Ottmar Edenhofer

31.2k citations

271 papers · 15.6k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 64

Impact in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.2%
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
Environmental Engineering top 0.05%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Papers in

Economics and Econometrics 204
- Climate Change Policy and Economics 185
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth 59
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth 17
- Economic and Environmental Valuation 12
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 115
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies 82
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research 36

Co-authors: Youba Sokona Ramón Pichs-Madruga Jan C. Minx Gunnar Luderer Falko Ueckerdt Glen P. Peters Christopher L. Weber Lion Hirth
Journals: Nature Climate Change (18 papers)Energy Policy (10 papers)The Energy Journal (9 papers)Climatic Change (9 papers)Environmental Research Letters (7 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Ottmar Edenhofer

258 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Planet-proofing the global food system 2020 · 271 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature Food
2018 Nature Climate Change
2015 Climate change 2014 : mitigation of climate change : Working Group III contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2014 University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas)
2013 Energy
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Cambridge University Press eBooks
2010 MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Emissions Trading with Clean-Up Certificates: Deterring Mitigation or Increasing Ambition? SSRN Electronic Journal ·Kai Lessmann, А П Истомина, Matthias Kalkuhl, Ottmar Edenhofer	2024	3
2	Systematic review and meta-analysis of ex-post evaluations on the effectiveness of carbon pricing Nature Communications ·E. Thorsen, N Plessow Philipp, Tarun Khanna, Ryen T. Sutton, Stephan B. Bruns, Max Callaghan, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Piers Forster, Matthias Kalkuhl, Nicolas Koch, William F. Lamb, Nils Ohlendorf, Jan Christoph Steckel, Jan C. Minx	2024	43
3	Carbon emissions and economic impacts of an EU embargo on Russian fossil fuels Nature Climate Change ·Li-Jing Liu, Hong-Dian Jiang, Qiao‐Mei Liang, Felix Creutzig, Hua Liao, Yun-Fei Yao, Xiang-Yan Qian, Zhong‐Yuan Ren, Jing Qing, M Paolini Paoletti, Ottmar Edenhofer, Yi‐Ming Wei	2023	42
4	Financing the transformation: a proposal for a credit scheme to finance the Paris Agreement Climate Policy ·Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Klein, Kai Lessmann, Marco Wilkens	2022	7
5	Safeguarding the energy transition against political backlash to carbon markets Nature Energy ·Michael Pahle, Oliver Tietjen, Sebastián Osorio, Florian Egli, Bjarne Steffen, Tobias S. Schmidt, Ottmar Edenhofer	2022	33
6	Notwendige CO2-Preise zum Erreichen des europäischen Klimaziels 2030 Robert Pietzcker, Helena Sikberg, Luke Haywood, Brigitte Knopf, MiaoHang Cui, Gunnar Luderer, Sebastián Osorio, Michael Pahle, Renato Rodrigues, Ottmar Edenhofer	2021	2
7	COVID-19-induced low power demand and market forces starkly reduce CO2 emissions Nature Climate Change ·Christoph Bertram, Gunnar Luderer, Felix Creutzig, Nico Bauer, Falko Ueckerdt, Aman Malik, Ottmar Edenhofer	2021	103
8	Adjust urban and rural road pricing for fair mobility Nature Climate Change ·Felix Creutzig, Aneeque Javaid, Nicolas Koch, Brigitte Knopf, Giulio Mattioli, Ottmar Edenhofer	2020	33
9	Bewertung des Klimapakets und nächste Schritte. CO2-Preis, sozialer Ausgleich, Europa, Monitoring OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) ·Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Matthias Kalkuhl, Brigitte Knopf, Michael Pahle	2019	2
10	Decarbonization and EU ETS Reform: Introducing a price floor to drive low-carbon investments OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) ·Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Dan M. Bratys	2019	20
11	Optionen für eine CO2-Preisreform. MCC-PIK-Expertise für den Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) ·Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Matthias Kalkuhl, Brigitte Knopf, Michael Pahle	2019	10
12	Adverse effects of rising interest rates on sustainable energy transitions Nature Sustainability ·Tobias S. Schmidt, Bjarne Steffen, Florian Egli, Michael Pahle, Oliver Tietjen, Ottmar Edenhofer	2019	86
13	Sequencing to ratchet up climate policy stringency Nature Climate Change ·Michael Pahle, Dallas Burtraw, Christian Flachsland, Nina Kelsey, Eric Biber, Jonas Meckling, Ottmar Edenhofer, John Zysman	2018	163
14	Could resource rents finance universal access to infrastructure? A first exploration of needs and rents IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Sabine Fuss, Claudine Chen, Michael Jakob, Annika Marxen, Narasimha D. Rao, Ottmar Edenhofer	2016	14
15	Mapping the climate change challenge Nature Climate Change ·Stéphane Hallegatte, Joeri Rogelj, Myles Allen, Leon Clarke, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christopher B. Field, Pierre Friedlingstein, G. Gallo, Reto Knutti, Katharine J. Mach, Michael D. Mastrandrea, Adrien Michel, Jan C. Minx, Michael Oppenheimer, Gian‐Kasper Plattner, Keywan Riahi, Michiel Schaeffer, Thomas F. Stocker, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2016	81
16	Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change OPUS 4 (Zuse Institute Berlin) ·Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Jan C. Minx	2015	127
17	Climate change 2014 : mitigation of climate change : Working Group III contribution to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Ottmar Edenhofer Hit paper breakdown →	2015	615
18	On the Fiscal Strategies of Escaping Poverty-Environment Traps (and) Towards Sustainable Growth RePEc: Research Papers in Economics ·Thang Dao, Ottmar Edenhofer	2014	1
19	Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Ottmar Edenhofer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown) Hit paper breakdown →	2011	1127
20	RECCS : strukturell-ökomisch-ökologischer Vergleich regenerativer Energietechnologien (RE) mit Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) ; Kurzfassung Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute) ·Manfred Fischedick, Andrea Esken, Ali Tuna, Dietmar Schüwer, Nikolaus Supersberger, Joachim Nitsch, Peter Viebahn, A. Bandi, Tanya Jakawanorasing, Ottmar Edenhofer	2007	12

About Ottmar Edenhofer

Ottmar Edenhofer is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, General Energy, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 271 papers that have together received 15.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (185 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (82 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (59 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (44 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (36 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (17 papers), Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (12 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (4.9k citations), Environmental Engineering (4.0k citations), Economics and Econometrics (7.4k citations), General Energy (208 citations) and Energy Engineering and Power Technology (597 citations). Ottmar Edenhofer has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Youba Sokona, Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Jan C. Minx, Gunnar Luderer, Falko Ueckerdt, Glen P. Peters, Christopher L. Weber, Lion Hirth, Michael Jakob and Nico Bauer. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Energy Policy, The Energy Journal, Climatic Change and Environmental Research Letters.

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