2026 David G. Victor: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	64	1080	942	502	428	284	21768

David G. Victor publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David G. Victor sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 284 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

David G. Victor D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David G. Victor sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

David G. Victor is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple fields including medicine, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, global and planetary change, renewable energy, sustainability, environment, and automotive engineering.

The focal areas of David G. Victor's research involve climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, electric vehicles and infrastructure, transportation and mobility innovations, as well as liver disease diagnosis, treatment, and transplantation.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by David G. Victor include:

"Pandemic, War, and Global Energy Transitions" (2022), published in Energies
"Emergency deployment of direct air capture as a response to the climate crisis" (2021), published in Nature Communications
"Climate policy models need to get real about people - here's how" (2021), published in Nature
"Determining the credibility of commitments in international climate policy" (2022), published in Nature Climate Change
"Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments" (2020), published in Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors of David G. Victor include Ryan Hanna, Marcel Lumkowsky, Astrid Dannenberg, Emily K. Carlton, and Teevrat Garg.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in publication venues such as:

Nature
Environmental Research Letters
Nature Climate Change
Harvard Dataverse
Nature Energy

David G. Victor has authored books published by Princeton University Press, including two editions of Fixing the Climate in 2022.

Among awards received, David G. Victor was honored with the Heinz I. Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association in 2012.

Best Publications

The Regime Complex for Climate Change

Robert O. Keohane;David G. Victor

2371
Citations
The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources

Kal Raustiala;David G. Victor

1816
Citations
The future mobility of the world population

Andreas Schafer;David G Victor

1045
Citations
Dynamics of energy technologies and global change

Arnulf Grübler;Nebojša Nakićenović;David G Victor

1030
Citations
The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming

David G. Victor

870
Citations
Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

David G. Victor

688
Citations
A Realistic Policy on International Carbon Offsets

Michael Wara;David G. Victor

458
Citations
Global warming will happen faster than we think.

Yangyang Xu;Veerabhadran Ramanathan;David G. Victor

407
Citations
Cooperation and discord in global climate policy

Robert O. Keohane;David G. Victor;David G. Victor;David G. Victor

399
Citations
Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar

Christopher T. M. Clack;Christopher T. M. Clack;Staffan A. Qvist;Jay Apt;Morgan Bazilian

395
Citations
The implementation and effectiveness of international environmental commitments : theory and practice

David G. Victor;Kal Raustiala;Eugene B. Skolnikoff

321
Citations
The Cognitive Revolution and the Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;D. Alex Hughes;David G. Victor

298
Citations
On the regulation of geoengineering

David G. Victor

281
Citations
The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments

D.G. Victor;K. Raustiala;E.B. Skolnikoff

278
Citations
The Behavioral Revolution and International Relations

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;Stephan Haggard;David A. Lake;David G. Victor

270
Citations
Climate change: Embed the social sciences in climate policy

David G Victor

267
Citations
Political Science Research on International Law: The State of the Field

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton;David G. Victor;Yonatan Lupu

265
Citations
Technological innovation and economic performance

Benn Steil;David G. Victor;Richard R. Nelson

263
Citations
A model of household energy services in a low-income rural African village

M.I. Howells;T. Alfstad;D.G. Victor;G. Goldstein

263
Citations
Response of Arctic temperature to changes in emissions of short-lived climate forcers

M. Sand;T. K. Berntsen;K. von Salzen;M. G. Flanner

253
Citations
Oil and governance : state-owned enterprises and the world energy supply

David G. Victor;David R. Hults;Mark C. Thurber

246
Citations
Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040

David G. Victor;Amy M. Jaffe;Mark H. Hayes

245
Citations
The Regime Complex for Climate Change

David G. Victor;Robert O. Keohane

222
Citations
Global Warming Gridlock: Putting it all together

Unknown

164
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton University of California, San Diego

Veerabhadran Ramanathan University of California, San Diego

Charles F. Kennel University of California, San Diego

Kal Raustiala University of California, Los Angeles

M. Granger Morgan Carnegie Mellon University

Jay Apt Carnegie Mellon University

Robert O. Keohane Princeton University

Steven J. Davis Stanford University

Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Jan Kleissl University of California, San Diego

External Links

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