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Researcher · Carnegie Institution for Science · United States

Ken Caldeira

Ken Caldeira publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography, on topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change Policy and Economics and Climate variability and models.

ORCID 0000-0002-4591-643X OpenAlex
World rank
#17,841
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,408
of 1,627,098
Works
306
Citations
30k
Citations per work
96.8
h-index
81
i10-index 174Top 0.6% in Global and Planetary Change
Ken Caldeira

What does Ken Caldeira research?

Ken Caldeira's work is mostly in Environmental Science (27%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (23%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8%).

Physical Sciences: 187 works · 61.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 82 works · 26.8% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 82 works · 26.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 71 works · 23.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 42 works · 13.7% of their workOceanography: 29 works · 9.6% of their workEnergy: 18 works · 5.8% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 18 works · 5.8% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 5.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 16 works · 5.2% of their workEverything else: 95 works · 31.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 7.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 24 works · 7.8% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 24 works · 7.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Caldeira306works
Physical Sciences61%Social Sciences8%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science8226.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences7123.3%
    3. Energy185.8%
    4. Engineering165.2%
  2. Everything else9531.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance247.8%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change27% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography10% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  5. 5Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Caldeira's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Energy Transition, Emissions, Methane, Economic Impacts and Policy Instruments.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change1554 topics
  2. Global Warming882 topics
  3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions882 topics
  4. Energy Transition722 topics
  5. Emissions661 topic
  6. Methane661 topic
  7. Economic Impacts461 topic
  8. Policy Instruments461 topic
  9. Climate Modeling421 topic
  10. Extreme Events421 topic
  11. Ethics411 topic
  12. Geoengineering411 topic
  13. Marine Organisms371 topic
  14. Ocean Acidification371 topic
  15. Ozone Depletion351 topic
  16. Stratospheric Water Vapor351 topic
  17. Atmospheric Aerosols311 topic
  18. Black Carbon311 topic
  19. EROI261 topic
  20. Fossil Fuels261 topic

Where does Ken Caldeira work?

Ken Caldeira's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Institution for Science, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ken Caldeira have?

OpenAlex counts 306 works and 29,631 citations for Ken Caldeira, an h-index of 81, ranking #17,841 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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