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D-Index
116
Citations
143999
World Ranking
144
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2020 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences
  • 2013 - Marsh Award for Climate Change Research, British Ecological Society

Overview

Johan Rockström is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their primary research focus lies within Environmental Science, encompassing a total of 148 publications. Within this broad field, Rockström has contributed extensively to several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their scholarly work addresses multiple main topics, with particular attention given to Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Climate variability and models, and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance.

Rockström has authored numerous papers, with some of the most cited recent publications being:

  • Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries, 2023, Science Advances
  • Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points, 2022, Science
  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries, 2023, Nature
  • Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations have been an essential part of Rockström's research, frequently working with coauthors such as Timothy M. Lenton, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Will Steffen, and Sarah Cornell.

Rockström's research outputs are often published in prominent scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Global Sustainability
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Sustainability

Recognition of Rockström's contributions includes receiving the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina award in Earth Sciences in 2020, as well as the Marsh Award for Climate Change Research from the British Ecological Society in 2013.

Best Publications

  • A safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Katherine Richardson;Johan Rockström;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

    Walter Willett;Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Brent Loken;Marco Springmann

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet

    Jonathan A. Foley;Navin Ramankutty;Kate A. Brauman;Emily S. Cassidy

  • Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Kevin Noone;Åsa Persson;Åsa Persson

  • Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability

    Carl Folke;Stephen R. Carpenter;Brian Walker;Marten Scheffer

  • The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

    Philip J Landrigan;Richard Fuller;Nereus J R Acosta;Olusoji Adeyi

  • RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: BUILDING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN A WORLD OF TRANSFORMATIONS

    Carl Folke;Steve Carpenter;Thomas Elmqvist;Lance Gunderson

  • Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

    W. Neil Adger;Terry P. Hughes;Carl Folke;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.

    Will Steffen;Johan Rockström;Katherine Richardson;Timothy M. Lenton

  • Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

    Marco Springmann;Michael Clark;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Daniel Mason-D’Croz;Keith Wiebe

  • Policy: Sustainable development goals for people and planet.

    David John Griggs;Mark Stafford-Smith;Owen Gaffney;Johan Rockstrom

  • The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Asa Persson;Asa Persson;Lisa Deutsch;J Zalasiewicz

  • Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

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  • Six transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

    Jeffrey D. Sachs;Guido Schmidt-Traub;Mariana Mazzucato;Dirk Messner

  • Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

    Timothy M. Lenton;Johan Rockström;Owen Gaffney;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

    Johan Rockström;Owen Gaffney;Owen Gaffney;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen

  • Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

    Carl Folke;Reinette Biggs;Albert V. Norström;Belinda Reyers

  • Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture for Human Prosperity and Global Sustainability

    Johan Rockström;John Williams;Gretchen Daily;Andrew Noble

  • Resilience and vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts?

    Fiona Miller;Henny Osbahr;Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Frank Thomalla

  • Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

    Anne D. Guerry;Anne D. Guerry;Stephen Polasky;Jane Lubchenco;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer

  • The New Blue and Green Water Paradigm: Breaking New Ground for Water Resources Planning and Management

    M. Falkenmark;J. Rockström

  • World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

    William J Ripple;Christopher Wolf;Thomas M Newsome;Jillian W Gregg

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Jennie Barron
Jennie Barron Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Dieter Gerten
Dieter Gerten Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Sarah E. Cornell
Sarah E. Cornell Stockholm Resilience Centre
Holger Hoff
Holger Hoff University of Graz
Katherine Richardson
Katherine Richardson University of Copenhagen

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