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Solomon Hsiang 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 Solomon Hsiang sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Solomon Hsiang 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 Solomon Hsiang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Quantifying the influence of climate on human conflict

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

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

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

  • Social and economic impacts of climate

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

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

    Solomon M. Hsiang

  • Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States.

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

  • Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate

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

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

    Solomon M. Hsiang;Amir S. Jina

  • Climate and Conflict

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

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

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

  • Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico

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

  • Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities

    Michael Oppenheimer;Maximiliano Campos;Rachel Warren;Joern Birkmann

  • Nonlinear permanent migration response to climatic variations but minimal response to disasters

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

  • Temperature and Human Capital in the Short and Long Run

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

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

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

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

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

  • Climate Econometrics

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  • Estimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption

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

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

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

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

    Tatyana Deryugina;Solomon M. Hsiang

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

    Solomon M. Hsiang;Daiju Narita

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall Burke
Marshall Burke Stanford University
Edward Miguel
Edward Miguel University of California, Berkeley
Robert E. Kopp
Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone University of Chicago
David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Maximilian Auffhammer
Maximilian Auffhammer University of California, Berkeley
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Matthew Neidell
Matthew Neidell Columbia University

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