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2026

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 59 1537 1375 4 4 177 18944
Environmental Sciences 59 3029 2895 25 25 175 18984

Shonali Pachauri publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Shonali Pachauri between 2002 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Shonali Pachauri published across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025, averaging 8.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2012. 27 of the 203 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 26. Peak 26 publications in 2012. 2002: 3 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 4 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 10 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 9 publications 2012: 26 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 13 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 14 publications
2002 2025

203 publications in total across all disciplines

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Shonali Pachauri: publications per year, 2002 to 2025
Year Publications
2002 3
2003 1
2004 4
2005 1
2006 10
2007 2
2008 3
2009 4
2010 3
2011 9
2012 26
2013 5
2014 11
2015 4
2016 7
2017 14
2018 12
2019 11
2020 14
2021 13
2022 10
2023 9
2024 13
2025 14
Total 203
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Shonali Pachauri 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 Shonali Pachauri sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 174–183 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 177 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313 177
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Shonali Pachauri 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 Shonali Pachauri sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 59 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105 59
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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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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