Stefan Frank

9.9k citations

57 papers · 3.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Environmental Engineering top 1%
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Ecology top 2%
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Papers in

Environmental Engineering 22
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability 21
Ecology 28
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact 18
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 6

Co-authors: Peter Havlík Hugo Valin Michael Obersteiner Tomoko Hasegawa Mykola Gusti Aline Mosnier Hannes Böttcher Erwin Schmid
Journals: Nature Climate Change (6 papers)Nature Food (4 papers)Geoderma (3 papers)Environmental Research Letters (3 papers)Climatic Change (3 papers)
Partner nations: Austria Germany Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Stefan Frank

56 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world 2019 · 403 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature Climate Change
2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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1	A comprehensive porewater survey of European peatlands reveals sustained elevated phosphorus levels after 10–20 years of rewetting Geoderma ·一幸伊藤, Jörg Gelbrecht, Rasmus Jes Petersen, David Rayner, Maximilian P. Lau, Stefan Frank, Roxane Andersen, Jaan Pärn, Ülo Mander, Wiktor Kotowski, Haojie Liu, Bo Vangsø Iversen, Goswin Johann Heckrath, Hans Christian Bruun Hansen, Carl Christian Hoffmann, Maarit I. Mäenpää, Tobias Goldhammer, Ain Kull, Monoprix Fra, Dominik Žák	2025	0
2	Fire weather compromises forestation-reliant climate mitigation pathways Earth System Dynamics ·J Faraj, Jonas Schwaab, Yann Quilcaille, Maria B. M. Doyle, Jonathan Doelman, Stefan Frank, Mykola Gusti, Peter Havlík, Florian Humpenöder, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Christoph Müller, Kanishka B. Narayan, Ryan S. Padrón, Alexander Popp, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Behnam Hasani, Sonia I. Seneviratne	2024	7
3	MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM nexus module: integrating water sector and climate impacts Geoscientific model development ·Muhammad Awais, Adriano Vinca, Edward Byers, Stefan Frank, Oliver Fricko, Esther Boere, Peter Burek, V. N. Hornostai, Paul Kishimoto, Alessio Mastrucci, Yusuke Satoh, Amanda Palazzo, Madeleine McPherson, Keywan Riahi, Volker Krey	2024	8
4	Enhanced agricultural carbon sinks provide benefits for farmers and the climate Nature Food ·Stefan Frank, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Peter Havlík, Esther Boere, 许瑶瑶, Oliver Fricko, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Mykola Gusti, Tamás Krisztin, Pekka Lauri, Amanda Palazzo, Behnam Hasani	2024	18
5	Enhanced food system efficiency is the key to China’s 2060 carbon neutrality target Nature Food ·Ming Ren, Chen Huang, Yazhen Wu, Андре Депперманн, Stefan Frank, Peter Havlík, Yuyao Zhu, Giuliano Saraceni Issa Cossolin, Xiaotian Ma, Yong Liu, Hao Zhao, Jinfeng Chang, Lin Ma, Zhaohai Bai, Shasha Xu, Hancheng Dai	2023	53
6	Feeding climate and biodiversity goals with novel plant-based meat and milk alternatives Nature Communications ·Marta Kozicka, Peter Havlík, Hugo Valin, Eva Wollenberg, Андре Депперманн, David Leclère, Pekka Lauri, Abdul Hadi Abdul Rahman, Esther Boere, Stefan Frank, A. Achat, T. B. Потапова, Noel Gurwick	2023	76
7	A Novel Robust Meta-Model Framework for Predicting Crop Yield Probability Distributions Using Multisource Data Cybernetics and Systems Analysis ·T. Ermolieva, Peter Havlík, K Okawa, Esther Boere, Stefan Frank, Taher Kahil, Wang Gui, Juraj Balkovič, Rastislav Skalský, Christian Folberth, Nadejda Komendantova, P. S. Knopov	2023	2
8	Land-based climate change mitigation measures can affect agricultural markets and food security Nature Food ·Shinichiro Fujimori, Wenchao Wu, Jonathan Doelman, Stefan Frank, Jordan Hristov, Page Kyle, Ronald D. Sands, Willem‐Jan van Zeist, Peter Havlík, Ignácio Pérez Domínguez, A. H. Keane, Elke Stehfest, Andrzej Tabeau, Hugo Valin, Hans van Meijl, Tomoko Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Takahashi	2022	119
9	Land-based climate change mitigation potentials within the agenda for sustainable development Environmental Research Letters ·Stefan Frank, Mykola Gusti, Peter Havlík, Pekka Lauri, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Nicklas Forsell, Tomoko Hasegawa, Tamás Krisztin, Amanda Palazzo, Hugo Valin	2021	65
10	How much multilateralism do we need? Effectiveness of unilateral agricultural mitigation efforts in the global context Environmental Research Letters ·Stefan Frank, Peter Havlík, Andrzej Tabeau, Peter Witzke, Esther Boere, Gregory James Walker, Андре Депперманн, M. van Dijk, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Charlotte Janssens, Jim F. Byrd, Hans van Meijl, Ignácio Pérez Domínguez, Hugo Valin	2021	10
11	International trade is a key component of climate change adaptation Nature Climate Change ·Charlotte Janssens, Peter Havlík, Tamás Krisztin, Justin S. Baker, Stefan Frank, Tomoko Hasegawa, David Leclère, Sara Ohrel, Shaun Ragnauth, Erwin Schmid, Hugo Valin, Nicole Van Lipzig, Miet Maertens	2021	7
12	Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade Nature Climate Change ·Charlotte Janssens, Peter Havlík, Tamás Krisztin, Justin S. Baker, Stefan Frank, Tomoko Hasegawa, David Leclère, Sara Ohrel, Shaun Ragnauth, Erwin Schmid, Hugo Valin, Nicole Van Lipzig, Miet Maertens	2020	160
13	Tackling food consumption inequality to fight hunger without pressuring the environment Nature Sustainability ·Tomoko Hasegawa, Peter Havlík, Stefan Frank, Amanda Palazzo, Hugo Valin	2019	63
14	Biomass residues as twenty-first century bioenergy feedstock—a comparison of eight integrated assessment models Climatic Change ·Steef V. Hanssen, Vassilis Daioglou, Zoran J. N. Steinmann, Stefan Frank, Alexander Popp, Thierry Brunelle, Pekka Lauri, Tomoko Hasegawa, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Detlef P. van Vuuren	2019	66
15	Agricultural non-CO2 emission reduction potential in the context of the 1.5 °C target Nature Climate Change ·Stefan Frank, Peter Havlík, Elke Stehfest, Hans van Meijl, Peter Witzke, Ignácio Pérez Domínguez, M. van Dijk, Jonathan Doelman, Thomas Fellmann, Jason Levin-Koopman, Andrzej Tabeau, Hugo Valin	2018	191
16	Addressing climate change adaptation with a stochastic integrated assessment model: Analysis of common agricultural policy measures IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·T. Ermolieva, Esther Boere, Anne Biewald, Peter Havlík, Aline Mosnier, David Leclère, Hugo Valin, Stefan Frank, Michael Obersteiner, Yuri Ermoliev	2018	2
17	Structural change as a key component for agricultural non-CO2 mitigation efforts Nature Communications ·Stefan Frank, Robert Beach, Peter Havlík, Hugo Valin, Mario Herrero, Aline Mosnier, Tomoko Hasegawa, Jared Creason, Shaun Ragnauth, Michael Obersteiner	2018	73
18	Effect of past peat cultivation practices on present dynamics of dissolved organic carbon The Science of The Total Environment ·Stefan Frank, Bärbel Tiemeyer, Michel Bechtold, Andreas Lücke, Roland Bol	2016	17
19	EU Energy, Transport and GHG Emissions Trends to 2050 - Reference Scenario 2013 PubMed Central ·Pantélis Capros, Alessia De Vita, Nikolaos Tasios, Ana I Souto Ramos, Pelopidas Siskos, Chong Gao, NİLGÜN SAYINALP, Leonidas Paroussos, 閔晟基, Nikolaos Kouvaritakis, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Wilfried Winiwarter, Pallav Purohit, Hannes Böttcher, Stefan Frank, Peter Havlík, Mykola Gusti, Peter Witzke	2013	217
20	How effective are the sustainability criteria accompanying the European Union 2020 biofuel targets? GCB Bioenergy ·Stefan Frank, Hannes Böttcher, Peter Havlík, Hugo Valin, Aline Mosnier, Michael Obersteiner, Erwin Schmid, B.S. Elbersen	2012	31

About Stefan Frank

Stefan Frank is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Horticulture, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 57 papers that have together received 3.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (21 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (18 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (18 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (7 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (7 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (6 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (5 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (884 citations), Ecology (1.0k citations), Global and Planetary Change (791 citations), Economics and Econometrics (901 citations) and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (450 citations). Stefan Frank has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Peter Havlík, Hugo Valin, Michael Obersteiner, Tomoko Hasegawa, Mykola Gusti, Aline Mosnier, Hannes Böttcher, Erwin Schmid, Mario Herrero and Florian Kraxner. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Food, Geoderma, Environmental Research Letters and Climatic Change.

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