Hamish Clarke

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Hamish Clarke is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Hamish Clarke has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Hamish Clarke's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (30 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers). Hamish Clarke is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (30 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers). Hamish Clarke collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Spain. Hamish Clarke's co-authors include Ross A. Bradstock, Trent D. Penman, Matthias M. Boer, Rachael H. Nolan, A. J. Pitman, Owen Price, Jason P. Evans, Luke Collins, Pete Smith and Chris Lucas and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hamish Clarke

33 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia

2021 509 citations Nerilie J. Abram, Benjamin J. Henley et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →
The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire

2021 209 citations Luke Collins, Ross A. Bradstock et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hamish Clarke Australia	21	1.7k	525	331	305	302	38	2.0k
R. Chelsea Nagy United States	15	1.1k 0.7×	535 1.0×	293 0.9×	170 0.6×	234 0.8×	23	1.5k
Gianni Boris Pezzatti Switzerland	27	1.3k 0.8×	457 0.9×	480 1.5×	224 0.7×	342 1.1×	73	1.8k
Adam L. Mahood United States	13	1.2k 0.7×	474 0.9×	220 0.7×	203 0.7×	252 0.8×	29	1.3k
Lynn M. Gowman Canada	6	1.9k 1.1×	644 1.2×	303 0.9×	536 1.8×	372 1.2×	6	2.0k
Emily J. Fusco United States	15	1.3k 0.8×	843 1.6×	528 1.6×	168 0.6×	261 0.9×	27	1.7k
Maureen C. Kennedy United States	22	1.1k 0.6×	514 1.0×	365 1.1×	406 1.3×	252 0.8×	51	1.7k
Joaquín Bedia Spain	25	1.6k 1.0×	378 0.7×	238 0.7×	544 1.8×	335 1.1×	47	2.0k
Alan S. Cantin Canada	10	1.5k 0.9×	473 0.9×	228 0.7×	508 1.7×	318 1.1×	16	1.7k
Chantelle Burton United Kingdom	14	1.2k 0.7×	350 0.7×	184 0.6×	347 1.1×	148 0.5×	29	1.5k
Susan J. Prichard United States	24	1.9k 1.2×	919 1.8×	533 1.6×	361 1.2×	275 0.9×	60	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zachariah, Mariam, Chris Barnes, Joyce Kimutai, et al.. (2026). Climate change eclipses La Niña cooling in Australia to drive extreme heatwave and heightened fire risk. Spiral (Imperial College London).

Clarke, Hamish, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Lynn M. Johnston, et al.. (2025). Gazing into the flames: A guide to assessing the impacts of climate change on landscape fire. Science Advances. 11(51). eadz2429–eadz2429.

Clarke, Hamish, Brett Cirulis, Nicolás Borchers Arriagada, et al.. (2023). Health costs of wildfire smoke to rise under climate change. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 10 indexed citations

Clarke, Hamish, Brett Cirulis, Nicolás Borchers Arriagada, et al.. (2023). A flexible framework for cost-effective fire management. Global Environmental Change. 82. 102722–102722. 8 indexed citations

Lane, Todd P., Andrew D. King, Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2023). Attribution of extreme events to climate change in the Australian region – A review. Weather and Climate Extremes. 42. 100622–100622. 8 indexed citations

Bennett, Lauren T., et al.. (2022). The fuel–climate–fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change?. Global Change Biology. 28(17). 5211–5226. 42 indexed citations

Clarke, Hamish, Brett Cirulis, Trent D. Penman, et al.. (2022). The 2019–2020 Australian forest fires are a harbinger of decreased prescribed burning effectiveness under rising extreme conditions. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 11871–11871. 38 indexed citations

Bedward, Michael, Matthias M. Boer, Hamish Clarke, et al.. (2022). Mortality and resprouting responses in forest trees driven more by tree and ecosystem characteristics than drought severity and fire frequency. Forest Ecology and Management. 509. 120070–120070. 15 indexed citations

Clarke, Hamish, Rachael H. Nolan, Víctor Resco de Dios, et al.. (2022). Forest fire threatens global carbon sinks and population centres under rising atmospheric water demand. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7161–7161. 83 indexed citations

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Collins, Luke, Hamish Clarke, Michael F. Clarke, et al.. (2022). Warmer and drier conditions have increased the potential for large and severe fire seasons across south‐eastern Australia. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(10). 1933–1948. 74 indexed citations

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Abram, Nerilie J., Benjamin J. Henley, Alex Sen Gupta, et al.. (2021). Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arriagada, Nicolás Borchers, David M. J. S. Bowman, Owen Price, et al.. (2021). Smoke health costs and the calculus for wildfires fuel management: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 5(9). e608–e619. 30 indexed citations

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Virgilio, Giovanni Di, Jason P. Evans, Hamish Clarke, et al.. (2020). Climate Change Significantly Alters Future Wildfire Mitigation Opportunities in Southeastern Australia. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(15). 30 indexed citations

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Clarke, Hamish, Rebecca K. Gibson, Brett Cirulis, Ross A. Bradstock, & Trent D. Penman. (2019). Developing and testing models of the drivers of anthropogenic and lightning-caused wildfire ignitions in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Environmental Management. 235. 34–41. 52 indexed citations

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Clarke, Hamish, et al.. (2019). Climate change effects on the frequency, seasonality and interannual variability of suitable prescribed burning weather conditions in south-eastern Australia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 271. 148–157. 46 indexed citations

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Boer, Matthias M., Rachael H. Nolan, Víctor Resco de Dios, et al.. (2017). Changing Weather Extremes Call for Early Warning of Potential for Catastrophic Fire. Earth s Future. 5(12). 1196–1202. 75 indexed citations

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Clarke, Hamish, A. J. Pitman, Jatin Kala, et al.. (2016). An investigation of future fuel load and fire weather in Australia. Climatic Change. 139(3-4). 591–605. 32 indexed citations

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Ji, Fei, Matthew Riley, Hamish Clarke, et al.. (2013). High resolution rainfall projections for the Greater Sydney Region. Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 3 indexed citations

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Clarke, Hamish, Jason P. Evans, & A. J. Pitman. (2013). Fire weather simulation skill by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model over south-east Australia from 1985 to 2009. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 22(6). 739–756. 17 indexed citations

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Fath, Thomas, Bernadette Vrhovski, Hamish Clarke, et al.. (2010). New aspects of tropomyosin-regulated neuritogenesis revealed by the deletion of Tm5NM1 and 2. European Journal of Cell Biology. 89(7). 489–498. 28 indexed citations

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