Brian Barrett

5.7k citations

86 papers · 2.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Hardware and Architecture top 1%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Environmental Engineering top 1%
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Papers in ⓘ

Computer Networks and Communications 23
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems 11
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies 11
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance 7
Ecology 18
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 13

Co-authors: Edward Dwyer (6 shared papers)Fiona Cawkwell (7 shared papers)George P. Petropoulos (1 shared paper)Gareth Ireland (1 shared paper)Stuart Green (6 shared papers)Pádraig M. Whelan (2 shared papers)Ingmar Nitze (3 shared papers)Iftikhar Ali (2 shared papers)
Journals: Sustainability Science (6 papers)American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (3 papers)Journal of Nutrition (3 papers)International Journal of Remote Sensing (3 papers)Remote Sensing (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Ireland

In The Last Decade

Brian Barrett

78 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Satellite remote sensing of grasslands: from observation to management 2016 · 305 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Journal of Plant Ecology
2015 Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C

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1	Surface soil moisture retrievals from remote sensing: Current status, products & future trends Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/C ·George P. Petropoulos, Gareth Ireland, Brian Barrett Hit paper breakdown →	2015	345
2	Satellite remote sensing of grasslands: from observation to management Journal of Plant Ecology ·Iftikhar Ali, Fiona Cawkwell, Edward Dwyer, Brian Barrett, Stuart Green Hit paper breakdown →	2016	305
3	The structural simulation toolkit ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ·Arun Rodrigues, K. Scott Hemmert, Brian Barrett, Chad Kersey, Ron A. Oldfield, Matthew Weston, R. Risen, Jonathan Cook, Paul Rosenfeld, Elliott Cooper-Balis, Bruce Jacob	2011	219
4	Soil Moisture Retrieval from Active Spaceborne Microwave Observations: An Evaluation of Current Techniques Remote Sensing ·Brian Barrett, Edward Dwyer, Pádraig M. Whelan	2009	176
5	The Lam/Mpi Checkpoint/Restart Framework: System-Initiated Checkpointing The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications ·Sriram Sankaran, Jeffrey M. Squyres, Brian Barrett, Vishal Sahay, Andrew Lumsdaine, Jason Duell, Paul Hargrove, Eric Roman	2005	172
6	Introducing the Graph 500 James Ang, Brian Barrett, Kyle Wheeler, Richard C. Murphy	2010	143
7	Temporal optimisation of image acquisition for land cover classification with Random Forest and MODIS time-series International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation ·Ingmar Nitze, Brian Barrett, Fiona Cawkwell	2014	117
8	Assessment of multi-temporal, multi-sensor radar and ancillary spatial data for grasslands monitoring in Ireland using machine learning approaches Remote Sensing of Environment ·Brian Barrett, Ingmar Nitze, Stuart Green, Fiona Cawkwell	2014	97
9	Applications of Google Earth Engine in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·Richard Boothroyd, Richard Williams, Trevor Hoey, Brian Barrett, Octria Adi Prasojo	2020	96
10	Open MPI: A High-Performance, Heterogeneous MPI Richard L. Graham, Galen Shipman, Brian Barrett, Ralph Castain, George Bosilca, Andrew Lumsdaine	2006	86
11	MPI + MPI: a new hybrid approach to parallel programming with MPI plus shared memory Computing ·Torsten Hoefler, James Dinan, Darius Buntinas, Pavan Balaji, Brian Barrett, Ron Brightwell, William Gropp, Vivek Kale, Rajeev Thakur	2013	56
12	Remote Memory Access Programming in MPI-3 Torsten Hoefler, James Dinan, Rajeev Thakur, Brian Barrett, Pavan Balaji, William Gropp, Keith D. Underwood	2015	53
13	THE LENGTH AND MODE OF TERMINATION OF INDIVIDUAL MUSCLE FIBRES IN THE HUMAN SARTORIUS AND POSTERIOR FEMORAL MUSCLES Cells Tissues Organs ·Brian Barrett	1962	48
14	Geophysical Methods in Saline Groundwater Studies: Locating Perched Water Tables and Fresh-Water Lenses Exploration Geophysics ·Brian Barrett, Graham Heinson, Michael Hatch, Andrew Telfer	2002	39
15	Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: a scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals Sustainability Science ·Jiren Xu, Fabrice G. Renaud, Brian Barrett	2021	37
16	Target‐oriented habitat and wildlife management: estimating forage quantity and quality of semi‐natural grasslands with Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2 data Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Christoph Raab, Friederike Riesch, Bettina Tonn, Brian Barrett, Marcus Meißner, Niko Balkenhol, J. Isselstein	2020	37
17	The role of stress concentration in calcified bicuspid aortic valve Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Tongran Qin, Andrés Caballero, Wenbin Mao, Brian Barrett, Norihiko Kamioka, Stamatios Lerakis, Wei Sun	2020	31
18	Upland vegetation mapping using Random Forests with optical and radar satellite data Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ·Brian Barrett, Christoph Raab, Fiona Cawkwell, Stuart Green	2016	30
19	Carbon cycling of European croplands: A framework for the assimilation of optical and microwave Earth observation data Remote Sensing of Environment ·Andrew Revill, Oliver Sus, Brian Barrett, Mathew Williams	2013	30
20	Decadal-scale morphological adjustment of a lowland tropical river Geomorphology ·Elizabeth Dingle, Enrico C. Paringit, Pamela Louise M. Tolentino, Richard Williams, Trevor Hoey, Brian Barrett, Hazel Long, Crystal Smiley, Eilidh Stott	2019	28

About Brian Barrett

Brian Barrett is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Ecology, Hardware and Architecture, Environmental Engineering and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, having authored 86 papers that have together received 2.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (18 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (11 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (11 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (9 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (9 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (7 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Hardware and Architecture (583 citations), Environmental Engineering (794 citations), Computer Networks and Communications (716 citations), Atmospheric Science (488 citations) and Ecology (683 citations). Brian Barrett has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Edward Dwyer, Fiona Cawkwell, George P. Petropoulos, Gareth Ireland, Stuart Green, Pádraig M. Whelan, Ingmar Nitze, Iftikhar Ali, Kyle Wheeler and Richard C. Murphy. Their work appears in journals such as Sustainability Science, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Nutrition, International Journal of Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing.

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