Thomas Gasser

16.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
71 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas Gasser is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Gasser has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Gasser's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (44 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (18 papers). Thomas Gasser is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (44 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (18 papers). Thomas Gasser collaborates with scholars based in Austria, France and United States. Thomas Gasser's co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Chris Jones, Kaoru Tachiiri, R. A. Houghton, Céline Guivarch, Michael Obersteiner, Glen P. Peters, Yann Quilcaille, Pierre Friedlingstein and Corinne Le Quéré and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Gasser

64 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Negative emissions physically needed to keep global warming below 2 °C

2015 293 citations Thomas Gasser, Céline Guivarch et al. Nature Communications profile →
National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850

2023 271 citations Thomas Gasser, R. A. Houghton et al. profile →
Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

2021 200 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications profile →
The carbon dioxide removal gap

2024 47 citations William F. Lamb, Thomas Gasser 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						Papers	Cites
Thomas Gasser Austria	28	1.3k	577	535	517	343	71	2.7k
Andy Reisinger New Zealand	24	1.1k 0.9×	774 1.3×	422 0.8×	666 1.3×	246 0.7×	49	3.1k
Philippe Ciais France	13	938 0.7×	397 0.7×	492 0.9×	399 0.8×	157 0.5×	19	2.2k
Maarten van den Berg Netherlands	19	826 0.6×	886 1.5×	253 0.5×	811 1.6×	294 0.9×	30	2.6k
Mohamad Hejazi United States	42	1.9k 1.5×	409 0.7×	331 0.6×	1.2k 2.3×	111 0.3×	123	5.5k
Bart J. Strengers Netherlands	18	1.5k 1.2×	435 0.8×	615 1.1×	544 1.1×	141 0.4×	23	2.4k
Zeke Hausfather United States	23	2.1k 1.6×	405 0.7×	1.1k 2.1×	417 0.8×	169 0.5×	30	3.5k
Ramón Pichs-Madruga Austria	7	645 0.5×	513 0.9×	134 0.3×	522 1.0×	200 0.6×	10	2.2k
Naomi E. Vaughan United Kingdom	26	1.6k 1.2×	571 1.0×	409 0.8×	314 0.6×	347 1.0×	45	2.5k
Jasper van Vliet Netherlands	22	730 0.6×	876 1.5×	291 0.5×	730 1.4×	212 0.6×	42	2.2k
Yue Qin China	23	523 0.4×	344 0.6×	408 0.8×	529 1.0×	177 0.5×	55	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Gasser

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Gasser

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Gasser

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gasser, Thomas, et al.. (2026). Permafrost and wildfire carbon emissions indicate need for additional action to keep Paris Agreement temperature goals within reach. Communications Earth & Environment.

Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Thomas Gasser, et al.. (2025). Contributions of countries without a carbon neutrality target to limit global warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 468–468.

Zhao, Junri, Bo Zheng, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2025). Global warming amplifies wildfire health burden and reshapes inequality. Nature. 647(8091). 928–934.

Chen, Ziwei, Pallav Purohit, Thomas Gasser, et al.. (2025). Sustainable Management of Banked Fluorocarbons as a Cost-Effective Climate Action. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(31). 16356–16367.

Quilcaille, Yann, Lukas Gudmundsson, Dominik L. Schumacher, et al.. (2025). Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors. Nature. 645(8080). 392–398. 4 indexed citations

Nyawira, Sylvia S., Martin Herold, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Pantropical CO2 emissions and removals for the AFOLU sector in the period 1990–2018. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(2). 4 indexed citations

He, Yue, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, Hao Xu, & Thomas Gasser. (2024). Future land carbon removals in China consistent with national inventory. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10426–10426. 3 indexed citations

Gasser, Thomas, et al.. (2024). On the chances of staying below the 1.5°C warming target. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(7). 100127–100127. 3 indexed citations

Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). The carbon dioxide removal gap. Nature Climate Change. 14(6). 644–651. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lamb, William F., Thomas Gasser, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Author Correction: Current national proposals are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs. Nature Climate Change. 14(12). 1323–1323.

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Ganti, Gaurav, Thomas Gasser, Mai Bui, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the near- and long-term role of carbon dioxide removal in meeting global climate objectives. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 16 indexed citations

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Melnikova, Irina, Oliviér Boucher, Patricia Cadule, et al.. (2022). Impact of bioenergy crop expansion on climate–carbon cycle feedbacks in overshoot scenarios. Earth System Dynamics. 13(2). 779–794. 17 indexed citations

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He, Mingzhu, Shilong Piao, Chris Huntingford, et al.. (2022). Amplified warming from physiological responses to carbon dioxide reduces the potential of vegetation for climate change mitigation. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 32 indexed citations

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Liu, Yongwen, Shilong Piao, David Makowski, et al.. (2022). Data-driven quantification of nitrogen enrichment impact on Northern Hemisphere plant biomass. Environmental Research Letters. 17(7). 74032–74032. 7 indexed citations

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Chang, Jinfeng, Philippe Ciais, Thomas Gasser, et al.. (2021). Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands. Nature Communications. 12(1). 118–118. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Taotao, Tao Wang, Gerhard Krinner, et al.. (2019). The weakening relationship between Eurasian spring snow cover and Indian summer monsoon rainfall. Science Advances. 5(3). eaau8932–eaau8932. 49 indexed citations

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Gasser, Thomas, Philippe Ciais, Eleanor Burke, et al.. (2018). Path-dependent reductions in CO2 emission budgets caused by permafrost carbon release. Nature Geoscience. 11(11). 830–835. 98 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Philippe Ciais, Chao Yue, et al.. (2018). Gross changes in forest area shape the future carbon balance of tropical forests. Biogeosciences. 15(1). 91–103. 3 indexed citations

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Levasseur, Annie, Otávio Cavalett, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, et al.. (2016). Enhancing life cycle impact assessment from climate science: Review of recent findings and recommendations for application to LCA. Ecological Indicators. 71. 163–174. 117 indexed citations

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Gasser, Thomas, Céline Guivarch, Kaoru Tachiiri, Chris Jones, & Philippe Ciais. (2015). Negative emissions physically needed to keep global warming below 2 °C. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7958–7958. 293 indexed citations breakdown →

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