Ryan Rafaty

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 796 citations indexed

About

Ryan Rafaty is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Rafaty has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 796 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ryan Rafaty's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (11 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (8 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (6 papers). Ryan Rafaty is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (11 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (8 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (6 papers). Ryan Rafaty collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Ryan Rafaty's co-authors include Cameron Hepburn, Nicholas Stern, Ottmar Edenhofer, Linus Mattauch, Emmanuel Combet, David Klenert, Sugandha Srivastav, Penny Mealy, Matthew C. Ives and J. Doyne Farmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Energy Policy and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Rafaty

14 papers receiving 750 citations

Hit Papers

Making carbon pricing work for citizens 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. Making carbon pricing work for citizens
    2018 476 citations David Klenert, Linus Mattauch 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryan Rafaty United Kingdom 7 531 360 173 144 111 14 796
Simone D’Alessandro Italy 13 285 0.5× 196 0.5× 122 0.7× 82 0.6× 102 0.9× 32 639
Emmanuel Combet France 5 388 0.7× 282 0.8× 92 0.5× 65 0.5× 76 0.7× 14 523
Michael Mehling United States 15 668 1.3× 397 1.1× 70 0.4× 182 1.3× 64 0.6× 72 912
Nina Kelsey United States 7 326 0.6× 171 0.5× 126 0.7× 175 1.2× 37 0.3× 10 563
Martin Stadelmann Switzerland 13 371 0.7× 118 0.3× 164 0.9× 163 1.1× 38 0.3× 24 689
Gregor Schwerhoff Germany 14 414 0.8× 199 0.6× 54 0.3× 110 0.8× 53 0.5× 41 727
Daniele Malerba Germany 13 224 0.4× 100 0.3× 129 0.7× 91 0.6× 89 0.8× 23 562
Adrian Rinscheid Switzerland 15 226 0.4× 138 0.4× 324 1.9× 239 1.7× 126 1.1× 29 810
Ekaterina Rhodes Canada 10 217 0.4× 137 0.4× 211 1.2× 73 0.5× 212 1.9× 28 535
Ulrike Kornek Germany 13 418 0.8× 237 0.7× 65 0.4× 90 0.6× 38 0.3× 29 543

Countries citing papers authored by Ryan Rafaty

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan Rafaty

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ryan Rafaty. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ryan Rafaty. The network helps show where Ryan Rafaty may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Rafaty

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Rafaty, Ryan, et al.. (2025). Carbon pricing and the elasticity of CO2 emissions. Energy Economics. 144. 108298–108298. 2 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Three Decades of Climate Mitigation Policy: What Has It Delivered?. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 48(1). 615–650. 15 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan, et al.. (2022). Sensitive intervention points in China's coal phaseout. Energy Policy. 163. 112797–112797. 23 indexed citations
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Sato, Misato, Ryan Rafaty, Raphael Calel, & Michael Grubb. (2022). Allocation, allocation, allocation! The political economy of the development of the European Union Emissions Trading System. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 13(5). 28 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan, et al.. (2022). Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of Co2 Emissions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan, et al.. (2022). Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of Co2 Emissions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Srivastav, Sugandha & Ryan Rafaty. (2022). Political Strategies to Overcome Climate Policy Obstructionism. Perspectives on Politics. 21(2). 640–650. 4 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan, et al.. (2020). Revoking coal mining permits: an economic and legal analysis. Climate Policy. 20(8). 980–996. 12 indexed citations
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Farmer, J. Doyne, Cameron Hepburn, Matthew C. Ives, et al.. (2019). Sensitive intervention points in the post-carbon transition. Science. 364(6436). 132–134. 148 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan. (2018). Perceptions of Corruption, Political Distrust, and the Weakening of Climate Policy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Rafaty, Ryan. (2018). Perceptions of Corruption, Political Distrust, and the Weakening of Climate Policy. Global Environmental Politics. 18(3). 106–129. 69 indexed citations
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Klenert, David, Linus Mattauch, Emmanuel Combet, et al.. (2018). Making carbon pricing work for citizens. Nature Climate Change. 8(8). 669–677. 476 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klenert, David, Linus Mattauch, Emmanuel Combet, et al.. (2017). Making Carbon Pricing Work. MPRA Paper. 6 indexed citations

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