Andrew Cottam

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Andrew Cottam is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Cottam has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, 4 papers in Ecological Modeling and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Andrew Cottam's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (2 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (2 papers). Andrew Cottam is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (2 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (2 papers). Andrew Cottam collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and Netherlands. Andrew Cottam's co-authors include Jean‐François Pekel, Noel Gorelick, Alan Belward, Berny Bisselink, Tim Busker, Ad de Roo, Emiliano Gelati, Marko Adamovic, Christian Schwatke and Grégoire Dubois and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Hydrology and earth system sciences and ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Cottam

10 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its l... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes
    2016 3.5k citations Jean‐François Pekel, Andrew Cottam 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
Andrew Cottam Italy 6 2.6k 1.4k 1.2k 896 771 10 3.8k
Randall J. Donohue Australia 26 3.9k 1.5× 2.0k 1.4× 836 0.7× 721 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 50 4.9k
Sujan Koirala Germany 23 3.2k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 589 0.5× 632 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 53 4.4k
R. Edward Beighley United States 29 1.7k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 915 0.8× 522 0.6× 497 0.6× 95 2.9k
Fubao Sun China 38 3.5k 1.3× 2.5k 1.7× 594 0.5× 797 0.9× 1.3k 1.6× 127 5.1k
Jaap Schellekens Netherlands 31 3.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.6× 611 0.5× 970 1.1× 1.5k 2.0× 59 4.2k
Javier Tomasella Brazil 39 3.5k 1.4× 2.0k 1.4× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 113 6.0k
Agnès Ducharne France 33 3.2k 1.2× 2.0k 1.4× 678 0.6× 1.3k 1.5× 2.0k 2.5× 86 5.1k
Kristine L. Verdin United States 15 1.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 574 0.5× 433 0.5× 748 1.0× 25 2.7k
Venkataramana Sridhar United States 37 3.6k 1.4× 2.3k 1.6× 429 0.4× 849 0.9× 1.5k 1.9× 126 4.9k
Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho Spain 35 3.6k 1.4× 1.9k 1.3× 577 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 2.1k 2.7× 87 5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Cottam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Cottam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andrew Cottam. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andrew Cottam. The network helps show where Andrew Cottam may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Cottam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Cottam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Cottam 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 Andrew Cottam. Andrew Cottam is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Crowther, Thomas W., S. Thomas, Johan van den Hoogen, et al.. (2022). Restor: Transparency and connectivity for the global environmental movement. One Earth. 5(5). 476–481. 11 indexed citations
2.
Cottam, Andrew, et al.. (2020). Atlas of Global Surface Water Dynamics. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3 indexed citations
3.
Busker, Tim, Ad de Roo, Emiliano Gelati, et al.. (2019). A global lake and reservoir volume analysis using a surface water dataset and satellite altimetry. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(2). 669–690. 231 indexed citations
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Pekel, Jean‐François, et al.. (2017). Global Surface Water Explorer dataset. Open MIND. 3 indexed citations
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Pekel, Jean‐François, Andrew Cottam, Noel Gorelick, & Alan Belward. (2016). High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature. 540(7633). 418–422. 3490 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dubois, Grégoire, Lucy Bastin, Bastian Bertzky, et al.. (2016). Integrating Multiple Spatial Datasets to Assess Protected Areas: Lessons Learnt from the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA). ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 5(12). 242–242. 11 indexed citations
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Dubois, Grégoire, et al.. (2015). The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) Explorer 1.0. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 15 indexed citations
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Masante, Dario, Carlo Rega, Andrew Cottam, Grégoire Dubois, & Paracchini Maria-Luisa. (2015). Indicators of biodiversity in agroecosystems: insights from Article 17 of the Habitat Directive and IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 1–112. 6 indexed citations
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Dubois, Grégoire, Matthias Liess, Jon Olav Skøien, et al.. (2013). An introduction to the digital observatory for protected areas (DOPA) and the DOPA explorer (Beta). Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 2 indexed citations
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Dubois, Grégoire, Andrew James Hartley, Stephen Peedell, et al.. (2010). DOPA, a Digital Observatory for Protected Areas including Monitoring and Forecasting Services. EGUGA. 12062. 2 indexed citations

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