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Kirsten Zickfeld

Kirsten Zickfeld

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
10511
World Ranking
5463
National Ranking
229

Kirsten Zickfeld publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kirsten Zickfeld sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 110 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Kirsten Zickfeld D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kirsten Zickfeld sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kirsten Zickfeld is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, and Environmental Impact and Sustainability.

Recent publications by Kirsten Zickfeld include:

  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (2024, Earth system science data)
  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (2023, Earth system science data)
  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2 (2020, Biogeosciences)
  • Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda (2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)

Kirsten Zickfeld collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • H. Damon Matthews
  • Sabine Mathesius
  • Joeri Rogelj
  • Chris Jones
  • Josep G. Canadell

The scientist publishes often in journals such as Communications Earth & Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth system science data, Biogeosciences, and Nature Climate Change.

Best Publications

  • The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

    H. Damon Matthews;Nathan P. Gillett;Peter A. Stott;Kirsten Zickfeld

  • Technical Summary: Global warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty

    M. Allen;P. Antwi-Agyei;F. Aragon-Durand;M. Babiker

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2 and Surface Temperature Perturbations

    M. Eby;K. Zickfeld;A. Montenegro;D. Archer

  • Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;H. Damon Matthews;Andrew J. Weaver

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

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  • Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions

    Nathan P. Gillett;Vivek K. Arora;Kirsten Zickfeld;Shawn J. Marshall

  • The Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project (CDRMIP): rationale and experimental protocol for CMIP6

    David P. Keller;Andrew Lenton;Andrew Lenton;Vivian Scott;Naomi E. Vaughan

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison

    Andrew J. Weaver;Jan Sedláček;Michael Eby;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

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  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2

    Andrew H. MacDougall;Thomas L. Frölicher;Thomas L. Frölicher;Chris D. Jones;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj

  • On the proportionality between global temperature change and cumulative CO2 emissions during periods of net negative CO2 emissions

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Andrew H MacDougall;H Damon Matthews

  • Current fossil fuel infrastructure does not yet commit us to 1.5 °C warming

    Christopher J. Smith;Piers M. Forster;Myles Allen;Jan Fuglestvedt

  • The Role of Poleward-Intensifying Winds on Southern Ocean Warming

    John C. Fyfe;Oleg A. Saenko;Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby

  • Expert judgements on the response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to climate change

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Kirsten Zickfeld;Anders Levermann;M. Granger Morgan;Till Kuhlbrodt

  • The effectiveness of net negative carbon dioxide emissions in reversing anthropogenic climate change

    Katarzyna B Tokarska;Kirsten Zickfeld

  • Is the Indian summer monsoon stable against global change

    K. Zickfeld;B. Knopf;V. Petoukhov;H. J. Schellnhuber;H. J. Schellnhuber

  • Focus on cumulative emissions, global carbon budgets and the implications for climate mitigation targets

    H Damon Matthews;Kirsten Zickfeld;Reto Knutti;Myles R Allen

  • Is the climate response to CO2 emissions path dependent

    K. Zickfeld;V. K. Arora;N. P. Gillett

  • Centuries of thermal sea-level rise due to anthropogenic emissions of short-lived greenhouse gases.

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Susan Solomon;Daniel Michael Gilford

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Eby
Michael Eby University of Victoria
H. Damon Matthews
H. Damon Matthews Concordia University
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Gary Shaffer
Gary Shaffer University of Magallanes
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Chris D. Jones
Chris D. Jones Met Office
Malte Meinshausen
Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne
Renato Spahni
Renato Spahni University of Bern

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