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Researcher · Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research · Germany

Ottmar Edenhofer

Ottmar Edenhofer publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth.

ORCID 0000-0001-6029-5208 OpenAlex
World rank
#17,662
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,016
of 364,343
Works
524
Citations
30k
Citations per work
56.4
h-index
80
i10-index 205Top 0.2% in Economics and Econometrics
Ottmar Edenhofer

What does Ottmar Edenhofer research?

Ottmar Edenhofer's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (41%), Energy (15%), Environmental Science (13%).

Social Sciences: 252 works · 48.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 217 works · 41.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 217 works · 41.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 34 works · 6.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 34 works · 6.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 159 works · 30.3% of their workEnergy: 79 works · 15.0% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 79 works · 15.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 67 works · 12.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 40 works · 7.7% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 26 works · 5.0% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 2.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 14 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 114 works · 21.7% of their workTHEIR WORKOttmar Edenhofer524works
Physical Sciences30%Social Sciences48%

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. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21741.5%
    2. Social Sciences346.5%
    1. Energy7915.0%
    2. Environmental Science6712.7%
    3. Engineering142.6%
  3. Everything else11421.7%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics42% of their works
  2. 2Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment15% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change8% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ottmar Edenhofer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Energy Transition, Economic Impacts, Policy Instruments, Environmental Impact, Energy Efficiency and Rebound Effect.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change3993 topics
  2. Greenhouse Gas Emissions3692 topics
  3. Energy Transition3672 topics
  4. Economic Impacts3131 topic
  5. Policy Instruments3131 topic
  6. Environmental Impact1702 topics
  7. Energy Efficiency1141 topic
  8. Rebound Effect1141 topic
  9. Infrastructure931 topic
  10. Taxation931 topic
  11. Carbon Footprint561 topic
  12. Life Cycle Assessment561 topic
  13. EROI541 topic
  14. Fossil Fuels541 topic
  15. Global Capitalism501 topic
  16. Imperialism501 topic
  17. Ethics321 topic
  18. Geoengineering321 topic
  19. Human Microbiome311 topic
  20. Microbial Metabolites311 topic

Where does Ottmar Edenhofer work?

Ottmar Edenhofer's main affiliation in the publication record is Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ottmar Edenhofer have?

OpenAlex counts 524 works and 29,575 citations for Ottmar Edenhofer, an h-index of 80, ranking #17,662 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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