Rachel Licker

3.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Rachel Licker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Licker has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Rachel Licker's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 papers) and Climate variability and models (3 papers). Rachel Licker is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 papers) and Climate variability and models (3 papers). Rachel Licker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Africa. Rachel Licker's co-authors include Jonathan A. Foley, Navin Ramankutty, Christopher J. Kucharik, Carol Barford, Matt Johnston, Katja Frieler, Reto Knutti, Joeri Rogelj, Michiel Schaeffer and Erich Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Climate Change and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Licker

21 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

2016 644 citations Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?

2010 433 citations Rachel Licker, Matt Johnston et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

2017 278 citations Brian C. O’Neill, Michael Oppenheimer 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
Rachel Licker United States	17	866	496	436	419	316	21	2.6k
Golam Rasul Nepal	33	970 1.1×	430 0.9×	575 1.3×	479 1.1×	405 1.3×	89	3.8k
Tingju Zhu United States	33	1.0k 1.2×	679 1.4×	239 0.5×	349 0.8×	390 1.2×	77	3.9k
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	2	1.1k 1.3×	361 0.7×	616 1.4×	251 0.6×	273 0.9×	2	3.5k
Marianela Fader Germany	19	1.0k 1.2×	480 1.0×	195 0.4×	415 1.0×	244 0.8×	26	3.0k
Munir A. Hanjra Australia	26	684 0.8×	478 1.0×	378 0.9×	703 1.7×	341 1.1×	52	5.0k
Patrice Dumas France	21	848 1.0×	262 0.5×	365 0.8×	884 2.1×	615 1.9×	60	4.1k
Olivia Serdeczny Germany	12	1.0k 1.2×	548 1.1×	428 1.0×	174 0.4×	187 0.6×	19	2.3k
Kenneth Strzepek United States	36	1.6k 1.8×	595 1.2×	536 1.2×	209 0.5×	466 1.5×	155	4.8k
Jennifer Burney United States	30	1.3k 1.5×	402 0.8×	324 0.7×	534 1.3×	487 1.5×	71	4.6k
Omar Masera Mexico	40	1.3k 1.5×	176 0.4×	349 0.8×	239 0.6×	507 1.6×	89	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Rachel Licker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rachel Licker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel Licker

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sadai, Shaina, Meghana Ranganathan, Alexander Nauels, et al.. (2025). Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers. Environmental Research Letters. 20(4). 44012–44012. 1 indexed citations

Dahl, Kristina, John T. Abatzoglou, Carly Phillips, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests. Environmental Research Letters. 18(6). 64011–64011. 21 indexed citations

Licker, Rachel, Kristina Dahl, & John T. Abatzoglou. (2022). Quantifying the impact of future extreme heat on the outdoor work sector in the United States. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 10(1). 16 indexed citations

Crooks, James, et al.. (2021). The ozone climate penalty, NAAQS attainment, and health equity along the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 32(4). 545–553. 15 indexed citations

Wang, Frances, et al.. (2021). Environmental and climate justice and technological carbon removal. The Electricity Journal. 34(7). 107002–107002. 40 indexed citations

Pei, Sen, Kristina Dahl, Teresa K. Yamana, Rachel Licker, & Jeffrey Shaman. (2020). Compound Risks of Hurricane Evacuation Amid the COVID‐19 Pandemic in the United States. GeoHealth. 4(12). e2020GH000319–e2020GH000319. 47 indexed citations

Phillips, Carly, Astrid Caldas, Rachel Cleetus, et al.. (2020). Compound climate risks in the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Climate Change. 10(7). 586–588. 200 indexed citations

Dahl, Kristina, Rachel Licker, John T. Abatzoglou, & Juan Declet‐Barreto. (2019). Increased frequency of and population exposure to extreme heat index days in the United States during the 21st century. Environmental Research Communications. 1(7). 75002–75002. 104 indexed citations

Licker, Rachel, B. Ekwurzel, Scott C. Doney, et al.. (2019). Attributing ocean acidification to major carbon producers. Environmental Research Letters. 14(12). 124060–124060. 23 indexed citations

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Dahl, Kristina, Erika Spanger‐Siegfried, Rachel Licker, et al.. (2019). Killer heat in the United States: climate choices and the future of dangerously hot days. 10 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Brian C., Michael Oppenheimer, Rachel Warren, et al.. (2017). IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks. Nature Climate Change. 7(1). 28–37. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Joeri Rogelj, Michiel Schaeffer, et al.. (2016). Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal. Nature Climate Change. 6(9). 827–835. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya, Michael Oppenheimer, Ruohong Cai, Shuaizhang Feng, & Rachel Licker. (2016). Climate variability and migration in the Philippines. Population and Environment. 38(3). 286–308. 88 indexed citations

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Mastrorillo, Marina, Rachel Licker, Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra, et al.. (2016). The influence of climate variability on internal migration flows in South Africa. Global Environmental Change. 39. 155–169. 137 indexed citations

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Searchinger, Timothy D., Lyndon Estes, Philip K. Thornton, et al.. (2015). High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland. Nature Climate Change. 5(5). 481–486. 97 indexed citations

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Wart, Justin Van, L.G.J. van Bussel, J. Wolf, et al.. (2013). Use of agro-climatic zones to upscale simulated crop yield potential. Field Crops Research. 143. 44–55. 253 indexed citations

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Johnston, Matt, Rachel Licker, Jonathan A. Foley, et al.. (2011). Closing the gap: global potential for increasing biofuel production through agricultural intensification. Environmental Research Letters. 6(3). 34028–34028. 35 indexed citations

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Licker, Rachel, Matt Johnston, Jonathan A. Foley, et al.. (2010). Mind the gap: how do climate and agricultural management explain the ‘yield gap’ of croplands around the world?. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 19(6). 769–782. 433 indexed citations breakdown →

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Licker, Rachel, Margaret Johnston, J. A. Foley, & Navin Ramankutty. (2008). From the ground up: The role of climate versus management on global crop yield patterns. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Narisma, Gemma, Jonathan A. Foley, Rachel Licker, & Navin Ramankutty. (2007). Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(6). 107 indexed citations

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