Rupert Stuart-Smith

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 601 citations indexed

About

Rupert Stuart-Smith is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Law and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Rupert Stuart-Smith has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 601 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Law and 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Rupert Stuart-Smith's work include Climate Change and Geoengineering (5 papers), Environmental law and policy (5 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (4 papers). Rupert Stuart-Smith is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Geoengineering (5 papers), Environmental law and policy (5 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (4 papers). Rupert Stuart-Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. Rupert Stuart-Smith's co-authors include Friederike E. L. Otto, Luke J. Harrington, Ben Clarke, Myles Allen, Gerard H. Roe, Sen Li, Thom Wetzer, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Emmanuel Raju and Kristin van Zwieten and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Rupert Stuart-Smith

16 papers receiving 574 citations

Hit Papers

Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 100 200 300
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.

  1. Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective
    2022 315 citations Ben Clarke, Friederike E. L. Otto et al. Environmental Research Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rupert Stuart-Smith United Kingdom 7 248 130 103 87 56 19 601
Gerrit Hansen Germany 10 289 1.2× 163 1.3× 116 1.1× 62 0.7× 41 0.7× 12 537
Marcia Rocha Germany 10 253 1.0× 114 0.9× 75 0.7× 64 0.7× 54 1.0× 15 741
Maxine Burkett United States 10 254 1.0× 491 3.8× 98 1.0× 54 0.6× 83 1.5× 34 800
Bo Wiman Sweden 11 307 1.2× 149 1.1× 159 1.5× 71 0.8× 33 0.6× 37 621
Ben Clarke United Kingdom 5 204 0.8× 61 0.5× 90 0.9× 55 0.6× 24 0.4× 6 419
Rosalind Cornforth United Kingdom 15 523 2.1× 283 2.2× 227 2.2× 120 1.4× 70 1.3× 41 869
Huhua Cao Canada 13 247 1.0× 134 1.0× 35 0.3× 71 0.8× 91 1.6× 36 621
Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez United States 9 414 1.7× 108 0.8× 53 0.5× 162 1.9× 57 1.0× 14 713
Natalie Suckall United Kingdom 11 258 1.0× 278 2.1× 39 0.4× 51 0.6× 51 0.9× 19 599
Diane Pearson New Zealand 13 328 1.3× 37 0.3× 37 0.4× 58 0.7× 95 1.7× 47 601

Countries citing papers authored by Rupert Stuart-Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rupert Stuart-Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rupert Stuart-Smith

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Carlson, Colin J., Dann Mitchell, Rupert Stuart-Smith, et al.. (2025). Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change. Nature Climate Change. 15(10). 1052–1055. 2 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, Ana M. Vicedo‐Cabrera, Sihan Li, et al.. (2025). Refining methods for attributing health impacts to climate change: a heat-mortality case study in Zürich. PubMed. 178(9). 165–165. 1 indexed citations
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Malik, Arunima, Lisa V. Alexander, Rupert Stuart-Smith, et al.. (2025). Attributing global impacts of local extremes to climate change for improving loss and damage estimates. Environmental Research Letters. 20(3). 31009–31009.
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, et al.. (2025). Medical evidence drove legal action to clean up the air we breathe—climate justice may be next. BMJ. 391. r1568–r1568. 1 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, E. J. White, Joeri Rogelj, et al.. (2025). Implications of states’ dependence on carbon dioxide removal for achieving the Paris temperature goal. Climate Policy. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, et al.. (2024). Strategies for navigating competing climate science in human rights courts. PLOS Climate. 3(8). e0000462–e0000462.
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Jézéquel, Aglaé, Ana Bastos, Davide Faranda, et al.. (2024). Broadening the scope of anthropogenic influence in extreme event attribution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 42003–42003. 5 indexed citations
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Hale, Thomas, Thom Wetzer, Myles Allen, et al.. (2024). Turning a groundswell of climate action into ground rules for net zero. Nature Climate Change. 14(4). 306–308. 5 indexed citations
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Wetzer, Thom, et al.. (2024). Climate risk assessments must engage with the law. Science. 383(6679). 152–154. 5 indexed citations
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Otto, Friederike E. L., Emmanuel Raju, Luke J. Harrington, et al.. (2023). Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation. Global Policy. 14(2). 416–419. 1 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, Lavanya Rajamani, Joeri Rogelj, & Thom Wetzer. (2023). Legal limits to the use of CO 2 removal. Science. 382(6672). 772–774. 14 indexed citations
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Clarke, Ben, Friederike E. L. Otto, Rupert Stuart-Smith, & Luke J. Harrington. (2022). Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective. Environmental Research Climate. 1(1). 12001–12001. 315 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boyd, Emily, Rupert Stuart-Smith, Luke J. Harrington, et al.. (2022). Socialising Attribution of Climate Events: Progress, Myths and Future Outlook. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, et al.. (2022). Liability for Climate Change Impacts: the Role of Climate Attribution Science. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Otto, Friederike E. L., Emmanuel Raju, Luke J. Harrington, et al.. (2022). Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative. Global Policy. 13(5). 736–750. 13 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, et al.. (2021). Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation. Nature Climate Change. 11(8). 651–655. 53 indexed citations
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Stuart-Smith, Rupert, Gerard H. Roe, Sen Li, & Myles Allen. (2021). Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat. Nature Geoscience. 14(2). 85–90. 73 indexed citations
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Boyd, Emily, Brian C. Chaffin, Guy Jackson, et al.. (2021). Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda. One Earth. 4(10). 1365–1370. 77 indexed citations
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Ebi, Kristie L., Christofer Åström, Christopher Boyer, et al.. (2020). Using Detection And Attribution To Quantify How Climate Change Is Affecting Health. Health Affairs. 39(12). 2168–2174. 32 indexed citations

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