Andrew Watson

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Andrew Watson is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Watson has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Water Science and Technology, 18 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Andrew Watson's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (12 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (11 papers). Andrew Watson is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (12 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (11 papers). Andrew Watson collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Germany and United States. Andrew Watson's co-authors include Jodie Miller, Sven Kralisch, Christopher Findlay, Harry X. Wu, Willem de Clercq, Michael S. Walker, Catherine E. Clarke, Manfred Fink, Albert J. Ahumada and Charles M. Scrimgeour and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Watson

61 papers receiving 989 citations

Hit Papers

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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. OMG (Object Management Group) architecture and CORBA (common object request broker architecture) specification
    2002 413 citations Andrew Watson 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 Watson South Africa 15 263 184 158 154 146 68 1.1k
Chuan-Ming Liu Taiwan 17 472 1.8× 141 0.8× 192 1.2× 162 1.1× 236 1.6× 113 1.4k
Wenjun Wu China 22 206 0.8× 107 0.6× 206 1.3× 259 1.7× 76 0.5× 129 1.3k
Ladislav Hluchý Slovakia 12 297 1.1× 129 0.7× 389 2.5× 274 1.8× 35 0.2× 165 1.2k
Sudeshna Sarkar India 22 133 0.5× 143 0.8× 966 6.1× 298 1.9× 85 0.6× 125 1.5k
Wei Jie China 15 259 1.0× 233 1.3× 211 1.3× 191 1.2× 37 0.3× 79 1.1k
D. Agarwal United States 20 997 3.8× 32 0.2× 189 1.2× 269 1.7× 188 1.3× 64 1.7k
Jiping Liu China 21 115 0.4× 121 0.7× 142 0.9× 79 0.5× 63 0.4× 176 1.6k
Álvaro López García Spain 10 201 0.8× 77 0.4× 283 1.8× 148 1.0× 116 0.8× 53 996
Ted G. Lewis United States 17 198 0.8× 30 0.2× 160 1.0× 169 1.1× 58 0.4× 73 1.3k
Hui Chen China 26 580 2.2× 73 0.4× 506 3.2× 266 1.7× 40 0.3× 226 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Watson 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 Watson. Andrew Watson 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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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Shifting Patterns in the Weather Regimes That Drive Regional Drought: Demonstration for South Africa. International Journal of Climatology. 45(9).
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Trinh, Duc Anh, et al.. (2025). Are hydropower dams and sand mining responsible for hydrological change in the Red river (Asia)?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 100192–100192.
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Birkel, Christian, Andrew Watson, Duc Anh Trinh, et al.. (2025). Demystifying the art of isotope-enabled hydrological and climate modelling. The Science of The Total Environment. 959. 178242–178242. 2 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, Sven Kralisch, Jodie Miller, et al.. (2024). Advancing isotope‐enabled hydrological modelling for ungauged calibration of data‐scarce humid tropical catchments. Hydrological Processes. 38(2). 6 indexed citations
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Vystavna, Yuliya, Astrid Harjung, David X. Soto, et al.. (2024). Predicting river flow dynamics using stable isotopes for better adaptation to climate and land-use changes. Nature Water. 2(8). 741–748. 3 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, Christian Birkel, Jodie Miller, et al.. (2024). Evaluating input data sources for isotope‐enabled rainfall‐runoff models. Hydrological Processes. 38(9). 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (2024). Generative AI as an educational resource. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (2024). Assessing inter-basin groundwater input to the Verlorenvlei estuarine lake using stable isotopes and hydrochemistry. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 57. 102081–102081.
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Clarke, Catherine E., et al.. (2022). Downward migration of salts in termite-affected soils: Implications for groundwater salinization. Geoderma. 413. 115747–115747. 12 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Constraining the Spatial Distribution of Tritium in Groundwater Across South Africa. Water Resources Research. 57(8). 6 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Using soil-moisture drought indices to evaluate key indicators of agricultural drought in semi-arid Mediterranean Southern Africa. The Science of The Total Environment. 812. 152464–152464. 46 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (2018). Distributive rainfall/runoff modelling to determine runoff to baseflowproportioning and its impact on the determination of the ecological reserve. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew. (2012). Perimetric Complexity of Binary Digital Images. 14. 34 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew. (1999). Application Integration Using Object Technology. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew. (1994). Image Compression Using the Discrete Cosine Transform. 74 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew, et al.. (1992). Conflict over cabbages : the reform of wholesale marketing in China. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Andrew. (1980). Vegetation polygons in the central Namib Desert near Gobabeb. 1980(4). 315–325. 7 indexed citations

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