2026 Robert K. Kaufmann: 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	56	3564	3406	1360	1257	157	18943

Overview

Robert K. Kaufmann is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Kaufmann's work extensively covers subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Atmospheric Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Pollution.

The scientist's research encompasses major topics including Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Impacts, and Monetary Policy and Economic Impact.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert K. Kaufmann include:

Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands, 2023, Nature
Feedbacks among electric vehicle adoption, charging, and the cost and installation of rooftop solar photovoltaics, 2021, Nature Energy
Oil price regimes and their role in price diversions from market fundamentals, 2020, Nature Energy
Price discovery in Brazil: causal relations among prices for crude oil, ethanol, and gasoline, 2020, Energy Sources Part B Economics Planning and Policy
Evidence of air quality data misreporting in China: An impulse indicator saturation model comparison of local government-reported and U.S. embassy-reported PM2.5 concentrations (2015-2017), 2021, PLoS ONE

Kaufmann frequently collaborates with various co-authors, including Felix Pretis, Caitlin Connelly, Anita Chaya Tendler, Xiaojing Tang, and Compton J. Tucker. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications across different journals.

The scientist's articles appear repeatedly in several publication venues known for research in energy and environmental economics and policy, such as Nature Energy, Energy Economics, Journal of Climate Finance, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999

Liming Zhou;Compton J. Tucker;Robert K. Kaufmann;Daniel Slayback

1976
Citations
Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

Liming Zhou;Robert Earl Dickinson;Yuhong Tian;Jingyun Fang

1060
Citations
Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process

Charles A. S. Hall;Cutler J. Cleveland;Robert Kaufmann

925
Citations
A large carbon sink in the woody biomass of Northern forests

R. B. Myneni;J. Dong;C. J. Tucker;R. K. Kaufmann

911
Citations
Is there a turning point in the relationship between income and energy use and/or carbon emissions?

Amy K. Richmond;Robert K. Kaufmann

725
Citations
Monitoring land-use change in the Pearl River Delta using Landsat TM

K. C. Seto;C. E. Woodcock;C. Song;X. Huang

650
Citations
Modeling the Drivers of Urban Land Use Change in the Pearl River Delta, China: Integrating Remote Sensing with Socioeconomic Data

Karen C. Seto;Robert K. Kaufmann

623
Citations
The determinants of atmospheric SO2 concentrations: reconsidering the environmental Kuznets curve

Robert K Kaufmann;Brynhildur Davidsdottir;Sophie Garnham;Peter Pauly

605
Citations
Remote sensing estimates of boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sources, and sinks

Jiarui Dong;Robert K. Kaufmann;Ranga B. Myneni;Compton J. Tucker

578
Citations
Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content.

Yuri Knyazikhin;Mitchell A. Schull;Pauline Stenberg;Matti Mõttus

527
Citations
Aggregation and the role of energy in the economy

Cutler J Cleveland;Robert K Kaufmann;David I Stern

520
Citations
Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008

Robert K. Kaufmann;Heikki Kauppi;Michael L. Mann;James H. Stock

467
Citations
Climate Response to Rapid Urban Growth: Evidence of a Human-Induced Precipitation Deficit

Robert K. Kaufmann;Karen C. Seto;Annemarie Schneider;Zouting Liu

414
Citations
Relation between interannual variations in satellite measures of northern forest greenness and climate between 1982 and 1999

L. Zhou;L. Zhou;R. K. Kaufmann;Y. Tian;Y. Tian;R. B. Myneni

398
Citations
Thresholds for warming-induced growth decline at elevational tree line in the Yukon Territory, Canada

Rosanne D. D'Arrigo;Robert K. Kaufmann;Nicole Davi;Gordon C. Jacoby

367
Citations
Does OPEC Matter? An Econometric Analysis of Oil Prices

Robert K. Kaufmann;Stephane Dees;Pavlos Karadeloglou;Marcelo Sanchez

361
Citations
Modelling the world oil market: Assessment of a quarterly econometric model

Stéphane Dées;Pavlos Karadeloglou;Robert K. Kaufmann;Marcelo Sánchez

318
Citations
Anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change

David I. Stern;Robert K. Kaufmann

283
Citations
Evidence for human influence on climate from hemispheric temperature relations

Robert K. Kaufmann;David I. Stern

269
Citations
Landsat reveals China's farmland reserves, but they're vanishing fast

Karen C. Seto;Robert K. Kaufmann;Curtis E. Woodcock

262
Citations
Effect of orbital drift and sensor changes on the time series of AVHRR vegetation index data

R.K. Kaufmann;L. Zhou;Y. Knyazikhin;V. Shabanov

259
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ranga B. Myneni Boston University

David I. Stern Australian National University

Liming Zhou University at Albany, State University of New York

Karen C. Seto Yale University

Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center

Sucharita Gopal Boston University

Bruce T. Anderson Boston University

James H. Stock Harvard University

Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University

Matti Mõttus VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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