Chris Dickens

2.4k total citations
33 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Chris Dickens is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Dickens has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Water Science and Technology, 9 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Chris Dickens's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (8 papers). Chris Dickens is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (8 papers). Chris Dickens collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Netherlands. Chris Dickens's co-authors include P. Mark Graham, Gordon O’Brien, Luxon Nhamo, Maja Schlüter‬, Claudia Pahl‐Wostl, Patrick Huntjens, Aidan Senzanje, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Matthew McCartney and Dhesigen Naidoo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Hydrology, Ecological Economics and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Chris Dickens

32 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chris Dickens South Africa 16 433 420 308 274 153 33 1.2k
David Tickner United Kingdom 19 643 1.5× 587 1.4× 611 2.0× 345 1.3× 260 1.7× 36 1.6k
Arnout van Soesbergen United Kingdom 17 232 0.5× 234 0.6× 125 0.4× 471 1.7× 98 0.6× 33 934
Christopher L. Lant United States 22 314 0.7× 355 0.8× 100 0.3× 590 2.2× 193 1.3× 76 1.5k
Silvia Secchi United States 24 369 0.9× 755 1.8× 147 0.5× 685 2.5× 199 1.3× 69 2.0k
Joseph Alcamo Germany 16 242 0.6× 312 0.7× 100 0.3× 747 2.7× 190 1.2× 40 1.6k
Bárbara Willaarts Spain 18 353 0.8× 361 0.9× 108 0.4× 1.1k 4.0× 173 1.1× 45 1.8k
Natasha Pauli Australia 14 193 0.4× 489 1.2× 69 0.2× 279 1.0× 91 0.6× 46 1.3k
Lívia Cristina Pinto Dias Brazil 10 165 0.4× 261 0.6× 85 0.3× 436 1.6× 55 0.4× 17 872
Trevor Birkenholtz United States 16 212 0.5× 134 0.3× 77 0.3× 537 2.0× 205 1.3× 30 1.6k
Rüdiger Schaldach Germany 19 252 0.6× 145 0.3× 70 0.2× 525 1.9× 90 0.6× 42 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Dickens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Dickens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Dickens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Dickens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Dickens 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 Chris Dickens. Chris Dickens 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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Ghosh, Surajit, et al.. (2025). Recent Drought Prevalence in the Limpopo River Basin: Insights from the Digital Twin Platform. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. 2 indexed citations
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Whitney, Cory, et al.. (2024). Balancing ecosystem sustainability and irrigated smallholder agriculture: A modeling approach for water resource management. Journal of Hydrology. 651. 132560–132560. 3 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Chris Dickens, Nishadi Eriyagama, & Rebecca E. Tharme. (2024). Limited comparability of global and local estimates of environmental flow requirements to sustain river ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 24012–24012. 3 indexed citations
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Arthington, Angela H., David Tickner, Michael E. McClain, et al.. (2023). Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss. Environmental Reviews. 32(3). 387–413. 28 indexed citations
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Kuehne, Lauren M., Chris Dickens, David Tickner, et al.. (2023). The future of global river health monitoring. PLOS Water. 2(9). e0000101–e0000101. 11 indexed citations
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Graham, Mark, et al.. (2021). Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs. Water Policy. 24(5). 708–717. 16 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gordon, et al.. (2021). Towards Good E-Flows Practices in the Small-Scale Hydropower Sector in Uganda. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 9. 5 indexed citations
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Kirschke, Sabrina, Tamara Avellán, Ilona Bärlund, et al.. (2020). Capacity challenges in water quality monitoring: understanding the role of human development. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 192(5). 298–298. 74 indexed citations
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Nhamo, Luxon, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Sylvester Mpandeli, et al.. (2020). An integrative analytical model for the water-energy-food nexus: South Africa case study. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations
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Nhamo, Luxon, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Sylvester Mpandeli, et al.. (2020). An integrative analytical model for the water-energy-food nexus: South Africa case study. Environmental Science & Policy. 109. 15–24. 137 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Gordon, et al.. (2018). A regional-scale ecological risk framework for environmental flow evaluations. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(2). 957–975. 66 indexed citations
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Yalew, Seleshi, Tobias Pilz, Christian Schweitzer, et al.. (2018). Coupling land-use change and hydrologic models for quantification of catchment ecosystem services. Environmental Modelling & Software. 109. 315–328. 23 indexed citations
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Dickens, Chris, et al.. (2016). Interactive effects of grazing and drought on desert rangelands of Tunisia. Biologija. 62(2). 5 indexed citations
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Lankford, Bruce, Catherine M. Pringle, Chris Dickens, et al.. (2010). The impacts of ecosystem services and environmental governance on human wellbeing in the Pongola region, South Africa. 13 indexed citations
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Krysanova, Valentina, Chris Dickens, Jos Timmerman, et al.. (2010). Cross-Comparison of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Across Large River Basins in Europe, Africa and Asia. Water Resources Management. 24(14). 4121–4160. 73 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Caroline A, Chris Dickens, Myles Mander, et al.. (2010). Promoting adaptive water management in the Orange Senqu river basin: a NeWater case study. ePublications@SCU (Southern Cross University). 169. 2 indexed citations
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Blignaut, James, Myles Mander, Roland Schulze, et al.. (2010). Restoring and managing natural capital towards fostering economic development: Evidence from the Drakensberg, South Africa. Ecological Economics. 69(6). 1313–1323. 48 indexed citations
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Dickens, Chris. (2000). Water — The common element: Lessons from antiquity and the health of the environment. African Journal of Aquatic Science. 25(1). 3–8.
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Dickens, Chris & P. Mark Graham. (1998). Biomonitoring for effective management of wastewater discharges and the health of the river environment. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management. 1(2). 199–217. 10 indexed citations

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