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64
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39518
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1828
National Ranking
667

Brian C. O'Neill publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian C. O'Neill sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 201 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Brian C. O'Neill D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian C. O'Neill sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Brian C. O'Neill is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a strong emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scholar has contributed extensively to topics such as Climate Change Policy and Economics, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Impact of Light on Environment and Health, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Climate variability and models, and Climate change impacts on agriculture.

Among notable recent publications are:

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6, 2021, Earth System Dynamics
  • Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment, 2021, One Earth
  • Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks, 2020, Nature Sustainability

The research collaborator network frequently includes Stephanie Waldhoff, Kanishka B. Narayan, Claudia Tebaldi, Jing Gao, and Hamidreza Zoraghein.

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, with a concentration in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Environmental Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Earth's Future, and Climate Risk Management.

Best Publications

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) for CMIP6

    Brian C. O'Neill;Claudia Tebaldi;Detlef P. Van Vuuren;Detlef P. Van Vuuren;Veronika Eyring

  • The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century

    Brian C. O'Neill;Elmar Kriegler;Kristie L. Ebi;Eric Kemp-Benedict

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

    Brian C. O’Neill;Elmar Kriegler;Keywan Riahi;Kristie Lee Ebi

  • A new scenario framework for climate change research: Scenario matrix architecture

    Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Brian C. O’Neill;Kristie L. Ebi

  • Spatially explicit global population scenarios consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    B Jones;B C O’Neill

  • Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6

    Claudia Tebaldi;Kevin Debeire;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Erich Fischer

  • Global urbanization projections for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    Leiwen Jiang;Brian C. O’Neill

  • Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Dalton;Regina Fuchs;Leiwen Jiang

  • The need for and use of socio-economic scenarios for climate change analysis: A new approach based on shared socio-economic pathways

    Elmar Kriegler;Brian C. O’Neill;Stephane Hallegatte;Tom Kram

  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

    Nicholas P. Simpson;Katharine J. Mach;Andrew Constable;Jeremy Hess

  • Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.

    Jing Gao;Brian C. O’Neill

  • Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities

    Michael Oppenheimer;Maximiliano Campos;Rachel Warren;Joern Birkmann

  • Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework.

    Brian C. O'Neill;Brian C. O'Neill;Timothy R. Carter;Kristie L. Ebi;Paula A. Harrison

  • Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Oppenheimer

  • IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Oppenheimer;Rachel Warren;Stephane Hallegatte

  • Future population exposure to US heat extremes

    Bryan Jones;Brian C. O’Neill;Larry McDaniel;Seth McGinnis

  • Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview

    Gerald C. Nelson;Elena Bennett;Asmeret A. Berhe;Kenneth Cassman

  • Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States

    Michael G. Dalton;Brian O'Neill;Brian O'Neill;Alexia Prskawetz;Leiwen Jiang

  • The Need for and Use of Socio-Economic Scenarios for Climate Change Analysis

    Elmar Kriegler;Brian C. O'Neill;Stephane Hallegatte;Tom Kram

  • A new scenario framework for climate change research : scenario matrix architecture

    Keywan Riahi;Tom Kram;Timothy R. Carter;Jae Edmonds

Frequent Co-Authors

Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier
Claudia Tebaldi
Claudia Tebaldi Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Arnulf Grubler
Arnulf Grubler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Benjamin M. Sanderson
Benjamin M. Sanderson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi University of Washington

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