Gillian Simpson

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 640 citations indexed

About

Gillian Simpson is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gillian Simpson has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 640 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Gillian Simpson's work include Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (5 papers), Climate change and permafrost (3 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Gillian Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (5 papers), Climate change and permafrost (3 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Gillian Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and Sweden. Gillian Simpson's co-authors include Pam Berry, R. W. Dunford, Małgorzata Blicharska, Benis N. Egoh, Els Lommelen, Francis Turkelboom, W. Geertsema, Nicoleta Geamănă, Linda Meiresonne and Paula A. Harrison and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Climatic Change and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Gillian Simpson

10 papers receiving 619 citations

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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.

Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review

2014 494 citations Paula A. Harrison, Pam Berry et al. Ecosystem Services profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gillian Simpson United Kingdom	5	396	189	137	92	90	10	640
Kaixiong Xing China	11	358 0.9×	156 0.8×	108 0.8×	50 0.5×	51 0.6×	23	581
Paracchini Maria-Luisa	10	346 0.9×	174 0.9×	141 1.0×	74 0.8×	62 0.7×	18	610
Mette Vestergaard Odgaard Denmark	9	518 1.3×	207 1.1×	182 1.3×	76 0.8×	101 1.1×	14	782
José V. Roces‐Díaz Spain	19	588 1.5×	159 0.8×	134 1.0×	80 0.9×	69 0.8×	28	822
María Vallejos Argentina	14	434 1.1×	140 0.7×	82 0.6×	65 0.7×	68 0.8×	22	656
Sunita Chaudhary Nepal	18	550 1.4×	195 1.0×	75 0.5×	93 1.0×	173 1.9×	30	812
Stephanie A. Tomscha New Zealand	13	530 1.3×	208 1.1×	97 0.7×	92 1.0×	114 1.3×	20	712
Cholho Song South Korea	16	528 1.3×	273 1.4×	126 0.9×	58 0.6×	102 1.1×	76	825
Riccardo Santolini Italy	12	384 1.0×	197 1.0×	153 1.1×	72 0.8×	102 1.1×	31	642
Sajid Pareeth Netherlands	13	512 1.3×	352 1.9×	132 1.0×	79 0.9×	105 1.2×	20	821

Countries citing papers authored by Gillian Simpson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gillian Simpson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gillian Simpson

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Nilsson, Mats B., Joshua L. Ratcliffe, Mats Öquist, et al.. (2025). Variations in Ecosystem‐Scale Methane Fluxes Across a Boreal Mire Complex Assessed by a Network of Flux Towers. Global Change Biology. 31(5). e70223–e70223. 1 indexed citations

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Simpson, Gillian, et al.. (2025). Inter-Annual Variability of Peatland Vegetation Captured Using Phenocam- and UAV Imagery. Remote Sensing. 17(3). 526–526. 1 indexed citations

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Simpson, Gillian, et al.. (2024). Species-Level Classification of Peatland Vegetation Using Ultra-High-Resolution UAV Imagery. Drones. 8(3). 97–97. 8 indexed citations

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Nichol, Caroline, et al.. (2019). Illumination Geometry and Flying Height Influence Surface Reflectance and NDVI Derived from Multispectral UAS Imagery. Drones. 3(3). 55–55. 52 indexed citations

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Knoblauch, Christian, Lars Kutzbach, David Holl, et al.. (2019). Partitioning net ecosystem exchange of CO ₂ on the pedon scale in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Biogeosciences. 16(7). 1543–1562. 13 indexed citations

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Knoblauch, Christian, et al.. (2018). Partitioning CO ₂ net ecosystem exchange fluxes on the microsite scale in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 4 indexed citations

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Harrison, Paula A., Pam Berry, Gillian Simpson, et al.. (2014). Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review. Ecosystem Services. 9. 191–203. 494 indexed citations breakdown →

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Berry, Pam, Sally Brown, Minpeng Chen, et al.. (2014). Cross-sectoral interactions of adaptation and mitigation measures. Climatic Change. 128(3-4). 381–393. 64 indexed citations

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McGowan, Suzanne, et al.. (2013). Influence of the Little Ice Age on the biological structure of lakes in South West Greenland. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Berry, Pam, Sally Brown, Minpeng Chen, et al.. (2013). The CLIMSAVE Project Climate Change Integrated Assessment Methodology for Cross-Sectoral Adaptation and Vulnerability in Europe. 2 indexed citations

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