Nicolas Koch

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Koch is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Koch has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Koch's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (33 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (19 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (14 papers). Nicolas Koch is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (33 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (19 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (14 papers). Nicolas Koch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Austria. Nicolas Koch's co-authors include Sabine Fuss, Ottmar Edenhofer, Godefroy Grosjean, Alexander Bassen, Nolan Ritter, Felix Creutzig, Eberhard Morgenroth, Jakob Pernthaler, Wouter Pronk and Thomas Posch and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Koch

58 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Provisional COVID-19 infrastructure induces large, rapid increases in cycling

2021 149 citations Nicolas Koch et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades

2024 109 citations Annika Stechemesser, Nicolas Koch et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Koch Germany	21	1.0k	566	265	254	177	61	1.8k
C.‐Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell United States	25	900 0.9×	633 1.1×	297 1.1×	230 0.9×	260 1.5×	86	2.2k
Qinglong Shao China	21	1.7k 1.7×	598 1.1×	595 2.2×	176 0.7×	114 0.6×	45	2.3k
Andrea Bigano Italy	20	805 0.8×	299 0.5×	279 1.1×	205 0.8×	233 1.3×	47	1.7k
Wietze Lise Netherlands	26	1.2k 1.2×	805 1.4×	389 1.5×	414 1.6×	152 0.9×	69	2.4k
Margaret Walls United States	27	946 0.9×	420 0.7×	162 0.6×	472 1.9×	168 0.9×	87	2.3k
Basil Sharp New Zealand	24	934 0.9×	441 0.8×	409 1.5×	238 0.9×	71 0.4×	102	1.7k
Suocheng Dong China	21	654 0.6×	241 0.4×	411 1.6×	341 1.3×	178 1.0×	107	1.6k
Karl W. Steininger Austria	26	770 0.8×	470 0.8×	748 2.8×	223 0.9×	244 1.4×	69	2.2k
Xinye Zheng China	19	975 1.0×	618 1.1×	584 2.2×	89 0.4×	95 0.5×	52	1.7k
Margarita Robaina Portugal	26	1.1k 1.1×	450 0.8×	627 2.4×	118 0.5×	109 0.6×	75	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolas Koch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolas Koch

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Koch

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Creutzig, Felix, et al.. (2025). An urban shared pooled mobility system cuts distance travelled by over 50%. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 144. 104726–104726. 1 indexed citations

Koch, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). On the emission and distributional effects of a CO2eq-tax on agricultural goods—The case of Germany. Food Policy. 130. 102794–102794. 1 indexed citations

Stechemesser, Annika, Nicolas Koch, Daniel Nachtigall, et al.. (2024). Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades. Science. 385(6711). 884–892. 109 indexed citations breakdown →

Khanna, Tarun, Stephan B. Bruns, Max Callaghan, et al.. (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4147–4147. 43 indexed citations

Edmondson, Duncan, et al.. (2024). Anticipatory climate policy mix pathways: a framework for ex-ante construction and assessment applied to the road transport sector. Climate Policy. 25(3). 438–467. 4 indexed citations

Koch, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality. Journal of Urban Economics. 138. 103576–103576. 5 indexed citations

Khanna, Tarun, Stephan B. Bruns, Max Callaghan, et al.. (2023). Effectiveness of carbon pricing – A systematic review and meta-analysis of the ex-post literature. Research Square. 1 indexed citations

Koch, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). Machine Learning from Big GPS Data about the Heterogeneous Costs of Congestion. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Heilmayr, Robert, et al.. (2023). Spillovers to Manufacturing Plants from Multimillion Dollar Plantations: Evidence from the Indonesian Palm Oil Boom. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 11(3). 613–656. 6 indexed citations

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Koch, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). Attributing agnostically detected large reductions in road CO2 emissions to policy mixes. Nature Energy. 7(9). 844–853. 31 indexed citations

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Wagner, Felix, et al.. (2022). Using explainable machine learning to understand how urban form shapes sustainable mobility. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 111. 103442–103442. 52 indexed citations

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Koch, Nicolas, et al.. (2021). No aggregate deforestation reductions from rollout of community land titles in Indonesia yet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(43). 12 indexed citations

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Khanna, Tarun, Giovanni Baiocchi, Max Callaghan, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: A multi-country meta-analysis on the role of behavioural change in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in residential buildings. Nature Energy. 7(1). 117–117. 2 indexed citations

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Khanna, Tarun, Giovanni Baiocchi, Max Callaghan, et al.. (2021). A multi-country meta-analysis on the role of behavioural change in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in residential buildings. Nature Energy. 6(9). 925–932. 116 indexed citations

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Creutzig, Felix, Aneeque Javaid, Nicolas Koch, et al.. (2020). Adjust urban and rural road pricing for fair mobility. Nature Climate Change. 10(7). 591–594. 33 indexed citations

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Koch, Nicolas. (2014). Tail Events: A New Approach to Understanding Extreme Energy Commodity Prices. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Koch, Nicolas, Godefroy Grosjean, Sabine Fuss, & Ottmar Edenhofer. (2014). Causes of the EU ETS Price Drop: Recession, CDM, Renewable Policies or A Bit of Everything? — New Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Koch, Nicolas. (2013). Dynamic Linkages Among Carbon, Energy and Financial Markets: A Smooth Transition Approach. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Derlon, Nicolas, Nicolas Koch, Thomas Posch, et al.. (2013). Activity of metazoa governs biofilm structure formation and enhances permeate flux during Gravity-Driven Membrane (GDM) filtration. Water Research. 47(6). 2085–2095. 142 indexed citations

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Koch, Nicolas & Alexander Bassen. (2012). Valuing the Carbon Exposure of European Utilities - The Role of Fuel Mix, Permit Allocation and Replacement Investments. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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