C. Scott Watson

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

C. Scott Watson is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Scott Watson has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Atmospheric Science, 16 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 14 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in C. Scott Watson's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (32 papers), Landslides and related hazards (16 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (14 papers). C. Scott Watson is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (32 papers), Landslides and related hazards (16 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (14 papers). C. Scott Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. C. Scott Watson's co-authors include Jeffrey S. Kargel, Duncan J. Quincey, Umesh K. Haritashya, Dan H. Shugar, David R. Rounce, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Mark W. Smith, Daene C. McKinney, Stephan Harrison and Katherine Strattman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

C. Scott Watson

46 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

2020 372 citations Dan H. Shugar, Aaron Burr et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity

2020 176 citations Milan Lazecký, Karsten Spaans et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Scott Watson United Kingdom	23	1.5k	605	420	361	183	54	1.9k
B. Legrésy France	29	1.8k 1.2×	326 0.5×	504 1.2×	504 1.4×	196 1.1×	81	2.5k
Amaury Dehecq France	23	1.8k 1.2×	473 0.8×	505 1.2×	253 0.7×	124 0.7×	46	2.1k
Umesh K. Haritashya United States	27	2.1k 1.4×	688 1.1×	324 0.8×	469 1.3×	72 0.4×	61	2.5k
Bruce Raup United States	22	3.6k 2.5×	527 0.9×	546 1.3×	466 1.3×	108 0.6×	44	4.0k
L. A. Stearns United States	31	3.3k 2.2×	522 0.9×	1.1k 2.7×	246 0.7×	85 0.5×	86	3.6k
Noël Gourmelen United Kingdom	31	2.2k 1.5×	621 1.0×	906 2.2×	207 0.6×	379 2.1×	88	2.8k
M. J. Willis United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	310 0.5×	330 0.8×	151 0.4×	86 0.5×	51	1.5k
Christopher Nuth Norway	26	4.7k 3.2×	1.0k 1.7×	1.2k 2.9×	404 1.1×	185 1.0×	52	5.0k
Jan Klimeš Czechia	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 2.1×	115 0.3×	470 1.3×	74 0.4×	70	1.8k
Adam Emmer Czechia	26	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	286 0.7×	455 1.3×	42 0.2×	56	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by C. Scott Watson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Scott Watson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Quincey, Duncan J., Ann V. Rowan, Jonathan L. Carrivick, et al.. (2025). Monsoon and Glacial Meltwater Input Drive Seasonal Cooling of a Himalayan Ice‐Contact Lake. Water Resources Research. 61(11).

Watson, C. Scott, et al.. (2024). City-scale high-resolution flood models and the role of topographic data: a case study of Kathmandu, Nepal. Geocarto International. 39(1).

Watson, C. Scott, et al.. (2024). Progressing towards safe, inclusive and equitable field research. Nature Geoscience. 17(6). 482–484.

Sinclair, Hugh D., et al.. (2023). Rainfall extremes under future climate change with implications for urban flood risk in Kathmandu, Nepal. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 97. 103997–103997. 12 indexed citations

Watson, C. Scott, et al.. (2022). Enhancing disaster risk resilience using greenspace in urbanising Quito, Ecuador. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(5). 1699–1721. 7 indexed citations

Watson, C. Scott, et al.. (2022). Analyzing Satellite-Derived 3D Building Inventories and Quantifying Urban Growth towards Active Faults: A Case Study of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Remote Sensing. 14(22). 5790–5790. 5 indexed citations

Mergili, Martin, Ashim Sattar, Jonathan L. Carrivick, et al.. (2021). Exploring the flow evolution of the Chamoli event (Uttarakhand, India) of 7 February 2021: From geomorphological mapping to multi-model computer simulations. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Fang, Meimei Zhang, Huadong Guo, et al.. (2021). Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017. Earth system science data. 13(2). 741–766. 138 indexed citations

Lazecký, Milan, Karsten Spaans, Pablo J. González, et al.. (2020). LiCSAR: An Automatic InSAR Tool for Measuring and Monitoring Tectonic and Volcanic Activity. Remote Sensing. 12(15). 2430–2430. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watson, C. Scott, et al.. (2020). Unraveling the retreat of the Aneto Glacier (Pyrenees, Spain) since the Little Ice Age.

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Shugar, Dan H., Aaron Burr, Umesh K. Haritashya, et al.. (2020). Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990. Nature Climate Change. 10(10). 939–945. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watson, C. Scott, Owen King, Evan Miles, & Duncan J. Quincey. (2018). Optimising NDWI supraglacial pond classification on Himalayan debris-covered glaciers. Remote Sensing of Environment. 217. 414–425. 61 indexed citations

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Miles, Evan, C. Scott Watson, Fanny Brun, et al.. (2018). Glacial and geomorphic effects of a supraglacial lake drainage and outburst event, Everest region, Nepal Himalaya. The cryosphere. 12(12). 3891–3905. 48 indexed citations

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Haritashya, Umesh K., Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, et al.. (2018). Evolution and Controls of Large Glacial Lakes in the Nepal Himalaya. Remote Sensing. 10(5). 798–798. 102 indexed citations

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Miles, Evan, C. Scott Watson, Fanny Brun, et al.. (2018). Ablative and geomorphic effects of a supraglacial lake drainage and outburst event, Nepal Himalaya. 4 indexed citations

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Quincey, Duncan J., Mark W. Smith, David R. Rounce, et al.. (2017). Evaluating morphological estimates of the aerodynamic roughness of debris covered glacier ice. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(15). 2541–2553. 22 indexed citations

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Watson, C. Scott, Duncan J. Quincey, Jonathan L. Carrivick, et al.. (2017). Heterogeneous water storage and thermal regime of supraglacial ponds on debris‐covered glaciers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 43(1). 229–241. 32 indexed citations

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Rowan, Ann V., Lindsey Nicholson, Emily Collier, et al.. (2017). Multiannual observations and modelling of seasonal thermal profiles through supraglacial debris in the Central Himalaya. Aberystwyth Research portal (Aberystwyth University). 3 indexed citations

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Rounce, David R., C. Scott Watson, & Daene C. McKinney. (2017). Identification of Hazard and Risk for Glacial Lakes in the Nepal Himalaya Using Satellite Imagery from 2000–2015. Remote Sensing. 9(7). 654–654. 110 indexed citations

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Rounce, David R., Daene C. McKinney, Jonathan Lala, Alton C. Byers, & C. Scott Watson. (2016). A new remote hazard and risk assessment framework for glacial lakes in theNepal Himalaya. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(9). 3455–3475. 100 indexed citations

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