David Topping

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

David Topping is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, David Topping has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Atmospheric Science, 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 52 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in David Topping's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (83 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (46 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (42 papers). David Topping is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (83 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (46 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (42 papers). David Topping collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. David Topping's co-authors include G. McFiggans, Hugh Coe, A. Murray Booth, Mark H. Barley, Jonathan P. Reid, Carl J. Percival, Grazia Rovelli, P. I. Williams, Andreas Zuend and Allan K. Bertram and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

David Topping

112 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

The viscosity of atmospherically relevant organic particles

2018 315 citations Jonathan P. Reid, David Topping et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Topping United Kingdom	35	3.4k	2.2k	1.9k	488	197	119	4.1k
Andreas Zuend Canada	30	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	284 0.6×	158 0.8×	71	3.3k
Heikki Lihavainen Finland	37	4.8k 1.4×	3.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.2×	512 1.0×	126 0.6×	137	5.2k
Antti Hyvärinen Finland	30	2.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	394 0.8×	115 0.6×	103	3.0k
V. Faye McNeill United States	36	3.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.2×	829 1.7×	144 0.7×	100	4.7k
Alla Zelenyuk United States	40	3.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	2.5k 1.3×	498 1.0×	129 0.7×	122	4.8k
Alex K. Y. Lee Canada	37	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	485 1.0×	94 0.5×	80	3.5k
Rajan K. Chakrabarty United States	32	3.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	497 1.0×	184 0.9×	113	4.6k
Jun Zhao China	30	3.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	603 1.2×	183 0.9×	103	3.8k
Jeff Peischl United States	42	3.7k 1.1×	2.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	857 1.8×	140 0.7×	110	4.9k
Donald Dabdub United States	34	3.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	800 1.6×	87 0.4×	112	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Topping

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Crawford, Ian, Michael S. Flynn, Thomas J. Bannan, et al.. (2025). Real-time field measurements of bioaerosols in the agricultural environment: Concentrations, components and environmental impacts. Journal of Environmental Management. 393. 127033–127033.

Hu, Dandan, Zhaolian Ye, Zixuan Wang, et al.. (2025). Kinetics and quantum yield of photosensitized reactions from substituted phenols via chemical probe approach. Atmospheric Environment. 360. 121419–121419. 1 indexed citations

Shaddick, Gavin, David Topping, Tristram C. Hales, et al.. (2025). Data Science and AI for Sustainable Futures: Opportunities and Challenges. Sustainability. 17(5). 2019–2019. 2 indexed citations

Zheng, Zhonghua, Hugh Coe, Robert M. Healy, et al.. (2025). Integrating Simulations and Observations: A Foundation Model for Estimating the Aerosol Mixing State Index. ACS ES&T Air. 2(5). 877–890. 4 indexed citations

Bannan, Thomas J., Michael Flynn, James Evans, et al.. (2024). Study of the Suitability of a Personal Exposure Monitor to Assess Air Quality. Atmosphere. 15(3). 315–315. 1 indexed citations

Crawford, Ian, Keith Bower, David Topping, et al.. (2023). Towards a UK Airborne Bioaerosol Climatology: Real-Time Monitoring Strategies for High Time Resolution Bioaerosol Classification and Quantification. Atmosphere. 14(8). 1214–1214. 5 indexed citations

Bannan, Thomas J., Stephen D. Worrall, M. Rami Alfarra, et al.. (2021). Measured Solid State and Sub-Cooled Liquid Vapour Pressures of Benzaldehydes Using Knudsen Effusion Mass Spectrometry. Atmosphere. 12(3). 397–397. 2 indexed citations

Morrison, D.R.O., Ian Crawford, Nicholas Marsden, et al.. (2020). Quantifying Bioaerosol Concentrations in Dust Clouds through Online UV-LIF and Mass Spectrometry Measurements at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 3 indexed citations

Bannan, Thomas J., Stephen D. Worrall, M. Rami Alfarra, et al.. (2020). Measured solid state and subcooled liquid vapour pressures of nitroaromatics using Knudsen effusion mass spectrometry. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(14). 8293–8314. 9 indexed citations

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Morrison, D.R.O., Jinjian Li, Ian Crawford, et al.. (2020). The Observation and Characterisation of Fluorescent Bioaerosols Using Real-Time UV-LIF Spectrometry in Hong Kong from June to November 2018. Atmosphere. 11(9). 944–944. 5 indexed citations

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Lai, Xiaojun, Rafel Prohens, V.R. Vangala, et al.. (2020). Mechanistic Understanding of Competitive Destabilization of Carbamazepine Cocrystals under Solvent Free Conditions. Crystal Growth & Design. 20(9). 6024–6029. 10 indexed citations

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Topping, David, David C. Watts, Hugh Coe, et al.. (2020). Evaluating the use of Facebook's Prophet model v0.6 in forecastingconcentrations of NO<sub>2</sub> at single sites across the UK and in responseto the COVID-19 lockdown in Manchester, England. 4 indexed citations

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Lai, Xiaojun, Rafel Prohens, V.R. Vangala, et al.. (2020). Solid-State Competitive Destabilization of Caffeine Malonic Acid Cocrystal: Mechanistic and Kinetic Investigations. Crystal Growth & Design. 20(12). 7598–7605. 6 indexed citations

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Huffman, J. A., A. E. Perring, Nicole Savage, et al.. (2019). Real-time sensing of bioaerosols: Review and current perspectives. Aerosol Science and Technology. 54(5). 465–495. 179 indexed citations

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Bannan, Thomas J., Michael Le Breton, Michael Priestley, et al.. (2019). A method for extracting calibrated volatility information from the FIGAERO-HR-ToF-CIMS and its experimental application. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(3). 1429–1439. 43 indexed citations

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Bannan, Thomas J., Michael Priestley, Stephen D. Worrall, et al.. (2019). The effect of structure and isomerism on the vapor pressures of organic molecules and its potential atmospheric relevance. Aerosol Science and Technology. 53(9). 1040–1055. 20 indexed citations

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Krieger, Ulrich K., Claudia Marcolli, Eva U. Emanuelsson, et al.. (2018). A reference data set for validating vapor pressure measurement techniques: homologous series of polyethylene glycols. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(1). 49–63. 43 indexed citations

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Bannan, Thomas J., Michael Le Breton, Michael Priestley, et al.. (2018). A method for extracting calibrated volatility information from the FIGAERO-HR-ToF-CIMS and its application to chamber and field studies. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Partridge, Daniel G., et al.. (2016). Inverse modelling of Köhler theory – Part 1: A response surface analysis of CCN spectra with respect to surface-active organic species. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(17). 10941–10963. 12 indexed citations

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Topping, David, Mark H. Barley, G. McFiggans, & Bernard Aumont. (2016). UManSysProp: An online and open-source facility for molecular property prediction and atmospheric aerosol calculations. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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