Steven J. Smith

56.2k citations

211 papers · 27.2k · 12 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.02%
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric Science top 0.05%
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 94
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 71
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds 13
Atmospheric Science 79
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 75
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 27

Co-authors: Allison M. Thomson (14 shared papers)Detlef P. van Vuuren (21 shared papers)Jae Edmonds (23 shared papers)Keywan Riahi (20 shared papers)Jean‐François Lamarque (10 shared papers)Nebojša Nakićenović (8 shared papers)Malte Meinshausen (8 shared papers)Tom Kram (4 shared papers)
Journals: Climatic Change (19 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and physics (11 papers)Environmental Research Letters (10 papers)Geoscientific model development (8 papers)Earth s Future (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Steven J. Smith

202 papers receiving 26.4k citations

Steven J. Smith's Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2.5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales 2021 · 403 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Communications
2020 Earth system science data
2018 Geoscientific model development
2018 The Lancet Planetary Health
2013 Nature Climate Change
2013 Environmental Research Letters
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Climatic Change
2011 Atmospheric chemistry and physics
2010 Nature
2009 Science

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1	The representative concentration pathways: an overview Climatic Change ·Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jae Edmonds, Mikiko Kainuma, Keywan Riahi, Allison M. Thomson, Kathy Hibbard, G. C. Hurtt, Tom Kram, Volker Krey, Jean‐François Lamarque, Toshihiko Masui, Malte Meinshausen, Nebojša Nakićenović, Steven J. Smith, Steven K. Rose Hit paper breakdown →	2011	5955
2	The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment Nature ·Richard H. Moss, Jae Edmonds, Kathy Hibbard, Martin Manning, Steven K. Rose, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Timothy R. Carter, Seita Emori, Mikiko Kainuma, Tom Kram, Gerald A. Meehl, J. F. B. Mitchell, Nebojša Nakićenović, Keywan Riahi, Steven J. Smith, Ronald J. Stouffer, Allison M. Thomson, John P. Weyant, Thomas J. Wilbanks Hit paper breakdown →	2010	5019
3	The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300 Climatic Change ·Malte Meinshausen, Steven J. Smith, Katherine Calvin, J. S. Daniel, M. Kainuma, Jean‐François Lamarque, Ken’ichi Matsumoto, S. A. Montzka, S. C. B. Raper, Keywan Riahi, Allison M. Thomson, Guus J. M. Velders, Detlef P. van Vuuren Hit paper breakdown →	2011	2811
4	RCP4.5: a pathway for stabilization of radiative forcing by 2100 Climatic Change ·Allison M. Thomson, Katherine Calvin, Steven J. Smith, Page Kyle, April Volke, Pralit Patel, Sabrina Delgado-Arias, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Marshall Wise, Leon E. Clarke, Jae Edmonds Hit paper breakdown →	2011	1322
5	Historical (1750–2014) anthropogenic emissions of reactive gases and aerosols from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) Geoscientific model development ·Rachel Hoesly, Steven J. Smith, Leyang Feng, Zbigniew Klimont, Greet Janssens‐Maenhout, Tyler Pitkanen, Jonathan J. Seibert, Linh Vu, R. J. Andres, Ryan M. Bolt, Tami C. Bond, Laura Dawidowski, Nazar Kholod, June-ichi Kurokawa, Meng Li, Liang Liu, Zifeng Lü, Maria Cecilia P. Moura, Patrick O’Rourke, Qiang Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2018	1246
6	Implications of Limiting CO ₂ Concentrations for Land Use and Energy Science ·Marshall Wise, Katherine Calvin, Allison M. Thomson, Leon Clarke, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ronald D. Sands, Steven J. Smith, Anthony C. Janetos, James E. Edmonds Hit paper breakdown →	2009	692
7	Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850–2005 Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Steven J. Smith, J. van Aardenne, Zbigniew Klimont, R. J. Andres, April Volke, Silvia Arias Hit paper breakdown →	2011	678
8	Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health Nature Climate Change ·J. Jason West, Steven J. Smith, Raquel A. Silva, Vaishali Naïk, Yuqiang Zhang, Zachariah Adelman, M. M. Fry, Susan C. Anenberg, Larry W. Horowitz, Jean‐François Lamarque Hit paper breakdown →	2013	518
9	The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000–2011 emissions Environmental Research Letters ·Zbigniew Klimont, Steven J. Smith, J. Cofała Hit paper breakdown →	2013	407
10	Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2.5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales Nature Communications ·Erin E. McDuffie, Randall V. Martin, Joseph V. Spadaro, Richard T. Burnett, Steven J. Smith, Patrick O’Rourke, Melanie S. Hammer, Aaron van Donkelaar, Liam Bindle, Viral Shah, Lyatt Jaeglé, Gan Luo, Fangqun Yu, Jamiu Adetayo Adeniran, Jintai Lin, Michael Bräuer Hit paper breakdown →	2021	403
11	Global and regional evolution of short-lived radiatively-active gases and aerosols in the Representative Concentration Pathways Climatic Change ·Jean‐François Lamarque, Page Kyle, Malte Meinshausen, Keywan Riahi, Steven J. Smith, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Andrew Conley, Francis Vitt	2011	356
12	A global anthropogenic emission inventory of atmospheric pollutants from sector- and fuel-specific sources (1970–2017): an application of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) Earth system science data ·Erin E. McDuffie, Steven J. Smith, Patrick O’Rourke, Kushal Tibrewal, Chandra Venkataraman, Eloïse A. Marais, Bo Zheng, Monica Crippa, Michael Bräuer, Randall V. Martin Hit paper breakdown →	2020	352
13	A cluster-based method to map urban area from DMSP/OLS nightlights Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yuyu Zhou, Steven J. Smith, Christopher D. Elvidge, Kaiguang Zhao, Allison M. Thomson, Marc L. Imhoff	2014	331
14	Health co-benefits from air pollution and mitigation costs of the Paris Agreement: a modelling study The Lancet Planetary Health ·Anil Markandya, Jon Sampedro, Steven J. Smith, Rita Van Dingenen, Cristina Pizarro-Irizar, Iñaki Arto, Mikel González‐Eguino Hit paper breakdown →	2018	299
15	Global and regional anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions Global and Planetary Change ·Steven J. Smith, Hugh Pitcher, T. M. L. Wigley	2001	258
16	A global map of urban extent from nightlights Environmental Research Letters ·Yuyu Zhou, Steven J. Smith, Kaiguang Zhao, Marc L. Imhoff, Allison M. Thomson, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ghassem Asrar, Xuesong Zhang, Chunyang He, Christopher D. Elvidge	2015	252
17	A global record of annual urban dynamics (1992–2013) from nighttime lights Remote Sensing of Environment ·Yuyu Zhou, Xuecao Li, Ghassem Asrar, Steven J. Smith, Marc L. Imhoff	2018	236
18	Large historical growth in global terrestrial gross primary production Nature ·J. Elliott Campbell, Joseph A. Berry, Ulrike Seibt, Steven J. Smith, S. A. Montzka, Thomas Launois, Sauveur Belviso, Laurent Bopp, Marko Laine	2017	217
19	Multi-Gas Forcing Stabilization with Minicam The Energy Journal ·Steven J. Smith, T. M. L. Wigley	2006	212
20	The ObjECTS Framework for Integrated Assessment: Hybrid Modeling of Transportation The Energy Journal ·Son H. Kim, Jae Edmonds, Josh Lurz, Steven J. Smith, Marshall Wise	2006	204

About Steven J. Smith

Steven J. Smith is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, having authored 211 papers that have together received 27.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (75 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (71 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (48 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (41 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (27 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (17 papers), Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (16 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (15.1k citations), Atmospheric Science (10.1k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.2k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (3.7k citations) and Environmental Engineering (3.4k citations). Steven J. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Allison M. Thomson, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jae Edmonds, Keywan Riahi, Jean‐François Lamarque, Nebojša Nakićenović, Malte Meinshausen, Tom Kram, Kathy Hibbard and Steven K. Rose. Their work appears in journals such as Climatic Change, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Environmental Research Letters, Geoscientific model development and Earth s Future.

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