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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
104
Citations
76846
World Ranking
218
National Ranking
90

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award

Overview

Kristie L. Ebi is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and is primarily engaged in research within Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, and Physiology.

The main topics covered in their research include Climate Change and Health Impacts, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Global Health Care Issues, Thermoregulation and physiological responses, Health disparities and outcomes, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, and Climate variability and models.

Among their frequently published venues are The Lancet Planetary Health, The Lancet, Environmental Research Letters, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kristie L. Ebi has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Jeremy Hess, Johan Rockström, Kathryn Bowen, Timothy M. Lenton, and Detlef P. van Vuuren.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Kristie L. Ebi include:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises (2020, The Lancet)
  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels (2022, The Lancet)
  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future (2021, The Lancet)
  • Safe and just Earth system boundaries (2023, Nature)
  • Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications (2021, Annual Review of Public Health)

Additionally, Kristie L. Ebi has contributed to book publications such as "Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage - Science for Adaptation Policy Brief #8" published by United Nations Environment Programme eBooks in 2024.

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

  • Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation. Special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente Barros;Thomas F. Stocker;Qin Dahe

  • 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

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

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  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

    Marina Romanello;Alice McGushin;Claudia Di Napoli;Paul Drummond

  • Determinants of risk: Exposure and vulnerability

    Omar-Dario Cardona;Maarten K. van Aalst;Jörn Birkmann;Maureen Fordham

  • Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties

    Michael D. Mastrandrea;Christopher B. Field;Thomas F. Stocker;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

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  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications.

    Kristie L. Ebi;Jennifer Vanos;Jane W. Baldwin;Jesse E. Bell

  • Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on vector- and rodent-borne diseases.

    Duane J. Gubler;Paul Reiter;Kristie L. Ebi;Wendy Yap

  • The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Taylor;T. Guillén Bolaños

  • The Imperative for Climate Action to Protect Health.

    Andy Haines;Kristie Ebi

  • Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability - Part B: regional aspects - Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    V. R. Barros;C. B. Field;D. J. Dokke;M. D. Mastrandrea

  • 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

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Dengue in a changing climate

    Kristie L. Ebi;Joshua Nealon

  • Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks.

    Kristie L Ebi;Anthony Capon;Anthony Capon;Peter Berry;Carolyn Broderick;Carolyn Broderick

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertil Forsberg
Bertil Forsberg Umeå University
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Joacim Rocklöv
Joacim Rocklöv Umeå University
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jan C. Semenza
Jan C. Semenza European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum World Health Organization
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Timothy R. Carter
Timothy R. Carter Finnish Environment Institute

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