Richard J. Plevin

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Richard J. Plevin is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard J. Plevin has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Environmental Engineering, 18 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard J. Plevin's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (26 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (15 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (10 papers). Richard J. Plevin is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (26 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (15 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (10 papers). Richard J. Plevin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Richard J. Plevin's co-authors include Andrew D. Jones, Michael O’Hare, Daniel M. Kammen, Alexander E. Farrell, Brian T. Turner, Felix Creutzig, Mark A. Delucchi, Holly Gibbs, Margaret Torn and Alla Golub and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Richard J. Plevin

32 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard J. Plevin United States	19	2.1k	1.6k	1.0k	760	544	32	4.2k
Pål Börjesson Sweden	41	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	701 0.7×	982 1.3×	629 1.2×	127	6.2k
Alexander E. Farrell United States	16	1.5k 0.7×	686 0.4×	848 0.8×	418 0.6×	496 0.9×	35	3.1k
Nicolae Scarlat Italy	24	1.3k 0.6×	844 0.5×	545 0.5×	430 0.6×	198 0.4×	56	4.7k
Otávio Cavalett Brazil	38	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	490 0.5×	174 0.2×	580 1.1×	82	4.3k
Seungdo Kim United States	30	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	349 0.3×	720 0.9×	947 1.7×	71	4.4k
Monique Hoogwijk Netherlands	16	1.1k 0.5×	733 0.5×	693 0.7×	587 0.8×	133 0.2×	25	3.2k
Jean-François Dallemand Italy	20	1.2k 0.6×	631 0.4×	408 0.4×	375 0.5×	199 0.4×	25	3.9k
Ralph Sims New Zealand	14	1.2k 0.6×	449 0.3×	505 0.5×	397 0.5×	375 0.7×	25	2.9k
Edward Smeets Netherlands	22	1.1k 0.5×	719 0.5×	355 0.4×	602 0.8×	144 0.3×	46	2.8k
Douglas G. Tiffany United States	17	1.8k 0.9×	402 0.3×	497 0.5×	485 0.6×	562 1.0×	46	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard J. Plevin

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Plevin, Richard J., et al.. (2022). Choices in land representation materially affect modeled biofuel carbon intensity estimates. Journal of Cleaner Production. 349. 131477–131477. 9 indexed citations

Plevin, Richard J., Mark A. Delucchi, & Michael O’Hare. (2017). Fuel carbon intensity standards may not mitigate climate change. Energy Policy. 105. 93–97. 11 indexed citations

Plevin, Richard J.. (2016). Assessing the Climate Effects of Biofuels Using Integrated Assessment Models, Part I: Methodological Considerations. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(6). 1478–1487. 28 indexed citations

Searchinger, Tim, et al.. (2015). Do biofuel policies seek to cut emissions by cutting food?. Science. 347(6229). 1420–1422. 71 indexed citations

Plevin, Richard J., Mark A. Delucchi, & Felix Creutzig. (2014). Response to Comments on “Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate‐Change Mitigation …”. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 18(3). 468–470. 16 indexed citations

Plevin, Richard J., Mark A. Delucchi, & Felix Creutzig. (2014). Response to “On the uncanny capabilities of consequential LCA” by Sangwon Suh and Yi Yang (Int J Life Cycle Assess, doi: 10.1007/s11367-014-0739-9). The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 19(8). 1559–1560. 10 indexed citations

Plevin, Richard J., Mark A. Delucchi, & Felix Creutzig. (2013). Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate‐Change Mitigation Benefits Misleads Policy Makers. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 18(1). 73–83. 309 indexed citations

Rajagopal, Deepak & Richard J. Plevin. (2012). Implications of market-mediated emissions and uncertainty for biofuel policies. Energy Policy. 56. 75–82. 62 indexed citations

Plevin, Richard J., et al.. (2011). Agro-ecological Zone Emission Factor Model. 9 indexed citations

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Fargione, Joseph, Richard J. Plevin, & Jason Hill. (2010). The Ecological Impact of Biofuels. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 41(1). 351–377. 190 indexed citations

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O’Hare, Michael, Richard J. Plevin, & Derek Lemoine. (2010). Policy Should Incorporate the Cost of Error and Uncertainty in Estimates of Fuel Carbon Intensity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Plevin, Richard J., Andrew D. Jones, Margaret Torn, & Holly Gibbs. (2010). Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biofuels’ Indirect Land Use Change Are Uncertain but May Be Much Greater than Previously Estimated. Environmental Science & Technology. 44(21). 8015–8021. 322 indexed citations

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Brandt, Adam R., Richard J. Plevin, & Alexander E. Farrell. (2010). Dynamics of the oil transition: Modeling capacity, depletion, and emissions. Energy. 35(7). 2852–2860. 31 indexed citations

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Plevin, Richard J.. (2009). Comment on “Response to Plevin: Implications for Life Cycle Emissions Regulations”. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 13(6). 992–993. 4 indexed citations

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Plevin, Richard J.. (2009). Modeling Corn Ethanol and Climate. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 13(4). 495–507. 58 indexed citations

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O’Hare, Michael, et al.. (2009). Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum. Environmental Research Letters. 4(2). 24001–24001. 137 indexed citations

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Yeh, Sonia, et al.. (2008). Optimizing U.S. Mitigation Strategies for the Light-Duty Transportation Sector: What We Learn from a Bottom-Up Model. Environmental Science & Technology. 42(22). 8202–8210. 50 indexed citations

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Turner, Brian T., Richard J. Plevin, Michael O’Hare, & Alexander E. Farrell. (2007). Creating Markets for Green Biofuels: Measuring and improving environmental performance. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 18 indexed citations

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Kammen, Daniel M., Alexander E. Farrell, Richard J. Plevin, et al.. (2007). OECD RESEARCH ROUND TABLE: BIOFUELS: LINKING SUPPORT TO PERFORMANCE Energy and Greenhouse Impacts of Biofuels: A Framework for Analysis. 4 indexed citations

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Greacen, Chris, et al.. (2003). Thai power. Refocus. 4(6). 34–37. 13 indexed citations

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