Christopher McDermott

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Christopher McDermott is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher McDermott has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Environmental Engineering, 27 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 17 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christopher McDermott's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (22 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (22 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (20 papers). Christopher McDermott is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (22 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (22 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (20 papers). Christopher McDermott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and China. Christopher McDermott's co-authors include Katriona Edlmann, Olaf Kolditz, R. Stuart Haszeldine, Helmut Tenzer, Mark Wilkinson, Stuart Gilfillan, Wenqing Wang, Niklas Heinemann, Zoe K. Shipton and Norihiro Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Christopher McDermott

51 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Estimating microbial growth and hydrogen consumption in hydrogen storage in porous media

2021 216 citations Eike Marie Thaysen, Sean McMahon et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher McDermott United Kingdom	20	717	574	433	380	262	53	1.4k
Thomas A. Buscheck United States	25	1.2k 1.7×	755 1.3×	145 0.3×	429 1.1×	232 0.9×	74	1.6k
John Gale United Kingdom	20	1.1k 1.5×	673 1.2×	555 1.3×	734 1.9×	394 1.5×	35	1.8k
Anozie Ebigbo Germany	20	935 1.3×	382 0.7×	292 0.7×	354 0.9×	172 0.7×	39	1.4k
Thomas Kempka Germany	24	965 1.3×	906 1.6×	1.1k 2.4×	682 1.8×	268 1.0×	127	2.2k
Patrick Were Germany	18	372 0.5×	343 0.6×	433 1.0×	327 0.9×	124 0.5×	30	874
Feng Ma China	20	246 0.3×	644 1.1×	1.0k 2.4×	726 1.9×	170 0.6×	60	1.8k
Minou Rabiei United States	21	276 0.4×	691 1.2×	416 1.0×	532 1.4×	203 0.8×	64	1.3k
Fabrice Golfier France	24	753 1.1×	561 1.0×	396 0.9×	519 1.4×	164 0.6×	66	1.8k
Leonhard Ganzer Germany	22	936 1.3×	914 1.6×	557 1.3×	894 2.4×	667 2.5×	113	2.0k
Gillian Elizabeth Pickup United Kingdom	24	1.3k 1.9×	837 1.5×	659 1.5×	984 2.6×	384 1.5×	123	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher McDermott

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Swan, Beth Ann, et al.. (2025). Feasibility and acceptability of incorporating artificial intelligence into simulation education. Clinical Simulation in Nursing. 104. 101739–101739.

Mouli‐Castillo, Julien, et al.. (2024). Cyclical hydraulic pressure pulses reduce breakdown pressure and initiate staged fracture growth in PMMA. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources. 10(1). 3 indexed citations

Kendrick, Jackie E., Anthony Lamur, Julien Mouli‐Castillo, et al.. (2024). Validating the application of cyclic hydraulic pressure pulses to reduce breakdown pressure in granite. iScience. 27(10). 110881–110881.

McDermott, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Advancements in coupled processes numerical models: Upscaling aperture fields using spatial continuity. iScience. 27(11). 111094–111094. 1 indexed citations

Smedley, Pauline, Brian Baptie, Robert S. Ward, et al.. (2024). Equipping for risk: Lessons learnt from the UK shale-gas experience on assessing environmental risks for the future geoenergy use of the deep subsurface. The Science of The Total Environment. 921. 171036–171036. 3 indexed citations

Kendrick, Jackie E., Anthony Lamur, Julien Mouli‐Castillo, et al.. (2023). Rate-dependence of the compressive and tensile strength of granites. Advances in geosciences. 62. 11–19. 2 indexed citations

Thaysen, Eike Marie, Sean McMahon, Gion Strobel, et al.. (2021). Estimating microbial growth and hydrogen consumption in hydrogen storage in porous media. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 151. 111481–111481. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

Xi, Xun, et al.. (2021). Modelling Rock Fracture Induced By Hydraulic Pulses. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 54(8). 3977–3994. 38 indexed citations

McDermott, Christopher, Martin Sauter, Gary Douglas Couples, et al.. (2018). New Experimental Equipment Recreating Geo-Reservoir Conditions in Large, Fractured, Porous Samples to Investigate Coupled Thermal, Hydraulic and Polyaxial Stress Processes. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14549–14549. 13 indexed citations

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Miocic, Johannes, Stuart Gilfillan, Jennifer J. Roberts, et al.. (2016). Controls on CO 2 storage security in natural reservoirs and implications for CO 2 storage site selection. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 51. 118–125. 86 indexed citations

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Gläser, Dennis, Alexandru Tatomir, Jacob Bensabat, et al.. (2016). An Approach Towards a FEP-based Model for Risk Assessment for Hydraulic Fracturing Operations. Energy Procedia. 97. 387–394. 7 indexed citations

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McDermott, Christopher, John Williams, Owain Tucker, et al.. (2015). Screening the geomechanical stability (thermal and mechanical) of shared multi-user CO 2 storage assets: A simple effective tool applied to the Captain Sandstone Aquifer. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 45. 43–61. 18 indexed citations

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Edlmann, Katriona, et al.. (2014). Appraisal of global CO2 storage opportunities using the geomechanical facies approach. Environmental Earth Sciences. 73(12). 8075–8096. 15 indexed citations

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Gilfillan, Stuart, et al.. (2014). Investigating the role of noble gases as tracers for CO2 storage. Energy Procedia. 63. 4172–4179. 1 indexed citations

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McDermott, Christopher, Katriona Edlmann, & R. Stuart Haszeldine. (2013). Predicting hydraulic tensile fracture spacing in strata-bound systems. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 63. 39–49. 9 indexed citations

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Bond, Alexander, Steven Benbow, J. C. Wilson, Christopher McDermott, & Michael English. (2012). Coupled hydro-mechanical–chemical process modelling in argillaceous formations for DECOVALEX-2011. Mineralogical Magazine. 76(8). 3131–3143. 4 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Norihiro, et al.. (2011). Numerical analysis and visualization of uncertainty effects in thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled processes in a hot-dry-rock geothermal reservoir. IAHS-AISH publication. 341. 57–62. 3 indexed citations

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McDermott, Christopher, et al.. (2006). Investigation of coupled hydraulic–geomechanical processes at the KTB site: pressure‐dependent characteristics of a long‐term pump test and elastic interpretation using a geomechanical facies model. Geofluids. 6(1). 67–81. 25 indexed citations

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McDermott, Christopher, Martin Sauter, Rudolf Liedl, & Georg Teutsch. (2005). Flow and transport experiments conducted on laboratory cylinders. 127–142. 1 indexed citations

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Hunter, George, Christopher McDermott, N.J. Miles, Arun Kumar Singh, & Malcolm J. Scoble. (1990). A review of image analysis techniques for measuring blast fragmentation. Mining Science and Technology. 11(1). 19–36. 41 indexed citations

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