Graham McDowell

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Graham McDowell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Graham McDowell has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Graham McDowell's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (8 papers). Graham McDowell is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (8 papers). Graham McDowell collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Graham McDowell's co-authors include James D. Ford, Tristan Pearce, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Nia King, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Sherilee L. Harper, Jesse S. Sayles, Bernhard Lehner, Frank Duerden and William A. Gough and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Climate Change and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Graham McDowell

28 papers receiving 981 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.

The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Graham McDowell Canada	13	510	261	242	238	234	30	1.0k
Robin Bronen United States	10	652 1.3×	222 0.9×	151 0.6×	112 0.5×	170 0.7×	15	1.0k
Shannon M. McNeeley United States	12	433 0.8×	527 2.0×	104 0.4×	103 0.4×	278 1.2×	18	977
Frank Duerden Canada	14	762 1.5×	274 1.0×	658 2.7×	205 0.9×	226 1.0×	24	1.4k
Jaclyn Paterson Canada	7	527 1.0×	461 1.8×	97 0.4×	63 0.3×	342 1.5×	7	1.2k
Susan A. Crate United States	16	528 1.0×	166 0.6×	380 1.6×	142 0.6×	75 0.3×	56	982
Isabel Rivera‐Collazo United States	11	350 0.7×	191 0.7×	60 0.2×	113 0.5×	139 0.6×	20	866
Roger Street United Kingdom	16	418 0.8×	601 2.3×	64 0.3×	73 0.3×	312 1.3×	28	1.2k
François Gemenne Belgium	19	1.3k 2.6×	461 1.8×	67 0.3×	110 0.5×	196 0.8×	69	1.9k
Samuel Rufat France	14	1.0k 2.0×	850 3.3×	75 0.3×	178 0.7×	212 0.9×	49	1.5k
Michelle Maillet Canada	8	357 0.7×	278 1.1×	164 0.7×	39 0.2×	112 0.5×	9	719

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Fields of papers citing papers by Graham McDowell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Graham McDowell

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Ford, James D., Jan Petzold, Graham McDowell, et al.. (2025). Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2025). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation among mountain guides in the Canadian Rockies. Regional Environmental Change. 25(1).

McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2024). The evolution of “riskscapes”: 100 years of climate change and mountaineering activity in the Lake Louise area of the Canadian Rockies. Climatic Change. 177(3). 3 indexed citations

Marshall, Shawn J., et al.. (2023). The state of glacier hydrology research in Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 48(4). 475–496. 2 indexed citations

McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2023). The implications of warmer winters for ice climbing: A case study of the Mount Washington Valley, New Hampshire, USA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 3 indexed citations

McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2023). Climbing through Climate Change in the Canadian Rockies: Guides’ Experiences of Route Transformation on Mt. Athabasca. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 539–558. 5 indexed citations

McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2022). The state of mountain research in Canada. Journal of Mountain Science. 19(10). 3013–3025.

McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2021). A Nationally Coherent Characterization and Quantification of Mountain Systems in Canada. Mountain Research and Development. 41(2). 5 indexed citations

Frey, Holger, Graham McDowell, Fabián Drenkhan, et al.. (2021). Adaptation to climate change induced water stress in major glacierized mountain regions. Climate and Development. 14(7). 665–677. 16 indexed citations

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McDowell, Graham, Alexandra Lesnikowski, Christian Huggel, et al.. (2021). Closing the Adaptation Gap in Mountains. Mountain Research and Development. 41(3). 20 indexed citations

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Canosa, Iván Villaverde, James D. Ford, Graham McDowell, Jason Jones, & Tristan Pearce. (2020). Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 93009–93009. 17 indexed citations

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Humphries, Murray M., et al.. (2020). The Canadian Mountain Network: Advancing Innovative, Solutions-Based Research to Inform Decision-Making. Mountain Research and Development. 40(4). 3 indexed citations

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McDowell, Graham, Christian Huggel, Holger Frey, et al.. (2018). Adaptation action and research in glaciated mountain systems: Are they enough to meet the challenge of climate change?. Global Environmental Change. 54. 19–30. 48 indexed citations

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Ford, James D., et al.. (2018). Vulnerability and its discontents: the past, present, and future of climate change vulnerability research. Climatic Change. 151(2). 189–203. 134 indexed citations

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McDowell, Graham & Michèle Koppes. (2017). Robust Adaptation Research in High Mountains: Integrating the Scientific, Social, and Ecological Dimensions of Glacio-Hydrological Change. Water. 9(10). 739–739. 15 indexed citations

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McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2016). Community-level climate change vulnerability research: trends, progress, and future directions. Environmental Research Letters. 11(3). 33001–33001. 98 indexed citations

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Ford, James D., et al.. (2014). The state of climate change adaptation in the Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. 9(10). 104005–104005. 43 indexed citations

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McDowell, Graham & James D. Ford. (2013). The socio-ecological dimensions of hydrocarbon development in the Disko Bay region of Greenland: Opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Applied Geography. 46. 98–110. 8 indexed citations

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Ford, James D., Graham McDowell, Jamal Shirley, et al.. (2013). The Dynamic Multiscale Nature of Climate Change Vulnerability: An Inuit Harvesting Example. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 103(5). 1193–1211. 106 indexed citations

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McDowell, Graham, et al.. (2012). Climate-related hydrological change and human vulnerability in remote mountain regions: a case study from Khumbu, Nepal. Regional Environmental Change. 13(2). 299–310. 77 indexed citations

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