Laura Turnbull

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Laura Turnbull is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Turnbull has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Soil Science, 15 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Laura Turnbull's work include Soil erosion and sediment transport (17 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (9 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers). Laura Turnbull is often cited by papers focused on Soil erosion and sediment transport (17 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (9 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers). Laura Turnbull collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Laura Turnbull's co-authors include John Wainwright, Richard E. Brazier, Louise J. Bracken, P.W. Bogaart, Steven F. Thornton, Irantzu Lexartza‐Artza, Tristan G. Ibrahim, Daniel L. Childers, Lauren M. Hallett and Emily C. Farrer and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Ecology and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Laura Turnbull

32 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit 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.

Sediment connectivity: a framework for understanding sediment transfer at multiple scales

2014 405 citations Louise J. Bracken, Laura Turnbull et al. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Turnbull United Kingdom	22	1.3k	1000	856	639	571	34	2.3k
Simon Dufour France	27	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	634 1.0×	499 0.9×	79	2.8k
Dov Corenblit France	21	2.0k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	608 0.7×	459 0.7×	561 1.0×	51	2.7k
Wenzhi Zhao China	27	534 0.4×	714 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	429 0.7×	458 0.8×	133	2.7k
Kathleen A. Dwire United States	20	1.5k 1.1×	513 0.5×	748 0.9×	302 0.5×	408 0.7×	39	2.0k
H. Lavée Israel	30	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	978 1.1×	459 0.7×	447 0.8×	66	3.0k
Andrew C. Wilcox United States	28	2.3k 1.8×	1.4k 1.4×	660 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	636 1.1×	58	2.9k
Susanne Schnabel Spain	24	750 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	889 1.0×	545 0.9×	182 0.3×	108	2.3k
W.N. Ellery South Africa	30	1.3k 1.0×	581 0.6×	447 0.5×	327 0.5×	379 0.7×	76	2.4k
Teng‐Chiu Lin Taiwan	31	824 0.6×	657 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	231 0.4×	657 1.2×	101	2.5k
Xiaowei Tong China	19	1.1k 0.8×	471 0.5×	1.7k 2.0×	273 0.4×	417 0.7×	33	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Turnbull

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Laura Turnbull's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Laura Turnbull with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Laura Turnbull more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Turnbull

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Laura Turnbull. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Laura Turnbull. The network helps show where Laura Turnbull may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Turnbull

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Hodge, Rebecca, et al.. (2025). Network‐Scale Dynamics of Alluvial Cover in a Mixed Bedrock‐Alluvial River. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 130(3).

Turnbull, Laura, et al.. (2025). Local- and global-scale hydrological and sediment connectivity over grassland and shrubland hillslopes. Journal of Hydrology. 655. 132896–132896. 3 indexed citations

Wainwright, John, et al.. (2025). Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 32(1). 1 indexed citations

Hein, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Water‐controlled ecosystems as complex networks: Evaluation of network‐based approaches to quantify patterns of connectivity. Ecohydrology. 17(7). 6 indexed citations

Poeppl, Ronald E., Lina E. Polvi, & Laura Turnbull. (2023). (Dis)connectivity in hydro‐geomorphic systems – emerging concepts and their applications. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 48(6). 1089–1094. 8 indexed citations

Wainwright, John, et al.. (2022). A multi‐method approach to analyse changes in gully characteristics between 2009 and 2018 in southeast Nigeria. Land Degradation and Development. 33(9). 1398–1409. 5 indexed citations

Allan, Alfred, et al.. (2021). The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims’ responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine. 29(4). 593–609. 4 indexed citations

Turnbull, Laura, Andreas A. Ioannides, Stuart Kininmonth, et al.. (2018). Connectivity and complex systems: learning from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Applied Network Science. 3(1). 11–11. 110 indexed citations

Nunes, João Pedro, John Wainwright, Charles Bielders, et al.. (2017). Better models are more effectively connected models. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 43(6). 1355–1360. 33 indexed citations

10.

Nunes, João Pedro, John Wainwright, Charles Bielders, et al.. (2016). Better models are more effectively connected models. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 3 indexed citations

11.

Sanchez, Christopher A., et al.. (2016). Aridland constructed treatment wetlands II: Plant mediation of surface hydrology enhances nitrogen removal. Ecological Engineering. 97. 658–665. 11 indexed citations

12.

Heras, Mariano Moreno de las, Laura Turnbull, & John Wainwright. (2016). Seed‐bank structure and plant‐recruitment conditions regulate the dynamics of a grassland‐shrubland Chihuahuan ecotone. Ecology. 97(9). 2303–2318. 35 indexed citations

13.

Heras, Mariano Moreno de las, Rubén Díaz‐Sierra, Laura Turnbull, & John Wainwright. (2015). Assessing vegetation structure and ANPP dynamics in a grassland–shrubland Chihuahuan ecotone using NDVI–rainfall relationships. Biogeosciences. 12(10). 2907–2925. 32 indexed citations

14.

Hale, Rebecca L., Laura Turnbull, Stevan Earl, et al.. (2014). Sources and Transport of Nitrogen in Arid Urban Watersheds. Environmental Science & Technology. 48(11). 6211–6219. 63 indexed citations

15.

Hallett, Lauren M., Joanna S. Hsu, Elsa E. Cleland, et al.. (2013). Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient. Ecology. 95(6). 1693–1700. 188 indexed citations

16.

Mueller, Eva Nora, John Wainwright, Anthony J. Parsons, & Laura Turnbull. (2013). Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 30 indexed citations

17.

Turnbull, Laura, Anthony J. Parsons, John Wainwright, & J. P. Anderson. (2013). Runoff responses to long-term rainfall variability in a shrub-dominated catchment. Journal of Arid Environments. 91. 88–94. 20 indexed citations

18.

Turnbull, Laura, Bradford P. Wilcox, Jayne Belnap, et al.. (2011). Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands. Ecohydrology. 5(2). 174–183. 104 indexed citations

19.

Wilcox, Bradford P., Laura Turnbull, Michael H. Young, et al.. (2011). Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: ecohydrological consequences in cold versus warm deserts. Ecohydrology. 5(2). 160–173. 73 indexed citations

20.

Turnbull, Laura, Richard E. Brazier, John Wainwright, E. R. Dixon, & Roland Bol. (2008). Use of carbon isotope analysis to understand semi‐arid erosion dynamics and long‐term semi‐arid land degradation. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 22(11). 1697–1702. 24 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact