Kieran Khamis

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kieran Khamis is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kieran Khamis has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Water Science and Technology, 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kieran Khamis's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (14 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring Technologies (9 papers). Kieran Khamis is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (14 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring Technologies (9 papers). Kieran Khamis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Kieran Khamis's co-authors include David M. Hannah, Alexander M. Milner, Chris Bradley, Stefan Krause, Lee E. Brown, Phillip Blaen, Charlotte Lloyd, Christopher T. Robinson, Leopold Füreder and John E. Brittain and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kieran Khamis

38 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

2017 437 citations Alexander M. Milner, Kieran Khamis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kieran Khamis United Kingdom	22	693	584	434	405	263	42	1.7k
Wietse Franssen Netherlands	14	397 0.6×	1.3k 2.3×	446 1.0×	309 0.8×	165 0.6×	26	2.4k
Giri Kattel China	20	529 0.8×	279 0.5×	202 0.5×	391 1.0×	295 1.1×	103	1.5k
Konstantinos Stefanidis Greece	22	622 0.9×	498 0.9×	393 0.9×	85 0.2×	602 2.3×	55	1.5k
Harriet G. Orr United Kingdom	21	833 1.2×	632 1.1×	407 0.9×	153 0.4×	196 0.7×	40	1.7k
Salvador Sánchez‐Carrillo Spain	21	832 1.2×	330 0.6×	278 0.6×	76 0.2×	514 2.0×	67	1.5k
Changsen Zhao China	21	390 0.6×	721 1.2×	239 0.6×	140 0.3×	239 0.9×	63	1.3k
Britta Schmalz Germany	23	524 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	234 0.5×	102 0.3×	531 2.0×	78	1.7k
Ierotheos Zacharias Greece	22	429 0.6×	545 0.9×	134 0.3×	115 0.3×	526 2.0×	67	1.8k
J. R. Yearsley United States	15	491 0.7×	1.5k 2.6×	726 1.7×	183 0.5×	146 0.6×	23	2.3k
Hengpeng Li China	23	497 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	158 0.4×	198 0.5×	682 2.6×	89	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kieran Khamis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kieran Khamis

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Limpens, Juul, Claire M. Belcher, Richard C. Chiverrell, et al.. (2025). Potable water sources in a contaminated temperate peatland resistant to acute impacts but vulnerable to legacy effects of extreme wildfire. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 1(1). 11001–11001.

Tu, Xinjun, Vijay P. Singh, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric window detection of abrupt global drought-wetness alternations and ecological responses. Journal of Environmental Management. 395. 127743–127743.

Limpens, Juul, João Pedro Nunes, Kieran Khamis, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Hydrologic Connectivity and Solute Dynamics Following Wildfire and Drought in a Contaminated Temperate Peatland Catchment. Water Resources Research. 60(7). 4 indexed citations

Ala‐aho, Pertti, J. M. Welker, Kaisa‐Riikka Mustonen, et al.. (2024). Seasonal and interannual dissolved organic carbon transport process dynamics in a subarctic headwater catchment revealed by high-resolution measurements. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(4). 1055–1070. 4 indexed citations

Brown, Lee E., Taylor Maavara, Jiangwei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Integrating sensor data and machine learning to advance the science and management of river carbon emissions. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 55(9). 600–623. 4 indexed citations

Khamis, Kieran, et al.. (2023). The Autobot-WQ: A portable, low-cost autosampler to provide new insight into urban spatio-temporal water quality dynamics. Frontiers in Built Environment. 9. 4 indexed citations

Richards, Laura A., Dan Lapworth, Debbie White, et al.. (2023). Emerging organic contaminants in the River Ganga and key tributaries in the middle Gangetic Plain, India: Characterization, distribution & controls. Environmental Pollution. 327. 121626–121626. 26 indexed citations

White, James C., Kieran Khamis, Stephen J. Dugdale, et al.. (2023). Drought impacts on river water temperature: A process‐based understanding from temperate climates. Hydrological Processes. 37(10). 19 indexed citations

Ficklin, Darren L., David M. Hannah, Niko Wanders, et al.. (2023). Rethinking river water temperature in a changing, human-dominated world. Nature Water. 1(2). 125–128. 30 indexed citations

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Khamis, Kieran, A. Ross, Anita Sharma, et al.. (2023). Brief communication: Inclusiveness in designing an early warning system for flood resilience. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(2). 667–674. 5 indexed citations

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Aspin, Thomas W. H., Kieran Khamis, Thomas J. Matthews, et al.. (2023). Extra terrestrials: drought creates niche space for rare invertebrates in a large-scale and long-term field experiment. Biology Letters. 19(11). 20230381–20230381. 2 indexed citations

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Hannah, David M., Benjamin W. Abbott, Kieran Khamis, et al.. (2022). Illuminating the ‘invisible water crisis’ to address global water pollution challenges. Hydrological Processes. 36(3). 33 indexed citations

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Bradley, Chris, et al.. (2022). Advances in quantifying microbial contamination in potable water: Potential of fluorescence‐based sensor technology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 10(1). 23 indexed citations

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Khamis, Kieran, et al.. (2021). Low flow and heatwaves alter ecosystem functioning in a stream mesocosm experiment. The Science of The Total Environment. 777. 146067–146067. 21 indexed citations

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Khamis, Kieran, et al.. (2020). Combining in-situ fluorometry and distributed rainfall data provides new insights into natural organic matter transport dynamics in an urban river. The Science of The Total Environment. 755(Pt 1). 142731–142731. 11 indexed citations

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Khamis, Kieran, Chris Bradley, & David M. Hannah. (2019). High frequency fluorescence monitoring reveals new insights into organic matter dynamics of an urban river, Birmingham, UK. The Science of The Total Environment. 710. 135668–135668. 16 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Anna T., Ralf B. Schäfer, Matthew I. Pyne, et al.. (2019). Limitations of trait‐based approaches for stressor assessment: The case of freshwater invertebrates and climate drivers. Global Change Biology. 26(2). 364–379. 35 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., Kieran Khamis, Martin Wilkes, et al.. (2017). Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(2). 325–333. 94 indexed citations

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Blaen, Phillip, Kieran Khamis, Charlotte Lloyd, et al.. (2016). Real-time monitoring of nutrients and dissolved organic matter in rivers: Capturing event dynamics, technological opportunities and future directions. The Science of The Total Environment. 569-570. 647–660. 126 indexed citations

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Khamis, Kieran, David M. Hannah, Lee E. Brown, Rocco Tiberti, & Alexander M. Milner. (2014). The use of invertebrates as indicators of environmental change in alpine rivers and lakes. The Science of The Total Environment. 493. 1242–1254. 59 indexed citations

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