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Robert U. Ayres

Robert U. Ayres

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Economics and Finance
France
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
72
Citations
22586
World Ranking
420
National Ranking
5

Robert U. Ayres publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert U. Ayres sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 301 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Robert U. Ayres D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert U. Ayres sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 1971 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert U. Ayres was affiliated with INSEAD in France during their academic career. Their research encompassed various fields and topics related to economics, industrial ecology, and chemical synthesis.

The scientist's publication record included works on monetary policy and economic impact, market dynamics and volatility, economic, financial, and policy analysis, sustainable industrial ecology, as well as aspects of chemical synthesis and analysis. Specific topics also addressed multicomponent synthesis of heterocycles and phenothiazines and benzothiazines synthesis and activities.

Frequent venues for their publications included the SSRN Electronic Journal and the International Journal of Exergy, along with contributions to Sustainability, Results in Chemistry, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

  • On the Creation and Destruction of National Wealth: Are Financial Collapses Endogenous? (2021, Sustainability)
  • Exergy versus labour in aggregate production functions: estimates for ten large economies (2022, International Journal of Exergy)
  • The Economy as an "Island of Order" far from Equilibrium (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Collaborations were maintained with a range of co-authors, including Stanislav Shmelev, Ivan Savin, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Lu Hao, and Aubrey Thessing.

Robert U. Ayres's research contributed to subfields such as ocean engineering, general economics, econometrics and finance, molecular biology, economics and econometrics, and organic chemistry. Their interdisciplinary work bridged economic analysis with environmental and chemical processes.

Among the honors received was the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1971.

Best Publications

  • Production, Consumption, and Externalities

    R. U. Ayres

  • Industrial Metabolism: Restructuring for Sustainable Development

    Robert U. Ayres;Udo Ernst Simonis

  • Economics and the Environment: A Materials Balance Approach

    Allen V. Kneese;Robert U. Ayres;Ralph C. d'Arge

  • A handbook of industrial ecology

    Robert U. Ayres;Leslie W. Ayres

  • The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity

    R.U. Ayres;B. Warr

  • Technological forecasting and long-range planning

    Robert U. Ayres

  • ACCOUNTING FOR GROWTH: THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL WORK

    Robert U. Ayres;Benjamin Warr

  • Exergy, power and work in the US economy, 1900-1998

    Robert U Ayres;Leslie W Ayres;Benjamin Warr

  • Resources, Environment, and Economics: Applications of the Materials/Energy Balance Principle

    Robert U. Ayres

  • Eco-thermodynamics: economics and the second law

    Robert U Ayres

  • Life cycle analysis: A critique

    Robert U. Ayres

  • Global phosphorus flows and environmental impacts from a consumption perspective

    Yi Liu;Gara Villalba;Robert U. Ayres;Hans Schroder

  • Eco-efficiency, asset recovery and remanufacturing

    Robert Ayres;Geraldo Ferrer;Tania Van Leynseele

  • Sustainability economics: Where do we stand?

    Robert U. Ayres;Robert U. Ayres

  • The greenhouse effect: Damages, costs and abatement

    Robert U. Ayres;Jörg A. Walter

  • EXERGY, WASTE ACCOUNTING, AND LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS

    Robert U. Ayres;Leslie W. Ayres;Katalin Martinás

  • From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the Socioeconomic Dimension of Long-term Socioecological Research

    Helmut Haberl;Verena Winiwarter;Krister Andersson;Robert U. Ayres

  • The second law, the fourth law, recycling and limits to growth

    Robert U Ayres

  • Metals recycling: economic and environmental implications

    Robert U Ayres

  • Strong versus weak sustainability: Economics, natural sciences, and consilience

    Robert Ayres;Jeroen van den Berrgh;John Gowdy

  • Journal of Industrial Ecology

    Thomas E. McKone;Mitchell J. Small;Braden R. Allenby;David T. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh Autonomous University of Barcelona
Eric Williams
Eric Williams Rochester Institute of Technology
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
J.C.J.M. van den Bergh
J.C.J.M. van den Bergh Autonomous University of Barcelona
Peter Nijkamp
Peter Nijkamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Heinz Schandl
Heinz Schandl Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Kenneth Button
Kenneth Button George Mason University
Paul M. Weaver
Paul M. Weaver University of Limerick
Pradeep K. Rohatgi
Pradeep K. Rohatgi University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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