Ben Smith

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Smith is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Smith has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ben Smith's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (31 papers), Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (19 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (17 papers). Ben Smith is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (31 papers), Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (19 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (17 papers). Ben Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Ben Smith's co-authors include Ian Joughin, Ian M. Howat, Twila Moon, T. A. Scambos, Sarah B. Das, M. R. van den Broeke, H. Jay Zwally, Matt A. King, Martin Truffer and M. A. Fahnestock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ben Smith

32 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Greenland flow variability from ice-sheet-wide velocity mapping

2010 489 citations Ian Joughin, Ben Smith et al. Journal of Glaciology profile →
Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes

2020 343 citations Ben Smith, H. A. Fricker et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Smith United States	22	3.1k	1.3k	703	357	233	32	3.5k
David Shean United States	29	2.6k 0.8×	806 0.6×	667 0.9×	279 0.8×	88 0.4×	100	3.4k
L. A. Stearns United States	31	3.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	522 0.7×	246 0.7×	246 1.1×	86	3.6k
Kelly M. Brunt United States	27	1.8k 0.6×	843 0.6×	478 0.7×	334 0.9×	225 1.0×	58	2.4k
Matthew R. Siegfried United States	28	2.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	635 0.9×	202 0.6×	148 0.6×	79	2.5k
G. S. Hamilton United States	33	3.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	746 1.1×	442 1.2×	290 1.2×	92	4.2k
Robert J. Arthern United Kingdom	24	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	737 1.0×	278 0.8×	166 0.7×	49	2.7k
Peter Kuipers Munneke Netherlands	36	4.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	738 1.0×	1.1k 3.0×	297 1.3×	86	4.2k
Frédérique Rémy France	33	2.8k 0.9×	772 0.6×	490 0.7×	437 1.2×	811 3.5×	130	3.5k
E. Frederick United States	19	1.9k 0.6×	517 0.4×	376 0.5×	305 0.9×	340 1.5×	27	2.5k
J. G. Sonntag United States	25	2.2k 0.7×	457 0.3×	327 0.5×	287 0.8×	254 1.1×	49	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Smith

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shean, David, Ben Smith, Tyler Sutterley, et al.. (2023). SlideRule: Enabling rapid, scalable, open science forthe NASA ICESat-2 mission and beyond. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(81). 4982–4982. 16 indexed citations

Huth, Alex, Ravindra Duddu, & Ben Smith. (2021). A Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method for Shallow Ice Shelves. 2: Anisotropic Nonlocal Damage Mechanics and Rift Propagation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(8). e2020MS002292–e2020MS002292. 16 indexed citations

Huth, Alex, Ravindra Duddu, & Ben Smith. (2021). A Generalized Interpolation Material Point Method for Shallow Ice Shelves. 1: Shallow Shelf Approximation and Ice Thickness Evolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(8). e2020MS002277–e2020MS002277. 10 indexed citations

Joughin, Ian, et al.. (2021). Ice-shelf retreat drives recent Pine Island Glacier speedup. Science Advances. 7(24). 68 indexed citations

Joughin, Ian, Daniel Shapero, Pierre Dutrieux, & Ben Smith. (2021). Ocean-induced melt volume directly paces ice loss from Pine Island Glacier. Science Advances. 7(43). eabi5738–eabi5738. 16 indexed citations

Smith, Ben, H. A. Fricker, Alex Gardner, et al.. (2020). Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes. Science. 368(6496). 1239–1242. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

Hanna, Edward, Frank Pattyn, Francisco Navarro, et al.. (2019). Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers – Progress since AR5 and challenges. Earth-Science Reviews. 201. 102976–102976. 45 indexed citations

Trusel, Luke D., Sarah B. Das, Matthew Osman, et al.. (2018). Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming. Nature. 564(7734). 104–108. 123 indexed citations

Joughin, Ian, Ben Smith, & Ian M. Howat. (2018). Greenland Ice Mapping Project: ice flow velocity variation at sub-monthly to decadal timescales. The cryosphere. 12(7). 2211–2227. 63 indexed citations

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Joughin, Ian, Ben Smith, & Ian M. Howat. (2017). A complete map of Greenland ice velocity derived from satellite data collected over 20 years. Journal of Glaciology. 64(243). 1–11. 123 indexed citations

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Shean, David, Knut Christianson, Kristine M. Larson, et al.. (2017). GPS-derived estimates of surface mass balance and ocean-induced basal melt for Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, Antarctica. The cryosphere. 11(6). 2655–2674. 19 indexed citations

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Joughin, Ian, Ben Smith, Ian M. Howat, Twila Moon, & T. A. Scambos. (2016). A SAR record of early 21st century change in Greenland. Journal of Glaciology. 62(231). 62–71. 31 indexed citations

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Joughin, Ian, David Shean, Ben Smith, & Pierre Dutrieux. (2016). Grounding line variability and subglacial lake drainage on Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(17). 9093–9102. 43 indexed citations

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Hanna, Edward, Francisco Navarro, Frank Pattyn, et al.. (2013). Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change. Nature. 498(7452). 51–59. 224 indexed citations

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Chen, Shen-En, Wanqiu Liu, Haitao Bian, & Ben Smith. (2012). 3D LiDAR Scans for Bridge Damage Evaluations. 487–495. 21 indexed citations

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Joughin, Ian, Ben Smith, Ian M. Howat, et al.. (2012). Seasonal to decadal scale variations in the surface velocity of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland: Observation and model‐based analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(F2). 136 indexed citations

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Price, Stephen, A. J. Payne, Ian M. Howat, & Ben Smith. (2010). Application of a higher-order flow model to Greenland outlet glacier dynamics. EGUGA. 5457. 1 indexed citations

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Bueler, Ed, C. Khroulev, Andy Aschwanden, Ian Joughin, & Ben Smith. (2010). Modeled and observed fast flow in the Greenland ice sheet. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7345. 4 indexed citations

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Joughin, Ian, Ben Smith, Ian M. Howat, T. A. Scambos, & Twila Moon. (2010). Greenland flow variability from ice-sheet-wide velocity mapping. Journal of Glaciology. 56(197). 415–430. 489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gray, Laurence, et al.. (2008). Flow stripes, GPR stratigraphy and RADARSAT imagery. Journal of Glaciology. 54(188). 936–938. 3 indexed citations

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