Elizabeth Lewis

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth Lewis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth Lewis has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth Lewis's work include Climate variability and models (23 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (16 papers). Elizabeth Lewis is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (23 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (17 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (16 papers). Elizabeth Lewis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Elizabeth Lewis's co-authors include Hayley J. Fowler, Selma B. Guerreiro, Stephen Blenkinsop, Geert Lenderink, Chris Kilsby, Renaud Barbero, Seth Westra, Richard Dawson, Alistair Ford and Xiaofeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth Lewis

50 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

2021 540 citations Hayley J. Fowler, Geert Lenderink et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities

2018 284 citations Selma B. Guerreiro, Richard Dawson et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elizabeth Lewis United Kingdom	22	1.9k	1.2k	622	353	142	56	2.4k
Jinlong Huang China	29	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	700 1.1×	192 0.5×	115 0.8×	63	2.5k
Iwona Pińskwar Poland	21	1.4k 0.8×	467 0.4×	812 1.3×	194 0.5×	110 0.8×	39	1.9k
Aihui Wang China	24	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	637 1.0×	444 1.3×	39 0.3×	68	2.2k
Hui Tao China	27	1.7k 0.9×	620 0.5×	629 1.0×	202 0.6×	239 1.7×	58	2.3k
Wu Jia China	22	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	301 0.5×	143 0.4×	141 1.0×	67	1.8k
Zongxing Li China	22	701 0.4×	687 0.6×	394 0.6×	195 0.6×	66 0.5×	77	1.4k
Pardeep Pall United Kingdom	11	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	316 0.5×	79 0.2×	68 0.5×	15	1.8k
Zongci Zhao China	19	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	229 0.4×	235 0.7×	187 1.3×	42	2.5k
Chao Gao China	21	1.2k 0.7×	425 0.4×	582 0.9×	670 1.9×	392 2.8×	68	2.0k
Zhenyu Han China	18	1.2k 0.6×	958 0.8×	225 0.4×	162 0.5×	136 1.0×	63	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Elizabeth Lewis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elizabeth Lewis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elizabeth Lewis

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

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Kennedy-Asser, Alan, Oliver Andrews, Katie Jenkins, et al.. (2025). The role of local knowledge in enhancing climate change risk assessments in rural Northern Ireland. Climate Risk Management. 48. 100702–100702.

Glenis, Vassilis, et al.. (2025). Robust Blue‐Green Urban Flood Risk Management Optimised With a Genetic Algorithm for Multiple Rainstorm Return Periods. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 18(3).

Lewis, Elizabeth, et al.. (2025). A framework for incorporating rainfall data into a flooding digital twin. Journal of Hydrology. 656. 132893–132893. 1 indexed citations

Amézaga, Jaime M., et al.. (2024). Collaborative multiscale water resources planning in England. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 41(3). 580–605. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Ben A., et al.. (2024). Physically-based modelling of UK river flows under climate change. Frontiers in Water. 6. 1 indexed citations

Bathurst, James C., et al.. (2023). Leaky dams augment afforestation to mitigate catchment scale flooding. Hydrological Processes. 37(6). 10 indexed citations

Lewis, Elizabeth & Colleen A. Barber. (2023). Cooperative nest defense by European Starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris ) during a predatory threat. Journal of Field Ornithology. 94(3). 1 indexed citations

Pritchard, David, et al.. (2023). An Observation-Based Dataset of Global Sub-Daily Precipitation Indices (GSDR-I). Scientific Data. 10(1). 393–393. 6 indexed citations

Fowler, Hayley J., Geert Lenderink, Andreas F. Prein, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(2). 107–122. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lewis, Elizabeth, David Pritchard, Roberto Villalobos Herrera, et al.. (2021). Quality control of a global hourly rainfall dataset. Environmental Modelling & Software. 144. 105169–105169. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Yafei, Hayley J. Fowler, Daniel Argüeso, et al.. (2020). Strong Intensification of Hourly Rainfall Extremes by Urbanization. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(14). 105 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaofeng, Stephen Blenkinsop, Renaud Barbero, et al.. (2020). Global distribution of the intensity and frequency of hourly precipitation and their responses to ENSO. Climate Dynamics. 54(11-12). 4823–4839. 29 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Selma B. Guerreiro, Stephen Blenkinsop, & Hayley J. Fowler. (2019). Quality Control of a Global Sub-daily Precipitation Dataset and Derived Extreme Precipitation Indices. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16634. 4 indexed citations

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Guerreiro, Selma B., Hayley J. Fowler, Renaud Barbero, et al.. (2018). Detection of continental-scale intensification of hourly rainfall extremes. Nature Climate Change. 8(9). 803–807. 229 indexed citations

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Guerreiro, Selma B., Richard Dawson, Chris Kilsby, Elizabeth Lewis, & Alistair Ford. (2018). Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3). 34009–34009. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Donnell, Greg, Paul Quinn, Andrew Black, et al.. (2018). Quantifying and Mitigating Wind‐Induced Undercatch in Rainfall Measurements. Water Resources Research. 54(6). 3863–3875. 110 indexed citations

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Guerreiro, Selma B., Richard Dawson, Chris Kilsby, Elizabeth Lewis, & Alistair Ford. (2017). Future changes in heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17471. 1 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Stephen Blenkinsop, & Hayley J. Fowler. (2016). Creating a global sub-daily precipitation dataset. EGUGA. 19153. 1 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Stephen Blenkinsop, Niall Quinn, et al.. (2016). A gridded hourly rainfall dataset for the UK applied to a national physically-based modelling system. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, C. Baudains, & Caroline Mansfield. (2008). Turtle Watch: Community contribution to environmental impact assessment. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 1 indexed citations

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