Ryna Cui

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ryna Cui is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryna Cui has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 17 papers in Environmental Engineering and 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Ryna Cui's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (22 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers). Ryna Cui is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (22 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (15 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers). Ryna Cui collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Ryna Cui's co-authors include Sha Yu, Leon Clarke, Nathan Hultman, Haewon McJeon, Morgan R. Edwards, Arijit Sen, Diyang Cui, Gokul Iyer, Jiehong Lou and Jiahai Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ryna Cui

36 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

A plant-by-plant strategy for high-ambition coal power phaseout in China

2021 278 citations Ryna Cui, Nathan Hultman et al. Nature Communications profile →
Pathways of China's PM2.5 air quality 2015–2060 in the context of carbon neutrality

2021 268 citations Sha Yu, Ryna Cui et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryna Cui United States	15	365	314	240	214	185	41	1.1k
Yang Ou United States	14	280 0.8×	256 0.8×	302 1.3×	176 0.8×	213 1.2×	44	1.0k
Fang Guo China	16	354 1.0×	311 1.0×	243 1.0×	344 1.6×	169 0.9×	31	1.1k
Kimon Keramidas Spain	13	464 1.3×	580 1.8×	219 0.9×	355 1.7×	255 1.4×	27	1.3k
Xi Yang China	19	429 1.2×	406 1.3×	265 1.1×	345 1.6×	95 0.5×	63	1.4k
Meredydd Evans United States	16	310 0.8×	165 0.5×	96 0.4×	303 1.4×	190 1.0×	50	1.1k
Stéphane de la Rue du Can United States	17	388 1.1×	291 0.9×	174 0.7×	397 1.9×	294 1.6×	32	1.3k
Dev Millstein United States	25	551 1.5×	211 0.7×	264 1.1×	339 1.6×	256 1.4×	58	1.7k
Patrick Luckow United States	13	258 0.7×	288 0.9×	105 0.4×	180 0.8×	164 0.9×	14	792
Xiao-Chen Yuan China	22	708 1.9×	759 2.4×	277 1.2×	280 1.3×	230 1.2×	37	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ryna Cui

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryna Cui

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Edwards, Morgan R., et al.. (2025). Risks of relying on uncertain carbon dioxide removal in climate policy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5958–5958.

Cai, Wenjia, Ryna Cui, Weidong Ma, et al.. (2025). Reducing transition costs towards carbon neutrality of China’s coal power plants. Nature Communications. 16(1). 241–241. 11 indexed citations

Peng, Wei, Alicia Zhao, Yang Ou, et al.. (2025). Substantial air quality and health co-benefits from combined federal and subnational climate actions in the United States. One Earth. 8(3). 101232–101232. 2 indexed citations

Gu, Baihe, et al.. (2025). Carbon emission drivers in the Belt and Road Initiative countries—An empirical analysis based on countries with different income levels. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 9400001–9400001. 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Jiahai, Xiaowen Yang, Ryna Cui, et al.. (2025). The social impacts on China’s vulnerable cities in the transition away from coal power. iScience. 28(11). 113643–113643.

Iyer, Gokul, Yang Ou, Alicia Zhao, et al.. (2024). The role of electrification and the power sector in U.S. carbon neutrality. 5. 100155–100155. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Shangwei, Yang Guo, Fabian Wagner, et al.. (2024). Diversifying heat sources in China’s urban district heating systems will reduce risk of carbon lock-in. Nature Energy. 9(8). 1021–1031. 16 indexed citations

Sampedro, Jon, Russell Horowitz, Dirk-Jan Van de Ven, et al.. (2024). gcamreport: An R tool to process and standardize GCAMoutputs. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(96). 5975–5975. 1 indexed citations

Qiu, Yang, Haewon McJeon, Andrés F. Clarens, et al.. (2024). Provincial-scale assessment of direct air capture to meet China’s climate neutrality goal under limited bioenergy supply. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114021–114021. 2 indexed citations

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Malik, Aman, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Pallavi Das, et al.. (2024). Implications of an emission trading scheme for India’s net-zero strategy: a modelling-based assessment. Environmental Research Letters. 19(8). 84043–84043. 2 indexed citations

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Lou, Jiehong, Guangxiao Hu, Xingchi Shen, & Ryna Cui. (2024). Quantifying the economy-wide employment effects of coal-fired power plants: Two different cases China and the United States. Applied Energy. 377. 124561–124561. 4 indexed citations

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Lou, Jiehong, Sha Yu, Ryna Cui, Andy Miller, & Nathan Hultman. (2024). A provincial analysis on wind and solar investment needs towards China's carbon neutrality. Applied Energy. 378. 124841–124841. 6 indexed citations

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Zhao, Alicia, Matthew Binsted, Haewon McJeon, et al.. (2024). High-ambition climate action in all sectors can achieve a 65% greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the United States by 2035. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 63–63. 9 indexed citations

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Yarlagadda, Brinda, Thomas Wild, Xin Zhao, et al.. (2023). Trade and Climate Mitigation Interactions Create Agro‐Economic Opportunities With Social and Environmental Trade‐Offs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Earth s Future. 11(4). 10 indexed citations

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Iyer, Gokul, Ryna Cui, Jae Edmonds, et al.. (2023). Taking stock of nationally determined contributions: Continued ratcheting of ambition is critical to limit global warming to 1.5°C. One Earth. 6(9). 1089–1092. 10 indexed citations

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Ou, Yang, Gokul Iyer, Haewon McJeon, et al.. (2023). State-by-state energy-water-land-health impacts of the US net-zero emissions goal. PubMed. 4. 100117–100117. 10 indexed citations

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Edwards, Morgan R., Ryna Cui, Nathan Hultman, et al.. (2022). Quantifying the regional stranded asset risks from new coal plants under 1.5 °C. Environmental Research Letters. 17(2). 24029–24029. 31 indexed citations

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Song, Jiawei, et al.. (2022). Evaluating provincial-level employment challenge during the coal transition in China. Advances in Climate Change Research. 13(5). 729–737. 17 indexed citations

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Hermwille, Lukas, Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Max Åhman, et al.. (2022). A climate club to decarbonize the global steel industry. Nature Climate Change. 12(6). 494–496. 44 indexed citations

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Cui, Ryna, Nathan Hultman, Diyang Cui, et al.. (2021). A plant-by-plant strategy for high-ambition coal power phaseout in China. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1468–1468. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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