William Solecki

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
114 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

William Solecki is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, William Solecki has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 19 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in William Solecki's work include Disaster Management and Resilience (22 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (18 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). William Solecki is often cited by papers focused on Disaster Management and Resilience (22 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (18 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers). William Solecki collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. William Solecki's co-authors include Cynthia Rosenzweig, Joern Birkmann, Kasper Kok, Kristie L. Ebi, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Dale S. Rothman, Bas van Ruijven, Brian C. O’Neill, Marc A. Levy and Keywan Riahi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

William Solecki

112 papers receiving 6.1k 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 roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century

2015 2.1k citations William Solecki et al. profile →
Cities lead the way in climate–change action

2010 536 citations Cynthia Rosenzweig, William Solecki et al. Nature profile →
Understanding human vulnerability to climate change: A global perspective on index validation for adaptation planning

2021 183 citations Edmond Totin, William Solecki et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
William Solecki	3.1k	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	882	114	6.4k
Jürgen P. Kropp	2.2k 0.7×	657 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	903 0.7×	996 1.1×	128	6.2k
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	3.4k 1.1×	998 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	583 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	3	9.7k
Kasper Kok	4.9k 1.6×	1.0k 0.7×	836 0.6×	577 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	160	9.1k
Bas van Ruijven	2.6k 0.8×	587 0.4×	1.9k 1.5×	577 0.5×	2.4k 2.7×	103	8.5k
Patricia Gober	2.1k 0.7×	719 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	866 0.7×	407 0.5×	98	5.4k
Rob Swart	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	595 0.4×	387 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	112	5.0k
Bryan Boruff	2.8k 0.9×	3.4k 2.4×	644 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	304 0.3×	108	8.0k
Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey	4.4k 1.4×	717 0.5×	720 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	932 1.1×	219	6.7k
Thomas J. Wilbanks	4.6k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	648 0.5×	529 0.4×	943 1.1×	68	8.4k
Marina Alberti	5.9k 1.9×	957 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	2.2k 1.8×	871 1.0×	72	10.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Solecki

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Leichenko, Robin, et al.. (2025). Business as usual? Small business responses to compound disasters in coastal New York city and New Jersey. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 119. 105288–105288.

Ramos, Gian Carlo Delgado, Joan Fitzgerald, Kevin Lanza, et al.. (2025). Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

Solecki, William, et al.. (2024). The Role of Catalysts in the Climate Adaptation Process. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 16(1). 1 indexed citations

Eriksen, Siri, Nicholas P. Simpson, Bruce Glavovic, et al.. (2024). Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development. Nature Climate Change. 14(12). 1212–1215. 13 indexed citations

Muñoz‐Erickson, Tischa A., Kristin Baja, Mikhail Chester, et al.. (2024). Co-producing new knowledge systems for resilient and just coastal cities: A social-ecological-technological systems framework for data visualization. Cities. 156. 105513–105513. 4 indexed citations

Simpson, Nicholas P., Andrew Constable, Bruce Glavovic, et al.. (2023). Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 10–10. 11 indexed citations

Pearsall, Hamil, Víctor Hugo Gutiérrez-Vélez, Melissa R. Gilbert, et al.. (2021). Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban–rural sustainable infrastructure systems. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 33 indexed citations

Solecki, William & Cynthia Rosenzweig. (2020). Indicators and monitoring systems for urban climate resiliency. Climatic Change. 163(4). 1815–1837. 14 indexed citations

Wilbanks, Thomas J., Rae Zimmerman, Susan Julius, et al.. (2020). Toward indicators of the performance of US infrastructures under climate change risks. Climatic Change. 163(4). 1795–1813. 12 indexed citations

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Solecki, William, Nancy B. Grimm, Peter J. Marcotullio, et al.. (2019). Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 10(6). 23 indexed citations

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Friedman, Erin, et al.. (2019). Communicating extreme event policy windows: Discourses on Hurricane Sandy and policy change in Boston and New York City. Environmental Science & Policy. 100. 55–65. 18 indexed citations

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Solecki, William, et al.. (2019). Policy legacies of extreme events: Hazards experience, institutional memory and governance structure and the response to Tropical Storms Irene and Lee and Hurricane Sandy.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Harden, Carol P., Anne Chin, Mary R. English, et al.. (2013). Understanding Human–Landscape Interactions in the “Anthropocene”. Environmental Management. 53(1). 4–13. 66 indexed citations

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia & William Solecki. (2010). Introduction to Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1196(1). 13–18. 28 indexed citations

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia & William Solecki. (2010). Chapter 1: New York City adaptation in context. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1196(1). 19–28. 15 indexed citations

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia & William Solecki. (2010). Preface to Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1196(1). 5–6. 18 indexed citations

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia, William Solecki, Stephen A. Hammer, & Shagun Mehrotra. (2010). Cities lead the way in climate–change action. Nature. 467(7318). 909–911. 536 indexed citations breakdown →

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Solecki, William, et al.. (2010). CLIMATE PROTECTION LEVELS. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1196(1). 293–352. 3 indexed citations

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Solecki, William, et al.. (2004). Downscaling climate change scenarios in an urban land use change model. Journal of Environmental Management. 72(1-2). 105–115. 133 indexed citations

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Boehme, Susan E., Steven E. Clemants, Benjamin Lane, et al.. (2004). Managing the Megacity for Global Sustainability: The New York Metropolitan Region as an Urban Biosphere Reserve. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1023(1). 125–141. 11 indexed citations

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