John Simpson

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

John Simpson is a scholar working on Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, John Simpson has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Earth-Surface Processes, 11 papers in Oceanography and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in John Simpson's work include Geological formations and processes (12 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers). John Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Geological formations and processes (12 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers). John Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. John Simpson's co-authors include Rex E. Britter, James W. Rottman, Herbert E. Huppert, P. F. Linden, Michael Manga, Ian R. Wood, T. Maxworthy, Eckart Meiburg, J. C. R. Hunt and D. A. Dunn and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

John Simpson

52 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

The slumping of gravity currents

1980 483 citations John Simpson et al. Journal of Fluid Mechanics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Simpson United Kingdom	19	1.8k	1.2k	965	516	432	55	3.0k
Patrick Lynett United States	38	2.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	837 1.6×	403 0.9×	139	4.4k
Tarmo Soomere Estonia	33	1.5k 0.9×	884 0.7×	2.3k 2.3×	364 0.7×	112 0.3×	210	3.5k
Rodrigo Cienfuegos Chile	23	730 0.4×	568 0.5×	471 0.5×	263 0.5×	115 0.3×	88	1.8k
Meric Srokosz United Kingdom	30	532 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	2.3k 2.4×	309 0.6×	108 0.3×	161	3.2k
C. B. Harbitz Norway	39	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	224 0.2×	152 0.3×	371 0.9×	76	4.1k
Roger P. Denlinger United States	31	405 0.2×	1.3k 1.1×	111 0.1×	530 1.0×	644 1.5×	76	4.3k
Marcus Bursik United States	36	807 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	89 0.1×	356 0.7×	430 1.0×	151	4.1k
James N. Moum United States	43	572 0.3×	3.0k 2.5×	4.8k 5.0×	242 0.5×	448 1.0×	133	5.4k
Alexander B. Rabinovich Russia	37	951 0.5×	2.1k 1.7×	2.0k 2.1×	140 0.3×	79 0.2×	164	4.7k
Luigi Cavaleri Italy	42	3.0k 1.7×	3.8k 3.1×	5.7k 5.9×	369 0.7×	82 0.2×	176	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Simpson

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Simpson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Simpson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Simpson, John & Susan Brown. (2021). Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom ? Les données ouvertes liées comme base d’une écologie pour la publication scientifique, dynamique et décentrée. Érudit (Université de Montréal).

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Bulitko, Vadim, et al.. (2017). Towards Positively Surprising Non-Player Characters in Video Games. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 13(2). 34–40. 6 indexed citations

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Brown, Susan & John Simpson. (2014). The Changing Culture of Humanities Scholarship: Iteration, Recursion, and Versions in Scholarly Collaboration Environments. UVic’s Research and Learning Repository (University of Victoria). 5(4). 3 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, Susan Brown, & Lisa Goddard. (2013). A Humanist Perspective on Building Ontologies in Theory and Practice.. DH. 403–405. 1 indexed citations

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Simpson, John. (2010). The first English dictionary of slang 1699. 2 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, et al.. (2008). Black diamonds : the new South African middle class. 24(4). 43–47. 9 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, et al.. (2007). The first English dictionary, 1604 : Robert Cawdrey's A table alphabetical. 4 indexed citations

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Patterson, Michael D., John Simpson, Stuart B. Dalziel, & G. J. F. van Heijst. (2006). Vortical motion in the head of an axisymmetric gravity current. Physics of Fluids. 18(4). 41 indexed citations

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Patterson, Michael D., John Simpson, Stuart B. Dalziel, & Nikolaos Nikiforakis. (2005). Numerical modelling of two‐dimensional and axisymmetric gravity currents. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 47(10-11). 1221–1227. 11 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, Edmund Weiner, & Philip Durkin. (2004). TheOxford English DictionaryToday. Transactions of the Philological Society. 102(3). 335–381. 9 indexed citations

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Simpson, John. (2002). XPath and XPointer. 7 indexed citations

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Simpson, John. (2002). XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents. 57(3). 123–31. 3 indexed citations

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Simpson, John & Michael Manga. (1998). Gravity Currents in the Environment and the Laboratory. Physics Today. 51(4). 70–72. 125 indexed citations

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Simpson, John. (1998). Just XML. 5 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, et al.. (1995). Chambers giant paperback English thesaurus. 1 indexed citations

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Simpson, John. (1995). The Oxford book of exile. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, et al.. (1989). Union election activity in the hospital industry. Health Care Management Review. 14(4). 21–28. 4 indexed citations

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Simpson, John, et al.. (1988). Chambers concise dictionary. 4 indexed citations

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Rottman, James W., John Simpson, & Peter Stansby. (1987). The motion of a cylinder of fluid released from rest in a cross-flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 177. 307–337. 12 indexed citations

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Simpson, John. (1986). Mixing at the front of a gravity current. Acta Mechanica. 63(1-4). 245–253. 15 indexed citations

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