Will Steffen
Impact in
- Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.02%
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Papers in
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- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 24
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience 13
- Climate variability and models 11
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 10
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- Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution 21
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 8
- Co-authors
- Paul J. Crutzen (14 shared papers)Johan Rockström (21 shared papers)John McNeill (11 shared papers)Katherine Richardson (15 shared papers)Owen Gaffney (6 shared papers)Carl Folke (11 shared papers)Sarah Cornell (8 shared papers)Ingo Fetzer (5 shared papers)
- Journals
- AMBIO (8 papers)The Anthropocene Review (6 papers)Global Environmental Change (5 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)Science (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaSwedenUnited States
In The Last Decade
Will Steffen
173 papers receiving 31.5k citations
Will Steffen's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 216
- Global and Planetary Change 11.3k
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 4.8k
- Ecological Modeling 934
- Environmental Engineering 3.1k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 2.6k
Countries citing papers authored by Will Steffen
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Fields of papers citing papers by Will Steffen
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Will Steffen, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 8332 |
| 2 | The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 2315 |
| 3 | The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 2243 |
| 4 | Sustainable development goals for people and planet Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 2176 |
| 5 | Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 1912 |
| 6 | The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 1642 |
| 7 | The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1495 |
| 8 | Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 1160 |
| 9 | The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 1153 |
| 10 | Global change and the earth system: a planet under pressure Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 1059 |
| 11 | Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 738 |
| 12 | The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 647 |
| 13 | The New World of the Anthropocene Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 589 |
| 14 | Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 398 |
| 15 | 2005 | 395 | |
| 16 | 1998 | 374 | |
| 17 | 2015 | 357 | |
| 18 | Science Plan and Implementation Strategy | 2006 | 344 |
| 19 | 2005 | 304 | |
| 20 | 2003 | 301 |
About Will Steffen
Will Steffen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 183 papers that have together received 34.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Global Energy and Sustainability Research (38 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers), Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution (21 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (13 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (10 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (11.3k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (4.8k citations), Ecological Modeling (934 citations), Environmental Engineering (3.1k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.6k citations). Will Steffen has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and United States. Frequent co-authors include Paul J. Crutzen, Johan Rockström, John McNeill, Katherine Richardson, Owen Gaffney, Carl Folke, Sarah Cornell, Ingo Fetzer, Lisa Deutsch and Reinette Biggs. Their work appears in journals such as AMBIO, The Anthropocene Review, Global Environmental Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Science.
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