt, Falko, Robert J. Brecha, Gunnar Luderer, et al.. (2015). Representing power sector variability and the integration of variable renewables in long-term energy-economy models using residual load duration curves. Energy. 90. 1799–1814. 75 indexed citations

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Cherp, Aleh, Jessica Jewell, Vadim Vinichenko, Nico Bauer, & Enrica De Cian. (2014). Global Energy Security Under Different Climate Policies, GDP Growth Rates and Fossil Resource Availabilities. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Popp, Alexander, Hermann Lotze‐Campen, Liming Li, et al.. (2011). Bioenergy costs and potentials with special attention to implications for the land system. AGUFM. 2011. 2 indexed citations

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