I. Simpson

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 956 citations indexed

About

I. Simpson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, I. Simpson has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 956 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Atmospheric Science and 1 paper in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in I. Simpson's work include Climate variability and models (6 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (4 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (3 papers). I. Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (6 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (4 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (3 papers). I. Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. I. Simpson's co-authors include P. D. Jones, Timothy J. Osborn, Colin Morice, Jonathan Winn, Emily Hogan, John Kennedy, Rachel Killick, Nick A Rayner, Robert Dunn and Mark McCarthy and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Climatology, ICES Journal of Marine Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

I. Simpson

9 papers receiving 936 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.

An Updated Assessment of Near‐Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set

2020 533 citations Colin Morice, John Kennedy et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
I. Simpson United Kingdom	7	679	566	95	84	78	9	956
Stephen Outten Norway	14	729 1.1×	586 1.0×	96 1.0×	56 0.7×	91 1.2×	26	964
Jared Rennie United States	12	791 1.2×	654 1.2×	72 0.8×	96 1.1×	142 1.8×	22	1.1k
Karl Braganza Australia	16	883 1.3×	698 1.2×	130 1.4×	89 1.1×	107 1.4×	23	1.1k
Young‐Hwa Byun South Korea	16	829 1.2×	624 1.1×	124 1.3×	71 0.8×	95 1.2×	103	1.0k
Irina Mahlstein Switzerland	13	871 1.3×	691 1.2×	98 1.0×	63 0.8×	43 0.6×	18	1.0k
Megan C. Kirchmeier‐Young Canada	12	874 1.3×	568 1.0×	71 0.7×	54 0.6×	69 0.9×	25	1.1k
Fangying Wu China	13	727 1.1×	865 1.5×	61 0.6×	57 0.7×	88 1.1×	20	1.2k
Scott Applequist United States	9	542 0.8×	405 0.7×	51 0.5×	56 0.7×	116 1.5×	13	859
Mary‐Jane M. Bopape South Africa	13	574 0.8×	376 0.7×	76 0.8×	127 1.5×	71 0.9×	41	887
Nicholas J. Lutsko United States	17	645 0.9×	557 1.0×	117 1.2×	146 1.7×	120 1.5×	47	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by I. Simpson

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Fields of papers citing papers by I. Simpson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of I. Simpson

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Osborn, Timothy J., P. D. Jones, David Lister, et al.. (2020). Land Surface Air Temperature Variations Across the Globe Updated to 2019: The CRUTEM5 Data Set. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(2). 124 indexed citations

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Morice, Colin, John Kennedy, Nick A Rayner, et al.. (2020). An Updated Assessment of Near‐Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(3). 533 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Kravitz, Ben, Douglas G. MacMartin, Simone Tilmes, et al.. (2019). Comparing surface and stratospheric impacts of geoengineering with different SO 2 injection strategies. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 4 indexed citations

4.

Hollis, Dan, Mark McCarthy, Michael Kendon, Tim Legg, & I. Simpson. (2019). HadUK‐Grid—A new UK dataset of gridded climate observations. Geoscience Data Journal. 6(2). 151–159. 200 indexed citations

5.

Simpson, I. & Mark McCarthy. (2018). Structural and sampling uncertainty in observed UK daily precipitation extremes derived from an intercomparison of gridded data sets. International Journal of Climatology. 39(1). 128–142. 5 indexed citations

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Polvani, Lorenzo M., Amy Clement, Brian Medeiros, James J. Benedict, & I. Simpson. (2017). When Less Is More: Opening the Door to Simpler Climate Models. Eos. 16 indexed citations

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Simpson, I. & P. D. Jones. (2013). Analysis ofUKprecipitation extremes derived from Met Office gridded data. International Journal of Climatology. 34(7). 2438–2449. 32 indexed citations

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Simpson, I. & P. D. Jones. (2011). Updated precipitation series for the UK derived from Met Office gridded data. International Journal of Climatology. 32(15). 2271–2282. 20 indexed citations

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Thorley, Joe, et al.. (2005). Congruence between automatic fish counter data and rod catches of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Scottish rivers. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 62(4). 808–817. 22 indexed citations

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