Gary Brierley

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
216 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Gary Brierley is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Brierley has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Ecology, 90 papers in Soil Science and 82 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Gary Brierley's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (127 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (90 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (78 papers). Gary Brierley is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (127 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (90 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (78 papers). Gary Brierley collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and China. Gary Brierley's co-authors include Kirstie Fryirs, Andrew Brooks, Nicholas J. Preston, Mio Kasai, Sam Trowsdale, Vikrant Jain, Jay Gao, Joseph M. Wheaton, Edward J. Hickin and Brendon Blue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gary Brierley

210 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

Geomorphology and River Management: Applications of the River Styles Framework

2005 676 citations Gary Brierley, Kirstie Fryirs profile →
Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

2018 263 citations Gary Brierley, Kirstie Fryirs et al. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Brierley New Zealand	53	6.5k	4.4k	3.5k	2.5k	1.4k	216	9.4k
Hervé Piégay France	54	7.9k 1.2×	5.9k 1.3×	2.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	288	10.0k
John Wainwright United Kingdom	47	3.9k 0.6×	4.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	160	7.2k
Kirstie Fryirs Australia	45	5.7k 0.9×	3.8k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	967 0.7×	180	7.4k
Colin R. Thorne United Kingdom	49	6.0k 0.9×	4.3k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	176	9.6k
Adrian L. Collins United Kingdom	56	5.6k 0.9×	5.6k 1.3×	4.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	288	11.0k
Bruce L. Rhoads United States	52	5.5k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	137	7.3k
Yihe Lü China	50	3.9k 0.6×	4.2k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	6.7k 2.7×	704 0.5×	192	11.9k
Angela M. Gurnell United Kingdom	66	10.6k 1.6×	7.0k 1.6×	3.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	223	13.5k
Michael Church Canada	65	9.1k 1.4×	6.6k 1.5×	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	3.4k 2.5×	209	12.6k
David Sear United Kingdom	46	6.0k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	678 0.5×	132	8.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brierley, Gary, et al.. (2024). Fluvial-aeolian interactions in a partly confined reach of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet. Geomorphology. 471. 109541–109541.

Shi, Yan, Gary Brierley, George L. W. Perry, et al.. (2024). An Improved Approach to Estimate Stocking Rate and Carrying Capacity Based on Remotely Sensed Phenology Timings. Remote Sensing. 16(11). 1991–1991. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Yan, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Variability of Alpine Meadow Aboveground Biomass and Sustainable Grazing in Light of Climate Warming. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 90. 64–77. 3 indexed citations

Brierley, Gary, et al.. (2023). A plural knowledges model to support sustainable management of dryland rivers in western India. River Research and Applications. 40(9). 1766–1784. 5 indexed citations

Fuller, Ian C., Gary Brierley, Jon Tunnicliffe, et al.. (2023). Managing at source and at scale: The use of geomorphic river stories to support rehabilitation of Anthropocene riverscapes in the East Coast Region of Aotearoa New Zealand. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 6 indexed citations

Boothroyd, Richard, Trevor Hoey, Richard Williams, et al.. (2022). River Styles and stream power analysis reveal the diversity of fluvial morphology in a Philippine tropical catchment. Geoscience Letters. 9(1). 7 indexed citations

Salmond, Anne, et al.. (2022). Tai Timu, Tai Pari, the ebb and flow of the tides: working with the Waimatā from the Mountains to the Sea. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 56(3). 430–446. 6 indexed citations

Brierley, Gary, Daniel Hikuroa, Ian C. Fuller, et al.. (2022). Reanimating the strangled rivers of Aotearoa New Zealand. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 10(2). 15 indexed citations

Brierley, Gary, Xilai Li, Kirstie Fryirs, et al.. (2022). Degradation and recovery of alpine meadow catenas in the source zone of the Yellow River, Western China. Journal of Mountain Science. 19(9). 2487–2505. 8 indexed citations

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Shi, Yan, et al.. (2021). Improved Estimation of Aboveground Biomass of Disturbed Grassland through Including Bare Ground and Grazing Intensity. Remote Sensing. 13(11). 2105–2105. 18 indexed citations

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Jain, Vikrant, et al.. (2021). Geomorphic characterization of a seasonal river network in semi-arid western India using the River Styles Framework. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100077–100077. 8 indexed citations

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Poeppl, Ronald E., Kirstie Fryirs, Jon Tunnicliffe, & Gary Brierley. (2020). Managing sediment (dis)connectivity in fluvial systems. The Science of The Total Environment. 736. 139627–139627. 66 indexed citations

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Williams, Richard, et al.. (2018). Geomorphological effectiveness of floods to rework gravel bars: Insight from hyperscale topography and hydraulic modelling. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 44(2). 595–613. 19 indexed citations

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Williams, Richard, et al.. (2012). A Novel Field-Based Approach for Analysing Bar Reworking: Trialled in the Tongariro River, New Zealand. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 571. 1 indexed citations

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Brierley, Gary, et al.. (2011). Conceptualization of Sediment Flux in the Tongariro Catchment. 50(1). 161–180. 3 indexed citations

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MCFARLANE, K. B., Gary Brierley, & Stephen E. Coleman. (2011). The Application of Fluvial Geomorphology Within State of the Environment Reporting in New Zealand. 50(1). 257. 3 indexed citations

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Brierley, Gary & Kirstie Fryirs. (2009). Don’t Fight the Site: Three Geomorphic Considerations in Catchment-Scale River Rehabilitation Planning. Environmental Management. 43(6). 1201–1218. 115 indexed citations

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Gore, Damian B., Gary Brierley, John Pickard, & John D. Jansen. (2000). Anatomy of a floodout in semi-arid eastern Australia. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 13 indexed citations

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Cohen, Tim J. & Gary Brierley. (2000). Channel instability in a forested catchment: a case study from Jones Creek, East Gippsland, Australia. Geomorphology. 32(1-2). 109–128. 11 indexed citations

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Brierley, Gary, et al.. (1998). Vegetation distribution on a gravel point bar on the Wilson Riverc NSWc a fluvial disturbance model. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 120. 87–103. 2 indexed citations

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