2026 Malte Meinshausen: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	72	1458	1383	65	63	169	49097

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Malte Meinshausen is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research focuses predominantly on environmental science, with significant contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics Meinshausen has addressed throughout their scholarly work include:

Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
Climate change policy and economics
Climate variability and models
Environmental impact and sustainability
Cryospheric studies and observations
Global energy and sustainability research
Carbon dioxide capture technologies

Meinshausen has published extensively in various academic venues, with notable frequent publications in:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Geoscientific Model Development
IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis)
Environmental Research Letters
Nature

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Zebedee Nicholls, Jared Lewis, Joeri Rogelj, Elmar Kriegler, and Jarmo Kikstra.

Among Meinshausen's recent papers are:

The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500, 2020, published in Geoscientific Model Development
Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6, 2021, published in Earth System Dynamics
Realization of Paris Agreement pledges may limit warming just below 2 °C, 2022, published in Nature
The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report WGIII climate assessment of mitigation pathways: from emissions to global temperatures, 2022, published in Geoscientific Model Development
Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot, 2021, published in Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Jae Edmonds;Mikiko Kainuma;Keywan Riahi

8888
Citations
The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300

Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;S. J. Smith;K. Calvin;J. S. Daniel

4200
Citations
Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michel den Elzen;Niklas Höhne;Taryn Fransen

3792
Citations
Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

Malte Meinshausen;Nicolai Meinshausen;William Hare;Sarah C. B. Raper

3689
Citations
IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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2606
Citations
Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

Myles R. Allen;David J. Frame;Chris Huntingford;Chris D. Jones

2090
Citations
The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500

Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Zebedee R. J. Nicholls;Jared Lewis;Matthew J. Gidden

1545
Citations
A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

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

1362
Citations
Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Pierre Friedlingstein;Malte Meinshausen;Vivek K. Arora;Chris D. Jones

1126
Citations
Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates

Joeri Rogelj;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Reto Knutti

949
Citations
Emulating coupled atmosphere-ocean and carbon cycle models with a simpler model, MAGICC6 - Part 1: Model description and calibration

M. Meinshausen;S. C. B. Raper;T. M. L. Wigley

938
Citations
The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

903
Citations
Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

859
Citations
Realization of Paris Agreement pledges may limit warming just below 2 °C

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830
Citations
Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

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

798
Citations
The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields

Elisabeth Vogel;Markus G. Donat;Markus G. Donat;Lisa Victoria Alexander;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen

795
Citations
Climate model projections from the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (ScenarioMIP) of CMIP6

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

682
Citations
Historical greenhouse gas concentrations for climate modelling (CMIP6)

Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Elisabeth Vogel;Alexander Nauels;Katja Lorbacher

632
Citations
Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs

K. Frieler;M. Meinshausen;M. Meinshausen;A. Golly;M. Mengel

593
Citations
Global and regional evolution of short-lived radiatively-active gases and aerosols in the Representative Concentration Pathways

Jean-François Lamarque;G. Page Kyle;Malte Meinshausen;Keywan Riahi

523
Citations
A new scenario logic for the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal

Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Daniel Huppmann;Volker Krey;Volker Krey;Keywan Riahi;Keywan Riahi

478
Citations
Emission pathways consistent with a 2 °C global temperature limit

Joeri Rogelj;William Hare;Jason Lowe;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Detlef P. van Vuuren

411
Citations
Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation

Joeri Rogelj;David L. McCollum;Andy Reisinger;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen

393
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London

Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University

Anders Levermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Reto Knutti ETH Zurich

Nicolai Meinshausen ETH Zurich

Sarah C. B. Raper Manchester Metropolitan University

Jason Lowe Met Office

Michiel Schaeffer Wageningen University & Research

External Links

Personal website of Malte Meinshausen

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