2026 Solomon Hsiang: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	39	5453	5060	2568	2337	96	21874

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
2020 - GSA President's Medal, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Solomon Hsiang is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields of study, including economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their research mainly addresses topics such as climate change and health impacts, climate change policy and economics, global health care issues, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, agricultural risk and resilience, coastal and marine dynamics, and energy, environment, and transportation policies.

Key recent publications by Solomon Hsiang include:

The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Nature)
The Effect of Large-Scale Anti-Contagion Policies on the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, bioRxiv - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Other important papers around overlapping research topics include:

Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates (2020, Water Resources Research)
Estimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption (2021, Nature)
The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System (2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)

Solomon Hsiang frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Trevor Houser, Robert E. Kopp, Michael Greenstone, Michael Delgado, and Marshall Burke.

Their work is published in a variety of venues, with frequent publications in SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Harvard Dataverse, Nature, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Awards earned by Solomon Hsiang include the GSA President's Medal from The Geological Society of America in 2020 and the Andrew Carnegie Fellow honor, also awarded in 2020.

Best Publications

Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production

Marshall Burke;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Edward Miguel;Edward Miguel

3051
Citations
Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict

Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Marshall Burke;Edward Miguel;Edward Miguel

2287
Citations
The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Solomon Hsiang;Daniel Allen;Sébastien Annan-Phan;Kendon Bell;Kendon Bell

1639
Citations
Social and economic impacts of climate

Tamma A. Carleton;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang

1339
Citations
Temperatures and cyclones strongly associated with economic production in the Caribbean and Central America

Solomon M. Hsiang

1261
Citations
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States.

Solomon Hsiang;Solomon Hsiang;Robert Kopp;Amir Jina;James Rising

1251
Citations
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate

Solomon M. Hsiang;Kyle C. Meng;Mark A. Cane

1089
Citations
The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones

Solomon M. Hsiang;Amir S. Jina

865
Citations
Climate and Conflict

Marshall Burke;Marshall Burke;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Edward Miguel;Edward Miguel

852
Citations
Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change

Maximilian Auffhammer;Solomon M. Hsiang;Wolfram Schlenker;Adam Sobel

844
Citations
Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico

Marshall Burke;Marshall Burke;Felipe González;Patrick Baylis;Sam Heft-Neal

574
Citations
Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities

Michael Oppenheimer;Maximiliano Campos;Rachel Warren;Joern Birkmann

560
Citations
Nonlinear permanent migration response to climatic variations but minimal response to disasters

Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra;Michael Oppenheimer;Solomon M. Hsiang

493
Citations
Temperature and Human Capital in the Short and Long Run

Joshua S. Graff Zivin;Solomon M Hsiang;Matthew J Neidell

436
Citations
Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say?

Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang;Marshall Burke

424
Citations
Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates

Paul D. Bates;Niall Quinn;Christopher Sampson;Andrew Smith

403
Citations
Climate Econometrics

Unknown

389
Citations
Estimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption

Ashwin Rode;Tamma Carleton;Tamma Carleton;Michael Delgado;Michael Greenstone;Michael Greenstone

334
Citations
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster

Jesse Keith Anttila-Hughes;Solomon M. Hsiang;Solomon M. Hsiang

311
Citations
Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States

Tatyana Deryugina;Solomon M. Hsiang

215
Citations
ADAPTATION TO CYCLONE RISK: EVIDENCE FROM THE GLOBAL CROSS-SECTION

Solomon M. Hsiang;Daiju Narita

207
Citations
The Effect of Large-Scale Anti-Contagion Policies on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

Solomon Hsiang;Daniel Allen;Sebastien Annan-Phan;Kendon Bell

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall Burke Stanford University

Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

David B. Lobell Stanford University

Maximilian Auffhammer University of California, Berkeley

Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University

Matthew Neidell Columbia University

Arlene M. Fiore MIT

Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Solomon Hsiang

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