Roberto Schaeffer

17.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
194 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Roberto Schaeffer is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Schaeffer has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 82 papers in Environmental Engineering and 63 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Roberto Schaeffer's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (68 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (49 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (43 papers). Roberto Schaeffer is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (68 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (49 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (43 papers). Roberto Schaeffer collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Roberto Schaeffer's co-authors include Alexandre Szklo, Niklas Höhne, Michel den Elzen, André F.P. Lucena, Harald Winkler, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, Fu Sha, Taryn Fransen and Malte Meinshausen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Schaeffer

188 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

2016 2.5k citations Joeri Rogelj, Harald Winkler et al. profile →
Energy sector vulnerability to climate change: A review

2011 439 citations Roberto Schaeffer, Alexandre Szklo et al. Energy profile →
Global fossil fuel reduction pathways under different climate mitigation strategies and ambitions

2023 210 citations Céline Guivarch, Roberto Schaeffer et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Roberto Schaeffer	3.3k	3.1k	2.9k	1.7k	1.5k	194	10.5k
Leon Clarke	2.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	3.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	139	9.0k
Gunnar Luderer	3.9k 1.2×	4.4k 1.4×	5.1k 1.8×	3.3k 2.0×	2.5k 1.6×	154	13.2k
Jan C. Minx	5.5k 1.7×	3.6k 1.2×	4.7k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	2.6k 1.7×	126	13.8k
Felix Creutzig	3.7k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	3.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	4.3k 2.7×	170	15.3k
Ottmar Edenhofer	4.0k 1.2×	4.9k 1.6×	7.4k 2.6×	2.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.9×	271	15.6k
Xian Zhang	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	2.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	754 0.5×	279	9.0k
Ming Xu	4.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	4.5k 2.9×	440	17.9k
Alexander Popp	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	712 0.4×	3.0k 1.9×	167	10.6k
Can Wang	3.6k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	3.7k 1.3×	933 0.5×	959 0.6×	258	9.2k
Massimo Tavoni	2.7k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	5.8k 2.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.4k 1.6×	226	10.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Schaeffer

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Schaeffer, Roberto, et al.. (2025). A solar and wind clustering framework with downscaling and bias correction of reanalysis data using singular value decomposition. Energy. 319. 134966–134966. 2 indexed citations

Fujimori, Shinichiro, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, et al.. (2025). Towards an open model intercomparison platform for integrated assessment models scenarios. Nature Climate Change. 15(11). 1156–1164.

Malik, Arunima & Roberto Schaeffer. (2024). Integrated assessment modelling and input-output analysis. Economic Systems Research. 36(4). 501–507. 2 indexed citations

Lopes, Mateus Schreiner Garcez, et al.. (2024). Integrated systems for the production of food, energy and materials as a sustainable strategy for decarbonization and land use: The case of sugarcane in Brazil. Biomass and Bioenergy. 190. 107387–107387. 4 indexed citations

Fiorini, Ana Carolina Oliveira, et al.. (2024). Technical and economic modelling of last-mile transport: A case for Brazil. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 16. 101219–101219. 3 indexed citations

Dunn, Jennifer B., K. D. Greene, Muhammad Awais, et al.. (2024). Toward Enhancing Wastewater Treatment with Resource Recovery in Integrated Assessment and Computable General Equilibrium Models. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 11(7). 654–663. 9 indexed citations

Baptista, Luiz Bernardo, et al.. (2024). Unaddressed non-energy use in the chemical industry can undermine fossil fuels phase-out. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8050–8050. 11 indexed citations

Soterroni, Aline C., Mariana Império, Nathalie Seddon, et al.. (2023). Nature‐based solutions are critical for putting Brazil on track towards net‐zero emissions by 2050. Global Change Biology. 29(24). 7085–7101. 12 indexed citations

Império, Mariana, et al.. (2023). Repurposing, co-processing and greenhouse gas mitigation – The Brazilian refining sector under deep decarbonization scenarios: A case study using integrated assessment modeling. Energy. 282. 128435–128435. 9 indexed citations

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Tagomori, Isabela Schmidt, Vassilis Daioglou, Pedro Rochedo, et al.. (2022). BLOEM: A spatially explicit model of bioenergy and carbon capture and storage, applied to Brazil. GCB Bioenergy. 15(2). 116–127. 5 indexed citations

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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

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Müller-Casseres, Eduardo, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Alexandre Szklo, Roberto Schaeffer, & Detlef P. van Vuuren. (2021). Global futures of trade impacting the challenge to decarbonize the international shipping sector. Energy. 237. 121547–121547. 44 indexed citations

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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

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Fragkos, Panagiotis, Roberto Schaeffer, Luke Reedman, et al.. (2020). Energy system transitions and low-carbon pathways in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, EU-28, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia and the United States. Energy. 216. 119385–119385. 193 indexed citations

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Byers, Edward, Keywan Riahi, Elmar Kriegler, et al.. (2020). Systematic scenario process to support analysis of long-term emissions scenarios and transformation pathways for the IPCC WG3 6th Assessment Report. 1 indexed citations

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Vinca, Adriano, Simon Parkinson, Edward Byers, et al.. (2020). The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1.0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations. Geoscientific model development. 13(3). 1095–1121. 45 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Roberto, et al.. (2019). Decision making to book oil reserves for different Brazilian fiscal agreements using dependence structure. Energy Strategy Reviews. 26. 100377–100377. 4 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Roberto, et al.. (2014). Looking to the Andes: Long-term Scenarios of Oil Supply and Demand for Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. 1 indexed citations

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Sathaye, Jayant, Lynn Price, Ernst Worrell, et al.. (2001). Multi-Project Baselines for Evaluation of Industrial Energy-Efficiency and Electric Power Projects. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 10 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, Roberto, et al.. (1994). Greenhouse gas emissions from hydroelectric reservoirs. AMBIO. 23(2). 164–165. 58 indexed citations

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