Fiona Johnson

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Fiona Johnson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona Johnson has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 49 papers in Water Science and Technology and 43 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Fiona Johnson's work include Climate variability and models (51 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (46 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (44 papers). Fiona Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (51 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (46 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (44 papers). Fiona Johnson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Fiona Johnson's co-authors include Ashish Sharma, Jason P. Evans, Seth Westra, Hayley J. Fowler, Elizabeth Kendon, Nigel Roberts, Lisa V. Alexander, Peter Berg, Geert Lenderink and Lucy Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Fiona Johnson

100 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short-duration extreme rainfall

2014 1.1k citations Seth Westra, Hayley J. Fowler et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Fiona Johnson	3.0k	1.9k	1.4k	722	225	106	3.9k
Simon Michael Papalexiou	3.7k 1.2×	2.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	710 1.0×	195 0.9×	111	4.8k
Conrad Wasko	3.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	497 0.7×	130 0.6×	77	4.0k
Ervin Zsótér	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	849 1.2×	150 0.7×	48	4.1k
Yves Tramblay	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	647 0.9×	394 1.8×	116	4.0k
Fredrik Wetterhall	4.6k 1.5×	2.4k 1.3×	2.4k 1.7×	715 1.0×	333 1.5×	76	5.3k
Gab Abramowitz	3.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	779 1.1×	289 1.3×	93	4.2k
René Orth	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	821 0.6×	855 1.2×	199 0.9×	79	3.4k
Xihui Gu	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	625 0.9×	190 0.8×	125	3.2k
Tarmizi Ismail	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	833 0.6×	661 0.9×	448 2.0×	67	3.4k
Shaun Harrigan	3.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	996 1.4×	148 0.7×	55	4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fiona Johnson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fiona Johnson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Fiona, Hans Lievens, Thomas E. Shaw, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel‐1 SAR Derived Snow Depth Retrievals Over the Extratropical Andes Cordillera. Water Resources Research. 61(2).

Cairns, J, William Glamore, & Fiona Johnson. (2025). Environmental water requirements and climate sensitivity of Australia's upland swamps. The Science of The Total Environment. 966. 178792–178792. 1 indexed citations

Kinouchi, Tsuyoshi, et al.. (2025). Cost-effectiveness of green infrastructure under climate change: model parameterization, uncertainty, and sensitivity. Journal of Hydrology. 661. 133796–133796. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Seokhyeon, et al.. (2024). Remote sensing of water colour in small southeastern Australian waterbodies. Journal of Environmental Management. 352. 120096–120096. 6 indexed citations

Wasko, Conrad, Seth Westra, Rory Nathan, et al.. (2023). A systematic review of climate change science relevant to Australian design flood estimation. 5 indexed citations

Vogel, Elisabeth, Fiona Johnson, Lucy Marshall, et al.. (2023). An evaluation framework for downscaling and bias correction in climate change impact studies. Journal of Hydrology. 622. 129693–129693. 36 indexed citations

Palmer, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). Do Southern Hemisphere tree rings record past volcanic events? A case study from New Zealand. Climate of the past. 18(5). 1169–1188. 5 indexed citations

Johnson, Fiona, et al.. (2021). The Effectiveness of Global Constructed Shallow Waterbody Design Guidelines to Limit Harmful Algal Blooms. Water Resources Research. 57(8). 7 indexed citations

Stephens, Clare, et al.. (2020). Is Past Variability a Suitable Proxy for Future Change? A Virtual Catchment Experiment. Water Resources Research. 56(2). 29 indexed citations

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Stephens, Clare, Lucy Marshall, & Fiona Johnson. (2019). Investigating strategies to improve hydrologic model performance in a changing climate. Journal of Hydrology. 579. 124219–124219. 31 indexed citations

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Stephens, Clare, Fiona Johnson, & Lucy Marshall. (2018). Implications of future climate change for event-based hydrologic models. Advances in Water Resources. 119. 95–110. 44 indexed citations

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Kim, Seokhyeon, Robert Parinussa, Yi Liu, Fiona Johnson, & Ashish Sharma. (2016). Merging Alternate Remotely-Sensed Soil Moisture Retrievals Using a Non-Static Model Combination Approach. Remote Sensing. 8(6). 518–518. 17 indexed citations

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Bates, Bryson C., et al.. (2015). Australian rainfall and runoff - the interim climate change guideline. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 1. 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Seokhyeon, Robert Parinussa, Yi Liu, Fiona Johnson, & Ashish Sharma. (2015). A framework for combining multiple soil moisture retrievals based on maximizing temporal correlation. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(16). 6662–6670. 53 indexed citations

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Green, Janice, et al.. (2012). The revised Intensity-Frequency-Duration (IFD) design rainfall estimates for Australia - an overview. 808. 16 indexed citations

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Johnson, Fiona, et al.. (2012). Regionalisation of rainfall statistics for the IFD Revision Project. 185. 7 indexed citations

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Green, Janice, et al.. (2012). Quality controlling daily read rainfall data for the Intensity-Frequency-Duration (IFD) revision project. 177. 4 indexed citations

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Johnson, Fiona & Arpita Sharma. (2012). On long-term persistence in GCM rainfall simulations: Implications for water resources planning and design. EGUGA. 4731. 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Fiona, Michael F. Hutchinson, & Janice Green. (2012). Gridding of Design Rainfall Parameters for the IFD Revision Project for Australia. 1425. 1 indexed citations

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Green, Hilary & Fiona Johnson. (2011). Revision of the Short Duration Intensity-Frequency-Duration (IFD) Design Rainfall Estimates for Australia. 147. 2 indexed citations

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