Greg O’Donnell

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Greg O’Donnell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg O’Donnell has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Water Science and Technology and 16 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Greg O’Donnell's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (26 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (13 papers). Greg O’Donnell is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (26 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (13 papers). Greg O’Donnell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ethiopia and United States. Greg O’Donnell's co-authors include Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Bart Nijssen, Alan F. Hamlet, P. E. O’Connell, John Ewen, Eric F. Wood, Dag Lohmann, PF Quinn, Chris Kilsby and Stephen Birkinshaw and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Greg O’Donnell

59 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Hydrologic Sensitivity of Global Rivers to Climate Change

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Greg O’Donnell United Kingdom	24	1.9k	1.8k	781	437	430	64	2.7k
Hongxing Zheng Australia	22	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	780 1.0×	434 1.0×	255 0.6×	72	2.7k
Hiroshi Ishidaira Japan	31	1.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	624 0.8×	618 1.4×	361 0.8×	160	3.1k
Jingwen Wu China	25	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	487 0.6×	337 0.8×	430 1.0×	30	2.2k
David Post Australia	24	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	410 0.5×	478 1.1×	374 0.9×	70	2.3k
Zengxin Zhang China	32	2.6k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	484 1.1×	512 1.2×	96	3.5k
P.J.J.F. Torfs Netherlands	32	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	568 0.7×	594 1.4×	268 0.6×	80	2.7k
Claudia Teutschbein Sweden	19	2.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	378 0.9×	243 0.6×	49	3.3k
Katumi MUSIAKE Japan	20	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	799 1.0×	431 1.0×	437 1.0×	74	2.7k
Éric Servat France	29	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	505 0.6×	440 1.0×	236 0.5×	120	3.0k
Huimin Lei China	31	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	847 1.9×	565 1.3×	102	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Greg O’Donnell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Greg O’Donnell

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Teferi, Ermias, Greg O’Donnell, Woldeamlak Bewket, Gete Zeleke, & Claire Walsh. (2025). Enhancing hydrometric monitoring in Ethiopia's Abbay basin: A collaborative framework for Data-Scarce Africa. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 60. 102579–102579.

Teferi, Ermias, Tibebu Kassawmar, Woldeamlak Bewket, et al.. (2025). Rainfed agriculture in Ethiopia: a systematic review of green water management pathways to improve water and food security. Frontiers in Agronomy. 7. 6 indexed citations

Walsh, Claire, et al.. (2024). Assessment of the Impact of Date Production on Water Resources Using Remote Sensing Techniques, a Case Study for Madinah, Saudi Arabia. 4006–4009. 2 indexed citations

O’Connell, Enda, Greg O’Donnell, & Demetris Koutsoyiannis. (2023). On the Spatial Scale Dependence of Long‐Term Persistence in Global Annual Precipitation Data and the Hurst Phenomenon. Water Resources Research. 59(4). 20 indexed citations

O’Donnell, Greg, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Benefits of Flood Warnings in the Management of an Urban Flood-Prone Polder Area. Hydrology. 10(12). 238–238.

Degefu, Mekonnen Adnew, et al.. (2023). Homogenous Climatic Regions for Targeting Green Water Management Technologies in the Abbay Basin, Ethiopia. Climate. 11(10). 212–212.

Teferi, Ermias, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Soil Moisture Retrieval through Integrating Satellite Data with Pedotransfer Functions in a Complex Landscape of Ethiopia. Water. 15(19). 3396–3396. 1 indexed citations

Birkinshaw, Stephen, Chris Kilsby, Greg O’Donnell, et al.. (2021). Stormwater Detention Ponds in Urban Catchments—Analysis and Validation of Performance of Ponds in the Ouseburn Catchment, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Water. 13(18). 2521–2521. 7 indexed citations

Quintela‐Baluja, Marcos, et al.. (2021). Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance. Environmental Microbiome. 16(1). 21–21. 6 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Greg, Ngọc Hân Trần, Jian‐Qiang Su, et al.. (2021). Developing Surrogate Markers for Predicting Antibiotic Resistance “Hot Spots” in Rivers Where Limited Data Are Available. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(11). 7466–7478. 30 indexed citations

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Pritchard, David, Nathan Forsythe, Greg O’Donnell, Hayley J. Fowler, & Nick Rutter. (2020). Multi-physics ensemble snow modelling in the western Himalaya. The cryosphere. 14(4). 1225–1244. 11 indexed citations

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Skinner, Chris, Greg O’Donnell, Robert J. Thompson, et al.. (2019). Recommendations for Improving Integration in National End-to-End Flood Forecasting Systems: An Overview of the FFIR (Flooding From Intense Rainfall) Programme. Water. 11(4). 725–725. 31 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Greg, et al.. (2019). The potential of runoff attenuation features as a Natural Flood Management approach. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 13(S1). 54 indexed citations

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O’Donnell, Greg, Paul Quinn, Andrew Black, et al.. (2018). Quantifying and Mitigating Wind‐Induced Undercatch in Rainfall Measurements. Water Resources Research. 54(6). 3863–3875. 110 indexed citations

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Quinn, Paul, et al.. (2016). The role of Natural Flood Management in managing floods in large scale basins during extreme events. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Quinn, Paul, et al.. (2015). The role of high frequency monitoring in understanding nutrient pollution processes to address catchment management issues. EGUGA. 6221. 1 indexed citations

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Quinn, Paul, et al.. (2014). Integrating observations and models to help understanding how flooding impacts upon catchments as a basis for decision making.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8530. 1 indexed citations

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O’Connell, P. E. & Greg O’Donnell. (2014). Towards modelling flood protection investment as a coupled human and natural system. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(1). 155–171. 52 indexed citations

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Parkin, Geoff, S. Anderton, John Ewen, et al.. (1999). A physically based approach to modelling radionuclide transport in the biosphere. Journal of Radiological Protection. 19(4). 319–331. 5 indexed citations

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Ewen, John & Greg O’Donnell. (1997). Interpacket diffusion in SAMP model for water and solute movement in unsaturated soil. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 1(4). 905–914. 1 indexed citations

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