Thomas Schinko

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Schinko is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Schinko has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 19 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Schinko's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (14 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (10 papers). Thomas Schinko is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (16 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (14 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (10 papers). Thomas Schinko collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Thomas Schinko's co-authors include Reinhard Mechler, Karl W. Steininger, Junko Mochizuki, Birgit Bednar‐Friedl, Nadejda Komendantova, Peter Greve, Peter Burek, R. Burtscher, Simon Langan and Yoshihide Wada and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Schinko

49 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections

2018 408 citations Junko Mochizuki, Thomas Schinko et al. profile →
Justice considerations in climate research

2024 46 citations Caroline Zimm, Kian Mintz‐Woo 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 Schinko Austria	19	526	418	336	328	308	54	1.6k
Tabea Lissner Germany	12	764 1.5×	292 0.7×	232 0.7×	196 0.6×	200 0.6×	24	1.7k
Alistair Hunt United Kingdom	17	559 1.1×	455 1.1×	309 0.9×	294 0.9×	85 0.3×	55	1.8k
Yiping Fang China	23	383 0.7×	484 1.2×	244 0.7×	320 1.0×	130 0.4×	72	1.8k
Ramón Pichs-Madruga Austria	7	645 1.2×	513 1.2×	522 1.6×	199 0.6×	107 0.3×	10	2.2k
Jie Fan China	25	800 1.5×	588 1.4×	433 1.3×	309 0.9×	206 0.7×	129	2.2k
Ignacio Cazcarro Spain	20	210 0.4×	357 0.9×	612 1.8×	162 0.5×	383 1.2×	53	1.3k
Roger Cremades Germany	18	435 0.8×	166 0.4×	136 0.4×	397 1.2×	195 0.6×	30	1.3k
Oliver Fricko Austria	21	538 1.0×	626 1.5×	530 1.6×	118 0.4×	219 0.7×	32	1.8k
Yue Qin China	23	523 1.0×	344 0.8×	529 1.6×	74 0.2×	370 1.2×	55	2.1k
Stephanie Waldhoff United States	20	800 1.5×	556 1.3×	412 1.2×	126 0.4×	129 0.4×	56	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Schinko

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Schinko

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

All Works

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Hoffmann, Roman, Omkar Patange, Caroline Zimm, et al.. (2025). Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4986–4986.

Malik, Arunima, Lisa V. Alexander, Rupert Stuart-Smith, et al.. (2025). Attributing global impacts of local extremes to climate change for improving loss and damage estimates. Environmental Research Letters. 20(3). 31009–31009.

Handmer, John, Rebecca Monson, & Thomas Schinko. (2024). Addressing the diversity of Loss and damage in Pacific Island countries to foster a just transition towards a climate-resilient future. Climate and Development. 17(7). 657–669.

Schinko, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Identifying constraints and limits to climate change adaptation in Austria under deep uncertainty. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 6 indexed citations

Schinko, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Interlinkages between leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change. Sustainability Science. 18(5). 2199–2218. 8 indexed citations

Schinko, Thomas, et al.. (2023). A framework for considering justice aspects in integrated wildfire risk management. Nature Climate Change. 13(8). 788–795. 15 indexed citations

Seebauer, Sebastian, Thomas Thaler, Susanne Hanger-Kopp, & Thomas Schinko. (2023). How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria. Regional Environmental Change. 23(1). 31–31. 12 indexed citations

Schinko, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Risk justice: Boosting the contribution of risk management to sustainable development. Risk Analysis. 45(11). 3452–3466. 6 indexed citations

Thaler, Thomas, Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Thomas Schinko, & Ralf Nordbeck. (2023). Addressing path dependencies in decision-making processes for operationalizing compound climate-risk management. iScience. 26(7). 107073–107073. 9 indexed citations

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Schinko, Thomas & Birgit Bednar‐Friedl. (2022). Fostering social learning through role-play simulations to operationalize comprehensive climate risk management: Insights from applying the RESPECT role-play in Austria. Climate Risk Management. 35. 100418–100418. 4 indexed citations

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Mochizuki, Junko, et al.. (2021). Challenges to local innovation and implementation of low-carbon energy-transition measures: A tale of two Austrian regions. Energy Policy. 156. 112432–112432. 17 indexed citations

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Mintz‐Woo, Kian, Francis Dennig, Hongxun Liu, & Thomas Schinko. (2020). Carbon Pricing and COVID-19. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Mechler, Reinhard, Chandni Singh, Kristie L. Ebi, et al.. (2020). Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy. Sustainability Science. 15(4). 1245–1251. 97 indexed citations

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Schinko, Thomas. (2020). Overcoming Political Climate-Change Apathy in the Era of #FridaysForFuture. One Earth. 2(1). 20–23. 12 indexed citations

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Mechler, Reinhard, et al.. (2019). Climate Risk Management [CRM] Framework for India: Addressing Loss and Damage (L&D). 4 indexed citations

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Schinko, Thomas, Laurent Drouet, Zoi Vrontisi, et al.. (2019). Economy-wide effects of coastal flooding due to sea level rise: a multi-model simultaneous treatment of mitigation, adaptation, and residual impacts. Environmental Research Communications. 2(1). 15002–15002. 37 indexed citations

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Mechler, Reinhard, et al.. (2018). Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Principles and Policy Options.. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Schinko, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Modeling for insights not numbers: The long-term low-carbon transformation. Atmósfera. 30(2). 137–161. 17 indexed citations

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Schinko, Thomas, Reinhard Mechler, & Stefan Hochrainer‐Stigler. (2016). A methodological framework to operationalize climate risk management: managing sovereign climate-related extreme event risk in Austria. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 22(7). 1063–1086. 33 indexed citations

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Bednar‐Friedl, Birgit, Thomas Schinko, & Karl W. Steininger. (2012). The relevance of process emissions for carbon leakage: A comparison of unilateral climate policy options with and without border carbon adjustment. Energy Economics. 34. S168–S180. 80 indexed citations

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