Keith Richards

13.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
207 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Keith Richards is a scholar working on Ecology, Water Science and Technology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Richards has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Ecology, 71 papers in Water Science and Technology and 46 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Keith Richards's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (68 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (57 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (46 papers). Keith Richards is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (68 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (57 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (46 papers). Keith Richards collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Keith Richards's co-authors include Stuart N. Lane, James Brasington, Jim H. Chandler, K. F. Bradbrook, Pascale M. Biron, Hugh Brammer, Peter Ravenscroft, A. G. Roy, Linghong Ke and Martin Sharp and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Keith Richards

201 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation

2014 519 citations Bojana Bajželj, Keith Richards et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Arsenic Pollution

2009 456 citations Keith Richards et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Keith Richards	4.6k	2.9k	2.6k	2.2k	2.1k	207	10.2k
Colin R. Thorne	6.0k 1.3×	2.8k 1.0×	4.3k 1.7×	3.0k 1.4×	823 0.4×	176	9.6k
Jonathan D. Phillips	3.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	286	8.5k
Kelin Wang	4.7k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	5.7k 2.2×	4.8k 2.1×	2.3k 1.1×	446	15.3k
Stuart N. Lane	8.7k 1.9×	4.8k 1.6×	4.8k 1.9×	4.5k 2.0×	2.7k 1.3×	298	15.8k
Joseph Holden	7.4k 1.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	239	11.2k
Mark G. Macklin	3.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	4.3k 2.1×	228	11.6k
Paolo Tarolli	2.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	3.4k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	242	8.7k
David R. Montgomery	2.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	4.5k 2.1×	124	11.5k
M. Gordon Wolman	9.7k 2.1×	4.7k 1.6×	6.1k 2.4×	2.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	70	13.4k
Gerardo Benito	2.3k 0.5×	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	3.5k 1.7×	182	8.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Keith Richards

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keith Richards

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keith Richards

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Kai, Linghong Ke, Jida Wang, et al.. (2021). Ongoing Drainage Reorganization Driven by Rapid Lake Growths on the Tibetan Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 49 indexed citations

Haque, Anika Nasra, Mike Bithell, & Keith Richards. (2020). Adaptation to flooding in low‐income urban settlements in the least developed countries: A systems approach. Geographical Journal. 186(3). 314–326. 9 indexed citations

Mao, Feng, Xianfu Zhao, Peiming Ma, et al.. (2019). Revision of biological indices for aquatic systems: A ridge-regression solution. Ecological Indicators. 106. 105478–105478. 12 indexed citations

Ren, Dandan, Yonghui Yang, Yonghui Yang, et al.. (2018). Land-Water-Food Nexus and indications of crop adjustment for water shortage solution. The Science of The Total Environment. 626. 11–21. 88 indexed citations

Allwood, Julian M., Zenaida Mourão, Rick Lupton, et al.. (2016). Integrated land water energy assessment using the Foreseer tool. Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database. 5 indexed citations

Bajželj, Bojana, Keith Richards, Julian M. Allwood, et al.. (2014). Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation. Nature Climate Change. 4(10). 924–929. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

Keylock, Christopher J., Stuart N. Lane, & Keith Richards. (2014). Quadrant/octant sequencing and the role of coherent structures in bed load sediment entrainment. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 119(2). 264–286. 57 indexed citations

Curmi, Elizabeth, et al.. (2013). An integrated representation of the services provided by global water resources. Journal of Environmental Management. 129. 456–462. 26 indexed citations

Lim, Han She, et al.. (2009). Investigating the rainfall-runoff response of a small forested mountain catchment in the seasonally humid tropics using a modelling approach.. National University of Singapore. 157–166.

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Antonarakis, Alexander S., Keith Richards, James Brasington, & Mike Bithell. (2006). The potential of LiDAR in recovering physical data on floodplain vegetation to parameterise flow resistance.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 3 indexed citations

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Richards, Keith. (1998). Quality, Standards and the Geographical Mission: A Personal Perspective. Geography. 83(1). 78–81. 1 indexed citations

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Bradbrook, K. F., Pascale M. Biron, Stuart N. Lane, Keith Richards, & A. G. Roy. (1998). Investigation of controls on secondary circulation in a simple confluence geometry using a three-dimensional numerical model. Hydrological Processes. 12(8). 1371–1396. 143 indexed citations

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Arnold, Neil, Ian Willis, Martin Sharp, Keith Richards, & Wendy Lawson. (1996). A distributed surface energy-balance model for a small valley glacier. I. Development and testing for Haut Glacier d’ Arolla, Valais, Switzerland. Journal of Glaciology. 42(140). 77–89. 26 indexed citations

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Amin, M. H. G., Keith Richards, Richard J. Chorley, et al.. (1996). Studies of soil-water transport by MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 14(7-8). 879–882. 20 indexed citations

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Clifford, Nicholas J., Keith Richards, Robert A. Brown, & Stuart N. Lane. (1995). Scales of Variation of Suspended Sediment Concentration and Turbidity in a Glacial Meltwater Stream. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 77(1-2). 45–65. 26 indexed citations

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Lane, Stuart N., Keith Richards, & Jim H. Chandler. (1994). Application of distributed sensitivity analysis to a model of turbulent open channel flow in a natural river channel. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 447(1929). 49–63. 19 indexed citations

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Amin, M. H. G., Lars Häll, Richard J. Chorley, et al.. (1994). Magnetic resonance imaging of soil-water phenomena. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 12(2). 319–321. 23 indexed citations

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Lane, Stuart N., Keith Richards, & Jim H. Chandler. (1994). Developments in monitoring and modelling small‐scale river bed topography. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 19(4). 349–368. 226 indexed citations

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Richards, Keith, et al.. (1979). Problems in the calibration of an acoustic device for the observation of bedload transport. 4(4). 335–346. 19 indexed citations

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Richards, Keith. (1978). Channel Geometry in the Riffle-Pool Sequence. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 60(1-2). 23–27. 13 indexed citations

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