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Social Sciences and Humanities
Austria
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
59
Citations
18944
World Ranking
1537
National Ranking
4

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
18984
World Ranking
3026
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Shonali Pachauri is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, having contributed extensively to subfields such as Pollution, Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Global and Planetary Change, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work covers several major topics, including:

  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Pandemic, War, and Global Energy Transitions, 2022, Energies
  • Global scenarios of residential heating and cooling energy demand and CO2 emissions, 2021, Climatic Change
  • Household contributions to and impacts from air pollution in India, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • The effect of education on determinants of climate change risks, 2020, Nature Sustainability

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Setu Pelz
  • Narasimha D. Rao
  • Keywan Riahi
  • Miguel Poblete-Cazenave
  • Caroline Zimm

Shonali Pachauri has published multiple papers in venues such as:

  • Environmental Research Letters (11 publications)
  • Nature Energy (4 publications)
  • Nature Sustainability (3 publications)
  • Nature Climate Change (3 publications)
  • IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) (3 publications)

In addition to journal papers, they have contributed to book publications through the Working Paper Series, including the work titled "Explaining income inequality trends: An integrated approach" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • 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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  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

    Oliver Fricko;Petr Havlik;Joeri Rogelj;Zbigniew Klimont

  • A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018

    William F. Lamb;Thomas Wiedmann;Julia Pongratz;Robbie Andrew

  • The household energy transition in India and China

    Shonali Pachauri;Leiwen Jiang

  • Energy investment needs for fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving the sustainable development goals

    David L. McCollum;David L. McCollum;Wenji Zhou;Christoph Bertram;Harmen Sytze de Boer

  • Global demographic trends and future carbon emissions

    Brian C. O'Neill;Michael Dalton;Regina Fuchs;Leiwen Jiang

  • A comparative multivariate analysis of household energy requirements in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, India and Japan

    Manfred Lenzen;Manfred Lenzen;Mette Wier;Claude Cohen;Claude Cohen;Hitoshi Hayami;Hitoshi Hayami

  • Elasticities of electricity demand in urban Indian households

    Massimo Filippini;Shonali Pachauri

  • On Measuring Energy Poverty in Indian Households

    S. Pachauri;A. Mueller;A. Kemmler;D. Spreng

  • An analysis of cross-sectional variations in total household energy requirements in India using micro survey data

    Shonali Pachauri

  • Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals by their energy inter-linkages

    David L McCollum;David L McCollum;Luis Gomez Echeverri;Sebastian Busch;Shonali Pachauri

  • Energy use and energy access in relation to poverty

    Daniel T. Spreng;Shonali Pachauri

  • Measuring and monitoring energy poverty

    Shonali Pachauri;Daniel Spreng

  • Energy access scenarios to 2030 for the power sector in sub-Saharan Africa

    Morgan Bazilian;Patrick Nussbaumer;Hans-Holger Rogner;Abeeku Brew-Hammond

  • Determinants of Household Energy Consumption in India

    Tommi Ekholm;Tommi Ekholm;Volker Krey;Shonali Pachauri;Keywan Riahi

  • Direct and indirect energy requirements of households in India

    Shonali Pachauri;Daniel Spreng

  • Fuel choices in urban Indian households

    Mehdi Farsi;Massimo Filippini;Shonali Pachauri

  • Estimating rural populations without access to electricity in developing countries through night-time light satellite imagery.

    Christopher N.H. Doll;Christopher N.H. Doll;Shonali Pachauri

  • Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots

    Edward Byers;Matthew Gidden;David Leclère;Juraj Balkovic

  • Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions

    Brian C O'Neill;Brantley Liddle;Leiwen Jiang;Kirk R Smith

  • Energy Pathways for Sustainable Development

    K. Riahi;F. Dentener;D. Gielen;A. Grubler

  • Renewables 2012 Global Status Report

    N. Komendantova.;S. Pachauri

Frequent Co-Authors

Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Volker Krey
Volker Krey International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
David L. McCollum
David L. McCollum Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Arnulf Grubler
Arnulf Grubler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Brian C. O'Neill
Brian C. O'Neill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Petr Havlik
Petr Havlik International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Zbigniew Klimont
Zbigniew Klimont International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University

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