Giles Lesser

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Giles Lesser is a scholar working on Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Giles Lesser has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Earth-Surface Processes, 4 papers in Ecology and 1 paper in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Giles Lesser's work include Coastal and Marine Dynamics (6 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (3 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (3 papers). Giles Lesser is often cited by papers focused on Coastal and Marine Dynamics (6 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (3 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (3 papers). Giles Lesser collaborates with scholars based in United States and Netherlands. Giles Lesser's co-authors include J.A.T.M. van Kester, Dano Roelvink, Guus S. Stelling, Guy Gelfenbaum, Douglas A. George, Peter Ruggiero, Andrew W. Stevens and Dirk‐Jan R. Walstra and has published in prestigious journals such as Coastal Engineering, Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World and Research Repository (Delft University of Technology).

In The Last Decade

Giles Lesser

7 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Development and validation of a three-dimensional morphological model

2004 1.5k citations Giles Lesser, Dano Roelvink et al. Coastal Engineering profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giles Lesser United States	4	1.3k	1.1k	476	332	155	8	1.5k
J.A.T.M. van Kester Netherlands	5	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	562 1.2×	446 1.3×	185 1.2×	9	1.7k
Nicoletta Leonardi United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	557 1.2×	294 0.9×	233 1.5×	62	1.8k
Zeng Zhou China	21	1000 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	279 0.6×	110 0.3×	121 0.8×	77	1.3k
Malcolm O. Green New Zealand	22	856 0.7×	933 0.8×	226 0.5×	441 1.3×	201 1.3×	40	1.3k
Bram C. van Prooijen Netherlands	21	989 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	325 0.7×	242 0.7×	202 1.3×	65	1.5k
Luigi D’Alpaos Italy	15	724 0.6×	686 0.6×	361 0.8×	212 0.6×	266 1.7×	29	1.1k
Jessica R. Lacy United States	19	577 0.4×	616 0.5×	265 0.6×	354 1.1×	81 0.5×	44	915
Joseph W. Long United States	20	930 0.7×	655 0.6×	470 1.0×	317 1.0×	126 0.8×	62	1.2k
Maximiliano Sassi Netherlands	16	454 0.3×	524 0.5×	255 0.5×	287 0.9×	227 1.5×	27	890
P. Bassoullet France	7	683 0.5×	691 0.6×	194 0.4×	277 0.8×	84 0.5×	8	959

Countries citing papers authored by Giles Lesser

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giles Lesser

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

1.

Lesser, Giles. (2026). An approach to medium-term coastal morphological modelling. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology).

2.

Lesser, Giles, et al.. (2013). Measuring vessel motions using a rapid-deployment device on ships of opportunity. 376. 3 indexed citations

3.

George, Douglas A., Guy Gelfenbaum, Giles Lesser, & Andrew W. Stevens. (2006). Deschutes Estuary feasibility study: Hydrodynamics and sediment transport modeling. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 2 indexed citations

4.

Walstra, Dirk‐Jan R., Peter Ruggiero, Giles Lesser, & Guy Gelfenbaum. (2006). Modeling Nearshore Morphological Evolution at Seasonal Scale. 110. 1–14. 5 indexed citations

5.

Lesser, Giles, et al.. (2005). Wave-Current Interaction and its Effect on Sand Transport at the Mouth of a Dynamic Estuary: Mouth of the Columbia River, OR. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 2 indexed citations

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Ruggiero, Peter, et al.. (2004). Modeling nearshore morphological evolution at seasonal scale. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Lesser, Giles, Dano Roelvink, J.A.T.M. van Kester, & Guus S. Stelling. (2004). Development and validation of a three-dimensional morphological model. Coastal Engineering. 51(8-9). 883–915. 1489 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lesser, Giles, J.A.T.M. van Kester, & Dano Roelvink. (2000). On-line sediment transport within Delft3D-FLOW. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 12 indexed citations

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