Alistair G.L. Borthwick

12.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
332 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Alistair G.L. Borthwick is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Earth-Surface Processes and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alistair G.L. Borthwick has authored 332 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Computational Mechanics, 89 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 63 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alistair G.L. Borthwick's work include Coastal and Marine Dynamics (74 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (46 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (37 papers). Alistair G.L. Borthwick is often cited by papers focused on Coastal and Marine Dynamics (74 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (46 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (37 papers). Alistair G.L. Borthwick collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Australia. Alistair G.L. Borthwick's co-authors include Jinren Ni, Chiyuan Miao, Qiuhua Liang, Paul H. Taylor, Wen Liu, Baogang Zhang, Qingyun Duan, Scott Draper, Thomas A. A. Adcock and Benedict D. Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Alistair G.L. Borthwick

320 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Foundations of offshore wind turbines: A review 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 100 200 300 400
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. Foundations of offshore wind turbines: A review
    2019 400 citations Alistair G.L. Borthwick et al. profile →
  2. Global heat stress on health, wildfires, and agricultural crops under different levels of climate warming
    2019 260 citations Chiyuan Miao, Alistair G.L. Borthwick et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alistair G.L. Borthwick United Kingdom 51 2.2k 1.6k 1.6k 1.6k 1.5k 332 9.6k
Ling Li China 66 3.2k 1.5× 653 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 2.7k 1.6× 2.3k 1.5× 639 18.2k
Brett F. Sanders United States 43 2.3k 1.1× 802 0.5× 4.0k 2.4× 878 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 125 7.0k
Behzad Ataie‐Ashtiani Iran 45 962 0.4× 893 0.5× 712 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 683 0.5× 142 6.7k
Soon Keat Tan Singapore 49 1.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 384 0.3× 207 8.0k
John S. Gulliver United States 41 1.4k 0.6× 412 0.3× 956 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 203 0.1× 255 6.0k
Michel C. Boufadel United States 44 457 0.2× 358 0.2× 971 0.6× 438 0.3× 725 0.5× 261 6.2k
Steven C. Chapra United States 42 3.3k 1.5× 386 0.2× 678 0.4× 1.8k 1.1× 140 0.1× 124 10.1k
Li Li China 57 2.3k 1.1× 88 0.1× 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 645 0.4× 504 12.0k
Jichun Wu China 53 2.2k 1.0× 130 0.1× 1.1k 0.7× 533 0.3× 452 0.3× 407 9.4k
Lei Duan China 54 882 0.4× 390 0.2× 2.1k 1.3× 911 0.6× 108 0.1× 291 12.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gou, Jiaojiao, Chiyuan Miao, Jinren Ni, et al.. (2025). Warming climate and water withdrawals threaten river flow connectivity in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(34). e2421046122–e2421046122.
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Li, De-Min, et al.. (2024). Model predictive control of a single-buoy wave energy converter with coupled constraints and model adaptation. Ocean Engineering. 315. 119887–119887. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Bin, et al.. (2024). Double Layer–Averaged Model of River Ice–Water Mixture Flow. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 151(1). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Ziyi, Louise Slater, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, et al.. (2024). Constrained Precipitation Extremes Reveal Unequal Future Socioeconomic Exposure. Earth s Future. 12(12). 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Siming, Deborah Greaves, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, et al.. (2024). Recent advances in marine hydrodynamics. Physics of Fluids. 36(7). 4 indexed citations
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Li, Ji, et al.. (2023). Modelling reservoir sediment flushing through a bottom tunnel with an initially covered intake. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 125. 425–443. 4 indexed citations
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Michele, Simone, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, & Ton S. van den Bremer. (2023). The laminar seabed thermal boundary layer forced by propagating and standing free-surface waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 956. 5 indexed citations
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Chai, Yuanfang, Louise Slater, Jiabo Yin, et al.. (2022). Constrained CMIP6 projections indicate less warming and a slower increase in water availability across Asia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4124–4124. 39 indexed citations
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Yan, Mingquan, Peng Han, Ting Wang, et al.. (2022). Deficiency and excess of groundwater iodine and their health associations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7354–7354. 59 indexed citations
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Borthwick, Alistair G.L., et al.. (2021). Plant Roots Steer Resilience to Perturbation of River Floodplains. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(9). 6 indexed citations
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Hwang, Jin Hwan, et al.. (2020). Piston-Driven Numerical Wave Tank Based on WENO Solver of Well-Balanced Shallow Water Equations. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. 24(7). 1959–1982. 6 indexed citations
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Orszaghova, Jana, et al.. (2018). A 2DH hybrid Boussinesq-NSWE solver for near-shore hydrodynamics. Coastal Engineering. 142. 9–26. 5 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yufeng, et al.. (2018). Synchronous microbial vanadium (V) reduction and denitrification in groundwater using hydrogen as the sole electron donor. Water Research. 141. 289–296. 135 indexed citations
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Cao, Zhixian, et al.. (2018). Approximate Solutions for Ideal Dam‐Break Sediment‐Laden Flows on Uniform Slopes. Water Resources Research. 54(4). 2731–2748. 5 indexed citations
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Kelliher, Denis, et al.. (2017). Improving global accessibility to offshore wind power through decreased operations and maintenance costs: a hydrodynamic analysis. Energy Procedia. 138. 1055–1060. 7 indexed citations
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Stagonas, Dimitris, et al.. (2017). Stability of Surface Gravity Waves on Constant Vorticity Current. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Borthwick, Alistair G.L., et al.. (2012). Using Finite Element method for Pile-Soil Interface (through PLAXIS and ANSYS). 3(10). 256–272. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Nan, Jinren Ni, Weiling Sun, & Alistair G.L. Borthwick. (2007). Role of dissolved organic carbon in the cosorption of copper and phthalate esters onto Yellow River sediments. Chemosphere. 69(9). 1419–1427. 15 indexed citations
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Huang, Wen, Bi Shi, Jinren Ni, & Alistair G.L. Borthwick. (2005). Biodegradation of valonia tannin by Endomyces SHQ 14. Journal of The Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists. 89(1). 28–33. 6 indexed citations

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