Thomas E. Downing

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas E. Downing is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas E. Downing has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Thomas E. Downing's work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (23 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (10 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers). Thomas E. Downing is often cited by papers focused on Climate change impacts on agriculture (23 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (10 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers). Thomas E. Downing collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Thomas E. Downing's co-authors include Michael Watts, Hans G. Bohle, Mike Hulme, Rik Leemans, Éric F. Lambin, Fernando T. Maestre, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Elisabeth Huber‐Sannwald, Hong Jiang and Simon Batterbury and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and American Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

Thomas E. Downing

71 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryl... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2007 1994 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k

Peers

Thomas E. Downing
Comparison fields: 5 of 153
  • Global and Planetary Change 2.5k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1.7k
  • Soil Science 1.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.1k
  • Ecology 874
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Countries citing papers authored by Thomas E. Downing

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas E. Downing

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas E. Downing

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 7
2 22
3 123
4
Integrating social vulnerability into water management
25
5
Economics of Climate Change in Rwanda
8
6
The social cost of carbon: Valuation estimates and their use in UK policy.
66
7
Vulnerable peoples and places
40
8
Managing the earth
2
9 59
10
59
11 41
12
The marginal costs of climate changing emissions
5
13
Climate change and agriculture in the United Kingdom.
23
14 46
15
ExternE: externalities of energy: global warming damages
3
16 1
17 1
18 5
19 6
20
The International Response to the Threat of Chlorofluorocarbons to Atmospheric Ozone
5

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