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96
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49744
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447
National Ranking
204

Overview

Mark Z. Jacobson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a significant body of research in energy systems, engineering, and environmental science. Their work spans various subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, energy engineering and power technology, pollution, infectious diseases, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Jacobson's main fields of study are Engineering, with 63 publications, and Energy, featuring 41 publications. Their subfields of expertise include Electrical and Electronic Engineering with 36 publications, Energy Engineering and Power Technology with 30, Pollution with 13, Infectious Diseases with 12, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment with 11.

The researcher has contributed to various topics within energy and environment, including:

  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure

Jacobson has coauthored work frequently with several collaborators, including:

  • Anna-Katharina von Krauland (12 joint publications)
  • Daniel J. Sambor (8 joint publications)
  • Yuanbei F. Fan (6 joint publications)
  • Peter Enevoldsen (5 joint publications)
  • Stephen J. Coughlin (5 joint publications)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jacobson cover a range of subjects in energy and environmental science:

  • Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity for 145 countries, 2022, Energy & Environmental Science
  • On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research, 2022, IEEE Access
  • How green is blue hydrogen?, 2021, Energy Science & Engineering
  • RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Data investigation of installed and output power densities of onshore and offshore wind turbines worldwide, 2020, Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development

The researcher has publications in various venues with repeat contributions to UNC Libraries (6 publications), Smart Energy (5 publications), Renewable Energy (3 publications), Energy Science & Engineering (2 publications), and Scientific Reports (2 publications).

Jacobson has also published books through Cambridge University Press, including:

  • No Miracles Needed, 2022
  • 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything, 2020

Best Publications

  • Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

    Tami C. Bond;Sarah J. Doherty;D. W. Fahey;Piers Forster

  • Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution and energy security

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials

    Mark Z. Jacobson;Mark A. Delucchi

  • Fundamentals of atmospheric modeling

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World

    Mark Z. Jacobson;Mark A. Delucchi;Zack A.F. Bauer;Savannah C. Goodman

  • Evaluation of global wind power

    Cristina L. Archer;Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Cleaning the Air and Improving Health with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles

    M. Z. Jacobson;W. G. Colella;D. M. Golden

  • Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part II: Reliability, system and transmission costs, and policies

    Mark A. Delucchi;Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Control of fossil‐fuel particulate black carbon and organic matter, possibly the most effective method of slowing global warming

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • How green is blue hydrogen

    Robert W. Howarth;Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Atmospheric Pollution: History, Science, and Regulation

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Global direct radiative forcing due to multicomponent anthropogenic and natural aerosols

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • A physically‐based treatment of elemental carbon optics: Implications for global direct forcing of aerosols

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • 100% clean and renewable wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) all-sector energy roadmaps for the 50 United States

    Mark Z. Jacobson;Mark A. Delucchi;Guillaume Bazouin;Zack A. F. Bauer

  • Low-cost solution to the grid reliability problem with 100% penetration of intermittent wind, water, and solar for all purposes

    Mark Z. Jacobson;Mark A. Delucchi;Mary A. Cameron;Bethany A. Frew

  • Effects of Ethanol (E85) versus Gasoline Vehicles on Cancer and Mortality in the United States

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • Climate response of fossil fuel and biofuel soot, accounting for soot's feedback to snow and sea ice albedo and emissivity

    Mark Z. Jacobson

  • A path to sustainable energy by 2030.

    Mark Z Jacobson;Mark A Delucchi

  • World estimates of PV optimal tilt angles and ratios of sunlight incident upon tilted and tracked PV panels relative to horizontal panels

    Mark Z. Jacobson;Vijaysinh Jadhav

  • Isolating nitrated and aromatic aerosols and nitrated aromatic gases as sources of ultraviolet light absorption

    Mark Z. Jacobson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Delucchi
Mark A. Delucchi University of California, Berkeley
Sanjiva K. Lele
Sanjiva K. Lele Stanford University
Richard P. Turco
Richard P. Turco University of California, Los Angeles
Yang Zhang
Yang Zhang Northeastern University
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Azadeh Tabazadeh
Azadeh Tabazadeh Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Lorraine A. Remer
Lorraine A. Remer University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Andrew Gettelman
Andrew Gettelman Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Athanasios Nenes
Athanasios Nenes École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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