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Samuel Fankhauser publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Samuel Fankhauser sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 183 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Samuel Fankhauser D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Samuel Fankhauser sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Samuel Fankhauser is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research centers on economics, econometrics, environmental science, and climate change, addressing the intersection of policy, economic growth, and sustainability.

Their main fields of research include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of study cover:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The topics they have addressed in their research include:

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fankhauser include Stephanie Hirmer, Shaikh Eskander, Sugandha Srivastav, Myles Allen, and Cameron Hepburn.

They have published extensively in several academic journals, notably:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Energy
  • Climate Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Samuel Fankhauser include:

  • The meaning of net zero and how to get it right (2021), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19 (2020), published in Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future (2022), published in Nature Energy
  • The impact of strategic climate legislation: evidence from expert interviews on the UK Climate Change Act (2020), published in Climate Policy

In addition to journal articles, Fankhauser has contributed to book publications. Notable works include:

  • Invention and Global Diffusion of Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation (2020), published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks
  • Climate Change and Economic Growth (2025), to be published by Springer International Publishing

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Valuing Climate Change: The Economics of the Greenhouse

    Samuel Fankhauser

  • The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

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  • Weathering climate change: some simple rules to guide adaptation decisions

    Samuel Fankhauser;Joel B. Smith;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: a review of the UNFCCC and other recent estimates

    Martin L. Parry;Nigel William Arnell;Pam Berry;David Dodman

  • On climate change and economic growth

    Samuel Fankhauser;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol

  • The Social Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Expected Value Approach*

    Samuel Fankhauser

  • Vulnerability to climate change and reasons for concern: a synthesis

    J.B. Smith;H.J. Schellnhuber;M. Monirul Qader Mirza;S. Fankhauser

  • The energy intensity of transition countries

    Jan Cornillie;Samuel Fankhauser

  • Overcoming public resistance to carbon taxes

    Stefano Carattini;Maria Carvalho;Samuel Fankhauser

  • Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation

    Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander;Shaikh M. S. U. Eskander;Sam Fankhauser

  • Can poor consumers pay for energy and water? An affordability analysis for transition countries

    Samuel Fankhauser;Sladjana Tepic

  • Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments

    Shardul Agrawala;Samuel Fankhauser

  • The scope for adaptation to climate change: what can we learn from the impact literature?

    Richard S.J. Tol;Samuel Fankhauser;Joel B. Smith

  • The Aggregation of Climate Change Damages: a Welfare Theoretic Approach

    Samuel Fankhauser;Richard S.J. Tol;David W. Pearce

  • Protection versus Retreat: The Economic Costs of Sea-Level Rise

    S Fankhauser

  • Who will win the green race? In search of environmental competitiveness and innovation §

    Samuel Fankhauser;Alex Bowen;Raphael Calel;Antoine Dechezlepretre

  • Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries?

    Samuel Fankhauser;Thomas K. J. McDermott

  • Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it

    Samuel Fankhauser;Cameron Hepburn;Jisung Park

  • The green growth narrative: paradigm shift or just spin?

    Alex Bowen;Samuel Fankhauser

  • An outline of the case for a ‘green’ stimulus

    Alex Bowen;Samuel Fankhauser;Nicholas Stern;Dimitri Zenghelis

  • How much damage will climate change do? Recent estimates

    R.S.J. Tol;S. Fankhauser;R.G. Richels;J.B. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Tim Wheeler
Tim Wheeler University of Reading
Chris Hope
Chris Hope University of Cambridge
Pam Berry
Pam Berry University of Oxford
Cameron Hepburn
Cameron Hepburn University of Oxford
Martin A. J. Parry
Martin A. J. Parry Lancaster University
David Pearce
David Pearce University College London
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science

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