Allan Lilly

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Allan Lilly is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Soil Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Allan Lilly has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Environmental Engineering, 39 papers in Soil Science and 37 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Allan Lilly's work include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (37 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers). Allan Lilly is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (37 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers). Allan Lilly collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Allan Lilly's co-authors include Attila Nemes, J.H.M. Wösten, Christine Le Bas, John Hollis, David Boorman, Sarah Dunn, J. Simon Bell, Yakov Pachepsky, R. Milne and W. Towers and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Allan Lilly

88 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Development and use of a database of hydraulic properties of European soils

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allan Lilly United Kingdom	26	1.4k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	925	93	3.7k
Henry Lin United States	35	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	650 0.7×	79	3.6k
Helmut Elsenbeer Germany	40	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	880 0.7×	2.0k 1.8×	1.7k 1.8×	71	4.5k
F. J. Cook Australia	28	1.7k 1.2×	756 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	463 0.4×	992 1.1×	100	3.4k
Qing Zhu China	27	789 0.6×	999 0.7×	608 0.5×	672 0.6×	411 0.4×	119	2.6k
Keith Loague United States	36	1.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	2.8k 2.4×	1.4k 1.5×	114	5.5k
Jan Diels Belgium	41	1.7k 1.2×	953 0.7×	711 0.6×	580 0.5×	565 0.6×	172	4.3k
R. W. Skaggs United States	37	1.5k 1.1×	879 0.7×	901 0.8×	2.8k 2.5×	1.3k 1.4×	167	4.7k
J.H.M. Wösten Netherlands	30	1.5k 1.1×	2.6k 1.9×	3.0k 2.5×	890 0.8×	819 0.9×	73	4.8k
Bernd Huwe Germany	28	1.0k 0.7×	722 0.5×	561 0.5×	442 0.4×	544 0.6×	103	2.7k
N. J. McKenzie Australia	21	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	806 0.7×	331 0.3×	421 0.5×	80	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Allan Lilly

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allan Lilly

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stutter, Marc, Nikki Baggaley, Allan Lilly, et al.. (2025). Cost-effectiveness of targeted riparian management for sediment and total phosphorus considering convergent surface flow pathways: an Irish case study. Discover Geoscience. 3(1). 13–13. 2 indexed citations

hUallacháin, Daire Ó, Per‐Erik Mellander, Nikki Baggaley, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of Riparian Mitigation Measures for Enhancing Ecosystem Functions: A Holistic Summary of Selected Measures. Environmental Management. 75(6). 1444–1459.

Lilly, Allan, et al.. (2024). Spatial disaggregation of a legacy soil map to support digital soil and land evaluation assessments in Scotland. Geoderma Regional. 38. e00833–e00833. 2 indexed citations

Stutter, Marc, Nikki Baggaley, Jessica Davies, et al.. (2023). The riparian reactive interface: a climate-sensitive gatekeeper of global nutrient cycles. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 2 indexed citations

Troldborg, Mads, et al.. (2022). Probabilistic modelling of the inherent field-level pesticide pollution risk in a small drinking water catchment using spatial Bayesian belief networks. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(5). 1261–1293. 11 indexed citations

Haygarth, P. M., et al.. (2021). Soil phosphorus over a period of agricultural change in Scotland. European Journal of Soil Science. 72(6). 2457–2476. 1 indexed citations

Troldborg, Mads, et al.. (2021). Probabilistic modelling of inherent field-level pesticide pollution risk in a small drinking water catchment using spatial Bayesian Belief Networks. 3 indexed citations

Baggaley, Nikki, Andrea J. Britton, Andrew D. Barnes, et al.. (2021). Understanding carbon sequestration in upland habitats. ERA.

Geris, Josie, et al.. (2018). Exploring Cosmic Ray Sensor data to evaluate large scale water storage dynamics in humid mixed landscapes. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1063. 1 indexed citations

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Tipping, Edward, Jessica Davies, Peter A. Henrys, et al.. (2017). Long-term increases in soil carbon due to ecosystem fertilization by atmospheric nitrogen deposition demonstrated by regional-scale modelling and observations. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 1890–1890. 61 indexed citations

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Schillereff, Daniel, John Boyle, Hannah Toberman, et al.. (2016). Long-term macronutrient stoichiometry of UK ombrotrophic peatlands. The Science of The Total Environment. 572. 1561–1572. 17 indexed citations

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Farmer, John G., Margaret C. Graham, Lorna J. Eades, Allan Lilly, & Jeffrey R. Bacon. (2015). Influences upon the lead isotopic composition of organic and mineral horizons in soil profiles from the National Soil Inventory of Scotland (2007–09). The Science of The Total Environment. 544. 730–743. 5 indexed citations

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Rhind, S. M., C. E. Kyle, Mark Osprey, et al.. (2013). Concentrations and geographic distribution of selected organic pollutants in Scottish surface soils. Environmental Pollution. 182. 15–27. 52 indexed citations

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Campbell, Colin D., Allan Lilly, W. Towers, et al.. (2012). Land use and a low-carbon society. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103(2). 165–173. 18 indexed citations

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Lilly, Allan & Nikki Baggaley. (2012). The potential for S cottish cultivated topsoils to lose or gain soil organic carbon. Soil Use and Management. 29(1). 39–47. 10 indexed citations

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Worrall, Fred, Helen Davies, Tim Burt, et al.. (2012). The flux of dissolved nitrogen from the UK — Evaluating the role of soils and land use. The Science of The Total Environment. 434. 90–100. 23 indexed citations

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Pachepsky, Yakov, Daniel Giménez, Allan Lilly, & Attila Nemes. (2008). Promises of hydropedology.. CABI Reviews. 13 indexed citations

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Dochartaigh, B.É. Ó, Alan MacDonald, Kate Griffiths, et al.. (2007). Assessing the effectiveness of Scotland's groundwater nitrate monitoring network. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 40(4). 393–406. 5 indexed citations

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Dochartaigh, B.É. Ó, et al.. (2005). Mapping groundwater vulnerability in Scotland: a new approach for the Water Framework Directive. Scottish Journal of Geology. 41(1). 21–30. 24 indexed citations

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Dunn, Sarah, Allan Lilly, John DeGroote, & A.J.A. Vinten. (2004). Nitrogen Risk Assessment Model for Scotland: II. Hydrological transport and model testing. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 8(2). 205–219. 19 indexed citations

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