Alan Thorpe

12.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
195 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Alan Thorpe is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Thorpe has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Atmospheric Science, 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 51 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alan Thorpe's work include Climate variability and models (64 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (63 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (51 papers). Alan Thorpe is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (64 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (63 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (51 papers). Alan Thorpe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Tunisia and Denmark. Alan Thorpe's co-authors include Hanne Duve, Péter Bauer, Gilbert Brunet, Bernard W. Ince, M. J. Miller, Anders H. Johnsen, Kerry Emanuel, Craig H. Bishop, Alan G. Scott and Peter D. East and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alan Thorpe

190 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

The quiet revolution of numerical weather pre... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2015 2005 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction
    2015 1.6k citations Péter Bauer, Alan Thorpe et al. Nature profile →
  2. Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases
    2005 857 citations David A. Stainforth, T. Aina et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Thorpe United Kingdom 49 4.3k 4.0k 2.3k 1.0k 986 195 8.9k
William K. Smith United States 58 2.3k 0.5× 4.7k 1.2× 374 0.2× 136 0.1× 285 0.3× 225 10.0k
William H. Klein United States 59 669 0.2× 1.2k 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 571 0.5× 132 0.1× 269 13.6k
Joshua Elliott United States 51 379 0.1× 3.8k 0.9× 112 0.0× 665 0.6× 338 0.3× 126 13.3k
Richard A. Reyment Sweden 30 1.6k 0.4× 877 0.2× 48 0.0× 968 0.9× 196 0.2× 185 9.2k
David G. Reid United Kingdom 50 470 0.1× 4.3k 1.1× 94 0.0× 3.0k 2.9× 693 0.7× 256 8.3k
David Jones United Kingdom 48 2.2k 0.5× 4.1k 1.0× 87 0.0× 1.5k 1.4× 80 0.1× 246 7.7k
Paul W. Mielke United States 40 960 0.2× 1.6k 0.4× 87 0.0× 391 0.4× 192 0.2× 256 7.5k
Jef Huisman Netherlands 73 733 0.2× 2.1k 0.5× 157 0.1× 11.8k 11.3× 111 0.1× 188 21.2k
Max Rietkerk Netherlands 54 2.1k 0.5× 9.3k 2.3× 39 0.0× 582 0.6× 154 0.2× 152 14.7k
Barbara A. Block United States 65 217 0.1× 6.7k 1.7× 719 0.3× 927 0.9× 67 0.1× 229 15.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Thorpe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Thorpe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Thorpe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Thorpe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Thorpe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Thorpe. Alan Thorpe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bauer, Péter, Alan Thorpe, & Gilbert Brunet. (2015). The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction. Nature. 525(7567). 47–55. 1584 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brierley, Chris, Alan Thorpe, & Matthew Collins. (2008). An example of the dependence of the transient climate response on the temperature of the modelled climate state. Atmospheric Science Letters. 10(1). 23–28. 5 indexed citations
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Stainforth, David A., T. Aina, C. Christensen, et al.. (2005). Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Nature. 433(7024). 403–406. 857 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duve, Hanne, et al.. (2005). Neuropeptide co-localisation in the lepidopteran frontal ganglion studied by electron-microscopic gold-labelling immunocytochemistry. Cell and Tissue Research. 320(1). 187–199. 5 indexed citations
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Thorpe, Alan, et al.. (2004). THORPEX: a global atmospheric research programme for the beginning of the 21st century. 142(1). 33–8. 12 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne & Alan Thorpe. (2003). Neuropeptide co-localisation in the lepidopteran frontal ganglion studied by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Cell and Tissue Research. 311(1). 79–89. 27 indexed citations
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Johnsen, Anders H., et al.. (2000). Sulfakinin neuropeptides in a crustacean. European Journal of Biochemistry. 267(4). 1153–1160. 44 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne, et al.. (1999). Characterisation of the helicostatin peptide precursor gene from Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 29(12). 1119–1127. 33 indexed citations
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Maestro, José L., Xavier Bellés, Maria‐Dolors Piulachs, Alan Thorpe, & Hanne Duve. (1998). Localization of allatostatin-immunoreactive material in the central nervous system, stomatogastric nervous system, and gut of the cockroachBlattella germanica. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. 37(4). 269–282. 42 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne, Anders H. Johnsen, José L. Maestro, et al.. (1997). Lepidopteran Peptides of the Allatostatin Superfamily. Peptides. 18(9). 1301–1309. 64 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne, Anders H. Johnsen, José L. Maestro, et al.. (1996). Identification of the dipteran Leu-callatostatin peptide family: the pattern of precursor processing revealed by isolation studies in Calliphora vomitoria. Regulatory Peptides. 67(1). 11–19. 32 indexed citations
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Emanuel, Kerry, David Raymond, Alan Betts, et al.. (1995). Report of the first prospectus development team of the U.S. Weather Research Program to The NOAA and the NSF. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 1194–1208. 99 indexed citations
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Bellés, Xavier, José L. Maestro, Maria‐Dolors Piulachs, et al.. (1994). Allatostatic neuropeptides from the cockroach Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, Blattellidae). Identification, immunolocalization and activity. Regulatory Peptides. 53(3). 237–247. 103 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne & Alan Thorpe. (1990). Distribution and functional significance of Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7-and Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8-like peptides in the blowflyCalliphora vomitoria. Cell and Tissue Research. 259(1). 147–157. 19 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne & Alan Thorpe. (1989). Distribution and functional significance of Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7- and Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8-like peptides in the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria. Cell and Tissue Research. 258(1). 147–61. 23 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne, Alan Thorpe, Norman R. Lazarus, & Philip J. Lowry. (1982). A neuropeptide of the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria with an amino acid composition homologous with vertebrae pancreatic polypeptide.. Biochemical Journal. 201(2). 429–432. 31 indexed citations
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Duve, Hanne, et al.. (1981). Isolation and partial characterization of pancreatic polypeptide-like material in the brain of the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria. Biochemical Journal. 197(3). 767–770. 22 indexed citations

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