Emily Black

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Emily Black is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily Black has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 45 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Emily Black's work include Climate variability and models (51 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (22 papers). Emily Black is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (51 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (27 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (22 papers). Emily Black collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Emily Black's co-authors include Richard P. Allan, D. I. F. Grimes, Julia Slingo, Ross Maidment, C. Dunning, Kenneth R. Sperber, Brian J. Hoskins, G. T. Diro, R. G. Harrison and John Methven and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Emily Black

75 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

2023 165 citations Paul I. Palmer, Caroline M. Wainwright et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emily Black United Kingdom	37	3.9k	2.8k	771	658	509	77	5.1k
Flavio Lehner United States	45	5.3k 1.4×	3.8k 1.4×	612 0.8×	655 1.0×	887 1.7×	95	6.8k
Jon Eischeid United States	39	5.5k 1.4×	3.9k 1.4×	649 0.8×	788 1.2×	775 1.5×	84	7.0k
Hideo Shiogama Japan	42	5.3k 1.4×	4.1k 1.5×	455 0.6×	877 1.3×	522 1.0×	167	6.4k
Ben Booth United Kingdom	36	4.9k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	362 0.5×	883 1.3×	491 1.0×	87	5.9k
Kireet Kumar India	26	3.6k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	701 0.9×	759 1.2×	526 1.0×	59	4.8k
V. V. Kharin Canada	20	4.8k 1.2×	3.8k 1.4×	579 0.8×	433 0.7×	572 1.1×	28	5.5k
Zhihong Jiang China	44	4.8k 1.2×	4.0k 1.4×	560 0.7×	615 0.9×	734 1.4×	138	5.9k
Ying Xu China	36	4.1k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	551 0.7×	329 0.5×	764 1.5×	125	5.4k
Colin Jones United Kingdom	35	5.6k 1.4×	4.7k 1.7×	544 0.7×	865 1.3×	688 1.4×	111	6.9k
Grigory Nikulin Sweden	43	6.2k 1.6×	4.8k 1.7×	959 1.2×	553 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	94	7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Emily Black

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Fields of papers citing papers by Emily Black

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emily Black

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Abdul‐Rahman, Omar, Giulia Pascolini, Giovanni Di Zenzo, et al.. (2025). Artificial Intelligence Software Changes Rare Disease Testing Strategy in Real Time: An International Case Series Using Face2Gene. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 197(11). e64171–e64171.

Osbahr, Henny, et al.. (2025). Farmers’ knowledge improves identification of drought impacts: A nationwide statistical analysis in Zambia. Climate Services. 38. 100543–100543. 1 indexed citations

Black, Emily, et al.. (2024). A new drought model for disaster risk management in the Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 2 indexed citations

Black, Emily. (2023). Global Change in Agricultural Flash Drought over the 21st Century. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 41(2). 209–220. 18 indexed citations

Palmer, Paul I., Caroline M. Wainwright, Bo Dong, et al.. (2023). Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(4). 254–270. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

Black, Emily, et al.. (2023). Application of TAMSAT-ALERT soil moisture forecasts for planting date decision support in Africa. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 6 indexed citations

Ascott, Matthew, et al.. (2022). Time of emergence of impacts of climate change on groundwater levels in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Hydrology. 612. 128107–128107. 7 indexed citations

Nicoll, Malcolm A. C., Emily Black, Caroline M. Wainwright, et al.. (2021). Phenological tracking of a seasonal climate window in a recovering tropical island bird species. Climatic Change. 164(3-4). 3 indexed citations

Wainwright, Caroline M., Emily Black, & Richard P. Allan. (2021). Future Changes in Wet and Dry Season Characteristics in CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 42 indexed citations

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Ascott, Matthew, David Macdonald, Emily Black, et al.. (2020). In Situ Observations and Lumped Parameter Model Reconstructions Reveal Intra‐Annual to Multidecadal Variability in Groundwater Levels in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Water Resources Research. 56(12). 25 indexed citations

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Braghiere, Renato K., Tristan Quaife, Emily Black, et al.. (2020). Influence of sun zenith angle on canopy clumping and the resulting impacts on photosynthesis. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 291. 108065–108065. 30 indexed citations

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Cornforth, Rosalind, David Macdonald, Henny Osbahr, et al.. (2019). Possible futures for groundwater in Burkina Faso under a changing climate. CentAUR (University of Reading). 2 indexed citations

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Braghiere, Renato K., Tristan Quaife, Emily Black, Liming He, & Jing M. Chen. (2019). Underestimation of Global Photosynthesis in Earth System Models Due to Representation of Vegetation Structure. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 33(11). 1358–1369. 44 indexed citations

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Pinnington, Ewan, Tristan Quaife, & Emily Black. (2018). Impact of remotely sensed soil moisture and precipitation on soil moisture prediction in a data assimilation system with the JULES land surface model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(4). 2575–2588. 38 indexed citations

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Asfaw, Dagmawi, Emily Black, Matthew Brown, et al.. (2018). TAMSAT-ALERT v1: a new framework for agricultural decision support. Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2353–2371. 21 indexed citations

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Dunning, C., Emily Black, & Richard P. Allan. (2017). Diagnosing observed characteristics of the wet season across Africa to identify deficiencies in climate model simulations. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Pinnington, Ewan, Tristan Quaife, & Emily Black. (2017). Using satellite observations of precipitation and soil moisture toconstrain the water budget of a land surface model. 2 indexed citations

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Tarnavsky, Elena, et al.. (2013). Dynamic Hydrological Modeling in Drylands with TRMM Based Rainfall. Remote Sensing. 5(12). 6691–6716. 15 indexed citations

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Black, Emily. (2009). The impact of climate change on daily precipitation statistics in Jordan and Israel. Atmospheric Science Letters. 10(3). 192–200. 64 indexed citations

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Diro, G. T., Emily Black, & D. I. F. Grimes. (2008). Seasonal forecasting of Ethiopian spring rains. Meteorological Applications. 15(1). 73–83. 67 indexed citations

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