Thom Wetzer

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 838 citations indexed

About

Thom Wetzer is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Finance and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thom Wetzer has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 838 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 8 papers in Finance and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thom Wetzer's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 papers), Climate Change and Geoengineering (6 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (6 papers). Thom Wetzer is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 papers), Climate Change and Geoengineering (6 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (6 papers). Thom Wetzer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Thom Wetzer's co-authors include Cameron Hepburn, Thomas Hale, Lavanya Rajamani, Myles Allen, Samuel Fankhauser, Eli Mitchell-Larson, Michael Obersteiner, Nathalie Seddon, Javier Lezaun and Stephen M. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Thom Wetzer

20 papers receiving 804 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

2021 530 citations Samuel Fankhauser, Stephen M. Smith et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thom Wetzer United Kingdom	8	296	214	167	119	109	21	838
Matthew C. Ives United Kingdom	18	291 1.0×	385 1.8×	278 1.7×	122 1.0×	128 1.2×	39	1.3k
Richard Heede United States	8	296 1.0×	371 1.7×	207 1.2×	90 0.8×	236 2.2×	13	1.0k
Paul Drummond United Kingdom	13	347 1.2×	106 0.5×	211 1.3×	151 1.3×	59 0.5×	30	830
Annela Anger-Kraavi United Kingdom	14	566 1.9×	134 0.6×	264 1.6×	190 1.6×	134 1.2×	23	1.0k
Lukas Hermwille Germany	15	418 1.4×	353 1.6×	181 1.1×	154 1.3×	223 2.0×	66	949
Hanna Brauers Germany	9	227 0.8×	159 0.7×	238 1.4×	88 0.7×	157 1.4×	17	739
Lambert Schneider United States	14	496 1.7×	189 0.9×	231 1.4×	221 1.9×	65 0.6×	37	818
Mark Workman United Kingdom	18	265 0.9×	280 1.3×	156 0.9×	147 1.2×	262 2.4×	40	969
Penny Mealy United Kingdom	9	742 2.5×	158 0.7×	289 1.7×	141 1.2×	101 0.9×	19	1.1k
Llewelyn Hughes Australia	17	350 1.2×	202 0.9×	180 1.1×	91 0.8×	372 3.4×	38	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Thom Wetzer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thom Wetzer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thom Wetzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thom Wetzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thom Wetzer 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 Thom Wetzer. Thom Wetzer 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

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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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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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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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Armour, John, Luca Enriques, & Thom Wetzer. (2022). Green Pills. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Armour, John, Luca Enriques, & Thom Wetzer. (2022). Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures. 2021(3). 2 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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Wetzer, Thom, et al.. (2022). Scenario-free analysis of financial stability with interacting contagion channels. Journal of Banking & Finance. 146. 106684–106684. 4 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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Wetzer, Thom, et al.. (2021). Higher-Order Exposures. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Farmer, J. Doyne, et al.. (2021). Stress Testing the Financial Macrocosm. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Fankhauser, Samuel, Stephen M. Smith, Myles Allen, et al.. (2021). The meaning of net zero and how to get it right. Nature Climate Change. 12(1). 15–21. 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wetzer, Thom, et al.. (2021). National COVID debts: climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay. Nature. 592(7853). 184–187. 24 indexed citations

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Armour, John, Luca Enriques, & Thom Wetzer. (2021). Mandatory Corporate Climate Disclosures: Now, but How?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Farmer, J. Doyne, et al.. (2020). Foundations of System-Wide Financial Stress Testing with Heterogeneous Institutions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 23 indexed citations

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Enriques, Luca, Alessandro Romano, & Thom Wetzer. (2019). Network-Sensitive Financial Regulation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 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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Wetzer, Thom, et al.. (2019). Inherent Instability: Scenario-Free Analysis of Financial Systems with Interacting Contagion Channels. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Wetzer, Thom. (2018). In two minds: the governance of ring-fenced banks. Journal of Corporate Law Studies. 19(1). 197–249. 4 indexed citations

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