Zebedee Nicholls

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
51 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Zebedee Nicholls is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zebedee Nicholls has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 14 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Zebedee Nicholls's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (20 papers) and Climate variability and models (19 papers). Zebedee Nicholls is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (20 papers) and Climate variability and models (19 papers). Zebedee Nicholls collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Austria and United Kingdom. Zebedee Nicholls's co-authors include Malte Meinshausen, Joeri Rogelj, Jared Lewis, Matthew Gidden, Bernd Hackmann, Johannes Gütschow, Rebecca Burdon, Christophe McGlade, Laura Cozzi and Keywan Riahi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zebedee Nicholls

46 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Realization of Paris Agreement pledges may limit warming just below 2 °C

2022 417 citations Malte Meinshausen, Jared Lewis et al. profile →
A new scenario logic for the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal

2019 359 citations Joeri Rogelj, Daniel Huppmann et al. profile →
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets

2023 111 citations Robin Lamboll, Zebedee Nicholls 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
Zebedee Nicholls Australia	17	749	583	316	270	258	51	1.6k
Katsumasa Tanaka Japan	21	645 0.9×	426 0.7×	287 0.9×	448 1.7×	326 1.3×	91	1.8k
Stephen M. Smith United States	24	583 0.8×	542 0.9×	265 0.8×	305 1.1×	213 0.8×	61	2.1k
Thomas Gasser Austria	28	1.3k 1.7×	577 1.0×	340 1.1×	517 1.9×	535 2.1×	71	2.7k
Sarah M. Jordaan United States	17	763 1.0×	268 0.5×	542 1.7×	439 1.6×	248 1.0×	55	1.7k
Matthew Gidden Austria	23	841 1.1×	795 1.4×	462 1.5×	446 1.7×	228 0.9×	67	2.3k
Yue Qin China	23	523 0.7×	344 0.6×	357 1.1×	529 2.0×	408 1.6×	55	2.1k
Tabea Lissner Germany	12	764 1.0×	292 0.5×	171 0.5×	232 0.9×	300 1.2×	24	1.7k
Morna Isaac Netherlands	14	773 1.0×	832 1.4×	709 2.2×	750 2.8×	202 0.8×	15	2.7k
Jay Sterling Gregg Denmark	22	936 1.2×	307 0.5×	215 0.7×	396 1.5×	531 2.1×	41	2.0k
Sam Abernethy United States	8	953 1.3×	471 0.8×	232 0.7×	302 1.1×	152 0.6×	11	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Zebedee Nicholls

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zebedee Nicholls

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Sadai, Shaina, Meghana Ranganathan, Alexander Nauels, et al.. (2025). Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers. Environmental Research Letters. 20(4). 44012–44012. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Gang, Zebedee Nicholls, Chris Jones, et al.. (2025). Investigating carbon and nitrogen conservation in reported CMIP6 Earth system model data. Geoscientific model development. 18(7). 2111–2136. 2 indexed citations

Tang, Gang, Zebedee Nicholls, Alexander Norton, Sönke Zaehle, & Malte Meinshausen. (2025). Synthesizing global carbon–nitrogen coupling effects – the MAGICC coupled carbon–nitrogen cycle model v1.0. Geoscientific model development. 18(7). 2193–2230. 1 indexed citations

Nicholls, Zebedee, et al.. (2025). High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nature Climate Change. 15(6). 627–633. 10 indexed citations

Nauels, Alexander, Zebedee Nicholls, Tim H. J. Hermans, et al.. (2025). Multi-century global and regional sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. Nature Climate Change. 15(11). 1198–1204.

McKinley, Galen A., Val Bennington, Malte Meinshausen, & Zebedee Nicholls. (2023). Modern air-sea flux distributions reduce uncertainty in the future ocean carbon sink. Environmental Research Letters. 18(4). 44011–44011. 8 indexed citations

Lamboll, Robin, Zebedee Nicholls, Chris Smith, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets. Nature Climate Change. 14(1). 106–106. 2 indexed citations

Brecha, Robert J., Gaurav Ganti, Robin Lamboll, et al.. (2022). Institutional decarbonization scenarios evaluated against the Paris Agreement 1.5 °C goal. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4304–4304. 28 indexed citations

Koven, Charles D., Vivek K. Arora, Patricia Cadule, et al.. (2022). Multi-century dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios. Earth System Dynamics. 13(2). 885–909. 37 indexed citations

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King, Andrew D., Jacqueline Peel, Tilo Ziehn, et al.. (2022). Preparing for a post-net-zero world. Nature Climate Change. 12(9). 775–777. 11 indexed citations

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Beusch, Lea, Zebedee Nicholls, Lukas Gudmundsson, et al.. (2022). From emission scenarios to spatially resolved projections with a chain of computationally efficient emulators: coupling of MAGICC (v7.5.1) and MESMER (v0.8.3). Geoscientific model development. 15(5). 2085–2103. 20 indexed citations

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Nicholls, Zebedee & Jared Lewis. (2021). OpenSCM Two Layer Model: A Python implementation of the two-layer climate model. The Journal of Open Source Software. 6(62). 2766–2766.

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Koven, Charles D., Vivek K. Arora, Patricia Cadule, et al.. (2021). 23rd Century surprises: Long-term dynamics of the climate and carbon cycle under both high and net negative emissions scenarios. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 11 indexed citations

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Leach, Nicholas, Stuart Jenkins, Zebedee Nicholls, et al.. (2021). FaIRv2.0.0: a generalized impulse response model for climate uncertainty and future scenario exploration. Geoscientific model development. 14(5). 3007–3036. 88 indexed citations

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Huppmann, Daniel, Matthew Gidden, Zebedee Nicholls, et al.. (2021). pyam: Analysis and visualisation of integrated assessment and macro-energy scenarios. Open Research Europe. 1. 74–74. 16 indexed citations

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Leach, Nicholas, Zebedee Nicholls, Stuart Jenkins, et al.. (2020). GIR v1.0.0: a generalised impulse-response model for climate uncertainty and future scenario exploration. 1 indexed citations

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Lamboll, Robin, Zebedee Nicholls, Jarmo Kikstra, Malte Meinshausen, & Joeri Rogelj. (2020). Silicone v1.0.0: an open-source Python package for inferring missing emissions data for climate change research. Geoscientific model development. 13(11). 5259–5275. 25 indexed citations

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Fiddes, Sonya, Matthew T. Woodhouse, Zebedee Nicholls, Todd P. Lane, & Robyn Schofield. (2018). Cloud, precipitation and radiation responses to large perturbations in global dimethyl sulfide. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(14). 10177–10198. 38 indexed citations

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Millar, Richard, Zebedee Nicholls, Pierre Friedlingstein, & Myles Allen. (2017). A modified impulse-response representation of the global near-surface air temperature and atmospheric concentration response to carbon dioxide emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(11). 7213–7228. 137 indexed citations

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Millar, Richard, Zebedee Nicholls, Pierre Friedlingstein, & Myles Allen. (2016). A modified impulse-response representation of the global response to carbon dioxide emissions. 5 indexed citations

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