H.C. Bonsor

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

H.C. Bonsor is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, H.C. Bonsor has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology, 16 papers in Environmental Engineering and 13 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in H.C. Bonsor's work include Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (17 papers), Groundwater and Watershed Analysis (13 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (12 papers). H.C. Bonsor is often cited by papers focused on Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (17 papers), Groundwater and Watershed Analysis (13 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (12 papers). H.C. Bonsor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Uganda and United States. H.C. Bonsor's co-authors include Alan MacDonald, Richard G. Taylor, B.É. Ó Dochartaigh, Dan Lapworth, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Roger Calow, J. Tucker, Shobha Kumari Yadav, Abhijit Mukherjee and Muhammad Basharat and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Geoscience, Remote Sensing and Precambrian Research.

In The Last Decade

H.C. Bonsor

46 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa

2012 468 citations Alan MacDonald, H.C. Bonsor et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in situ observations

2016 367 citations Alan MacDonald, H.C. Bonsor et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
H.C. Bonsor United Kingdom	16	650	551	491	278	269	47	1.5k
B.É. Ó Dochartaigh United Kingdom	16	547 0.8×	464 0.8×	462 0.9×	274 1.0×	157 0.6×	57	1.3k
Seifu Kebede Ethiopia	27	1.1k 1.7×	909 1.6×	943 1.9×	278 1.0×	150 0.6×	70	2.3k
Soumendra N. Bhanja India	24	554 0.9×	348 0.6×	609 1.2×	190 0.7×	224 0.8×	41	1.7k
Moumtaz Razack France	25	1.3k 2.0×	880 1.6×	570 1.2×	171 0.6×	354 1.3×	71	2.0k
Cheikh B. Gaye Senegal	20	1.3k 2.0×	1.4k 2.5×	811 1.7×	116 0.4×	267 1.0×	27	2.1k
Marc Van Camp Belgium	24	743 1.1×	666 1.2×	539 1.1×	180 0.6×	158 0.6×	86	1.4k
Gopal Krishan India	25	930 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	798 1.6×	122 0.4×	79 0.3×	115	1.8k
Lhoussaine Bouchaou Morocco	31	1.3k 2.0×	1.3k 2.3×	885 1.8×	194 0.7×	663 2.5×	140	3.1k
Slavek Vasak Netherlands	3	571 0.9×	463 0.8×	705 1.4×	355 1.3×	125 0.5×	5	1.5k
M. S. Rao India	21	893 1.4×	1.1k 2.0×	726 1.5×	113 0.4×	162 0.6×	33	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of H.C. Bonsor

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Whaley, Luke, et al.. (2019). Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 85013–85013. 30 indexed citations

Bonsor, H.C., et al.. (2018). The need for a standard approach to assessing the functionality of rural community water supplies. Hydrogeology Journal. 26(2). 367–370. 33 indexed citations

Bonsor, H.C., Mohammad Shamsudduha, B. P. Marchant, Alan MacDonald, & Richard G. Taylor. (2018). Seasonal and Decadal Groundwater Changes in African Sedimentary Aquifers Estimated Using GRACE Products and LSMs. Remote Sensing. 10(6). 904–904. 61 indexed citations

Maurice, Louise, Richard G. Taylor, Callist Tindimugaya, et al.. (2018). Characteristics of high-intensity groundwater abstractions from weathered crystalline bedrock aquifers in East Africa. Hydrogeology Journal. 27(2). 459–474. 36 indexed citations

Krabbendam, Maarten, H.C. Bonsor, Matthew Horstwood, & Toby Rivers. (2017). Tracking the evolution of the Grenvillian foreland basin: Constraints from sedimentology and detrital zircon and rutile in the Sleat and Torridon groups, Scotland. Precambrian Research. 295. 67–89. 42 indexed citations

Bonsor, H.C., Alan MacDonald, Kazi Matin Ahmed, et al.. (2017). Hydrogeological typologies of the Indo-Gangetic basin alluvial aquifer, South Asia. Hydrogeology Journal. 25(5). 1377–1406. 128 indexed citations

Palumbo‐Roe, Barbara, Vanessa Banks, H.C. Bonsor, Elliott M. Hamilton, & Michael J. Watts. (2017). Limitations on the role of the hyporheic zone in chromium natural attenuation in a contaminated urban stream. Applied Geochemistry. 83. 108–120. 18 indexed citations

Bonsor, H.C., et al.. (2017). Groundwater, geothermal modelling and monitoring at city-scale : reviewing European practice and knowledge exchange : TU1206 COST sub-urban WG2 report. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 3 indexed citations

MacDonald, Alan, H.C. Bonsor, Kazi Matin Ahmed, et al.. (2016). Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in situ observations. Nature Geoscience. 9(10). 762–766. 367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bonsor, H.C., et al.. (2015). A hidden crisis: strengthening the evidence base on the current failures of rural groundwater supplies. Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University). 7 indexed citations

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Bonsor, H.C., David Entwisle, Steven James Watson, et al.. (2013). Maximising past investment in subsurface data in urban areas for sustainable resource management: a pilot in Glasgow, UK. Technical note.. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 293(1). 6–12. 4 indexed citations

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Campbell, S. D. G. & H.C. Bonsor. (2013). The ASK Network : Glasgow Specification of Data Capture.

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Bonsor, H.C., et al.. (2013). Evidence for extreme variations in the permeability of laterite from a detailed analysis of well behaviour in Nigeria. Hydrological Processes. 28(10). 3563–3573. 32 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Alan, Richard G. Taylor, & H.C. Bonsor. (2013). Groundwater in Africa : is there sufficient water to support the intensification of agriculture from 'land grabs'?. 5 indexed citations

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Bonsor, H.C., R. A. Strachan, Anthony R. Prave, & Maarten Krabbendam. (2012). Sedimentology of the early Neoproterozoic Morar Group in northern Scotland: implications for basin models and tectonic setting. Journal of the Geological Society. 169(1). 53–65. 16 indexed citations

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Krabbendam, Maarten, R. A. Strachan, A. Graham Leslie, Kathryn Goodenough, & H.C. Bonsor. (2011). The internal structure of the Moine Nappe Complex and the stratigraphy of the Morar Group in the Fannichs–Beinn Dearg area, NW Highlands. Scottish Journal of Geology. 47(1). 1–20. 18 indexed citations

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Bonsor, H.C., et al.. (2011). Climate change, water resources and WASH. A scoping study. ODI Working Paper 337. 3 indexed citations

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Bonsor, H.C., et al.. (2010). Interpretation of GRACE data of the Nile Basin using a groundwater recharge model. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 23 indexed citations

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Fordyce, F.M., et al.. (2009). Groundwater and soil pollutants (GRASP) : a screening tool applying soil geochemical data to assess threats to shallow groundwater in Glasgow. 1 indexed citations

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Bonsor, H.C. & Anthony R. Prave. (2008). The Upper Morar Psammite of the Moine Supergroup, Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Scotland: depositional setting, tectonic implications. Scottish Journal of Geology. 44(2). 111–122. 10 indexed citations

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