Claire Walsh

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Claire Walsh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Claire Walsh has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 28 papers in Water Science and Technology and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Claire Walsh's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (16 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (15 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers). Claire Walsh is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (16 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (15 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers). Claire Walsh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ethiopia and Malaysia. Claire Walsh's co-authors include Richard Dawson, Oliver Heidrich, Chris Kilsby, Ernita van Wyk, Niki Frantzeskaki, László Pintér, Dave Kendal, Adina Dumitru, Kate Noble and Marcus Collier and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Claire Walsh

76 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptatio... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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.

  1. Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
    2019 328 citations Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson et al. BioScience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Claire Walsh United Kingdom 19 564 266 239 215 162 86 1.4k
Vilas Nitivattananon Thailand 24 542 1.0× 295 1.1× 226 0.9× 142 0.7× 237 1.5× 75 1.8k
Elena Comino Italy 28 396 0.7× 219 0.8× 226 0.9× 106 0.5× 106 0.7× 86 2.0k
Neha Mittal India 16 711 1.3× 456 1.7× 185 0.8× 469 2.2× 141 0.9× 41 1.8k
Min Gon Chung United States 17 524 0.9× 287 1.1× 354 1.5× 81 0.4× 221 1.4× 26 1.5k
Rebecca A. Efroymson United States 25 471 0.8× 318 1.2× 175 0.7× 450 2.1× 187 1.2× 78 2.3k
Jennifer Koch United States 14 798 1.4× 252 0.9× 111 0.5× 102 0.5× 98 0.6× 39 1.4k
Abdulaziz I. Almulhim Saudi Arabia 21 417 0.7× 357 1.3× 89 0.4× 176 0.8× 122 0.8× 46 1.3k
John Duncan Australia 21 551 1.0× 284 1.1× 566 2.4× 124 0.6× 126 0.8× 57 1.8k
Malcolm D. Hudson United Kingdom 25 569 1.0× 219 0.8× 76 0.3× 382 1.8× 205 1.3× 58 2.3k
Tina‐Simone Neset Sweden 24 535 0.9× 171 0.6× 168 0.7× 139 0.6× 475 2.9× 74 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Claire Walsh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Claire Walsh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claire Walsh

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

All Works

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Teferi, Ermias, Greg O’Donnell, Woldeamlak Bewket, Gete Zeleke, & Claire Walsh. (2025). Enhancing hydrometric monitoring in Ethiopia's Abbay basin: A collaborative framework for Data-Scarce Africa. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 60. 102579–102579.
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Teferi, Ermias, Tibebu Kassawmar, Woldeamlak Bewket, et al.. (2025). Rainfed agriculture in Ethiopia: a systematic review of green water management pathways to improve water and food security. Frontiers in Agronomy. 7. 6 indexed citations
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Stirling, Ross, et al.. (2024). Activated carbon amendment of sand in the base of a permeable pavement reduces total nitrogen and nitrate leaching. The Science of The Total Environment. 931. 172831–172831. 5 indexed citations
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Alamirew, Tena, et al.. (2024). Health issues and management practices of pesticide exposure in Ethiopia, East Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 2 indexed citations
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Gari, Sirak Robele, et al.. (2024). Contribution of wastewater irrigated vegetables to the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection among female farmers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tropical Medicine and Health. 52(1). 41–41. 2 indexed citations
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Melaku, Samuel, et al.. (2023). An integrated approach for water quality assessment in African catchments based on physico-chemical and biological indicators. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168326–168326. 7 indexed citations
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Shiferaw, Hailu, Degefie Tibebe, M. V. Peppa, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Water Quality Indicators in Koka Reservoir, Ethiopia. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 1155–1155. 7 indexed citations
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Gari, Sirak Robele, et al.. (2023). Distribution of helminth eggs in environmental and stool samples of farming households along Akaki River in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tropical Medicine and Health. 51(1). 67–67. 2 indexed citations
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Goodson, M.L., et al.. (2023). Water access and sanitation facilities in the Johor River Basin, Malaysia: A comparison between indigenous and more modernised communities. Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 13(10). 825–832. 1 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Adrian, Kishor Acharya, Claire Walsh, et al.. (2023). Environmental DNA clarifies impacts of combined sewer overflows on the bacteriology of an urban river and resulting risks to public health. The Science of The Total Environment. 889. 164282–164282. 18 indexed citations
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Gari, Sirak Robele, et al.. (2023). Prevalence and risk factors of childhood diarrhea among wastewater irrigating urban farming households in Addis Ababa. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0288425–e0288425. 2 indexed citations
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Dawson, Richard, Claire Walsh, Jaime M. Amézaga, et al.. (2022). Systems thinking for water security. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems. 39(3). 205–223. 12 indexed citations
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Tibebe, Degefie, et al.. (2022). Physicochemical characterization and heavy metals analysis from industrial discharges in Upper Awash River Basin, Ethiopia. Toxicology Reports. 9. 1297–1307. 15 indexed citations
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Frantzeskaki, Niki, Timon McPhearson, Marcus Collier, et al.. (2019). Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making. BioScience. 69(6). 455–466. 328 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walsh, Claire, Stephen Blenkinsop, Hayley J. Fowler, et al.. (2016). Adaptation of water resource systems to an uncertain future. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(5). 1869–1884. 20 indexed citations

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