Jim W. Hall

34.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
487 papers, 21.7k citations indexed

About

Jim W. Hall is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jim W. Hall has authored 487 papers receiving a total of 21.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 93 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 93 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jim W. Hall's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (131 papers), Water resources management and optimization (85 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (52 papers). Jim W. Hall is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (131 papers), Water resources management and optimization (85 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (52 papers). Jim W. Hall collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Jim W. Hall's co-authors include Richard Dawson, Elmar Kriegler, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Hermann Held, Stefan Rahmstorf, Timothy M. Lenton, Wolfgang Lucht, Guoyong Leng, Paul Sayers and Keith Beven and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jim W. Hall

461 papers receiving 20.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

2008 2.3k citations Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Meat consumption, health, and the environment

2018 1.4k citations Jim W. Hall et al. profile →
Sensitivity analysis of environmental models: A systematic review with practical workflow

2016 1.1k citations Jim Freer, Jim W. Hall et al. Environmental Modelling & Software profile →
Pollution exacerbates China’s water scarcity and its regional inequality

2020 524 citations Jim W. Hall et al. Nature Communications profile →
Infrastructure for sustainable development

2019 497 citations Scott Thacker, Daniel Adshead et al. profile →
Crop yield sensitivity of global major agricultural countries to droughts and the projected changes in the future

2018 478 citations Jim W. Hall et al. profile →
Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment

2018 399 citations Jim W. Hall et al. profile →
A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets

2019 348 citations Elco Koks, Conrad Zorn et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Jim W. Hall

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Paolo D’Odorico United States

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Netherlands

Philip J. Ward Netherlands

Hao Wang China

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Poland

Johan Rockström Sweden

Nigel W. Arnell United Kingdom

Stéphane Hallegatte United States

Matti Kummu Finland

Jianguo Liu United States

Paolo D’Odorico United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Jim W. Hall

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jim W. Hall

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jim W. Hall

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

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Clercq, Djavan De, Lily Xu, Marleen de Ruiter, et al.. (2025). Towards optimal anticipatory action: Maximizing the effectiveness of agricultural early warning systems with operations research. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 119. 105249–105249. 1 indexed citations

Verschuur, Jasper, et al.. (2025). Systemic impacts of disruptions at maritime chokepoints. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10421–10421.

Sheikholeslami, Razi, et al.. (2024). Large uncertainty in global estimates of manure phosphorus runoff. Environmental Modelling & Software. 177. 106067–106067. 4 indexed citations

Murgatroyd, Anna, Timothy S. Thomas, Jawoo Koo, Kenneth Strzepek, & Jim W. Hall. (2024). Building Ethiopia’s food security resilience to climate and hydrological change. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 15008–15008. 1 indexed citations

Verschuur, Jasper, Edoardo Borgomeo, Edward J. Oughton, et al.. (2024). Quantifying climate risks to infrastructure systems: A comparative review of developments across infrastructure sectors. PLOS Climate. 3(4). e0000331–e0000331. 7 indexed citations

Nayak-Luke, Richard, et al.. (2024). Green ammonia imports could supplement long-duration energy storage in the UK. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 43001–43001. 2 indexed citations

Hall, Jim W., et al.. (2023). A comparison of the cost effectiveness of property‐level adaptation and community‐scale flood defences in reducing flood risk. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 17(1). 6 indexed citations

Matthews, Brian, Jim W. Hall, Michael Batty, et al.. (2023). DAFNI: a computational platform to support infrastructure systems research. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 176(3). 108–116. 3 indexed citations

Adshead, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Infrastructure Strategies for Achieving the Global Development Agendas in Small Islands. Earth s Future. 9(2). 9 indexed citations

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Chaudry, Modassar, Simon Blainey, Jim W. Hall, et al.. (2021). The implications of ambitious decarbonisation of heat and road transport for Britain’s net zero carbon energy systems. Applied Energy. 305. 117905–117905. 27 indexed citations

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Majid, Aman Shah Abdul, et al.. (2020). An Analysis of Electricity Consumption Patterns in the Water and Wastewater Sectors in South East England, UK. Water. 12(1). 225–225. 16 indexed citations

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Byers, Edward, Gemma Coxon, Jim Freer, & Jim W. Hall. (2020). Drought and climate change impacts on cooling water shortages and electricity prices in Great Britain. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2239–2239. 77 indexed citations

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Mortazavi‐Naeini, Mohammad, Gianbattista Bussi, J. Alex Elliott, Jim W. Hall, & P. G. Whitehead. (2019). Assessment of Risks to Public Water Supply From Low Flows and Harmful Water Quality in a Changing Climate. Water Resources Research. 55(12). 10386–10404. 35 indexed citations

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Lim, Wee Ho, Dai Yamazaki, Sujan Koirala, et al.. (2018). Long‐Term Changes in Global Socioeconomic Benefits of Flood Defenses and Residual Risk Based on CMIP5 Climate Models. Earth s Future. 6(7). 938–954. 28 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xu, et al.. (2018). Categorising virtual water transfers through China’s electric power sector. Applied Energy. 226. 252–260. 60 indexed citations

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Alderson, David, Stewart Barr, Martino Tran, et al.. (2015). Visualisation Tools for Multi-Perspective, Cross-Sector, Long-Term Infrastructure Performance Evaluation.

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Ford, Alistair, Katie Jenkins, Richard Dawson, et al.. (2015). Simulating Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Urban Transport Infrastructure in the UK. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations

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Pant, Raghav, Simon Blainey, Jim W. Hall, & John Preston. (2015). Assessing Risks to Inform Resilience: a Criticality Assessment of the British Railway Network. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4 indexed citations

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Sadoff, Claudia, Jim W. Hall, D. R. Grey, et al.. (2015). Securing Water, Sustaining Growth: Report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 109 indexed citations

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Lenton, Timothy M., Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler, et al.. (2008). Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(6). 1786–1793. 2271 indexed citations breakdown →

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