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72
Citations
49097
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1458
National Ranking
65

Malte Meinshausen 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 Malte Meinshausen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Malte Meinshausen 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 Malte Meinshausen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 85th percentile

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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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  • Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

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

  • 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

  • A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

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

  • Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

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

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

    Joeri Rogelj;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Reto Knutti

  • 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

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

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

  • 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

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

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  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

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

  • The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields

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

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

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

  • Historical greenhouse gas concentrations for climate modelling (CMIP6)

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Emission pathways consistent with a 2 °C global temperature limit

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

  • Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Katja Frieler
Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Anders Levermann
Anders Levermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Reto Knutti
Reto Knutti ETH Zurich
Sarah C. B. Raper
Sarah C. B. Raper Manchester Metropolitan University
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
Michiel Schaeffer
Michiel Schaeffer Wageningen University & Research

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